Tangled (Live-Action)

[WarriorDreamer]

I think when they were saying Sabrina Carpenter was "too pretty" for the role what they really meant was "too sexy" with her sexy image and such. Since being pretty is what Disney Princesses are all about so that wouldnt make sense.

That said, I hope Taegan Croft does well with the role.

[PatchofBlue]

This is my first real sample of Manheim, and I can see little echoes of Flynn here, such that I feel more at ease with him in the role.

Tangled Live-Action: Milo Manheim Reveals Scene He Can’t Wait to Recreate (Exclusive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR0vhwDMMHw

This is also the part of the cycle where I'm left wondering about the costuming and how closely they're going to try to replicate the wardrobe of the animated work.

With these things, I'm always hoping that the inspiration from the source material is clear, but when it looks like these are just cast members from the Disney Parks, it starts to lose me.

[Disney Duster]

I want the inspired-by-but-very-creatively-different costume approach of Cinderella all the way baby! And never the Snow White way!

[Disney's Divinity]

I prefer faithful re-creations (more or less) like B&tB, Aladdin, Snow White, Pinocchio, etc. Of course, the outfits in Tangled were always hideous... So technically I wouldn't care if there were things that were different here. I did love the outfit designs Rapunzel and Eugene received in the second and third seasons of the TV series though. I'm really only here for this one to see how Menken can expand the music with less restraint on him without the original directors involved.

That said, I'm sure bigger fans of the original than me liked the outfits, so naturally they'll anger those fans with severe changes. And anyway, if TLM was anything to go by, even in the case where the designs weren't that great in the original (Ariel's pink and blue dresses were always very meh, although I loved the wedding and sea foam dresses, tbh), what they come up with is always much worse, never better.

[PatchofBlue]

I want the inspired-by-but-very-creatively-different costume approach of Cinderella all the way baby! And never the Snow White way!

Haha, yes. Never the "Snow White" way.

Aladdin I think is a good reference for me. I like the clear connections to the animated film, but I still feel like a team was assigned for this project and they used their degrees to figure out what this movie needed.

[Farerb]

I'm just glad this movie won't need a lot of terrible CGI like other remakes. The only worry is Pascal, but I hope he's treated more like how the mice in Cinderella were. The animal sidekicks don't really translate well in live action so I prefer that they tone down both Pascal and Maximus and their antics.

[Disney's Divinity]

I don't see Aladdin as any different from Snow White... The gorgeous recreation of the Queen's purple robe / dress in the remake wasn't an exact re-creation either, tying in the peacock throne from the original with her necklace and making her crown / train an amalgamation of all colors.

And then Aladdin also made a gorgeous original outfit with the pink while also having room for the one inspired by the original looks. Weird that it has to be an either/or then. The outfits inspired by the film being re-made are what I'd call necessary, whereas additional originals are just icing. It's when they try to have only original and abandon the iconic outfits altogether that they always get a backlash.

[PatchofBlue]

I'm just glad this movie won't need a lot of terrible CGI like other remakes. The only worry is Pascal, but I hope he's treated more like how the mice in Cinderella were. The animal sidekicks don't really translate well in live action so I prefer that they tone down both Pascal and Maximus and their antics.

I really feel like this one ought to have a much easier jump to live-action than 90% of the Disney canon. Like you said, the only real pressure point I see is probably with Pascal and Maximus. But I think a lot of that will have to do with the creative choices up top over the capabilities of modern filmmaking. The animals in Lady & the Tramp were completely realistic while also believably emoting. If they can just make Maximus and Flynn a little less Tom & Jerry, they ought to land the plane.

[Kyle]

Between her hair, the aging effects on mother Gothel, the animals, set extensions, there's gonna be a lot of CG I imagine.

[Disney's Divinity]

I'd be surprised if they don't cut almost everything with Maximus.

[PatchofBlue]

Between her hair, the aging effects on mother Gothel, the animals, set extensions, there's gonna be a lot of CG I imagine.

