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osprey_archer) wrote2011-11-28 05:15 pm
osprey_archer) wrote2011-11-28 05:15 pm
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Tangled
New life goal! I want to grow my hair out so long that I can use it as a grappling hook. If it also gains magical glowing healing powers that would be ace, but I won't insist.
As you might have guessed, I just watched Disney's Tangled and was most favorably impressed. And not just by Rapunzel's hair, though its manifold superpowers (let me repeat: grappling hook) and beautiful animation did impress me mightily.
But Rapunzel herself is even more impressive: curious, bright, extraordinarily emotionally resilient. Though Rapunzel is not immune to the witch's insidious year's-long campaign to convince her that she's too weak and naive to survive outside her tower imprisonment, her curiosity about the outside world always outweighs her fear of it in the end.
I have to say, whenever I see people criticizing Disney princesses as bad role models - especially on the grounds that they're weak damsels in distress - I wonder if they've seen any Disney princess movies since, say, The Little Mermaid. Belle is a damsel in distress? Tiana? Mulan?
But back to Tangled. I do have on quibble about the ending:
I realize that Flynn was mortally wounded and therefore not thinking straight but REALLY, I think it would be perfectly acceptable to let Rapunzel heal his mortal wounds and only thereafter cut off her magic hair. His (attempted) noble sacrifice was totally unnecessary.
Also it would have been nice if he had somehow cleared the whole "I'm going to chop off your magic hair to save you from the witch!" thing with Rapunzel - I can see how she might have had objections to that, you know?
But so anyway. The animation is just beautiful. The movement of Rapunzel's hair and her skirts flows smoothly, beautifully rendered, and the scene where the townsfolk release the paper lanterns into the sky, and the light reflects in the lake until up and down mix together and the whole screen is simply glowing lanterns against night sky -
Just enchanting.
As you might have guessed, I just watched Disney's Tangled and was most favorably impressed. And not just by Rapunzel's hair, though its manifold superpowers (let me repeat: grappling hook) and beautiful animation did impress me mightily.
But Rapunzel herself is even more impressive: curious, bright, extraordinarily emotionally resilient. Though Rapunzel is not immune to the witch's insidious year's-long campaign to convince her that she's too weak and naive to survive outside her tower imprisonment, her curiosity about the outside world always outweighs her fear of it in the end.
I have to say, whenever I see people criticizing Disney princesses as bad role models - especially on the grounds that they're weak damsels in distress - I wonder if they've seen any Disney princess movies since, say, The Little Mermaid. Belle is a damsel in distress? Tiana? Mulan?
But back to Tangled. I do have on quibble about the ending:
I realize that Flynn was mortally wounded and therefore not thinking straight but REALLY, I think it would be perfectly acceptable to let Rapunzel heal his mortal wounds and only thereafter cut off her magic hair. His (attempted) noble sacrifice was totally unnecessary.
Also it would have been nice if he had somehow cleared the whole "I'm going to chop off your magic hair to save you from the witch!" thing with Rapunzel - I can see how she might have had objections to that, you know?
But so anyway. The animation is just beautiful. The movement of Rapunzel's hair and her skirts flows smoothly, beautifully rendered, and the scene where the townsfolk release the paper lanterns into the sky, and the light reflects in the lake until up and down mix together and the whole screen is simply glowing lanterns against night sky -
Just enchanting.
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One thing I like about Disney - and I wish they got more credit for it - is that they are so committed to telling stories for girls and about girls, especially in the last fifteen years. Sometimes they slip up with individual characters, but the overall effect of characters like Rapunzel, Belle, Tiana, Mulan, etc., is that many different kinds of girls (both demographically and in terms of character traits) can be strong and awesome.