DVDizzy Forum

mawnck wrote:While I am rather irked that the whole story is now spoiled (albeit in a skeletal form - there are many wonderful details you still don't know about), it's not like there's no precedent. In fact, Disney used to go out of their way to spoil absolutely everything in the early movies - with books, records, comic strips, radio dramas, etc.

It was a deliberate strategy. They considered it important that children going to see the movies knew everything they were going to see before they saw it.

robster16 wrote:This russian website has all those promo pictures and more in SUPER HIGH QUALITY!

http://www.kinogallery.com/films/foto.php?id=rapunzel

Disney Duster wrote:

You’ve been stressing how you tried to make this contemporary. Are you scared of how the audience might respond to all that novelty?

Howard: When people hear that you want to do a non-traditional take on a story they think it’s going to be cynical. They think we don’t like these kinds of stories and we’re making fun of them, which we’re not at all. We love these types of stories. If you look at it it’s told in a very genuine way. We love Rapunzel and Flynn and its got drama to it, its got action. When we changed the title to “Tangled” we thought it represented the film better because it became about both of them. When we did that people panicked a little and said, “Oh we don’t want you to ruin the story.”

When you say “people” who do you mean?

Howard: Core Disney fans. There are people who love traditional Disney like we do, I think they don’t want it to be cynical like other films that are takes on fairy tales.

Greno: I think they didn’t want us to make fun of the fact that we’re making this movie. We don’t. We very much respect the characters and the world. If you look at the architecture of the world it definitely has that classic look of Disney from the 40s and 50s. We’re very much into our roots, we love that stuff! At the same time we’re making this movie for a contemporary audience. This movie isn’t being released in nineteen-fifty-whatever. It’s being released now, that means we’re competing with other movies. We wanted to make sure our action, our pacing, our storytelling, our humor all felt very contemporary, very now. I believe we were able to achieve a really great balance between respecting our roots and at the same time making a very contemporary, unexpected movie.

Are you curious how people are going to react?

Howard: The movie has very deep emotional parts, and very dark parts as well. Hopefully it’s about establishing a balance. When we go to movies I want to laugh really hard, I want to tear-up, and I want to be taken on a great ride. We wanted this movie to be for everybody, something people could take their kids to, but at the same time we have humor in there that’s built for adults. The whole relationship between Flynn and Rapunzel is where a lot of the humor comes from. We’re just excited to show the film.

Greno: We had a couple of preview screenings for the film. At the screenings they have a focus group afterwards. They asked how they liked the movie, overall it was very awesome that people were excited for it, and somebody raised their hand and said, “This is like classic Disney but better!” We’re like, that’s great, that’s exactly what we’re looking for. It’s for today’s audience.

This is the first CGI musical, isn’t it?

Howard: I think so, yeah. Music is such a big part. What we loved about Alan when he came in was he said let’s do something different, let’s push it in a different direction. He had this great suggestion to have the music for Rapunzel more guitar driven, kinda more singer-songwriter, like Joni Mitchell. He’d play songs for us, and its great because it gives her a voice.

They’re some of the strongest songs I've heard in a while. It reminded me of “Beauty and the Beast”.

Howard: Sometimes music just does emotional things the dialogue can’t. When you hear the score that Alan wrote, when everything’s emotionally working it’s great for us ‘cause we’ve seen all these pieces in different places and now they’re coming together for the final film.

It took two years, why did it take that long?

Greno: John Lasseter said, “We will never release a bad film.” Even though we were locked into that two-year schedule the goal was to make the best film possible.

Were you guys able to get in any Easter eggs, hidden Mickeys?

Howard: Oh yeah. There’s stuff in there. There’s stuff in the tower. Pinnochio’s in the movie. If you look very closely in the pub he’s around and about.

Greno: There’s other things in the bookshop, for instance. Look at the covers of those books closely. There’s a lot of references to the legacy of Disney. We love our roots and we love to acknowledge that we love to work at Disney. We’ve both been working here roughly 15-years. It really is this contemporary, unexpected film.

Are you guys currently working on anything now? There’s no Disney Animation movie scheduled for 2012?

Howard: I think there might be a small gap between the CG films. Schedule-wise that’s the way it works out, but there’s a long roster of things. 2-D and 3-D

Are you gonna keep working together?

Howard: Definitely. We’ve already pitched our next thing. We like working with each other and we pitched 6 ideas to John and he combined two ideas we had. It’ll be crazy and amazing.

amazon980 wrote:Is Rapunzel going to be an official Disney Princess like Tiana?
She's getting a 17inch Doll like Snow White Tiana and Belle so does make her official?

Tristy wrote:It is kinda making me annoyed by Flynn. Hopefully Disney have pulled a Ray the Firefly with him and he turns out to be endearing

Kyle wrote:I never did warm up to Ray, and killing him, while the idea itself was nice to see used, didn't make me like him any more. instead it felt forced. like here's this annoying character, you don't like him, but you should now that we've killed him. The weird thing was, I didn't really mind him in the teaser like a lot of people did.

Disney's Divinity wrote:About the Gothel shots, I didn't notice while watching them the first time. And, I'm guessing, someone who knew nothing about this film wouldn't have even taken notice of her either.

Disney Duster wrote:And am I the only one wondering what a gun is doing in a story I thought was taking place in medieval or renaissance times?

MutantEnemy wrote:ARE YOU SERIOUS?

It's the duty of every Disney fan to see this in theaters at least once. Why follow this film for so long and then not go and see the movie. This is the kind of behavior that almost killed traditional animation. All you'll prove is that there is no audience for films by WDAS. There is no future for Disney animation if you and the general public don't go see it. If a Disney "fan" won't go see the film, who will?

Poody wrote:

MutantEnemy wrote:ARE YOU SERIOUS?

It's the duty of every Disney fan to see this in theaters at least once. Why follow this film for so long and then not go and see the movie. This is the kind of behavior that almost killed traditional animation. All you'll prove is that there is no audience for films by WDAS. There is no future for Disney animation if you and the general public don't go see it. If a Disney "fan" won't go see the film, who will?

Agreed. This also goes for "fans" who didn't see Princess and the Frog either..... Actually, we can blame them for the "Tangled" title!