Probably. But more on par, I'd think, with just your regular Hollywood blockbuster. I'd have to imagine that the load would be easier for this movie than like "The Jungle Book" or "The Little Mermaid." Most of the cast is human, and CGI will probably be used to augment certain sets and sequences, but most of the stages can also probably be either built or filmed on location.

Although, Disney has also never needed "reasons" to stumble in adapting their own stories, so we'll see.

[Disney Duster]

Aladdin? That was hit and miss for me, but mostly miss. The lines and patterns and random gold patch to cover Jasmine’s midriff…not to mention I, personally, in my opinion, just found so much of the costumes ugly…I don’t want an Aladdin situation.

[PatchofBlue]

Aladdin wasn't my favorite in the costuming department, but I generally liked it. My favorite was actually Jasmine's "Desert Moon" dress, and I'm sad that she only gets to display it for all of five seconds in the finished film.



I just bring it up because the design choices for this remake are clearly inspired by the animated outfits without being just boring replicas, and that's the approach I want for the remakes. Like, they ought be clearly connected to the films they're reimagining, but there still needs to be a sense of discovery for both the artists and audiences alike.

[Disney Duster]

Sure, like Aladdin, but actually good would be a great way to do the costumes.

[Thumper_93]

I want the inspired-by-but-very-creatively-different costume approach of Cinderella all the way baby! And never the Snow White way!

Aladdin's costumes were all right but they are really forgettable. Jasmine wore some beautiful gowns but the color palette was not the one that you use to associate with the character. Even the blue one doesn't look like the one in the film at all. I also didn't like the fabric that they used for the belly, it looked really bad.
For Tangled I would use a medieval style with natural colors and very organic designs. I would leave her with her hair braided during all the film because I think that she's going to look weird with the hair down all the time. Barbie made some really great Rapunzel designs back in the 90s and they even designed one that wears an Hennin. I love the idea of using this type of hats for the queen or even for Gothel.

[Disney Duster]

It was not the color palette that made me dislike Jasmine’s costumes, Thumper. One thing I’m glad we agree on was her belly cover up was terrible. My favorite costume of hers was the orange one with the corset. I did happen to like her “Desert Moon” one a little, PatchofBlue.

I like the idea of medieval costumes. A henin would indeed look good on Gothel. She had a horned henin with cloth covering it in a concept art of an old design of her brushing Rapunzel’s hair. But I would most like 16th century designs for the film, as the two leads had, just more historically accurate and for God’s sake fix those puffy sleeves on Rapunzel.

[Disney's Divinity]

Really the only outfit I had any problem with in Aladdin was Aladdin's street rat outfit. Sort of similar to B&tB, the only outfit I had some issues with was Belle's basic blue dress.

Re-watching SW the other day, I really only hated the Bandit outfits. I liked everything else more or less. Really the only film where I hated nearly all the looks was TLM--Triton, Rric, Grimsby, and Eric's mother all had passable looks and that was about it. At least Cinderella had the Prince's outfit, the Fairy Godmother's dress, and the stepmother's final dress that I had strong positive feelings about.

[Disney Duster]

I am glad you liked the Fairy Godmother’s dress, Divinity, because that is my favorite costume ever put to film, except perhaps after Cinderella’s ballgown in Into the Woods.

[Disney's Divinity]

I don't recall most of the outfits in ItW besides Meryl Streep's--I remember I liked her first look, but not the later one. But, yeah, the dress they gave Helena Bonham Carter's Fairy Godmother was very pretty. Not shade really, but I always sort of wish they'd made Cinderella's dress in that film more like that, tbh. It just occurred to me now as I was thinking about it that as far as the animated film goes (which I don't really think of the 2015 film as a proper remake considering the only thing they took from the animated film at all are the character names), that they reversed the colors of the animated outfits. The remake Fairy Godmother got silver like animated Cinderella and remake Cinderella got the darker blue of the animated Fairy Godmother.

BTW, I finally happened to see the Puss in Boots film where the character in your avatar and banner comes from after all this time. Perrito was the best thing about it, too. Cute.

[Thumper_93]

Cinderella's gown without filters had beautiful colors. I can't understand why they decided to put such a horrible filter into the movie....