Okay, I just want to talk about something with all of you, I just want to voice opinion and see what you think.
This may involve SPOILERS so I will white it.
Okay, so we found out that
a magical plant, apparently a magic flower, appears, and a tea is made from it to heal the Queen. It's power is transferred to her daughter Rapunzel, and Gothel, who was hiding the magic plant before, now takes Rapunzel and hides her. First I want to say that a while back, and this especially goes to
PatrickvD,
robster16, and
Amy, I
actually came up with a very similar idea before we even found this out. If you want proof, I wrote it waaay back in this thread. I said, "This could still be more like the original tale by having the lettuce that the peasant husband steals for his wife give his baby girl magical hair (because the lettuce came from the witch's garden, and perhaps a father's and mother's love makes the magic more powerful), and so the witch takes the baby as an exchange for the lettuce and also to have the magical hair (and the witch has to love Rapunzel to keep the hair's power...but the witch really falls for Rapunzel, as a mother)." I know I didn't come up with it being used for Rapunzel's tears, but I am talking about the idea of the plant being magical and when Rapunzel's mother consumes it, that's what makes Rapunzel have magical hair and that's why the witch wants her. I wanted some of you to tell me if you thought it was so great Disney happened to use the same idea or if you thought I was then clever or good. Please tell me if you think so.
But anyway, now I have some concerns, and I just wanted to express my view and see if anyone agrees. First, from what we have recently seen, it seems this story might actually be really faithful to the Rapunzel story now, at least as much as Disney has been, in their traditional, classic way. At first I was very mad that Rapunzel was changed to be a born princess and her prince was changed to a bandit, but I now see these changes really do serve the story to make for a journey, to have a longer, bigger, more exciting adventure and film. But now, I do not see any reason for some of these other changes. Why did the lettuce, which was how Rapunzel got her name, have to be changed to a flower, that has to be made into a tea? If it was the original rapunzel lettuce, it would make sense for the Queen to simply eat it, it would make sense for a pregnant woman, and not only would it be keeping to the original story, but Rapunzel would get her name from it the correct way. Then, it also seems Gothel is just an ordinary woman who steals the magcial things. I don't see why she can't be the original story's witch with a garden, who makes the deal with Rapunzel's father who tries to steal her lettuce.
If Mother Gothel isn't a magical witch or enchantress, not only is it not like the original story, but it makes her more ordinary and less interesting to me. And then I have no idea how she gets Rapunzel or how she builds that huge, giant tower and puts her up there in the first place. The only thing that makes me feel okay is that then Mother Gothel is kind of magical by stealing magic.
The reasons I am concerned about all this are, for one, because it's being unfaithful when it doesn't have to be unfaithful. The changes aren't necessary for making a better movie is what I mean. More than that, I don't want children who see this movie thinking then that this is how Rapunzel's story goes. You see, I'm very okay with children thinking that The Little Mermaid lived happily ever after, I'm okay with them thinking extra things happened in certain stories that didn't happen originally. But I don't understand why there has to be so many changed things as Tangled is doing.
Very briefly I want to talk about Rapunzel and how that magic flower may still be rapunzel (the plant). I previously thought rapunzel was just lettuce, but it turns out it is lettuce that also sprouts flowers. Now, these flowers are supposed to be bell shaped, meaning they look like bells and point downward like bells. Some pictures show this. But I have found some pictures that show these flowers looking just like the one we have seen for this film, except they are purple and not gold:
I originally thought that the reason Rapunzel's dress was purple-pink was because of the purple-pink flowers this rapunzel plant grows, but since they made the flower in the film gold, the only thing I can think of is it's gold because it's magical, and maybe it has to do with Rapunzel's gold hair, even though I thought her hair was just blonde like her mother's, but maybe it is a special gold color after the magic flower.
I also thought Rapunzel's dress was almost like a lighter, girlier shade of Mother Gothel's red dress in a way, to dress her like her, but not quite. And I thought that maybe Mother Gothel has black hair to show even more she is not Rapunzel's real mother.
After all that, I want to say what I think should happen, and please tell me if you like it, think it's good, or don't. Disney, if you're reading this, I hereby give up all my rights to this and you may use it with my permission, I won't and can't sue you, if you need to ask me specially my email is
lemonhippocave@gmail.com, thank you:
Once upon a time an old witch was losing her beauty and health. She wanted to be beautiful and young forever, and live forever. Her mother had given her a special seed to do this with, out of love, but the witch didn't really love her mother that much, out of anger at her, and doesn't understand love. She decided to use the plant now as a last resort, because the plant from it would only last for a while, not forever. She plants this seed, which becomes a special magical rapunzel plant bearing purple flowers. The flowers glow a very faint gold light. She eats the plant's lettuce, and it works, but only for a little bit, then she must eat some more lettuce, and eventually the plant will run out.
The king and queen of the land were expecting their first baby, but the queen was ill because of pregnancy complications. One day, looking out her high tower window, she, unlike anybody else, could see over the witch's high wall. Two different things could happen, either she craves the lettuce because it glows magic and she feels she needs it, and she really does need it, it's a pregnancy thing, or she sees the witch healing herself with the plant and thinks she could use it. She tells the king, and he tries to ask the witch, but she's all walled up, wanting no company, so he tries to steal it. The witch is about to attack him in her garden when she sees the flowers in his touch glow a lot brighter. Her mother had said the plant would last forever with love, but the witch had never understood, and had a hard time believing in love anyway.
So the witch thought of a plan. "I'll let you have the lettuce if you give me your baby." "How could I do that?" the king replied shocked. "How could you let both your wife and baby die?" the witch responded. So the king agreed. Unbenownst to the king and witch, the flowers glowed brighter because the king was using them as an act of love to save his wife and chid. The witch did however suspect that the plant's magic would go to the child and last as long as the child lived, much longer than the plant would in her garden, and perhaps, even make the child live forever. Especially with love. So this either just happens or maybe she casts a spell to make it happen. But the queen is saved and the child is born, and she is named Rapunzel after the plant that saved her and her mother. One day, the witch comes a-knocking, says "A deal's a deal", and takes Princess Rapunzel away. The king and queen say "We are the king and queen, we can give you anything you want! Just don't take our child!!!!" with the queen crying and throwing jewels and gold and clothes hoping she'll take anything but her child. The king calls the guards.
The witch was not the most powerful witch, otherwise she wouldn't need the plant or Rapunzel's magic to stay beautiful and young, so when the guards are chasing her, she has difficulty escaping them, until she places her hand on Rapunzel's hair, and her hand glows. Her magic becomes much more powerful, and she blasts the guards away and flies away, too.
She either flies up to a hidden abandoned tower or builds one, somehow, using her Rapunzel-strengthened magic. After that, Mother Gothel must try to love Rapunzel for the magic to work. It would certainly work a lot more if she really loved Rapunzel more deeply, but brushing her hair and semi-taking care of her seems to do it, and at least the magic will work on her as long as Rapunzel is alive, much longer than the life of a plant...
So...it'd be cool if any of you let me know what you think.
Also, I did recently think I figured out something about Flynn Rider:
Remember how Rapunzel makes a deal with Flynn for him to take her out of the tower? I think there must be something in it for Flynn. I think that there are actually Wanted posters for Rapunzel to be taken back to the king and queen...for a reward. That's slightly like Anastasia but I don't care if it is.
If Flynn takes Rapunzel back to her parents, then he will not only get more than he could ever wish for in riches and living the good life using those riches, he would probably also get off the hook for all the previous theiving he did, and not have to run from the law anymore.
So...whatdya think?
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