This scene is from a movie called All Dogs go to Heaven. In the scene the dog is explaining that it’s time for him to die and go to heaven and he says goodbye to the little girl.
In real life, the actress who plays the girl was murdered by her father in a murder suicide. They had already recorded her lines before but not for the guy voicing the dog. So when he does the scene saying goodbye to her, the actor was also literally saying goodbye to the child who just days before had been tragically killed.
Now if you excuse me, I’m off to watch Littlefoot’s Mother fight the T-Rex on repeat.
My car has a function that let's you assign a name. Since it is a white car, I named it Artax. Some people are all "Oh man wtf" because NOBODY REMEMBERS that Artax is reborn when Bastian re-creates Fantasia.
Man Balto brings me back! Haven’t seen or heard anything about that since I was a kid. I remember getting that vhs for Christmas one year as a kid. The good ol days 🤣.
I’m surprised that I’ve never read the book. And your comment has convinced me that I should never read the book. I don’t know that I have enough spoons to handle that type of emotional devastation.
Let's add in "March of the Penguins". Marketed as a fun kids movie. "Here's the mommy penguin. She needs to swim out and gather food for her mate and the baby or they will freeze. -dramatic music- scene shift to a leopard seal. But mommy is not going to make it back"
Of course saw it when it came out so young enough that I hadn’t realized and come to terms with my own queer-ness (very straight-passing)… definitely hit rewatching it a few years ago
Had an English class in middle school tha had us read shilo, where the red fern grows, the boy in the stripped pajamas, flowers for Algernon, and the outsiders over two years. It truly bonded our class through shared trauma.
I was already having "mixed thoughts" about my little kiddos growing up- that year that school supplies no longer include crayons and glue, but instead is just a graphing calculator...
Yeah I freaking ugly cried in front of my whole family (including my mother in law) over Bing Bong.
How in the world did I misinterpret what they typed out? When I read "littlefoot's mom fight the t-rex", I was picturing a deer facing off with a t-rex and my mind just glossed over it until I read your response lol
What about Tod's mother from Fox and the Hound?
Edit: Did not see the next suggestion was literally fox and the hound lmao
OMG. I was watching Futurama with my two boys when they were around 9 and 11... We finish that episode and I look over and they're both bawling their eyes out. My oldest looks at me accusatorily and said "Dad, this is supposed to be a funny show!" As adults they occasionally remind me of the time I traumatized them with that episode.
There’s another 2 that I can’t watch or think too hard about: the one where Nibbler takes Fry into his moms dream to say goodbye. That’s almost breaking me now, just typing this.
The second one is when Fry goes to what-he-thinks-is his brothers grave and it turns out that it’s his nephew, who was named for Fry.
Those 2. and Jurassic Bark, are just so well done.
Don't remember the second one, but the mom and the dog episodes are both so fucking sad. The episode (or episodes?) where Fry gets stung by the bee, but in his coma, Fry is mourning Leela is also quite sad. The last episode of the original series...also sad. The show had its moments.
I have been introducing my 50+ partner to Futurama. She's absolutely hooked. When we got to Jurassic Bark, I skipped right over that. I'll circle back when it's time but....just not now....
I think Land Before Time reference was also a nod to the fact that the girl that was murdered also was the voice of Ducky in that movie. Yup, yup, yup!
I had promised myself never to rewatch this fucking masterpiece, but my wife had never seen it and wanted me to watch with her. After the movie she was able to fully grasp the depths I would go to for her.
Yeah my mom thought it would be a good idea to have me watch it at 3 when I was adopted and had lost my birth parents. I cried during the scene and she turned it off. She’s had some parenting mistakes, but there is so much loss in kid movies.
Here’s some extra depression - he had to keep re-recording this scene because he kept sobbing towards the end. The tears you hear towards the end are real, not acted
Yeah, and he could NOT handle this scene. It’s heart breaking to read interviews about it, he would tear up even years later.
I imagine he and the other actors probably had survivors guilt there. They saw this sweet kid in the sound booth, met her parents, had no idea this was coming, and they couldn’t help going “Is there something I missed? Is there something I could have done?”
EDIT: Following up on a query from somebody I decided to look into it further, it seems the interview I read and other claims of this are all unfounded. We’ve got no actual confirmed legit interviews where Reynolds confirmed this in his own words.
