Project 3

Over the years we have learned to love the Disney princesses. We even love the newest Disney princesses Rapunzel. The only way to keep up with the times and make sure girls of all ages will love and adore the princesses is to make sure they evolve with the ages. From Snow White to Rapunzel, Disney princesses have shown immense growth in how they conduct themselves, their independence, and confidence.

           With Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty the princes were the ones to go find the girl, rescue her, and marry her. They were helpless needed a man to save them. For Snow White, all the prince had to do was kiss her back to life and she would ride away with him, Cinderella needed to get away from her step sisters and he was the only one to help her, and Sleeping Beauty was stuck in a castle helpless to free herself. There was also not much to the guy characters. They were mostly nameless and all you needed to know was the guy will always come to save the day.

           After that, Disney took two steps forward and one step back with The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. Ariel in The Little Mermaid was a little more confident and independent than the past princesses. She wanted to get out of the sea and meet a guy and she was determined to do what she wanted. Later, Belle, from Beauty and the Beast, was very smart and independent and refused to be with the big man in town who could provide for her. She ended up being the one to save the beast. Ariel and Belle were two wonderful role models for young girls. Then comes the one step back, Jasmine, from Aladdin. Yes she was very confident, but not very independent. She knew she shouldn’t be a prize to be won but in the end Aladdin needed to save her just like the original princesses.

           Finally, Disney seems to start to get that girls need confident, independent role models. Then came Princess and the Frog and Tangled. Both were very independent princesses that could overcome any challenge thrown at them. Rapunzel, from Tangled, didn’t exactly need Flynn Ryder but she thought she did; she was made to think she was this fragile little flower. Fragile little flower or not she definitely took control and showed great confidence. Disney has come a long way and their latest movies show it.

Tangleed Review

Before Rapunzel was born her mother was very sick and needed the healing powers of a special flower. They found the flower to heal the queen and Rapunzel was born. Her hair inherited the healing powers of the flower. Later mother Gothel , knowing about the healing powers, stole Rapunzel from the castle and kept her locked in a tower so she could use the healing powers to keep herself young. Rapunzel is turning 18 and her hair has grown to 70-feet. After 18 years of being locked in the tower she decided it’s time for her to go out and explore the world beyond those walls. One day a local thief named Flynn Ryder scales the tower and is held captive by Rapunzel. She strikes a deal with the charming thief to act as her guide to take her to see the floating lights she has seen every year on her birthday. Now, Rapunzel is in for the most exciting adventure of her life.

In past Disney princess movies they were mostly tailored to young girls who still believe in princesses and fairy tales. For example, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, and The Princess and the Frog. For other princess movies they seemed to want to expand their audience to young boys as well. They made Aladdin, Snow White, and now Tangled. Years ago both girl dominated princess movies and princess movies that expanded to young males thrived. Up until the last two Disney princess movies, The Princess and the Frog, and Tangled. The Princess and the Frog didn’t do as well as they hoped it would. To recover from that, they decided to attempt to expand their audience on Tangled.

Tangled was a great success. Not only did they expand their audience to young males but to people of all ages. When I went to see the movie in theatres I was accompanied by my boyfriend at the time. He is a Halo playing nut who wears black clothes and tends to keep to himself. We both came out of that theater in love with the movie. My sister also probably watches the movie once a week and to this day my mom has yet to rip her hair out from being sick of it. It never gets old.

Based off my experience of the text of Rapunzel before Disney turned it into a movie I think Disney did a great job. All I knew about the story of Rapunzel was, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!” and that is it. It is a great take on a story I never really knew. It has lively characters that are funny and relate able, an amazing plot that keeps you glued, and a wonderful ending that makes you never give up on dreams.

Overall this movie is great for everyone. Whether you are a high school student going out on their own, a young girl dreaming of her prince charming (or in this case Flynn Ryder), or a boy who thinks he is all that and a bag of chips but knows someday a girl will change that. This movie is for the dreamer in all of us and helps us see the dreams that come true every day in reality. I know I will keep this story in my heart for the rest of my life, and I think anyone else who has seen this movie will do that same.

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DISNEY WORLD!!!

Over spring break I am going to the place where dreams come true. DISNEY WORLD!! I may be turning 20 in May but I love Disney world. I have gone there 15 times in my life. One of the main things I love doing in Disney World is take someone who has never been there before and show them all the fun things there are to do. We also have a lot of fun and unpleasant adventures on the way there and while we are there.

I have a special needs sister. She is 18 but she has the mental capacity of a 3-year-old. The first adventure starts with getting through security. She doesn’t have very good balance and feels the need to touch the sides of the metal detector. Which just in case you didn’t know, that sets it off. She also doesn’t like loud noises and doesn’t understand when a bunch of people come up and surround her. So normally she sets off the metal detector. A bunch of people in blue gloves come over to find out if she has a bomb while my aunt is freaking out. I’m trying to figure out what to do and our stuff is going through the scanner without anyone to get it at the end. This year we will attempt to avoid all that. Wish us luck. The next adventure is whether or not she will freak out about getting on the plane, fun stuff. Eventually she will get on.

After that we know at some point after we get to Disney World she will get sick. We don’t know where or when but it will happen. Oh and I forgot to mention on top of all this she is scared of the characters that walk around the park. Lucky for us, if I remember correctly they don’t come up to children anymore. You have to get into a line to see them. There are plenty of adventures in Disney with my sister but she loves it and I’m defiantly going to enjoy the sun and showing my boyfriend everything Disney has to offer.

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MOVIE NIGHT!!

Five thirty on a Thursday night I walked to The Movie Fan with my roommate. At first I never even knew where it was. When I saw it I didn’t even recognize it even though I recognized everything else around it. The first thing I noticed was the table section which confused me because I’ve never seen a place to eat in a movie store. I thought that was very different but I didn’t know what to think about it. I still don’t. Once I got in I was shocked by how many movies there were in such a small place.

Once my roommate and I took it all in we started cruising through the isles looking at all the titles we had to choose from. We probably spent an hour just looking around. I think I could go my entire life watching a few movies a day and still not make it through all the movies in that store. Even if I didn’t include any new movies and excluded all the movies I don’t like I still couldn’t see them all. We found a bunch of movies that we wanted to watch. It’s so much nicer than how Netflix works. With Netflix there is no way to see every movie they have available and unless you know what movie you want to watch there is no way to look through a broad enough list to find one you want to watch.

I liked the Movie Fan because of how much they carry and the local feel. When I use to go to the chain movie stores it wasn’t that exciting, but that might be because I was little and didn’t care. The other thing that was nice is how approachable the staff is unlike the big chain movie rental places are. The one thing I didn’t like about The Movie Fan was that to rent a movie you have to have an account which prevented me from getting a movie. Other than that I thought it was a good experience.

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