Zig Zag's Best Moments (The Thief and the Cobbler)
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2019
- Zig Zag's best moments! My favorite character from this film!
I love his design, his character, the voice actor of him (R.I.P), and I just love this film overall! It's horribly underrated.
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To any watching, please note that Richard Williams animated the segment where ZigZag shuffles the deck of cards BY HIMSELF and it took him literal years to perfect this mere few seconds of animation. That’s how meticulous Richard Williams was
I like how you specified that he was "meticulous" instead of how people usually praise him as an animation god. Yes, he was skilled and yes he had incredible style and vision, but its that same meticulousness that stunted many projects like this.
@@greysonmiller9407
I agree. While it’s impossible to deny how talented he was, it’s obvious he wasn’t some god. Nobody is.
Ummm i dont think anyone should appreciate this film because how it portrays African American people...
@@creature-pf4tp they are not african american
America didn't exist at the time they're either african or arabic .
@@creature-pf4tp you’re allowed your opinion, but people will continue to appreciate this film
Jafar wishes he was animated this smoothly
Jafar is a more effective sorcerer though.
I see what you did there.
@@FrizFreddy1994 YOU DARE QUESTION ZIGZAG
@@FrizFreddy1994 bro do u not see how Zig Zag walks smh
@@FrizFreddy1994 But Zigzag was a better smooth talker.
''Have no fear.'' he says as he's preceded by a bunch of people whipping the crowd.
G O F F F F F F F F F F F F F I G U R E
That smooth walking though 👌
@@Novasigmia his shoes are longer than he is jeez
That's why they have to say it over and over, so they'll believe it if only through emphasis
I wonder if traveling dignitaries had those guards with whips?
"What has he DONE?"
*takes one of Tac's tacs.*
"...A TAC-ked me!"
I just love that bit!
"Really?"
"Yessss."
Badum-tsssss
"OOH, OW!! You great FOOL!"
Nod: What what what? Yumyum: Hahaha!
I love how the sultan is not having any of his shit hes like "Just let me sleep damn it"
Mood
@@Sbevewagon4493 he's too much to handle every day
Well, I assumed his name was referring to nodding off or the Land of Nod.
Both of them are such moods
In Memory Of Richard Williams
(1933 - 2019)
Animation Director Of The Thief And The Cobbler
If this guy's animation was any smoother, my phone would slip outta my hands because it'd be all buttered up.
Never have I've seen an intro walk with such chad energy.
LMAO true
He's literally doing the chad pose
everyone's calling him a chad even though he spends the whole movie looking for powerful men to lick the boots of (first the king of the golden city, then the one eye warlord)
@@hobomike6935 Lick the boots of before stabbing them in the back and taking over. He doesn't enjoy the brown nosing.
Dr Livesey: "Allow me to introduce myself..."
“Men are fools who walk in dreams
They sleep their lives away
But I, Zigzag, shall reign supreme!”
I love the way he speaks, it’s like Shakespeare.
Eh… call me a stickler, but Shakespeare uses iambic pentameter.
@@kylestubbs8867 Two pieces of text can resemble each other in more ways than just meter. I said it's like Shakespeare because it made me feel the same way as his writing does. It's not some literary argument with deep analysis behind it: it's just a statement about how a piece of art made me feel.
"For they are easy pray."
I just found out that Zigzag didn't rhymed at least 13 times.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This, I did.
T. E. Lawrence, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
The first Jafar before Jafar even existed.
And the first Nefarious Tropy before Dr N Tropy existed in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. :)
He's basically an incompetent version of Jafar
The Virgin Genie vs The Chad Zig Zag
Zig Zag is the virgin. He fakes magic. Meanwhile the genie has
PHENOMENAL
COSMIC
POWER
Guanglai Kangyi, Age 15 true the fact that he looks like a fushion of Jafar and the Genie to...
Zig Zag is more like a cross between him and Jafar, being the vizier.
