Since the fall of 2024, posts have appeared in Runet according to which the action of Disney fairy tale takes place on the Caspian, and one of the main characters can be a native of Makhachkala. We checked the viability of the arguments brought in confirmation of this hypothesis.
This theory is mainly presented in two versions. In short, which is brought, for example, in Telegram channels "Dual"(321,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) and"Leprosy"(116 000), it is only said that Prince Eric from Disney" Mermaid " - Dagestan. A more detailed version specifies: “Twitter's theory put forward such a theory. The logic is simple: the Caspian Sea is mentioned in the cartoon, and Makhachkala is one of the five large harbors of this reservoir. ” Similar posts can be found in Telegram channels "Ax+"(1.9 million views),"Today is in trend"(184 000),"Ether 18+"(137 000),"Dagestan's voice"(128 000),"Mousetrap"(123,000),"Knockout × Zoomer"(111 000), MDK (87,000) and others, as well as on "Picabu"(343 000), Reddit and in VKontakte (examples for 2024 And 2025 year).
Many disassembled publications provide a screenshot of the same tweet, which on October 31, 2024 Placed User @alta1r (although in some posts his user and nickname Changed), who wrote: “We reviewed the Mermaid yesterday, and I drew attention to the following: the cartoon said that the action takes place in the Caspian Sea → In the Caspian Sea, five large harbors → with a probability of one to five Prince Eric - Dag from Makhachkala. Live with this. " This post, which, apparently, became the basis of the theory, gained 439,000 views.
“Tested” studied the cartoon and found out that the Caspian is actually mentioned there. In the middle of the tape, the main villain of the picture, the witch Ursul, performs a song in which there are magic words designed to pick up the voice of the protagonists, Ariel mermaids. In the official Russian dubbing from the studio "Pythagoras" the beginning of the spell Translated So: "Beluga, stitching, play the wind over the Caspian." Beluga And stellate sturgeon - These are fish of the sturgeon family, which live, including in the Caspian Sea basin. Based on such Russian localization of the song, some spectators may have the impression that the effect of the tape is in the waters of the Caspian.
The author of the original tweet, in which the theory was set out as evidence in the comments brought The same words Ursula, but in English. On the network you can find several official Disney materials in which Given Spell wording (version In the 2023 film Review is also different). All the differences are nevertheless connected only with the second half, where Latin words are used, one way or another associated with the voice, and the first lines there are unchanged: “Beluga, stywear. Come, the winds of the Caspian Sea. " “Verified” also studied several versions in other languages. For example, in the Polish version, these lines Adapted In general, without mentioning the Caspian: "Let the winds from the east blow here."
That is, in the original version of the cartoon, it was not stated that its action takes place in the Caspian Sea. According to the song, Ursula only called winds from this reservoir, and the Polish version indicates that the Caspian relative to heroes can be located somewhere in the east.
"Mermaid"1989 is a free film adaptation of the same fairy tale of the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. At the same time, in the cartoon, the exact place of action was never called. According to his plot, Father Ariel is the sea king Triton, whose kingdom is the ocean. After the success of the first part, the studio released other projects as part of this franchise: games, comics, books and new Cartoons. And already from them it became known that Triton rules the Atlantic. For example, this name is used in the animated series "Mermaid", Which went from 1992 to 1994, and in the sequel"Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea"(2000).
As for the country whose prince was Eric, it is also not mentioned either in the cartoon or in his sequels. Most likely, this is the state (quite possibly fictional, as is often the case in Disney films) is located somewhere on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. In The Disney Princess: A Celebration of Art and Creativity Approved: "Disney artists transferred the plot from the cold Baltic coast of the native Denmark for Andersen Denmark to a warmer and solar Mediterranean - probably to the shores of southern Italy." Mediterranean theme p Italian Cartoons of the cartoon John Masker and artist confirmed with notes Michael Purasa - Junior. In addition, c video On the official YouTube channel Disney Princess, the young presenters also said that the mermaid grew up in the Mediterranean, and then asked the audience: “Did you know that the Prince Eric’s palace is somewhere in Italy?” However, in the book Part of your worldwhich in the series A Twisted Tale The company Disney, the kingdom of Eric was called Tiruli (the action of the story took place as part of an alternative world in which Ariel could not defeat Ursulu).
Thus, in the cartoon "Little Mermaid" from the Disney studio, it was not argued that the plot is unfolding in the Caspian Sea. This reservoir was mentioned only as a kind of distant place, the winds from where the villain called in her spell. Therefore, the probability that Prince Eric is a Dagestan is striving for zero.
Photo on the cover: Cartoon frame / Walt Disney Pictures
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