Post 5 citations

Corliss, Richard. ": Disney's Ripping Rapunzel." Time. Time Inc., 26 Nov. 2010. Web. 03 May 2017.

Grimm, Jacob, and Willhelm Grimm. "Rapunzel." Rapunzel. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 May 2017.

"Tangled (2010)." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 03 May 2017.

Post 4 character parallels

The only two characters that appear in both the story and the movie are Rapunzel and Mother Gothel/enchantress, they are not really similar at all either. In the story the enchantress is like a mother figure to Rapunzel but unlike Mother Gothel the enchantress actually cares for Rapunzel and loves her like a daughter where as Gothel only cares for her because of her hair. So, they are both like mother figures. Rapunzel herself is very different in the story to the movie in the story she is the daughter of a pester farmer where as in the movie she is a princess by birth and doesn't marry into the royal line. Tangled's Rapunzel is very adventurous and has a lot more character development then that of the her fairy tale counter part. The Grimm Brother's Rapunzel is just sort of there to be rescued and that pretty much it. I personalty like what has become of the long haired princess thanks to Disney, though it is not as close to the original story by the Grimm Brother it is a nice adaptation.  

Pot 3 Movie review

Tangled: Disney's Ripping Rapunzel by Richard Corliss - TIME  

What's happened to heroines in animated features? For 60 years of the Walt Disney Company's domination of the format, girls were the focal characters who could be expected to come of age, triumph over adversity and, in general, man up. But the current animation zeitgeist at Pixar, DreamWorks and Fox's Blue Sky (the Ice Age series) concentrates on buddy movies and has all but abolished female-centered stories. It can't be simply that the Cartoon Directors' Club is almost exclusively a male preserve, since the classic Disney films, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Mulan, were also men-made. It may be that their bosses think girls will go to boys' movies but boys won't go to girls'. Feature animation is an expensive business, and gynocentric films are seen as a niche too small to be worth the cost. 

At the Disney animation unit, now supervised by Pixar's John Lasseter, there's still a belief in girl power — as shown, with spectacular élan and artistry, in last year's The Princess and the Frog and today in the pleasing, warming Tangled. It's the Brothers Grimm story of Rapunzel, imprisoned in a high tower by a witch, with the girl's long hair the witch's only means of access and egress. Under house arrest for years, agitating for her freedom, mourned by the kingdom that misses her, she's the Aung San Suu Kyi of fairy-tale heroines. Just a few differences: Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore) has 70-ft.-long (21 m) tresses that can serve as a rope ladder; her jailer is not the Burmese government but the crone Gothel (Donna Murphy); and whereas Suu Kyi remained in confinement while her husband died of cancer in London, our princess finds a dashing thief, known as Flynn Ryder (Zachary Levi), to facilitate her escape.

Ever since Walt's day, Disney animators have thought that a musical film could be made from the Grimm brothers' story. It has the skeletal plot — yearning heroine, wicked overseer and male savior — of Disney cartoon epics in the studio's early years (Snow White, Cinderella) and its '90s renaissance (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast). As of 2005, Rapunzel Unbraided, as it was known, was to be the first feature directed by honored Disney animator Glen Keane. Five years later, in a history as long and twisted as its heroine's hair, there's finally a movie, with Byron Howard and Nathan Greno directing and Keane back in his customary role as character animator supreme.

The title was changed to Tangled because The Princess and the Frog was no great shakes at the box office and because Disney wanted to make the project seem less ... girlish. The trailers suggest that the movie is an action comedy about a roguish guy (Flynn) whose mission is to storm the tower and free the girl inside. But no: this is your basic, and very enjoyable, Disney princess musical, an empowerment tale to teach bright, dreamy girls how to grow to maturity — and outgrow the adults in charge.

In the Grimm version, the husband in a childless couple sneaks into the garden of Gothel the witch to steal a flower that guarantees fertility; the witch catches him and demands the couple's firstborn, whom she raises as her captive daughter until a prince shows up, etc. (Ignored in all versions is this question: If Rapunzel can secure her tresses to a hook to allow the witch to climb up and down, why can't she hook the end of her coiffure and climb down it?) Here Gothel discovers that the girl's hair somehow brings eternal youth, or at least chic middle age, to an old witch. She can swan around as long as her victim stays locked up. Gothel knows the secret that many American parents act out but are slow to acknowledge: that confining their teens in enforced preadolescence helps them feel younger too.

As if uneasy at being left behind by the competition, this Disney near classic wades into the DreamWorks style of sitcom gags and anachronistic sass. ("Sorry, Blondie," Flynn tells Rapunzel at one point, "I don't do backstory.") But the visual palette is more sophisticated, especially in the scenes where sparkling nocturnal lanterns illuminate Rapunzel's birthday, and the film gradually achieves the complex mix of romance, comedy, adventure and heart that defines the best Disney features. The inevitable animal friends — a horse for Flynn and a chameleon for Rapunzel — radiate plenty of personality without speaking. Moore does well by her slightly underwritten role, while Murphy, a treasured musical-theater diva for a quarter-century (The Human Comedy, Song of Singapore, Passion, The King and I)) makes Gothel one of the most potent schemers in the Disney canon. Visually, the character suggests Bebe Neuwirth in her Morticia Addams get-up, but no one can summon the malice in humor, and the fun in pain, like this prima Donna.