The Virgin Jafar*
@@koichidignitythief7429
*in an itty bitty living space.*
I can't believe you'd dedicate this video to Zig Zag's best moments, and leave out the scene of him driving back to the One Eye's camp in a chariot pulled by alligators and warning them not to treat him so lightly again, his most legitimate badass moment of all.
Just finished the movie last week and yes, that scene was badass.
Someone know where I can find it ?
@@lebarondeminuit3580 ruclips.net/video/gows7iOoqaU/видео.html
Whoa
@@lebarondeminuit3580 Look it up on RUclips, there are multiple versions of The Thief and the Cobbler that are totally free.
ZigZag is supposed to look goofy and Disneyesque, yet his peculiarly nightmarish aura makes him closer to Shang Tsung, or at least Don Bluth's Rasputin, than any Disney villain.
It’s dubious whether he’s even human, which doesn’t help.
@@austinreed7343well he is at minimum polydactilous as he has six fingers (and has perhaps one more finger articulation than normal I am not sure hard to tell even by the single photograms) and well... He's also blue but skin colour doesn't seem to be fixed to the normal palette in the picture (although, differently from the other characters with peculiar skin colour, which are sill most often more faintly so, or somehow still somewhat closer to looking Natural, he's literally bright smurf Blue).
He looks and behaves generally very eerie and unnatural by design I think
@@eccoeco3454Zigzag definitely has 12 fingers, I recently rewatched the Recobbled Cut and I counted his fingers in a few shots where they're really shown.
I think it is something in middle of all those descriptions.
Sadly this masterpiece of animation was never completed in the way Richard Williams wished for. Whatever, Vincent Price is hillarious.
I pray to Allah that some eccentric millionaire remakes the Thief and The Cobbler into how Richard William envisioned it
@@SunGodNika-bi2jr Tbh Only Richard Williams could truly finish this piece
Now he’s dead.@@mr.billthrower7392
You have to love Phido. The poor bird gets his tailfeathers lit on fire over and over again, is constantly drawn up short in his end. But when finally given the opportunity... *he sprouts the same teeth that the gators have* and chomps down on Zigzag's head. (The Recobbled Cut has a workprint of him closing his beak and swallowing, putting a pin in Zigzag for good).
He deserved what he got, but daaaamn that was a creepy way to kill him off.
I'm about half convinced Phido was an eldritch entity of a familiar, that stayed vulture-shaped to keep people feeling like nothing was wrong. Just waiting for a proper chance.
@@Geth-Who If he was he was a pretty innocuous one... all he wanted was some food! And if Zigzag hadn't spent the *entire movie* preventing him from eating, he might not have ended up the main course. That doesn't even count all the times that poor bird's tailfeathers got lit on fire!
Phido seemed happy to be a vulture, until he got hungry and frustrated enough. Then *watch out.*
I love Phido's voice.
Zig-Zag’s problem is that he’s an over-promiser. He tells people he can do things for them, but never delivers, and it makes people either stop taking him seriously, or get mad enough to harm him.
That’s the reason he was eaten by the gators and Phido
The one time he could’ve fulfilled a promise was giving the balls to the king, but he asked for a reward that was waaay above his pay grade 🤣
Zig-Zag is a Bethesda dev.
I love how when he's in the camp of the One-Eye, his facade of confidence has noticeable cracks in it.
That traveling shot of Zigzag leaving his tower, how it changes perspective, all done in pencil. What a genius team Richard Williams and his animators
Even in the end of his time.
He knows how to leave with a rhyme.
I see what you did there
I love zig zag's shoes
Me too lol
Such an interesting design choice.
7:03 when you finally break up with an abusive girlfriend
Why abusive?
Goodnight everybody!
the line was funny before and you made it better.
@@gianlucacolangelo6578 Because of the balls.
Lmao ok, you win the internet
4:41 nice conceal of the F-word there.
Doesn't matter if it's intentional or not, this delivery is PERFECT.
Most birds: sqwak
Fido: *CHOKING AND GAGGING NOISES*
A tragic character that had his mind deteriorated by insomnia.
