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]

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.