It might seem simple to just cut them out of the new film entirely, but they say the movie’s key lines: “Well, I’ve seen a horse fly . . . Ah, I’ve seen a dragon fly . . . I’ve seen a house fly . . . I be done seen about everything when I see an elephant fly.”

Even though Dumbo never spoke, thanks to the power of animation, audiences were still able to identify with him because of how expressive he was. Plus, he had a small cast of animal characters to speak for him and to keep the plot moving.

“Early on, I made the decision [to exclude talking animals] in the spirit of realism and because Dumbo never talks in the animated [version], Jumbo has a line or two, and they’re really the core of our story,” Kruger explained. “We were going to not have this be a talking animal picture.

It is believed that the story of Dumbo is loosely based on the real life elephant Jumbo, a male African Bush elephant born in Sudan in 1860. After his mother was killed by poachers he was captured and sold to Lorenzo Casanova, an Italian animal dealer and explorer.

But on one night in Ontario, Canada in September 1885, Jumbo didn’t make it on to the cart. The elephant, aged 24, was struck by a freight train while being loaded into his cage and later died of what Attenborough concluded was internal bleeding.

Rufus Sorghum

“Pink Elephants on Parade” is a song and scene from the 1941 Disney animated feature film Dumbo in which Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse, having accidentally become intoxicated (through drinking water spiked with champagne), see pink elephants sing, dance, and play marching band instruments during an hallucination sequence.

Tim Burton directs the live-action remake of “Dumbo,” but children might find the film relentlessly sad and scary. And yet, for all its success upon its release, “Dumbo” remains one of the more dated films of the early Disney canon, from its cell animation to its controversial Jim Crow flock.

Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass

Brooklyn’s DUMBO (which stands for “Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass”) is a once-industrial neighborhood that has transformed into an artsy hotspot for shops, restaurants, and start-up businesses.

• White. 74%
• Asian. 10%
• Hispanic. 6%
• Two or more races. 6%
• African American. 3%
• American Indian or Alaska native. 0%
• Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander. 0%
• Other race. 0%

Its incredible! One of favorite places in NYC and I always feel safe at night when walking it. Actually probably safer at night. Less chance of getting run over by a bike.

What’s the dirtiest borough in New York? It’s Official: The Bronx is the Dirtiest Borough Thanks to Sanitation Cuts. According to a mayoral scorecard, only 85.6% of Bronx streets were rated “acceptably” clean in July compared to last year during that same period when our borough’s streets were rated 97.3% clean.

Some parts of Spanish Harlem are dangerous. Public housing areas in certain parts of Harlem raise some suspicious if you’re walking alone by yourself. Currently, Harlem is becoming heavily gentrified (not that’s a bad thing). So for the most part, compared to how Harlem was in the 90’s, Harlem is far from dangerous.

Here are the 10 most risky NYC neighborhoods

• Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Dumbo.
• Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen.
• Bedford-Stuyvesant.
• Downtown.
• Fort Green and Clinton Hill.
• Flatiron and Gramercy.
• Brownsville.
• Hunts Point.