That’s an interesting theory
This movie is actually just one big advertisement for sleeping pills
@@mateistoian726 still better than the emoji movie
Maybe Oda was inspired by Zigzag when he created Blackbeard. They do have similar personalities and a similar night day affliction. It’s just unlike Zigzag, Blackbeard actually can back up his big talk and cunning with brute force.
TV Tropes _does_ have Zigzag listed as "ambiguously human" as a result of never sleeping in addition to many other, inhuman qualities about him. When you think about how he was still alive & talking after the alligators devoured the majority of his body, Zigzag has to be some type of magical creature/being that takes the form of a human. Either that or the whole movie is just him hallucinating as a result of not sleeping.
Zigzag is so skillfully silver tongued. His rhythms are so smooth and cleverly worded. Vincent Price is amazingly perfect for this character. He literally has the king of the Golden City under his very influence all with his words and slight of hand. Even when he was imprisoned by the one eye he escaped their hungry alligators and even had a seat in council with their leader to launch an attack on the city in exchange for the princess.
Jafar needed to hypnotise the sultan in order to get what he wanted and the Sultan wasn't even smart to begin with. It is true Jafar does try to persuade the Sultan but he is constantly relying on his staff at the end. Seriously Zigzag is a real pro compared to his Disney counterpart.
(I also find its extremely well done that Tack is a complete opposite to Zigzag being a silent character who shows innocence in contrast to Zigzag who has a lot of lines and is very deceitful. A silent hero and a silver tongued Villain. That's just great character writing)
4:41 he came _so_ close to losing his composure and dropping an F-bomb, lol
@@hobomike6935 Oh! FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFiedo!!!!!!
@@hobomike6935haha so true if they let me I would
As much as I love Jafar, I have to agree with you. Also, even though Jafar was smart and cunning, he didn’t come up with all the good ideas. It was Iago the one who suggested him to marry Jasmine to become the Sultan.
I agree, Zigzag qas voiced by vincient price who voiced professor ratigan from Disney's The Great Mouse Detective 😈😈
The shear talent of the animation always make me sad, with how they kick off Richard Williams from his own project.
I can only hope it would be finished one day.
@@elijahkelley7616 it is nice at least that richard williams felt content with what was left of the film being revived in the recobbled cut and had no regret with the film's state.(i would at least like someone to at some point animate parts of the original script especially more of the war machine fight and princess yum yum's sister meemee and her transformed prince bubba as i liked their parts and their meeting with the witch and her bathing with yum yum with both sniffing the thief was slightly animated.:3)
@@elijahkelley7616 The Uncobbled edition is pretty decent.
Unfortunately, Richard Williams was too much of a perfectionist. People who worked with him said he could just never finish a scene where the Thief character was involved. He always would have more to add onto the scene. That being said, I admire Williams. He’s a man who never compromised his vision, even though it meant the film he wanted to make never got finished. And he never gave up. He kept working on it, even at times when he was animating segments of the film completely by himself
@@tracyndiyob162 I kinda like how the War machine hops from unfinished to finished, it makes it seem more scary in a way.
Zigzag's a pretty fun villain!
he sure is
Well he is played by Vincent Price so that helps alot
7:42-7:45 keeps me so drawn to how smooth this animation is it’s so amazing I keep rewatching this scene just wow
I'm trying to place Zigzag's expression there. Surprise, certainly...maybe some disgust?
Is like more when is your first time in a strip club.
Vincent Price's performance doesn't waver in the slightest throughout this whole movie, and I just love it.
Zigzag getting eatin "ooo ow"
Zigzag stepping on a small tak "WHOOOOOOOOOAAAAAOOOOWWWWWW"
5:37 When you decide to go ask for a raise
6:44 - 6:46 when your boss refuses to give you a raise
Well, just thought I'd ask
5:37 Now that I have the balls...I will go see the king.
7:03 I’m taking my balls and leaving.
*Goodnight, Everybody!*
@JINHYUN HO three golden balls is all it takes yet Disney has only one in Epcot
Phrasing!
"Im taking my balls and leaving!"
