New "Unbraided" aka Disney's Rapunzel is out

[secondlina]

BEHOLD : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSx1dYJlJh4

As always, the animation looks great. There seems to be a strong focus on the male character. Probably to attract a male audience. I get the feeling that by creating a dashing thief, there just gonna attract more girls...

- Isa

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[comicaddict.livejournal.com]

It looks really cool. I'll probably end up watching it by myself since I don't think anyone else has the interest in it. It is interesting how the look of it is computer animated yet it has a nice hand drawn style mixed in.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Can you really say the witch wins when the guy ends up with the girl at the end of the fairy tale? ^_- She might have foiled him for a long time, but as with most fairy tales, nothing can ever stop love. I do wonder how closely Disney will follow the source material though. At least in the story I read as a kid, he's thrown from the tower and has his eyes poked out by thorns, so he spends years(?) wandering blindly through the wilds seeking Rapunzel. When he does finally find her (I believe he recognized her voice?), her tears restore his eyesight.

I can already imagine quite a few young boys having fun running around like the male lead for this movie. Boys like action heroes. (On that note, if my nephews see the movie, I'll take note of their reactions.)

I do like both, but for different reasons. I still do prefer traditional animation to cgi though, it just has more charm to me. Although cgi movies are slowly getting better at incorporating more realistic movement. Toothless alone really impressed me, he really seemed like a living, breathing dragon instead of just a model that happens to be able to move around.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

I suspect artists are going back and forth from Disney to Pixar, so aside from this movie, I think in the future we'll only see cgi movies from Pixar and traditionally animated movies from Disney, so yes, they can and ought to live side by side. I'll be curious to see where all of the animation movie studios are in another ten-twenty years though.

[putri-nih.livejournal.com]

It was over 3 months ago? They tallied up Frog's Box Office numbers and said, "Not enough for a third 2d feature" They're still doing Pooh.

[(Anonymous)]

I can hear the fangirls now. XD

[kuridee.livejournal.com]

^that's totally me. *login fail*

So Cute!

[fortheloveofsam.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that disney was coming out with ANOTHER movie! But this one looks super cute. Reminds me a bit of shrek with the animation, but it's indeed well done. Now I'm excited to see it (:

[brendala.livejournal.com]

I didn't know the title had been changed to "Tangled". That's actually pretty cute.

I wish they hadn't shown the hair beating scene in the trailer because it was a hilarious surprise that would have had more impact if I saw it in the actual movie. Oh well.

Changing the prince into a thief was a clever twist. That male lead is total fangirl bait!

Rapunzel comes across as very goofy. It would be cool if she was the "slapstick" character to the thief's "straight man" because you don't see a lot of female characters being wacky in these types of films (and the ones that do are always kids or old matron types).

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

It's not at all uncommon for Disney to shelve projects that have story issues. Beauty and the Beast was actually started back when Walt Disney was still alive but they couldn't find a way to make the story work, so the project was shelved - literally. Thankfully Disney does tend to go back to shelved projects later on to see if they can find a new way to make the story work. Considering we have Beauty and the Beast as an animated feature now, despite it being shelved decades ago, I think it highly likely that some time in the future you'll get to see The Snow Queen released.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Basically, we are wondering if the thief will be (temporarily) blinded? I think it would add nice angst to the story. Maybe not with thorns though. A spell?

HTTYD had gorgeous animation. The best yet. I prefer the tones they have chosen for skin. Despite Pixar's awesomness, I never got why they went towards "yellow" and pale tones for skin. It makes people look sick.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Well, hopefully it will be picked up again soon enough. That story is actually pretty adeventurous and features a girl saving a boy... it would make a nice rule-breaking disney.

Re: So Cute!

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

The planned release date is November 24, 2010. :D

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it would have made a nice surprise. But considering that not showing that probably limits what else they can show in trailer scenes, it's kindoff understandable they did I suppose.

I would like a goofier girl. I loved Charlotte in the princess and the frog. I wanted her to have a silly song! But she never did!

