Comments on: First Look: Disney’s Rapunzel

By: Eden

Eden — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:26:35 +0000

I have wanted Disney to do the story of Rapunzel for years as it is one of my favourites! I just hope they begin and end the tale with the storybook opening and closing just like the classic Disney princesses. They need to get back to the basics of a good fairy story and stop trying to update everything. Everyone knows animated characters aren’t real so why try and make them look that way with ‘actual moving flesh and bone’ as I have read in other reviews. Bring back the classic heroine!

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By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:17:04 +0000

Independent young heroine? Even though I love this story, in most versions I’ve heard, she grows up all alone in the tower, never questions that the witch is her mother, basically has sex and gets pregnant (or at least falls in love) with the first guy she ever lays eyes on, and never manages to make it out of the tower before the witch figures out what happened (in some versions, she’s basically dumb enough to mention him out loud - in others, the witch notices her growing belly!) and gets banished to a wilderness, where the blinded prince happens to find her! If Disney stayed completely faithful to that version, she would be pretty weak, naive, and passive. But I think you might be pleasantly surprised with the Disney version.
So I’m guessing English is not your first language. How do you pronounce Rapunzel? (in english, it’s rah-PUHN-zull, like ” a FUN bell”)

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:42:05 +0000

What is THAT? Rapunzel? Back from the undead, or? Disney-people, you’re very funny. As KenD said, the story is not very friendly for the little moneybags…aah children. Brothers Grimm wrote some good and dark fantasy or olf myths from the folks, I’d like to say. This little, harmless puppy-eyed child is not the independent young heroin Rapunzel. Man, I shure would like to hear how you speak out her name in english.

Anyhow. Disney shipped back to the old format of a woman. Patient. Calm and virgious. We’re in the future, guys!

By: Ken D

Ken D — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:54:51 +0000

Sorry, but one last hope. Although Matel makes the dolls, pleassse No Barbie puff Magic Dragon companion to replace flounder–please, please.

By: Ken D

Ken D — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:48:44 +0000

Despite Language, I wondered with Adam E regarding eyes. Ever since the Little Mermaid, with eyes nearly 1/3 her face size (plus big head with big hair), I wondered if Keane was regenerating the other big eyed puppy dog Keane art, when seeing stills. Until I saw the movie, with great personalityand touching interaction Mermaid appeared repulsive–also she wouldn’t die. Rapunzel, however, is no Bambi or Dumbo, and Jazmine and Belle had big eyes. I wish for something more realistic like Snow W or Cinderella, not generic use of big, Bratz eyes. Also wasn’t the story about a person who made a deal with a mother to be take and raise an her unborn child (foster parent?) as payment for her eating raddishes. Then Rapunzel wound up pregnant with her one night tower triste with her prince. As a payment for this deed, the foster parent/witch blinded the lad, caste him out far away from the girl, cut the girls hair and caste her out of the parent’s tower/home protection. But after wandering, the girl with her child, finds the blinded prince and cries tears into his eyes, curing him. Maybe big eyes for big healing tears. A marvelous tail of adventure, humor and action that speaks to modern times–bug eyed pg teen and all. It likely will be pulled off, but when are we going to get normal eyed heroines, with somewhat less Pocahontas sexy goddess female proportions as well. The Logo was majestic.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:10:07 +0000

The picture of Rapunzel is a few years old. She doesn’t look like that anymore. I too found it disturbing (Glen’s stylized design+photo-realistic super-detailed rendering = weird) and am happy to say the new version looks to be much more appealing.

By: AraBrokenGoddess

AraBrokenGoddess — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:08:49 +0000

The tower picture looks fine, but the title character needs to hit puberty before audiences will buy into this. The painting-type render isn’t perfect, but there’s still time to tweak that. It’s a fairy tale who’s time has come, so as long as they don’t butcher it in updating it, it’ll be fine.

-Ara

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By: Captain Awesome

Captain Awesome — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:33:26 +0000

sari,

Big eyes have been around since Betty Boop. Hence where the japanese took their influence from in terms of anime and character design. This isn’t a new thing, even in cinematic animation. Usually it’s used to show young age. If you go back you will see the big eye design used in their old films. Ranging from children, to animals, and even teens.

But to compare it to those horrible Bratz dolls is stretching it. Rapunzel isn’t dressed like a whore.

By: Captain Awesome

Captain Awesome — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:29:29 +0000

Norman,

In english please.

By: sari

sari — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:36:18 +0000

Um, Disney needs to stop. That Rapunzel looks so bad. It would be better if she was made to look like the old school princesses instead of a Bratz doll. GROSS

By: adman

adman — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:05:26 +0000

needs bigger boobs.

By: Norman E.

Norman E. — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:30:25 +0000

Rapunzel, why not?
What else could Disney murks into an movie? There are no tales of the Brothers Grimm anymore!

Everythings fine, but why are her eyes so BIG?!
Is that a fuckin’ anime?

Glen Keane and his artists should watch Snow White one more time.

Did anyone here knew, that Rapunzel is an salad?

By: dan

dan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:34:06 +0000

Peter…

THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED MORE OF!!!

Good news, containing ART. I love these fucking high res pictures, they make me smile with glee and respect you as a journalist 39242549854984 times more.

thank you, thank you, thank you.

By: Trebek

Trebek — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:45:50 +0000

@ AngryBroomstick

I think that’s how the story was written…her hair is SUPPOSED to be blonde. They are merely sticking to the story. I’m sure if the story called for a brunette, she’d be a brunette.

By: AngryBroomstick

AngryBroomstick — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:24:53 +0000

AWWW, GEEZ, ANOTHER BLONDE, BLUE-EYED WHITE FAIRY PRINCESS !!!!

Everybody clap your hands and say “yay!”

By: Trebek

Trebek — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:18:57 +0000

Ok…I just want to start off by saying that Pixar is great, and they make some fantastic films…But whatever happened to traditional hand drawn animation?

By: gocitizen

gocitizen — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:06:45 +0000

Personally, I think it’s sad that an animator with abilities like GK has had to cater his talent toward the 3D sensibilities. It is what it is, and we can’t change the way the market sorted out, but we have been cheated out of a lot of great art because of this ongoing technology/market “struggle.” Why? It strikes me that you will get something that isn’t 3d and something that isn’t 2d, and the end result will be a bastard that has no home.

It’s hard to remember that a film such as Lilo and Stitch, with beautiful, watercolor BGs, was a success.