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AAAAAAAAA HI HELLO I JUST WATCHED THE MOVIE AND I AM LOST IN ODETTE AND LOUIS FEELINGS I SAW YOUR FIC ON AO3 AND I LOVE IT THANK YOU FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THIS SMALL FANDOM

Oh my gosh this is so sweet AHH!! Of the whole movie the Odette and Louis love was by far the best thing about it, and still so lovely even with how small it is. Thank you so much for this lovely comment <3 <3

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hi do u have the gif where victor is like “I think I broke my everything” thanks <333

Ah, afraid not! But if you can find it on youtube, you can use giphy.com to make gifs- it’s actually pretty easy, and gives you a lot more creativity :)

Good luck!

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Was Odette poor or rich? I guess poor because the fire was on stage not on her 🏠 house right that it will burn her money?

Oh, I can actually answer this! (I haven’t posted to this blog in over a year, or something, but got a few asks so time to rise from the dead!)

So Odette is definitely poor. (unless you want to write a story about her being secretly rich or a uncle dies and leaves all his money) Most likely she was never rich, because girls who got into ballet weren’t wealthy or high class, they were often doing it to escape poverty. Then after the fire and her injury, keeping up a job would have been difficult, hence why she would need to work two jobs just to get by, and all of that with a disability.

Yeah, I actually forgot how much I like Odette. Funny that.

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My thoughts :)

I decided to just write here because I went past the 500 mark in asks... Sorry XD I absolutely loved the movie :') Its kinda sad how Odette hated children especially orphans but later on a little girl changed her mind and I think that was a sweet thing :) I personally have my head cannon where Odette and Mérante were together but Odette finds out she's pregnant and tries to surprise him after the big dance, but never do because the accident and she suffers a miscarriage and breaks up with Mérante because she's crippled and she can't bear to loose another of what she loved. When she loses Felecie and clenches her stomach, It just reminded Odette that she lost another child she loved and then it reminded her of the unborn child she was so eager to care. After years of being crippled and alone, she could be now barren (usually after Miscarrying, you have a rare chance of having children or no children at all) and becomes cold and hating children because shes so upset how she couldn't have a child of her own, and especially hates orphans because they were from woman who didn't even want a kid but easily got pregnant other than her, with this is, it's a very Angsty backstory for Odette and maybe Mérante, but it has a sweetness of Odette and Mérante getting together and officially adopt the red head and maybe... JUST MAYBE... She can bare children? Pfft who the hell knows ?? :) The thing that kind of makes me confused is.... Why did she keep the red ballet shoes if it brings her pained memories? Anywhoo this is my personal view but I absolutely love your head cannon and it definitely is beautiful <3 I'm honestly tempted to write a fanfic and just... Cry all the time. I live everyone's head cannons but I think yours is pretty on point!!! What do you think? :3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Everything Wrong with Ballerina (2016)/Leap! (2017)

  Now if you love this movie like I and a few others do, that’s awesome! However, this list (that can/will definitely be added onto by other fans), is dedicated to all of the weird inaccuracies, story choices, and other assorted faults that have left us fans scratching our heads and critiquing this movie inside and out.

SPOILERS AHEAD

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1. POP SONGS, POP SONGS, POP SONGS

  In this lighthearted film about a couple of orphans who escape their home in 19th Century Brittany, France, one might think that the soundtrack for this film would include some instrumentals that sound a bit like a ballet or opera’s performance music. While some pieces from the soundtrack, like ‘The Liberty Chase’ or 'Escaping the Orphanage’ pull this off as well as they can, this movie makes the risky decision of using pop songs like 'Rainbow’ by Liz Huett, 'You Know Its About You’ by Magical Thinker, and 'Confident’ by Demi Lovato. Even Sia gets a song in there!

  Most of these songs were written for the film specifically and while they match the optimistic themes of achieving one’s dreams, they don’t really fit in terms of the time period. For example, during Felicie and Camille’s Dance Battle, it might have serviced it better to have a symphony of violins, violas, and a piano playing as they danced, instead of Demi Lovato singing about confidence. They more intense the fight gets, the harsher the strings and keys of the instruments could get for instance, to build tension.

  Using more instrumental music made just for this film might’ve helped Ballerina gather more of its own original identity, outside of 'cute little film for kids, but maybe not for adults’, which film audiences get ALOT of these days anyway. One can still have 'Cut to the Feeling’ by Carly Rae Jepsen as the end credits theme, but music plays a HUGE role in films and should be able to match whatever aesthetic you’re going for.

2. Speaking of Camille…

  Kids and teen movies typically have that one popular girl who’s usually an irredeemable brat who never learns, never tries to show any kind of compassion, and does little to nothing to change (think teen movies like 'Mean Girls 2’, 'Taking 5’ or 'Bring It On: Fight to the Finish’). Thankfully, every now and then, we get characters like Pacifica Northwest from Gravity Falls and Camille Le Haut from Ballerina, in which we see that they’re not too far gone. Unlike the downright nasty brats one might find in other movies for younger people, Camille does have a heart. She just needs that special moment in which she can show it.

