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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[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Actually, in the original fairy tale of Rapunzel, the prince had a pretty large (and somewhat tragic) role. He wasn't much of a saver either, since the witch kinda kicks his butt and wins.

I'm all for more active heroes too, but I doubt this type of hero will attract more males in the audience. I think they should go more towards characters like Hiccup, or Jim, or aladdin, as you said. This guy seems way to dashing.

I like both computer and traditional. I find both can bring out something that the other can't. Like light. Lighting is quite unique in 3D animation. However, traditional still has the more artistic edge.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.