Tin Soldier (2020 film)/Transcript

(Opening logos with orchestra recording in background)

Disney presents,

Tin Soldier

Opening Credits

 * Deems Taylor: [appears in the flashbacks in the opening of the film] It's my very pleasant duty to welcome you here on behalf of all the other artists and musicians whose combined talents went into the creation of this new form of entertainment, Fantasia. What you will see on the screen is a picture of the various abstract images that might pass through your mind if you sat in a concert hall listening to this music. Now, there are three kinds of music on this Fantasia program. First, there's the kind that tells a definite story. Then there's the kind, that while it has no specific plot, does paint a series of more or less definite pictures. Then there's a third kind, music that exists simply for its own sake. Now, the number that opens our Fantasia program is music of this third kind.
 * Jacob the Rat: Well, enough of that. {He holds up a remote control and begins fast-forwarding through the movie}
 * {Camera pulls back to show Jacob and Gus in silhouette in a row of theater seats, Mystery Science Theater 3000-style.}


 * Gus the Rat: Uh... Jacob? What are you doin'?
 * Jacob the Rat: I'm fast-forwarding to the part where we come in!
 * Gus the Rat: {aghast} But you can't go out of order!
 * Jacob the Rat: Au contraire, my porcine pal. I've got the remote!
 * Gus the Rat: But everyone's gonna get confused! {He grabs a second, bigger remote} We gotta go back to the beginning of the story. {He begins rewinding the movie}
 * Jacob the Rat: We're not in the beginning of the story! {He pauses the movie on Baby Whales, with a Seagulls; the movie begins fast-forwarding again}
 * Gus the Rat: Yes, we were—the whole time! {rewinds; the film reverses on a shot of Donald's, with a squawk of confusion}
 * Jacob the Rat: But they don't know that! {indicates the audience; switches the movie direction again, on Donald, with a water sound}
 * Gus the Rat: Then why don't we tell them our story? {pauses the movie on a snarling close-up of the Jack-in-the-Box; Jacob and Gus both shriek and dive under their seats}
 * Jacob the Rat: {slowly re-emerging} Hey, I got an idea. Why don't we tell them our story?
 * Gus the Rat: Oh—I like the sound of that.
 * Jacob the Rat: A little backstage tour. Take 'em behind the scenes for a revealing and intimate look at the story within the story!
 * Gus the Rat: 'Cause what they don't know is how we really were there even though they didn't know we were there, y'know?
 * Jacob the Rat: Couldn't have said it better myself! {rewinds the movie again}
 * Gus the Rat: So does this mean we're going back to the beginning?
 * Jacob the Rat: {melodramatically} Oh, no, Gus. No. We're going way back... to before the beginning.