  Unfortunately, we don’t see her as much as we could have. After her initial meeting with Felicie, in which she comes off as high and mighty as most popular girl characters often do, we don’t see her again until she and her mother, Regine, confront Felicie later. By that point, Felicie has already trained quite a bit with her custodian, Odette (who also cleans the Opera), but not once do we ever see Camille. Why can’t we see her be suspicious like what we see with Regine when she asks about the mail? Not once did she ever pop her head out of her studio and think that there was something weird going on with her new servant girl? Not once did she ever notice her dancing and wonder 'hmm, why is she dancing so well alongside my other cleaning lady?’

  It’s not hard to understand why she’d be feel such ill will towards Felicie, especially since her identity theft was going on right under her nose! Thankfully, both girls had apologized and made up by the end. But still, if I were Camille, I know I’D be at least a little suspicious…

3. Felicie’s Denim Shorts

  Why is it that every single character in this movie has a (kind of) historical costume…

…except Felicie? Granted her knee length civilian skirt looks alright, but why do we have blue shorts in a film set in the 1870’s/80’s?

  Did the animators think animating a dancing skirt was too much work? This film was made by L'atelier Animation. This was technically the first film project they ever completed, and while no first try is without its faults, blue shorts don’t have a place in 19th century France.

  One of denim’s first appearances as clothing was as pants on those who traveled to California in 1849 and 1850 for the California Gold Rush. However, this did not necessarily change the societal norm of women and girls wearing dresses and long skirts during this specific century.

  In fact, most, if not, every time period, including the 19th century, has had some kind of dress code that was to be followed and taken seriously. In a movie like Ballerina, we have men wearing trousers, top hats, walking canes, cravats, etc. In turn, women like Odette and Regine wear long skirts, done up hair, and some kind of corset (except Odette’s is over her top and Regine is probably wearing one because of how thin and proper she is), etc. Historically, both sexes would’ve stood out like sore thumbs if they didn’t dress for the appropriate occasion or time of day. If Felicie had been in any other 19th century animated film, like The Boxtrolls, An American Tail, etc, she would’ve stood out like a sore thumb herself, just with her shorts alone.

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I did it, oh my gosh! I made 3D fan art of the man! I tried to make him look accurate to the movie but I added some aspects of my own art style as well.

I am super happy with how this turned out, he’s the first sculpt I ever made. This was done in ZBrush.

Mérante is the ultimate man. I love him a lot and I was super excited studying his design by scultping him.

Now I have a model of him which I can mess around with! Haha!

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  I doubt Ballerina/Leap! will ever have a sequel, but if it were, I’d want to see more of Felicie, Nora, and Dora together. I appreciate genuine friendships and friendly squads, especially in movies, and wouldn’t mind seeing these three  bond as they grow into young women. 

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Headcanon: Mérante's cane has a sword within.

This is my first headcanon I share with you, but I must say that is a little nuts. 

So, the first time I knew from the existance of these canes was because of the movie  "The adventures of Tintin, The secret of the unicorn" in which the villain has a cane with a sword within.

And letting my imagination fly I wonder if they really exist; they do. 

Looking in the web I found these canes like Mérante's:

These have descriptions from the shop that sell them:

Gambler Sword Canes for sale feature a handsome and ornate design. The popular Gambler Sword Canes feature a gambling motif with card suits detailed in the pommel and My Good Luck Charm engraved on the blade. The highly detailed head of the cane is lavishly plated in real sterling silver. 

Cold Steel Sword Cane with Stainless Pommel is 37 5/8 inches overall. This unique and elegant sword cane has a 25 ¾ inch, 1055 carbon steel rapier type blade with an extremely sharp point. It has a polished stainless steel pommel handle which is manufactured of 6160 aluminum. The head of this cane may be removed so it can be engraved or personalized. These canes feature a fiberglass composite shaft that is virtually indestructible.

So the headcanon is that in case of being forced to pass across a dangerous street of Paris, and being assaulted by thiefs, he has the chance to defend himself with a non-expected sword within his cane. Also he has a little hobby to do fencing in his free time (if he has free time of course)

Well...what do you think?

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Merante family masterpost :-)

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If anyone would like to learn a whole lot more about the Palais Garnier, here you go! 

http://www.artlyriquefr.fr/dicos/Palais%20Garnier.html

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@tvitr requested a Mérante (Leap!) moodboard

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Mérante doodle that started as a sketch on paper but was eventually colored and edited on the phone with an app called PicsArt! Now my fingers hurt, but I’m happy with it!

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We may have different thoughts and headcanons on Ballerina/Leap! and that’s fine. But can we all agree that Camille is anything but subtle? 

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It is pretty, I’ll give her that!

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The Palais Garnier!

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Requested by @lightening816 - Victor and Felicie’s escape from the orphanage, Part 1 (I can only feature 10 HD pics in one post - Part 2 will come later)

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Okay but how is Odette any better than Regine all her training methods basically boil down to shoving Felicie onto some death contraption and praying she’s competant enough to not get killed or horribly injured like that pirouette machine??? Balancing her on a rolling barrel?? Making her jump backwards up a staircase?? Forcing her leg up past its limit?? Putting her en pointe after like a week?? She’s flippin’ evil at least Regine uses actual workout machines to train Camille