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Tangled flynn rider smolder scene12/14/2023 ![]() As kind of an aside, we might mention that while Gothel has definitely got Rapunzel persuaded that she is her true mother, there is no hint of Mother Gothel ever having been married. In her case, this means wearing a red, fitted, bosom-revealing dress through the duration of the movie. Because of the magical properties of Rapunzel’s hair (we’ll get to all this stuff in time), she usually looks much younger, and takes advantage of it. Now, it must be said that Mother Gothel doesn’t usually look hundreds of years old. ![]() And if that might give them nightmares, they don’t even want to know about Mother Gothel being defeated at the end by transforming back into a hundreds-of-years-old witch, falling screaming from the tower window, and evaporating just as she hit the ground. Now I’m the bad guy,” it might very well give children nightmares. ![]() Mother Gothel can have a fairly scary look about her when she sets her mind to it, and when combined with a creepy tone of voice and a “You want me to be the bad guy? Fine. Rapunzel gets her share of the excitement, being chased by ruffian kidnappers, running from the burst dam, of course, and dealing with her wicked foster mother (another worldview element). It’s a rather graphic segment for a kids’ audience, what with one little thing and another (the knife, the blood, the death, etc.). And that’s the end of Flynn Rider (well, temporarily). Here comes the PG part: he gets stabbed to death. And, in consequence of his numerous felonies, he ends up being led to the gallows to be hanged for his crimes. Extracurricular activities involve remarking with fascination about all the blood on a thug’s mustache, fighting a handful of royal guards with the aforementioned frying pan, and running with Rapunzel from a bursting dam only to be trapped in a cave with the water level rising. As a thief, his job description includes falling from great heights, encountering the occasional skeleton in a dark passage, and getting hit in the head several times with a frying pan. The narration is from the other main character of the Rapunzel story not the prince, but the thief (and, yes, we’ll come back to that one, too), Flynn Rider. Suffice it to say, for now, that it’s not your typical G-rated opening line. The movie begins with this statement: “This is the story of how I died.” Well, actually, we’ll deal with that in Worldview. Right about now, you’re thinking there must be a catch to all this. She’s a home-educated, domestically-competent “stay-at-home daughter” who truly loves and respects her protective mother. Imagine my further surprise at discovering that Rapunzel is more than just a repressed teenager. Neither of them were out to prove anything to the world Flynn actually had fewer vices than I thought he would and Rapunzel ended up being Disney’s most clothed princess since Snow White. The romance really didn’t have any tension to it, and both of the main characters proved willing to sacrifice their very lives for each other. ![]() But, as happens from time to time (I’m not always wrong), the movie surpassed my expectations. Well, everyone has presuppositions, and those were mine. The trailers and posters tended that way. Mine, walking into Tangled, were that I was probably about to see crass feminism paired with a comedic mixture of lust and cowardice in an “unlikely” love/hate relationship that would end by showing the world their worth, and a good deal of their skin-all in a DreamWorks-quality picture just masquerading as a Disney masterpiece. Walt Disney Animation Studios for brief mild violenceĮveryone walks into a movie with presuppositions about its style, worldview and whatnot.
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