Disneyland marriage proposal

agingerbugg · Post by **agingerbugg** » Jul Wed 08, 2009 9:48 pm

Just stumbled upon this, what a lucky girl. This is so awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpojZ0COU3Y

MadEye · Post by **MadEye** » Jul Wed 08, 2009 10:18 pm

It was a fake planned by Disney. It was criticized at another forum and it was confirmed that Disney was behind it. It was interesting though...

MmeLeota · Post by **MmeLeota** » Jul Wed 08, 2009 10:56 pm

lol! It looks staged, but it's cute anyway...

Post by **Dr. Ravenscroft** » Jul Fri 10, 2009 9:02 am

I turned it off right about when the guy started singing after the first woman singer. Looked staged from the word go. how are you going to film that from that high of an angle without Disney's permission to be on top of the buildings. Plus multiple cameras???? My brother is the only other person I know that shoots with multiple angles when filming at Disney.

cousininmiami · Post by **cousininmiami** » Jul Fri 10, 2009 10:33 am

Yup, looked fake to me too.

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » Jul Fri 10, 2009 7:48 pm

That's not real!

momeja · Post by **momeja** » Jul Fri 10, 2009 10:00 pm

Ah, if only real life could be like life in a musical production...

Btw, did anyone notice that one of the guys sitting on the curb looks strikingly like Ben Stiller? I wonder if he directed it.

Clusty · Post by **Clusty** » Jul Fri 10, 2009 10:18 pm

Hah, I turned it off when they started singing. The start was somewhat believable(if you ignored the logistics of getting a camera that high), but then it just went downhill.

aparadissis · Post by **aparadissis** » Jul Sat 11, 2009 10:01 pm

They lost me at the good camera angels and good audio. If it was spontaneous, then the quality should have been much worse.

bigthunderlover · Post by **bigthunderlover** » Jul Sun 12, 2009 4:07 pm

If that happened to me, and my boyfriend started signing and dancing, I would be embarrassed. Or id' be like where's my boyfriend and what did you do with him? haha! Yah if it wasnt a set up then the boyfriend worked for disney and had the whole thing set up for his girl. very possible if it were true and they met in that spot. Cuz who meets there love in disneyland besides the castmembers themselves?

spodie · Post by **spodie** » Jul Sun 12, 2009 6:57 pm

Yeah, it looks pretty fake to me. My first clue was that the girl was miked, and it's not just some sort of Wal Mart recording device - she had to have been hooked up almost as much as an actor in a movie would be. My second clue was the staged singing and dancing, and then my third clue was the way they both acted when she said 'yes'. Now, I've been engaged approximately...0 times, but they didn't look like a couple who had just gotten engaged. He high-fived people while she just stood there, and then they hugged.

It looks like some kind of promotion Disney ran to encorporate their 'Celebrate Today' theme.

DisBeamer · Post by **DisBeamer** » Jul Wed 15, 2009 10:55 pm

aparadissis wrote:They lost me at the good camera angels and good audio. If it was spontaneous, then the quality should have been much worse.

I have to say I was amused they figured the multiple cameras part was believable. Mind you, I know several people who 'fell for it', so to speak, so maybe I'm just overly cynical.

momeja · Post by **momeja** » Jul Thu 16, 2009 8:25 am

DisBeamer wrote:
aparadissis wrote:They lost me at the good camera angels and good audio. If it was spontaneous, then the quality should have been much worse.
I have to say I was amused they figured the multiple cameras part was believable. Mind you, I know several people who 'fell for it', so to speak, so maybe I'm just overly cynical.

Do you think Disney really intended people to be fooled? After all, how often does a marriage proposal include a musical chorus?

DisBeamer · Post by **DisBeamer** » Jul Thu 16, 2009 3:44 pm

momeja wrote:
DisBeamer wrote:
aparadissis wrote:They lost me at the good camera angels and good audio. If it was spontaneous, then the quality should have been much worse.
I have to say I was amused they figured the multiple cameras part was believable. Mind you, I know several people who 'fell for it', so to speak, so maybe I'm just overly cynical.
Do you think Disney really intended people to be fooled? After all, how often does a marriage proposal include a musical chorus?

From what I read about their 'admission' it was viral marketing, I have to believe they figured people would be fooled initially, at least, and entirely, at best. I believe the intent of it as marketing is to suggest things like that happen in Disneyland. And, to be fair, I imagine if you threw enough money at them, you could make it happen, but it's not something they're going to help you do for free, which is what I believe is implied by the 'Disney is magical' angle. The feeling of it is "This can happen here!", and that's disingenuous, to me.

I <3 Disney, but I can't say as I think they think all that highly of their fans' intelligence, to be blunt.

It is a cute commercial, though. And props to them for admitting it was fake when pressed on the issue.