Tangled is the first Disney animated feature since 1997 with music by Alan Menken, who scored most of the studio's renaissance films back when numbers from cartoon musicals not only monopolized the Academy Awards' Best Original Song category but also broke out as top-of-the-pops hits and instant standards. His The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, along with Elton John's The Lion King, became long-running Broadway shows. Tangled should be even easier to adapt to the stage, since for once the main characters are all human — no singing teapots, monsters or meerkats required.

The songs, with lyrics by Glenn Slater, don't sound on first hearing like top-drawer Menken, but they smoothly fill their functions. The opener, "When Will My Life Begin," is the heroine's "I wanna" song, a Disney tradition that stretches back to Snow White's "Some Day My Prince Will Come." The witch's "Mother Knows Best" is a pot of poisoned honey from the killer queen bee. Menken and Slater also contribute a generically tuneful love ballad, "I See the Light," which is sure to be nominated for a Best Song Oscar, and a criminals' chorus called "I've Got a Dream." Proclaiming that every scurvy brigand is at heart just a Broadway gypsy between shows, it's the score's main example of roistering wit. The song will play superbly as the second-act opener in the stage version we're imagining, for which we can also award Murphy a just slightly premature Tony as Best Actress in a Musical.

First, though, the movie version has to be a hit. So give the kids a break from mopey Harry and the dawdling Hallows — give yourself a break too — and get caught up in Tangled.

Post 2: Comparison and Contrast

The movie Tangled, based on the Brothers Grimm tale, is vastly different form the actually story by the Brothers Grimm. In the story Rapunzel's parents are not king and queen but two poor present farmers. They also strike a deal with an enchantress to have all the special lettuce/plant, which happens to be named Rapunzel, in exchange for there first born daughter, after the husband is caught stealing the lettuce/plant. Where as in the movie Gothel steals the girl because of here magical hair. Another difference in the movie and the story is the Rapunzel is treated by the enchantress/ Mother Gothel, in the movie Mother Gothel only cares for Rapunzel's hair where as in the story the enchantress treats her like she is her own child and loves her. One of the larges contrasts is that in the story Rapunzel is visited daily and falls in love with a price, in the movie Flynn, a thief, hides from his pursuers in the tower she is kept in. the movie adaptation has the plot changed as well, in the fairy tale Rapunzel is cast out of the tower by the enchantress and is sent to wondered the forest/desert because she tries to leave with the prince and the prince comes to rescue her form the tower and is tricked by the enchantress and is blinded. the duo find each other and Rapunzel cries and the tears heal the price and they live happily ever after. In the case of the movie the plot is that Rapunzel wants to leave the tower to see the lanterns and Mother Gothel wont let her, fearing that she will be found. After being found by Flynn and is taken to the lanterns and find out she is a princess...in short. in the original story Rapunzel isn't even a princess, she's just a farmers daughter. the only real similarities are that Rapunzel is Rapunzel and the story involves a tower and a girl who becomes a princess/ returns to being a princess.

Post 1 Movie origins

For this assignment i chose to do the movie Tangled which is based on the Brothers Grimm tale Rapunzel. It was released on November 10th in 2010 and was directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard and written by Dan Fogelman along with help from the original tale written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Nathan Greno is known for his work on the blockbuster hit Frozen along with Meet the Robinsons. Byron Howard is known for his work on the resent film Zootopia along with Bolt and Lilo and Stitch. (IMDb) 

Plot Summary: After receiving the healing powers from a magical flower, the baby Princess Rapunzel is kidnapped from the palace in the middle of the night by Mother Gothel. Mother Gothel knows that the flower's magical powers are now growing within the golden hair of Rapunzel, and to stay young, she must lock Rapunzel in her hidden tower. Rapunzel is now a teenager and her hair has grown to a length of 70-feet. The beautiful Rapunzel has been in the tower her entire life, and she is curious of the outside world. One day, the bandit Flynn Ryder scales the tower and is taken captive by Rapunzel. Rapunzel strikes a deal with the charming thief to act as her guide to travel to the place where the floating lights come from that she has seen every year on her birthday. Rapunzel is about to have the most exciting and magnificent journey of her life. (IMDb) 

Values that Tangled teaches: 

Love- Most importantly love concourse all, near the end of the movie Flynn is stabbed by Mother Gothel. Flynn the cuts Rapunzel's hair and it loses its power and Gothel turns to dust, with the last of her power and her love she sheds a tear that heals Flynn, they then return to the castle and Rapunzel reunites with her mother and father the queen and king. 

Open mindedness- There is a scene where the duo, Flynn and Rapunzel, go into a bar with a bunch of seedy looking characters. Flynn warns Rapunzel that they are not safe and that they should return to the tower but after Rapunzel mentions that she has a dream to see the lanterns the bandit looking characters actually help them to escape when guards come looking for Flynn. It teaches you to not judge a book by its cover.

  

Valuables in Tangled:  

Rapunzel – she values her paints, books, and her chameleon companion Pascal. Though she doesn't own them, she values the lanterns that appear on her birthday from the castle, not knowing they are meant for her. By the end of the movie she values Flynn, whose name is actually Eugene, and her parents. 

Mother Gothel – She values nothing but the flower and the magic it brings, she values the hair on Rapunzel's head more than Rapunzel herself.  

 Flynn Rider – At the start of the movie all he cares about is the tiara and the money he will make off of it. But as the movie progresses he begins to care about Rapunzel more than anything so much that he was about to give up his life for her.