Tangled (2010)
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bechdel_testThis film also goes by the alternate title Rapunzel: A Tangled Tale, in my part of the world, at least.
There are three main human characters in this film, two of which are women: Rapunzel and her adoptive mother, Mother Gothel.
Despite the impression that some of the marketing material may have given, Rapunzel is very much the focus of the story. Her relationship with Mother Gothel is the driving force of the story's conflict, and their interactions lay central to the film.
Flynn, the love interest, acts as enabler and an outside influence in Rapunzel's story, but she very much makes her own decision to leave the tower where she has spent her whole life (Flynn, in fact, tries to stop her). Though he's the more "worldly" character, she's the one who opens his eyes, not the other way round, and I thought that was a cool switch from the original fairytale.
Mother Gothel, Rapunzel's adoptive mother, is the villain of the film. I think there could've been some pretty interesting conflict there, but they kept her character a simple antagonist as is the wont of most Disney films, alas.
That's the central characters.
There are a couple of supporting characters in the form of guards and ruffians that Rapunzel encounters, but none of them are women. She does cross paths with some women in the kingdom village, but none of them have dialogue. Rapunzel's parents, the King and Queen, do not have dialogue either.
There are three main human characters in this film, two of which are women: Rapunzel and her adoptive mother, Mother Gothel.
Despite the impression that some of the marketing material may have given, Rapunzel is very much the focus of the story. Her relationship with Mother Gothel is the driving force of the story's conflict, and their interactions lay central to the film.
Flynn, the love interest, acts as enabler and an outside influence in Rapunzel's story, but she very much makes her own decision to leave the tower where she has spent her whole life (Flynn, in fact, tries to stop her). Though he's the more "worldly" character, she's the one who opens his eyes, not the other way round, and I thought that was a cool switch from the original fairytale.
Mother Gothel, Rapunzel's adoptive mother, is the villain of the film. I think there could've been some pretty interesting conflict there, but they kept her character a simple antagonist as is the wont of most Disney films, alas.
That's the central characters.
There are a couple of supporting characters in the form of guards and ruffians that Rapunzel encounters, but none of them are women. She does cross paths with some women in the kingdom village, but none of them have dialogue. Rapunzel's parents, the King and Queen, do not have dialogue either.