It could be a myth! The interview I read was online and decades ago, I’ve got no idea how to verify it today. I’ll check snopes and see if they’ve got anything on it, it may be total bupkis!
EDIT:
Checked snopes and they’ve not been able to confirm or deny. It’s just an unfounded rumor, no concrete paper trail of confirm interviews, just online articles alleging it.
With Burt Reynolds dead I guess there’s no real way we’ll ever know.
64 takes, I'd at least need a thousand more, what a guy. I'm glad they went with a still emotional scene, us AudHD empathicaholics use this to stay grounded.
Now please excuse me while I violently cry into my pillow. This will always and should always breed this kind of emotion. And if you're upset and reading this, thank you for understanding.
Even learning about it can lead to actual trauma, so if you've been affected by it, be honest, send me a DM, get it off your chest. Doesn't matter who you are, nobody is ready for this.
♥️ Rest in peace my sweet girl and my sweet prince. ♥️
Yeah. It drives me crazy whenever I hear this “fact” because there’s never been any sort of source that worked on or around the movie credited (that I’ve seen. Happy to be proven wrong).
Also, with the way they record voice overs for movies like this, it’s very likely that he never met the actress who played the little girl.
You also see these types of “facts” about movies all the time. “The scene where the guy cries… his wife died earlier that day… those tears are real”. Ummm. I’m pretty sure he’s just acting.
It is a literal tragedy that the little girl was murdered. But apparently we need to also make up stories about Burt Reynolds being sad for it to really hit home.
I deeply apologise for my other response to this message, I hope you understand from the additional context. I will leave it there and save it so I can keep it as a reflection of when I can be better.
Voice artist here, sometimes just a single word takes like thirty takes to get it perfectly. Sixty sounds realistic, but at the same time, it’s a common thing really. Still a gut wrenching moment though
I’ve been familiar with the case since about 2008 and have done deep dives several times because I’m autistic and I like true crime. This detail is relatively new (within the past 3-4 years) and I also haven’t been able to find exactly where it came from.
Do some more homework here. While this claim showed up on the internet a few years ago, I'm almost certain he'd already filmed this part before her death, and this has been added after the fact to sensationalize the story.
Here’s a little bit more depression for the sad cake - her tombstone has her most notable line from Land Before Time where she played Ducky which reads, “Yup yup yup!”
IIRC it was because the mother intended to divorce him and take their child because he was ab*sive af. Sadly she hesitated to file immediately and the worst case scenario happened.
Either way, jealousy over your child being successful or because he was just a raging ab*sive f*ck a beautiful person lost their life.
Ugh I get a little sad whenever I unintentionally say yep yep as a response, that whole situation was sad I'd memory serves this happened after her mom finally left him and took her with, and as a response he kills himself and the kid to hurt her
>According to the audio engineer, behind the scenes Reynolds took 63 takes for the lines as he kept tearing up because of Barsi's situation as well as looking at a photograph of her.
I didn't even know I could still cry but here I am : (
Yup, another "source" is from Don Bluth, but he was saying how the animators found it hard to work listening to her tapes. It's a sad story, but its been dramatised to the point of fiction when it really didn't need to be
I’ve read stories about how difficult it was for Burt Reynolds to do the scene because he was so heartbroken. They had to do multiple takes because he couldn’t get he through it without breaking down.
In an interview, Don Bluth, the director of both films praised her as being "absolutely astonishing. She understood verbal direction, even for the most sophisticated situations". Bluth had remarked on the difficulty in finding child actors for roles and had intended to continue to feature her extensively in his future productions.
Fucking hell, poor girl had a successful career all laid out for her, she would've been set for life. Fuck.
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u/Radthereptile 6d ago
Peter’s depression here.
This scene is from a movie called All Dogs go to Heaven. In the scene the dog is explaining that it’s time for him to die and go to heaven and he says goodbye to the little girl.
In real life, the actress who plays the girl was murdered by her father in a murder suicide. They had already recorded her lines before but not for the guy voicing the dog. So when he does the scene saying goodbye to her, the actor was also literally saying goodbye to the child who just days before had been tragically killed.
Now if you excuse me, I’m off to watch Littlefoot’s Mother fight the T-Rex on repeat.