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The Adventures of Milo and Otis

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Thu Jun 08, 2023 2:08 am

Have you watched The Adventures of Milo and Otis?
What was your favourite music from the English release...?
The English-language version of the film also contained music by classical composers including:

"Soldier's Dance" from William Tell - Gioachino Rossini
"Serenade" - Franz Schubert
Appalachian Spring - Aaron Copland
"Of Foreign Lands and People" from Scenes from Childhood - Robert Schumann
King Cotton - John Philip Sousa
"Auf dem Wasser zu singen", D 774 - Franz Schubert
"The Elephant" from The Carnival of the Animals - Camille Saint-Saens
"People with Long Ears" from The Carnival of the Animals - Camille Saint-Saëns
"Dialogue Between the Wind and the Waves" from La Mer - Claude Debussy
Perpetuum Mobile, Op. 257 - Johann Strauss II
"How Beautifully Blue the Sky" - Gilbert and Sullivan
Waltz No. 16 in A-flat Major, Op. posth. - Frédéric Chopin
Impromptu in B-flat - Franz Schubert
"Berceuse" from Dolly Suite, Op. 56 - Gabriel Fauré
"Bourrée" from Terpsichore - Michael Praetorius
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 - Edvard Grieg
"Symphony in D Minor" - Cesar Franck
Flute Sonata in E-Flat Major, BWV 1031 - Johann Sebastian Bach
The film opens on Nippon Farm, with a mother cat who has given birth to kittens. One of the kittens is named Milo, or Chatran in the Japanese version (チャトラン (Chatoran), literally Brown Tiger), and has a habit of being too curious and getting himself into trouble. He finds a pug puppy named Otis, or Poosky in the Japanese version (プー助 (Pūsuke)), and they soon become friends. When Milo is hiding inside a box floating in the river, it breaks loose and he accidentally drifts downstream. Otis runs after Milo, who himself goes on many adventures, escaping one obstacle after another.

Milo encounters a bear, escapes from a raven and Deadwood Swamp, steals a dead muskrat from a fox, follows a railroad called Nippon Bearway to the home of a deer who shelters him, sleeps in a nest with an owl, stays for a while with a pig and her piglets, catches a fish and is robbed of it by a raccoon, is mobbed by seagulls, and evades another bear, then a snake, before falling into a deep pit.

For his part, Otis follows Milo throughout, usually only an hour behind and less than a mile out of range. Finally, the two catch up with one another. While Milo is in the hole, Otis pulls him out by means of a rope. Milo and Otis are reunited, and soon find mates of their own: Joyce, a white cat, for Milo; and Sondra, a French pug, for Otis. Afterward, they briefly part ways and raise offspring of their own. Later, Milo, Otis, Joyce, and Sondra (along with their litters) happily find their way back together through the forest to their farm as the credits roll.
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adven ... o_and_Otis



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Re: The Adventures of Milo and Otis

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Post by CaptHayfever » Thu Jun 08, 2023 4:41 am

It's been a looooong time since I've seen it, but I recall it being a total charmer of a film.

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Re: The Adventures of Milo and Otis

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Post by Booyakasha » Thu Jun 08, 2023 6:45 am

I thought it was cute. Haven't seen it in decades (I had no idea it was set in Japan). That theme song is a flippin earworm, man. 'Gonna take a walk outside today! Gonna see what we can find today!'

Had you guys heard about the allegations of animal abuse that popped up after it was released? I don't know if any of them are true. I'm more than a little amused at the notion of the director needing a couple dozen apiece of Milos and Otises to get the film made ("Sir, Milo #17 fell off the cliff into the sea." "Okay, bring out #18!" "Well, I would, but he was just carried off by a falcon."), because I have a black flinty heart and no soul, but whatevs.

[EDIT: I'm glad they changed the names for the English version. 'Milo and Otis' rolls off the tongue a lot more nicely than 'Chatran and Poosky'.
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Re: The Adventures of Milo and Otis

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Thu Jun 08, 2023 3:51 pm

Hm, seems familiar. I probably saw it. A lot of the classic animal movies kinda blend together in my mind.

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