Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas
DreamWorks SKG and released in 2003. It follows an Arabian sailor named Sinbad on a quest to find the legendary Book of Peace, a mysterious artifact that Eris, the goddess of chaos, has framed him for stealing.
Voices for the movie were provided by Brad Pitt (Sinbad), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Marina), Michelle Pfeiffer (Eris), Joseph Fiennes (Proteus), Dennis Haysbert (Kale), Adriano Giannini (Rat), and Timothy West (King Dymas) among others.
Additional factoids:
- Brad Pitt replaced Russell Crowe as the voice of Sinbad because Crowe was already filming another project.
- Eris and Proteus did not appear in any of Sinbad's seven tales, and originate from Greek Mythology.
- Sinbad is a 2D/CG animated movie, much like The Prince of Egypt and The Road To El Dorado.
- Christine Baranski studied with the great English voice expert Patsy Rodenberg, in order to lower her register about an octave for the deep voice of Sinbad's villainess. But the role eventually went to the more bankable Michelle Pfeiffer.
- Sinbad is the first movie to be produced wholly using the Linux operating system.
Quotations
- Proteus: "It's my responsibility to bring the Book of Peace safely to Syracuse."
- Sinbad: "See, now I just feel bad, 'cause you're gonna get fired."
- Sinbad: "And you are?"
- Eris: "Eris, the goddess of discord. You may have seen my likeness on the temple walls."
- Sinbad: "You know, they don't do you justice."
- Eris: (about Sinbad) "He's so cute. And so gullible."
- Kale: "What happened down here?"
- Sinbad: "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."
- Kale: "Try me."
- Sinbad: "Okay, here goes. So I meet Eris, the goddess of discord? She's got a major crush on me, and she invited me back to her place."
- Proteus: "Do you have any idea how serious this is?"
- Sinbad: "Do you have any idea how many times I've heard that today?"
- Sinbad: "Look, this is the way it works. First, I actually commit a crime, THEN you get to blame me for it!"
- Kale: "Fiji?"
- Sinbad: "Think of the beaches!"
- Kale: "Beautiful - if you like mosquitoes."
- Sinbad: "Think of the sun!"
- Kale: "It's monsoon season!"
- Sinbad: "The women, then!"
- Kale: "They're cannibals there."
- Sinbad: "Exactly!"
- Marina: "Are you sure--"
- Sinbad: "Yes, we have done this kind of thing before, no, there is no other way, and yes, you do have my permission to stand there quietly and receive a free lesson in sailing."
- Sinbad: "Who's bad? Sinbad!"
- Sinbad: (about Marina) "How can one woman do so much damage?"
- Marina: "Knife, please."
- Sinbad: "OK, right, like I'd give you a weapon."
[Everyone is seasick from being towed in the wake of a giant fish.]
- Sinbad: "Whose idea was that again?"
- Marina: "I don't know, but he owes me lunch."
- Eris: "Enough talking! Time for some screaming."
[Going to rescue Marina from a giant snow bird.]
- Sinbad: "She couldn't see that bird? Everyone else saw it. Marina? Marina is looking the other way."
- Marina: "So, how do we get down?"
- Sinbad: "I don't know."
[She stares at him.]
- Sinbad: "I don't know yet."
- Marina: "You scaled a thousand-foot tower of ice, and you don't know how to get down?"
- Sinbad: "Hey, if you'd rather take your chances by yourself, that can be arranged!"
- Sinbad: "Pray to the gods. We'll be meeting them soon."
- Sinbad: "This has to be a little embarrassing for you, Eris."
- Eris: "Don't push your luck. You're cute. You're not that cute."
- Marina: "You came to rescue me?"
- Sinbad: "Well - yes, if that's what you want to call it. But this is going to cost you another diamond. Rescues are not part of the usual tourist package."
[It is cold and Kale is bare-chested.]
- Sinbad: (to Kale) "Will you put a shirt on? You're gonna poke someone's eye out with those things."
[after hooking onto the fish and everyone is seasick]
- Sailors: "No Spike... Don't..."
[Spike vomits]
- Sailor: "Who gave *him* carrots?"
- Marina: "You...you egotistical, disrespectful, pretentious, pompous, self-centered, cantankerous, loony, ungrateful, impossible, insufferable..."
