Tangled flynn rider smolder scene12/25/2023 ![]() ![]() When designing Rapunzel the Disney team had an interesting challenge. So the movie begins and Rapunzel (Mandy Moore) is now about to turn eighteen. Gothel steals the child and hides her away in a tower far away in the middle of the forest where no one can find her and raises her as her daughter. Instead she finds the baby and realises that by holding the baby’s hair and singing the magic song she can recover her youth. Unfortunately, Mother Gothel, not content to just fucking die because she’s not royalty, breaks into the palace to get her shit back. He has his troops search for this magical flower that he’s heard rumours of…somehow, and they steal it right from under Mother Gothel’s nose. The king realises that what with his wife about to give birth to a Disney princess it’ll take a miracle to save her, which sounds about right. To whit in the local kingdom the Queen is expecting a baby and, naturally enough, seeing as she’s about to become the mother of a Disney princess her health takes an immediate change for the worst. How did she know the right words? Why a flower? Look, this whole sequence is pretty much a load of plotholes held together by spit and glitter glue. This flower was discovered by an old woman named Mother Gothel (Donna Murphy) who found that by singing a certain song, the flower could turn her young again. Long time ago, a teardrop fell from the sun, and instead of incinerating all life on earth, grew into a golden flower. The movie begins with our narrator Flynn Rider (Zachary Levi) setting up the backstory like the silver tongued devil he is. This move has caused quite a controversy so let me very quickly give my opinion on this pressing issue. Tangled was originally called Rapunzel, but the name was changed to make it more gender neutral to appeal to boys. Oh, but let’s address the elephant in the room first. Is it time for a reappraisal? Let’s take a look. Tangled was huge when it came out, but it’s definitely been overshadowed by its younger sister in recent years. In fact, now that I think about it, what makes Frozen so frickin’ great? It also has a pretty killer script and I would say a better supporting cast than Frozen. It’s rumoured to be the most expensive animated film ever made and the second most expensive film of all time, and it looks like it. But there’s no denying it, this is a gorgeous, gorgeous film. Then of course I banished the thought from my mind and spent a week cloistered away scourging my back as penance. The textures and colours are all just so sumptuous and beautiful and I remember thinking for the first time that if Disney never went back to traditional animation I could live with that. I remember watching Tangled in the cinema and seeing that scene where Gothel is being hoisted up to the tower on Rapunzel’s hair. What areas you ask? Well, the animation for one. And in a way that’s unfair to Tangled because, while it is no question not as good a movie as Frozen, I think there are areas where it is arguably superior. Tangled is in fact quite excellent, but it’s just not Frozen and seeing as they’re both Disney CGI movies featuring blonde princesses, doglike hoofed mammals and some seriously questionable parenting the comparisons are inevitable. And the principle is as follows: If you’re going to watch Frozen and Tangled, for God’s sake watch Tangled first because boy howdy does it suffer in comparison. And this has led her to formulate what I like to call Christine’s Principle. Christine finally got off her branch to watch Frozen and Tangled. This is good for me doing what I do because it means I get a perspective on movies long after the hype has died down from someone who hasn’t been swept up in the groupthink that tends to form around any given movie. ![]()
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