The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey мышь to Hercules by
John Grant
Walt Дисней Character Описание of Lady from "Lady and the Tramp" (1955)
The opening sequence in the movie, when Darling opens up a hatbox to discover that the gift which Jim Dear has дана her for Рождество is a puppy, Lady, had its origins in an incident in Walt's own life. Many years before he had forgotten about a ужин дата with his wife, and some sort of gift by way of a peace-offering was definitely called for - something really special. His solution was to give her a щенок in a hatbox. It worked: she forgave him. It was an event which Walt knew he could someday put to good use in a cartoon.
The model for Lady was a cocker спаниель called Lady which belonged to the animator Hamilton Luske. In reality, however, there are two "Ladies" in the movie - the newborn щенок and the young female dog. Both are evidently the same animal, but the older version has quite definite fremale characteristics while the щенок is, like all puppies, essentially sexless. However, the underlying character - loving, basically trusting, good-spirited - is much the same.
Although Lady is not such a strong character as Tramp, she is by no means the useful cipher that so many of the Дисней central characters are: romantic she may be, often terrified and confused she may be, but there is also a deal of steel in there, as we discover during the consecutive sequences when she first tells Tramp to go away and leave her and, second, attempts to break her chain (she is finally successful) in order to chase and fight the крыса and thereby save the baby. Barbara Luddy voiced these two aspects of Lady's character exellently, being by turns romantic and stern; she also managed to convey Lady's fundamental decency - the voice alone tells Ты that Lady is the sort of dog Ты would ideally like to own and let your children grow up with.
Lady is decent, but she is no naíve innocent. Without really skirting around the issue, Дисней managed to get over the idea that Собаки do in fact mate, even before "marriage", yet in no way is this at all offensive. That, for the studio, was a minor and generally ignored triumph.
One trivial point of interest: Lady has a blue воротник while both Jock and (in due couse) Tramp have pinkish-red ones. No "blue for a boy, розовый for a girl" here!
John Grant
Walt Дисней Character Описание of Lady from "Lady and the Tramp" (1955)
The opening sequence in the movie, when Darling opens up a hatbox to discover that the gift which Jim Dear has дана her for Рождество is a puppy, Lady, had its origins in an incident in Walt's own life. Many years before he had forgotten about a ужин дата with his wife, and some sort of gift by way of a peace-offering was definitely called for - something really special. His solution was to give her a щенок in a hatbox. It worked: she forgave him. It was an event which Walt knew he could someday put to good use in a cartoon.
The model for Lady was a cocker спаниель called Lady which belonged to the animator Hamilton Luske. In reality, however, there are two "Ladies" in the movie - the newborn щенок and the young female dog. Both are evidently the same animal, but the older version has quite definite fremale characteristics while the щенок is, like all puppies, essentially sexless. However, the underlying character - loving, basically trusting, good-spirited - is much the same.
Although Lady is not such a strong character as Tramp, she is by no means the useful cipher that so many of the Дисней central characters are: romantic she may be, often terrified and confused she may be, but there is also a deal of steel in there, as we discover during the consecutive sequences when she first tells Tramp to go away and leave her and, second, attempts to break her chain (she is finally successful) in order to chase and fight the крыса and thereby save the baby. Barbara Luddy voiced these two aspects of Lady's character exellently, being by turns romantic and stern; she also managed to convey Lady's fundamental decency - the voice alone tells Ты that Lady is the sort of dog Ты would ideally like to own and let your children grow up with.
Lady is decent, but she is no naíve innocent. Without really skirting around the issue, Дисней managed to get over the idea that Собаки do in fact mate, even before "marriage", yet in no way is this at all offensive. That, for the studio, was a minor and generally ignored triumph.
One trivial point of interest: Lady has a blue воротник while both Jock and (in due couse) Tramp have pinkish-red ones. No "blue for a boy, розовый for a girl" here!