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Disney's Dumbo: The Ultimate Circus Story
By Valentina Franco
With the release of the much anticipated, revamped 40's children's legendary circus movie, Disney realized the full potential of the classic movie making Disney's Dumbo the ultimate circus story. Dumbo's artistic beauty and story is as much an American classic as any can be, so much so that it was added to the 2017 National Film Registry (created by the Library of Congress) for its historical, aesthetic, and cultural significance. The story of Dumbo is an expressive one of tragedy and perseverance. Quite like the time in which it was created. The original Dumbo is equal parts grieving and overcoming, when the newly orphaned and special elephant must learn how to live without his mother in the new and scary world of the circus. It is easy to see how Dumbo became a box office hit during the difficult times of the 1940s when the country was not healed from the depression, war, and the dust bowl migration.
Dumbo was in production during the end of the second world war. Because of this and the fact that Disney was still recovering from box office failures Fantasia and Pinocchio, it meant that Dumbo had an extremely small budget to work with. This led to Dumbo being one of Disney's shortest movies, sitting right around 64 minutes, and it had a budget of less than half of the usual Disney production. This all meant design and animation had to be simple. Disney has now stated that they will be remaking a number of their classic animated movies into live-action, giving these movies upgraded graphics and a fresh take, and Dumbo is looking to be given an astonishing upgrade. Originally made with a budget of 16.2 million in today's currency (950,000 in 1941), Dumbo is getting a massive upgrade in resources, with the all of the current live-action Disney classic remakes acquiring budgets upwards of 100 million. Besides the change from 2D to 3D, Dumbo's universe finally has the ability to show off the amazing and beautiful intricacies of circus costumes. On top of that, the remake doubles the story's runtime to 2 hours, giving Tim Burton the ability to develop even more of the universe, the circus, and its unique set of characters. Burton also seems to have changed the atmosphere of the story, with the original having very little positive human interactions. The remake is adding new human characters that will aid Dumbo on his journey into circus life.
Tim Burton, known for his intricate and mesmerizing design work, is bringing the legendary baby elephant back with an incredible upgrade to Dumbo, the character's designs and the circus atmosphere, and WonderCostumes.com is here to provide all of the necessary costumes to dress up like your Dumbo favorites. For instance the new live-action features some of the best costumes and characters with the perfect flare for the dramatic, with an incredible performance in the ring by the beautiful trapeze artist Colette, played by Eva Green. If part of your circus dreams is to get into the ring yourself, you should definitely pick up our Red Lion Tamer Women's Costume.
Circus costuming is created with the intent of grabbing attention. Costumes are made to extenuate fluid movement of dancers and performers. Clothes are decorated to catch the light, glitter and shine, to add to the exciting experience of the show. Bold colors grab attention: reds, blacks, accents of gold, they all come together to create the quintessential look of a classic circus performer. And if you are on the lookout this party season to get the instantly recognizable look, browse through our excellent catalog of circus costumes. Take on the ringmaster role with our Ring Leader Adult Costume. If you are looking for a more feminine look to your ringmaster getup check out our Ring Mistress Women's Costume or our Women's Gothic Ring Master Costume. Wondercostumes.com knows the best circus performers stand out, and we want to provide you the best costumes so you can turn the party into a real circus. And of course, you can't forget the star of the show: Dumbo! If you want to have fun with your little one, whether at a party or during family trick-or-treating, be sure to make your tyke the star of the show with this adorable Baby Elephant Costume. Regardless of your reason to dress up, when it comes to great quality, popular and accurate Disney character costumes or movie character costumes, there is no better online costume shop on the web than WonderCostumes.com, where we offer a varied selection at friendly prices with efficient shipping wherever you are.