Comparing Walt Disney Films And The Brother's Tangled

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Since the beginning of time, stories have been told. Stories have been passed down from the beginning of time, told to younger generations by the old. Every story is based on one original story, however, the author has to create a new storyline with new character, sometimes adding a new, exciting aspect to the plot. There are only a limited number of stories that can be told, as there are only a limited number of messages, or key elements that a reader can take away from each story. After a while, a reader will begin to relate a book, movie, song, or some other kind of story, to a work that they have previously read. Walt Disney’s franchise, Walt Disney Studios, has created many different movies based on tales told to young children. One such branch of the franchise focuses specifically on childhood stories from the Brother’s Grimm, the princesses. They have been “cleaned up” and remade into movies suitable for children of all ages. The movie Tangled, features a young woman, locked in a tower and sheltered from the world. She doesn’t know that she was actually a princess of a nearby kingdom, kidnapped as an infant and raised by an old woman that uses her for her hair’s magical healing abilities. The unnaturally long, golden locks were used to hoist not only a small basket of whatever her “mother” had
Stories have been passed down from older generations to younger generations. Every story is different, but every story is the same. There are similarities and differences in every story written, but the message behind the words is almost always the same. This is true in the stories of Danae and Rapunzel, as they are both similar and different. They possess the same aspects, including a selfish villain, an unexpected lover, and an affair that ended in offspring. While they had similar aspects, their storylines were vastly different. Rapunzel’s story ended in tragedy, as opposed to Danae’s “happily ever

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