Rapunzel Movie Comparison

Normally, when a movie is made about a story in a book the two stories are not exactly the same. The movie is adjusted by adding small details or leaving out some parts in order to make the story more

While remaining similar in the main plot points of the story, Tangled and “Rapunzel” take very different approaches in many of the story’s details and settings, as well as in the characterization. These differences drastically affect the tone and themes of the two stories. Howard and Greno’s Tangled focuses on a narrative of taking action when opportunity is offered to try to achieve what you want. Through the reoccurring acts of disobedience, the Grimm Brothers’ “Rapunzel” explicates a theme of the dangers of greed. As a result, Tangled tells a more hopeful story, while “Rapunzel” remains more

Fairy tales have existed for years, some starting as oral stories for decades before ever being recorded on paper. These tales continue to hold an importance in the present such that they reflect the changes in time and progression of thought and ideas. Over time, many fairy tales are retold for various reasons including reforming them to be used for new audiences to make the story more relatable or to convey a different point of view to various specific audiences. This can be seen in various renditions; Andrew Anderson’s Shrek can be compared to Steig’s “Shrek!” and Perrault’s “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” and evaluated as a retelling of either based on specific criteria. Although some may argue that William Steig’s “Shrek!” appears more closely similar to Anderson’s Shrek, as evaluated from the presence of similar characters, general plot structure, and targeted audience, the movie Shrek is more closely a retelling of Charles Perrault’s “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood.”

Cinderella has changed so little over time that it seems we’re still in the 1700’s listening to Charles Perrault. And yet it remains of the most popular fairy tales read to children. The role of women continue to be either the cruel, evil one or the good, docile one while the prince continues to be the saving grace of the helpless girl. The skeleton hasn’t changed much as well. A damsel in distress, saved by a knight in shining armor, who falls in love with her and they live happily ever after. Does this sound familiar? This sentence might as well be a fairy tale. We’ve seen this over and over in Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.

Throughout the years there have been many versions of the classic tale, “Cinderella.” From European style all the way to Disney. However, they are all based on the same ancient story. Step mother, step sisters, Cinderella marries the love of her life, you get the idea. Yet, each individual story has its own unique touch to make it stand out just a little bit more than the previous story. The two Cinderella stories that I’m going to be comparing are two Disney films. The first one I am going to discuss was released in early spring of 1950, called “Cinderella”. The second story is a remake called, “Another Cinderella Story” released in 2008. Both films based on the same story line, yet completely different.

Who turned the gruesome originals into pretty, perfect productions. Disney replaced gore with magic wands and wishes, deaths with true love's kiss, and morbid endings with happily ever afters. Just take the movie Sleeping Beauty, she was cursed then awaken by a handsome prince by true love’s kiss. That’s not what happened in the original version. Sleeping Beauty was still put under a sleeping curse but while she was sleeping a wandering king saw her and raped her, and she gave birth to twins while she was still sleeping. But, that’s just one Disney movie, they couldn’t possibly be all like that, right? Wrong! You’ve see Disney’s Cinderella at least once in your lifetime? In Disney’s version CInderella is portrayed as a servant girl in her own house, who gets whisked off to the ball by a fairy godmother and get’s the prince at the end. But, if you scrape all the sugar off that cake you get a story about a girl who is treated as a slave in her own house who has two stepsisters willing to cut off parts of their feet to fit inside her shoe, and there’s even more. At the end she actually does end up marrying the prince but not before getting revenge on her stepsisters. She has her bird friends pick at the stepsister’s eyes causing them to go blind. Now you tell me if those are the stories you’ve all seen and loved as a child. Disney tricks us into

It is an unimaginable thought that something so similar can be missing so much. They can be both so unique and incomparable. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee the main character, Scout and her brother Jem fight prejudice through a young person perspective. The main characters go on a journey against Bob Ewell throughout the sleepy town of Maycomb, at the 1930’s. Bob Ewell has falsely accused Tom Robinson of a crime. On the process the characters grow a lot and find things that spark their curiosity. This makes an interesting plot with many turns. The movie, To Kill a Mockingbird, has many differences from its book, many plots and characters are missing which greatly impacts the movie directed by Robert Mulligan.

