"Les Poissons" (in French "les poissons" simply means "the fishes") is a song from the 1989 film The Little Mermaid, which is sung in the film and in The Little Mermaid Broadway show by the character Chef Louis. Chef Louis is voiced by René Auberjonois in the film, and by John Treacy Egan in the Broadway show.
"Be Our Guest" from Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991) shares the same tune with the song "Les Poissons", sung by the chef in Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989). Both songs were written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman.
What does the French chef in The Little Mermaid say?
Louis : [singing] Les Poissons, Les Poissons / How I love Les Poissons / Love to chop and to serve little fish / First I cut off their heads, then I pull out their bones / Ah, mais oui ça c'est toujours delish / Les poissons, les poissons, Hee-hee-hee, ho-ho-ho! / With the cleaver I hack them in two / I pull out what's ...
Rene Auberjonois - Les Poissons (From "The Little Mermaid")
Why is it called a poisson?
It is named after French mathematician Siméon Denis Poisson (/ˈpwɑːsɒn/; French pronunciation: [pwasɔ̃]). The Poisson distribution can also be used for the number of events in other specified interval types such as distance, area, or volume. It plays an important role for discrete-stable distributions.
The reasoning behind 2023's The Little Mermaid cutting “Les Poissons” cited the music number's comedic nature, making it a “Saturday morning cartoon section,” according to director Rob Marshall.
Ariel from “The Little Mermaid” has been headcanoned as autistic, because no one who sings a song about wanting to not just learn about an interest, but literally be in that world, is neurotypical.
Why does Sebastian from The Little Mermaid have an accent?
In a tribute to Wright's performance, his crustacean is from the Caribbean too. But the voice has a Trinidadian tinge, influenced by the late playwright Tony Hall, a native of the island, who schooled Diggs on calypso history before he died in 2020.
Why was there no chef scene in The Little Mermaid?
The Little Mermaid director Rob Marshall explained why Disney's live-action remake chose not to include Chef Louis. "That's when you realize we're not an animated movie," Marshall told SFX Magazine. "The animated movie stays forever, and people can go and watch that. This needs to work in a realistic way.
While some of Sebastian's features resemble a lobster, Sebastian is definitely a crab, as is stated in The Little Mermaid itself a few times. This includes the scene where the obsessed Chef Louis refers to Sebastian as a crab, and since he's a professional, he really should know.
In her initial film, Ariel is referred to as having a “most beautiful voice” multiple times. She is known throughout Atlantica for her immense vocal prowess. Her temporary disability of muteness is more noticed by characters later.
In the movie The Little Mermaid (Clements & Musker, 1989), Ariel displays symptoms of disposophobia, which is defined as the fear of getting rid of things.
Disney's Ariel is not the same as Anderson's little mermaid. The movie is loosely based on the fairy tale, so Disney has the freedom to give Ariel any skin color they want. In the 1989 movie, Ariel was born in the fictional underwater kingdom of Atlantica, which technically makes her Atlantican, not Danish.
Voiced by actress Pat Carroll, Ursula is a villainous Cecaelian sea witch who offers a mermaid princess named Ariel a temporary opportunity to become human so that she may earn the love of Prince Eric within three days.
Why did Styles turn down Disney's live-action “The Little Mermaid” remake? According to Marshall, the reason was twofold: He wanted to take on darker films and didn't want to be in a musical as he made the jump from pop star to actor.
Marshall said that due to Styles already being a singer, he was probably trying to go in a different direction as an actor. “That's why he was really looking to do something not in the musical genre, to really stretch himself,” Marshall added.
Literally meaning “my little friend”. A slightly more old-fashioned way to say boyfriend or girlfriend. In the movie 'Le diner de cons”, a character uses the phrase “sa petite-amie” when speaking to the lover of a married man, to avoid using the harsher word “sa maitresse” (his mistress), but this use is infrequent.
