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

Comments

[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]

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.

[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.