OH GOD!! XD
Ironically I remember Vincent price for his animated roles more than his live action. I'm glad I am old enough to rectify that. Hes definitely one the greatest actors ever
Me too. I grew up with him as Ratigan in "The Great Mouse Detective" and had no idea how iconic he was in the horror film industry.
“OH, FFF-“
Language, Zigzag. There are little kids watching this, you know.
Funnily enough it wasn't initially intended to be a family film. It only wound up being a family film when Fred Calvert became the director
@@LePenguin Considering one eye's throne... yeah, that's not too hard to believe.
@@LePenguin I mean, it wasn't exactly inappropriate. Most kids aren't going to pick up on that, and this was perfectly fine because the only thing inappropriate is what you imagine yourself
This movie is animated so smoothly in some part it feels like it delves into the uncanny valley
Zig Zag has such a iconic voice. His voice sounds as amazing as Vincent Price
This is one of the best villian designs ever. It's like a cross between the Genie and Jafar but more complex.
I had to pause a few times, but yeah, Zigzag has six fingers
Indeed.
His fingers also have an extra joint.
the REAL author of the journals.
A slap in the face to the philosophy of conserving time with four-fingered cartoon characters
@@nashfeighny4757 bru, I got the reference
2:48
Me staying up to 2 o'clock each night
Seconded
Me staying up until 5AM
And with me we are teen
School, work, collage, etc
Me when I stay up 23 hours everyday
"Zig Zag's best moments" aka any time he's on screen. Vincent Price was the perfect choice for the Grand Vizier Zig Zag's voice.
Apparently, there was a scene of him pulling a chariot of alligators that got left out.
The phrase ” Great king Nod have no fear, Zig Zag you grand vizier is here” will forever be burnt into my mind.
I love how he always speaks in rhymes
Like a good chunk of Tim Curry’s villainous characters.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a villain accept their fate like zig zag did. I mean he just let the crocodiles and Fido eat him without putting up a fight.
He's pretty screwed at that point. The cobbler stitched up his clothes. That's why he's hopping before he steps on the tack at the end. He can't really move to fight back.
Zig Zag ending is kinda scary....because we get to see his ending as getting devoured infront of us even with the dark black color and just visible eyes only....
Oh, the full cut is worse. It switches to sketch art as the final scenes apparently weren't finished. Phido's beak closes with a "crunch". So you pretty much see the bird eat his head.
kudos to Vincent Price for bringing this character to life. love his narration
Reminder that Tak has a deep Chad voice this entire time
Lol, when he's in his tower ranting about how sleep is for the week. Nowonder why our man turned blue
Facts 🤣🤣👋
0:35 Top 10 Anime Villain Entrances
“I’m taking my balls and leaving!”
*DUUUUUUUUUUNNNN*
He looks like a fushion of Jafar and the Genie
Except he came before hoth of them
He actually inspired the design of Jafar and Genie pretty much the movie inspired Disney to create Aladdin
@Jimmy Whisper It actually isn't. The animators would work on both of them and switch sometimes.
@Jimmy Whisper If you say so dude. It's not really a rip off. People can easily be inspired by something and it didn't help that animators and artists that worked on this film also worked on Aladdin. The world isn't just black and white. Plus The studio green lights the work, it is the artists that come up with the ideas. There is a difference.
@@jamietwotwosevenfiveone3664 Also the plots are pretty different even at surface level
"Oh FFFFFFFFFF-Fido..."
I'm glad I was old enough to catch that the first time I watched this film.
7:03 You're all welcome
They sleep, they sleep, they're all asleep! But *I* am quite awake... thanks to my 5 Hour Energy Shot!
Gotta make it rhyme
@@howarddenaven5165 They sleep, they sleep, they’re all asleep! But I am quite awake... Thanks to my 5 hours energy drink!
@@arturprontenko3369 five hour energy Drank, son
They sleep, they sleep, they’re all asleep! But I am quite awake, for 5 hour energy shots are all I take!
Lol
Relatable. Plus Coffee and Coke
I think the Recobbled Cut might be my favorite animated film.
Zigzag is a thoroughly intimidating and profoundly creepy villain. Especially with his fantastic voice actor and glass smooth animation
My favorite line of his is: "One mistake will suffice! Dont treat me lightly TWICE!"