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

If she goes with a spell, why stop at blinding him? And why make it temporary? The point in the original story was that he was somewhere deemed off limits by the witch, so he paid the price. It's amazing he didn't break his neck when he fell, really. ...I'm tempted to go pull out the story again.

Hmm...yellow? Pale, yes, but the skin tones in Pixar never looked yellow to me. (It makes me wonder about the television you watched the movies on.) Why they would choose pale skin colors is obvious since pale skin shows expression much more. It's a problem with television in general that darker skin colors are harder to see on film. If you've ever seen a movie with a black actor in a night scene, the actor is very hard to see compared to a white actor in the same scene. HTTYD definitely wins for complexity in skin tone, since it gave the characters freckles and the like. Actually, Hiccup's face always looked dirty to me because of this... XP I think skin tones just pose a problem in computer animation anyway. I can't imagine it being very easy to replicate.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Maybe I just like "grittier" skin XD

In the original story, he was blind only temporarily. Also, it's a Disney. blinding the hero doesn't always bring out the parental approved-ness.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

You haven't seen Prince of Persia yet, have you? :D Disney's been trying to change its squeaky clean image for a while now. I would think blindness would be tamer than, say, seeing Beast getting stabbed (and bleeding!) in the side, watching Ariel's tail split apart into legs (traumatizing to kids like I was), seeing the dog Chief get hit by a train... I find it interesting that Disney's traumatized us with a lot of things since forever, yet it still has the squeaky clean image. What gives?

Here's something funny though. I was bored and watched Tarzan 2 on YouTube last night. A commenter praised the movie, but then said she would never show it to her kids because of a scene where two characters call each other names. My gosh, really? The names were really tame, too. I think some parents need to take a chill pill.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Enchanted did it. O:)

Seriously though, the story has heavy Christian/religious themes to it that Disney would most likely have to remove. Remove that, and most of your story is gone. The girl can't really save the boy if she can't pray and summon angels to drive the evil from him. I imagine Disney had the same problem when adapting The Little Mermaid since a huge plot point in the original was that mermaids do not have souls, so she died not expecting to exist beyond that. Disney cut that element out entirely, and oddly enough, people seemed okay with that. Then again, Ariel didn't die at the end...

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Still, a girl on a quest would be nice.

I've seen adaptations that removed the religious themes and they worked quite well. They got replaced by "stock fantasy creatures" and the "power of love". Still works though.

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

I'm behind on viewing Disney flicks, I've still yet to watch the Princess and the frog one :/

[brendala.livejournal.com]

I was also bummed that Charlotte didn't get to sing. Her voice actress is a broadway star; they should have taken advantage of that!

Jane (from Tarzan) is the only other "goofy girl" that comes to mind. She didn't have the traditional "pretty Disney-Girl face", so she had a good variety of unusual facial expressions.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

OK, I am SOOOO gonna see this one!

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Sad sad sad. And the princess and the frog as a such a sexy prince in it. And snake bondage. For about 5 seconds.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Some parents are weird. Especially since kids actually love being scared and kinda enjoy being pervy (cooties and boobies are favorite words close to my house). They like the unknown. XD They can also take in a lot more then we give them credit for.

By sanitizing the media and overstimulating kids (some kids have busier schedule then I do) I find we are more and more creating dumb or unmotivated kids.

You gotta give childhood a bit of room.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! I was fully expecting her to sing too, because of her actress. Ah, can you imagine, a little duet between her and Tiana, about friendship. They could have done that for the sad "almost there" reprise, while Charlotte is giving her a dress. One sings about loosing her dream and the other about almost gaining it or something (her dream being... naveen's princy pants). Then at the end, cheery charlotte exists, then clues in a bit that Tiana is sad. Pauses. Asks "are you sure you're okay honey?" Tiana reassures her, she fixes her boobs, adds the "back in the fray" line and exists, leaving Tiana to discover froggy!Naveen. See, it fits, right there! RIGHT THERE.

Disney song insert fail

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha, I figured you would like it!