Forgot to say
estefan, now I don't
know, but I have a feeling Walt found the original treatment too broing and was trying to make The Jungle Book more fun. Like he added more animals to Sleeping Beauty's first romance scene because it was too boring. But two things: It was still the story of The Jungle Book, and so it was called that, and if Disney makes Rapunzel comical, it's probably not to be more fun, but to suit today's cynical pop-culture audience they don't think would want a straight fairy tale.
Randall, well, as someone who grew up with Aladdin not knowing all the references, I still find it funny and do not cringe. I still makes sense to me that this wacky, magical, other-worldly (and out of this world) genie would do stuff like that. Thanks for letting me know about Basil of Baker Street, indeed it should have been called that, then! In fact, this Tangled business mirrors that event, people came up with a list of names for Disney's other films like "Seven men help a girl" for Snow White after the change to "Great Mouse Detective" and people have made similar lists after Tangled, like calling Snow White "Poisoned".
Ben, I agree with you on so, so much.
As for Unbraided, yes, I didn't like that either, but that title did fit what we knew they were doing, twisting and changing Rapunzel. Remember she was a squirrel in that one?
However, we have heard from many, many sources that Rapunzel (Tangled), though perhaps more humorous and with a bandit, will still be the story of Rapunzel. They can't change the story this late in the game, as you know, so only the title was changed.
And aside from all that, if I heard Disney was doing Rapunzel but not traditionally, and called it Tangled from the beginning, I would still be upset, because I, like many, many, many people, have been waiting for the classic Disney fairy tale treatment of this classic fairy tale, one of the last great, well-known ones to do!
As for the CGI, remember Glen Keane said he has been trying to make it more hand-drawn like, as well as look more like a painting? And the traditionally animated films were also hand-painted! So you see why I think it's still a traditional, classic way of doing the story...except for the fact that what we have seen lately doesn't look like they did that very much! I remind everyone, didn't you want to see this come to life?:
I read that these images for Rapunzel, that look like paintings, were made on a computer in 3D CGI:
And some other stuff I read about even making Snow White's cottage look like the watercolor background in the film...but then Glen Keane saw it rotate, because it was actually made on the computer in 3D CGI! But alas, we don't seem to be getting something quite that amazing...still, Glen Keane tried, and he apparently still has a softer and more of a painting look than average CGI in the current way the film looks. Like their skin looks softer for one.
I'd love to hear more about Ward Kimball's aliens.
But as
EricJ said,
Ben,
James,
anyone, what addresses can we send our hand-written letters to try and get the name changed?