Someone make a reanimated version of this film.
*(This one definitely deserves it.)*
Given how long it took to finish what they DID animate, I wouldn't wager money on that. The collapse of the war machine is about ten minutes of things flying around and the thief making his way through it all. It's madness. Maybe a project to finish the movie first? At least most of the intense parts were completed.
@@Bluesit32 Reanimated doesn't have to top what was done or even replicate it. They just have to do it their way.
With computers, a lot of this stuff could be done fairly well and there is no shortage of artists to split up the work so it's bearable to do.
Zig zag the one who speaks in rhymes
I’m surprised they didn’t made this one of he’s lines in the movie
Can anybody explain to me why THIS AMAZING ANIMATION is not the norm? Why everything used Disney animation tropes, instead of something like this?
The amount of time and effort into this took so much time it was the reason why the movie was never finished in the first place.
While I do like certain old Disney animations, this one is as perfect as it'll probably get.
Because there was no one quite like Richard Williams. He has always stood out among other animators. This film took 28 years to make. That’s why this animation is so amazing. Williams had a vision and he would not compromise on it
@@paulschifferli5524 exactly. I don’t know anyone with that much commitment. It’s an amazing film.
One thing I don’t like as much is the story, as Williams focused so much on the animation that he didn’t flesh out his characters as much. Other than that, this is probably one of (if not the) most perfect pieces of moving art ever made.
Would you be willing to pay for the sheer amount of work needed to accomplish this and apply it to every animated feature?
Behind this film was raw passion. There is no way to quanitify and price will power and patience to translate this to a price point. It is simply impossible.
You would have to develop teaching methods to dozens of willing art students to learn these meticulous practices and pay them all for their time while managing and reviewing their work constantly, all while juggling a business to release things on time.
The cost of your films would dwarf even hollywood films.
@@blackwatchpilot5329 Yeah... Money system is not fitting for that, Animated studios need to get money for their dedication, not for the result, so they would draw better stuff.
I can watch this animation all day
“Now that I have the balls, I will go see the king!”
They knew what they were doing lol
6:43 “You... WOWWWWWWWT”
I actually prefer the released version of this scene where King Nod tells him that ZigZag will never marry Yum-Yum and ZigZag smiling face slowly turns into that of despair then anger in short movements.
Zig Zag is not the only one who is awake. The Thief is awake to.
1:00 to 1:07 Zigzag: Don't just do something, stand there!
He has been given the best voice and the best animator; Zig Zag truly one of the greatest villains in fiction!
"Zigzags best moments!" Literally all of his moments
If Jafar merged with Genie
And my God as a fan of animation this guy is a marvel
2:51 when you're in your room at night playing games , while your parents sleep
This is pretty amazingly animated actually its just very strangely done
What a weirdo
I'm not enough sure he's human
6:14 cool that you can see zigzag's actual trick part of zigzags magic tricks
Vincent Price was a legend
7:41 when the drugs hit too hard
So, the king knows Zig Zag as a good vizier and respects him. When Zig Zag asks permission to kill Tack, the king agrees without hesitation. And in fact, unlike the same Aladdin in "The Thief and the Cobbler" we are not shown that Zig Zag is capable of any ability to hypnosis or mind control. That is Zig Zag has earned the respect of the king in an honest way. and that's when your kingdom is under the threat of destruction, and your best man whom you respect (see above) asks for your daughter's hand in exchange for golden balls, that will save your kingdom and people, and you refuse... I mean, this is medieval middle east, man))
He was too confident in his persuasion on the king. And later his hand with the oneeye fails. Classic politics, poor Zig Zag
Would you want your kid marrying THAT?
@@Bluesit32Lol. No.
