On Disney Movies

[mouradar]

As a kid born in the eighties, I was of course affected by the “Disney Renaissance” of the early nineties. You would be hard pressed to find someone in their twenties and early thirties who doesn’t think back fondly on those movies. The individual movies had their issues, no arguments there, but as a whole there really was something special going

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[satunian]

I have to say I thought Tangled was a great movie. I enjoyed PatF too but I can see why people say it felt flat. I do agree that the music in both was sub-par (really, who ever thought Randy Newman was a good choice for anything? Broccoli could make better music) especially with one having a singer as it's title character's voice actor!

Tangled was originally going to be called Rapunzel but they felt like having the title be the same name as a princess would discourage little boys from wanting to see a movie about a princess. Pixar, if you hadn't noticed, has had a long history of male leading characters. The logic follows that a story with a male protagonist will attract both male and female audiences while a female protagonist will only attract a female audience while driving males away. I get that the primary focus is box-office success but still...

PatF was also originally supposed to star a chambermaid named "Maddie". In that aspect we kinda lucked out with a waitress named Tiana (which means princess, btw)

Oh, I also agree with you about Hercules. It's a shame too because I thought Meg and Herc were great characters, and Hades was pretty fun, but everything else was just garbage. Why was Zeus a Texan? Why was Hera now his mother? (A key part of the actual Greek myth was that Hera was furious because he WASN'T her son!) WTF is up with gospel?

[mouradar]

If that's the reason they went with the name "Tangled" then that's ridiculous. Lots of little boys went and saw "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast." That's part of the reason they were so insanely successful. According to Wikipedia, the latter grossed 377 million dollars - and that was in 1991. There must have been little boys in those theaters.