There might not be that many, and the prince and princess may still get their happily ever after, but reading the Brothers Grimm version would taint anyone's fond memories of growing up on the Disney version. It's the small contrarieties that would make them feel different about the tales, such as the ways the evil queen tried murdering Snow White, how the princess had revived, and the truth behind the queen's death. Growing up on the originals would have given readers each a sense of reality and no false hope about life and love. More might have appreciated the sappiness because it would've been better preparation for the road ahead. Next time watching a Disney movie, research it. Is there an original version? If there is, compare and contrast the two. It's surprising how many kids' tales have been censored to be appropriate for the target

Watch the movie Tangled and you’ll find yourself hooked, desiring the knowledge of what’s next. While watching this movie, two main literary themes became apparent. Disney's Tangled is the story of a stolen girl trapped in a castle with her captor as a mother. Throughout the story, Rapunzel wants nothing more but to leave her . Tangled’s plot employs many gender stereotypes and shows a large socio-economic divide.

Absolute film was a movement created by a group of artists in Germany in the 1920’s (Wikipedia). Hans Richter, Walter Ruttman, Oskar Fischinger, and Viking Eggeling were the pioneers who created absolute film, and all of them had artistic backgrounds besides Fischinger. Most cinematic projects have a story line, and something you follow through, but with absolute film it is quite the opposite. Absolute film depended solely on the artist’s vision and imagination for the film. It was a remarkable revolution in cinema, that a film could be created simply off a visual spectacle with aid from auditory music. No story line, no characters, nothing… just random images, colors, shapes flowing on the screen to music made to evoke imagination.

In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, This quote is expressed the most throughout the novel. This quote sounds relatable to what you read in everyday life, such as fairytales, fables, and sometimes, even reality. It’s the most universal plot found in most books, its almost a cliché and is greatly expressed throughout this Novel. This quote tries to represent how evil usually gets their way in the start, but never wins at the end you’ve probably heard this quote in a few different forms such as, “cheaters never win” or “liars never prosper”, they are all pretty much referring to the same thing. For a more relatable comparison, as an example, Snow White by Disney, it’s a movie that just about everyone has ever watched, The evil which

That's a similarity because, when the witch is on her way to go see rapunzel, she sees the prince climbing down rapunzel's hair, and on his way

Gender is an extremely significant aspect of many forms of entertainment, particularly film adaptations. It is easy to form opinions on certain characters due to portrayals of gender stereotypes which have always been prevalent in the media and in real life. Film adaptations are exceptionally fascinating when studying gender because they are able to either stay true to the original source, which may be deemed problematic now, or stray away from the source and create a different version of the same character, perhaps one with a different perception that can change the meaning of the film entirely. For example, female characters can be changed to adapt to current times and perhaps be shown from a feminist perspective. Evidence of this can be shown through the portrayals of Cher Horowitz (Emma Woodhouse) from Clueless, a modern version of Emma and Rapunzel from Tangled. The protagonists from these films are both teenage girls with similar personality traits, and yet one is ridiculed while the other is lauded as a feminist hero. In this essay, I aim to explore the concepts of gender in both adaptations, particularly when it comes to the two main protagonists, Cher Horowitz and Rapunzel and the differing opinions between them, as I believe both adaptations and characters are feminist in their own right. Throughout this essay my objective is to also look at the relationships these characters have with their male leads and their family, and the potential issues that may occur when

The fact that he is first drawn to her voice rather than her appearance seems to suggest an attraction more to who she is rather than anything physical. Her “voice” may be symbolic of Rapunzel’s thoughts and personality. However, the first time the prince finds Rapunzel, he is obviously unprepared to proceed into this facet of his life. He searches for a door through which to reach her but is

Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm also known as the Grimm brothers are historically known for their uniqueness both in their styles of writing and the exceptional illustrations of their works. Their age old literature has been told and retold with the essence of gothic architecture and contemporary children's stories for decades now. This essay will contrast the Grimm brothers story of Rapunzel and Disney's story of Rapunzel, it will also include comparing their illustrations with Molly Bang's theory.