The scene where Zig-Zag is trying to win over One-Eye sums up Zig-Zag's out of his depth with One-Eye. He's able to pull off tricks , but only by the skin of his teeth . Normally this works with oridinary or naive people , who find Zig-Zag creepy but valuable , however given that One-Eye and his army are a group of viscious tyrants who are no strangers to supernatural elements ,Zig-Zags attempts are pretty much lost on them .
i can't imagine zigzag without vincent price, tim burton can't imagine the world without vincent price, this actor played an important role in both of my favorite directors life (sorry for my english)
"I'm taking my balls and leaving!" one of the best lines I have ever heard.
0:36 *Top 10 Most Epic Anime Entrances*
Zigzag's arrival is all the more reason to be afraid.
No one can PIMP harder than ZIG ZAG!
Vincent Price's voice is so precious!
If this movie doesn’t get the Reanimated treatment, I’m gonna scream.
That would be so brutal. Imagine trying to share the load on the chase scene.
@@OdaSwifteye Or the collapse of One Eye's war machine with the Thief going through it, trying to keep the gold balls.
i really like zigzag one of my favorite roles of vincent price along with ratigan from the great mouse detective :3 (the thief and the cobbler in its original cuts is a must watch movie to me and i like the original scripts of it as well.though i do find the thiefs thoughts by jonathan winters a guilty pleasure along with his fates.my favorite moments of zigzag are the playing cards scene with how wild the animation and lighting are and a scene in the original script where zigzag after the war machine is destroyed conjures a dragon to attack the city only for tack to slice it with his tacks and wreck it making smoke go into one eyes face which is what the coughing he does in the workprint is from along with the red smoke everywhere in the final version and reveals wizard of oz style zigzag on a cycling machine pumping fire and smoke to a balloon float who gets chased by the nanny and the brigands leading to him falling into the alligator pit.a quite different set up to his fate considering the irony of him stepping on the tack that started the story and defeated the one eyes led to his death.) considering this was one of vincent prices last roles zigzags last line "for zigzag then... it is, the end." kinda makes me feel a bit bad for the character as honestly despite how pretty petty his reason for going after tack is it doesnt seem as overblown with his antics compared to jafar.(i like how zigzag is told of by king nod and basically exiled for trying to wed yum yum compared to jafar who until he slipped the tongue mostly held the sultan under his thumb outside of the beginning of "prince ali".) also kinda wished you included him trying to calm down king nod about his vision while the thief is trying to steal the golden balls(especially"what freak of nature could get to the top of that minaret?"while showing the thief charging and pole vaulting to the minaret.), him riding an alligator sled after controlling them and his battle with tack.
That's an impressive lot of words
Notice how he has six fingers on each hand. Maybe he is a Nephilim?
I like to think that Zigzag rhymes basically just because he's smart enough to come up with them on the fly and enjoys lording his intelligence in a reasonably discreet way.
His designs like Jafar but then his demise really reminded me of Scar...the way he was like ‘oh my friends’
Vincent Price was how I even heard of this flick.
I don't even remember where I saw this, but the moment I saw it, it was like a flashback.
I love at 2:08 where he's like "Girlfriend, when I say I was attacked..."
Richard Williams Deserves An Oscar for this stunning,beautiful animation
One Eye got some groovy music
I had forgotten about this cartoon, I totes watched this movie as a kid. The animation is smooth as butter.
Zig Zag is basically a goofy yet swag version of Jafar from Aladdin.
Zigzag came first
Vincent prices last film role R.I.P
i swear his animation style gives me such a polished zelda cd-i youtube poop vibe so much
With how ZigZag talks in rhyme, I believe him and Gruntilda from Banjo-Kazooie would make an intriguing couple.
9:50 How I like my girl's thighs.
1:09 to 1:14 the smoothness of this makes it a little uncanny, ngl... It's a cartoon and yet the movement looks so realistic(most of this is probably rotoscoped anyway)... Like it's not something you're supposed to see. This film was astounding in so many ways.
I'm not sure if Richard Williams ever used rotoscoped for this.
Someone can fact check me on that.
Richard Williams never really rotoscoped. He did his studies on human movement and perfected it. He was probably so good at it to the point of being able to do it off of his mind.
This animation is just so fun to watch.
I have a feeling this guy’s sleep deprived
He subsists on a strict diet of pure cocaine