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- In the book Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara, Byron Howard, the co-director of the Disney Princess movie, explains the reasoning for Disney's changes to Rapunzel in Tangled: “We wanted to make sure she was as strong as Flynn Rider. We wanted to make sure she had a journey of self-awareness.
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Mar 9, 2010 · Disney decided to change the name of their upcoming animated feature from Rapunzel to Tangled but we never really knew why...until now.
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Prior to Tangled’s 2010 release and the addition of Princess Rapunzel, the official Disney Princess franchise consisted of nine other characters: Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, and Tiana. One of the most frequent complaints about the earlier Princesses is that so many of their goals revolve around the desi...
Looking back at the above list of Princesses, their male love interests are mostly…forgettable. For starters, Snow White’s prince hardly has a name. Prince Charming, Prince Phillip, and Prince Eric are about as bland as stale bread. Okay, Phillip did fight a dragon, so he gets points for that. Beast has pretty intense anger management issues for a ...
At large, the Disney Princess franchise and its films are primarily targeted towards young girls. Of course, Disney movies must also be enjoyable for adults, as well, since they are the ones taking their kids to the movies, but what about young boys? And teenagers? Disney had to find a way to get these other demographics engaged. And it didn’t come...
Like many of Disney’s animated classics, the story of Tangledis taken from the fairytale “Rapunzel” by the Brothers Grimm, who in turn were inspired by other similar, previous works, dating all the way back to 11th-century Persia. The Disney film actually varies quite differently from the classic fairytale, though, with adaptations suitable to a mo...
Tangled granted a lot of firsts for Walt Disney Animation Studios, firsts that went on to inspire many of the studio’s later productions. Following Rapunzel and Tangled, the next heroines in the Disney Princess franchise would be Merida in Pixar’s Brave and Moana. Currently, Elsa and Anna from Frozen have not been officially included in the lineup,...
Jul 5, 2013 · In her grief, Rapunzel sheds a single tear, which unknown to Rapunzel carries the magical properties of the original flower. As the tear is absorbed into Flynn’s skin his life is restored and they return to Rapunzel’s kingdom to live happily ever after.
Nov 25, 2010 · Image Credit: DisneyWhen Disney announced in February that its latest animated movie — a new spin on the Rapunzel story, featuring Mandy Moore as the long-locked princess — would be called...
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Nov 30, 2023 · According to “Review: Disney’s ‘Tangled’ updates Rapunzel” published in the Gainesville Sun, the movie starts with a pregnant mother consuming a magical flower that belongs to Mother Gothel,...
Composer Alan Menken, who had worked on prior Disney animated features, returned to score Tangled, and also wrote the film's songs with lyricist Glenn Slater. Before the film's release, its title was changed from Rapunzel to Tangled, reportedly to market the film gender-neutrally.
