Character changeup

In ‘Rapunzel’, the king’s son rescues the commoner girl, but in ‘Tangled’, Flynn is an orphan and he rescues the princess (Rapunzel).  There are also multiple characters added to the story to add complexity to the plot, such as the men in the bar and the twins stealing the crown with Flynn and Pascal the chameleon and Maximus the horse. I say that the changes to these characters were positive because they add a modern day edge to the story and add complexity to the plot. The characters have been better developed and are capable of having more relationships, suited to this day and age,  in the way that is now accepted.  Relationships and the way people acted was different in the time that the original story was created, so the characters had to be altered.  They are now more engaging to a varied range of audiences.

Flynn and the twins

Plot peculiarities

The plot of the Brothers Grimm fairytale Rapunzel contains the same scaffolding as most traditional  fairytales: the classic brainless ‘damsel in distress’. Rapunzel has no independence and the powerful wicked enchantress has all control.  However ‘Tangled’ introduces additional characters, such as Pascal and Maximus which affect the plot. It differs from Brothers Grimm’s story where Flynn is a common man and Rapunzel is nobility. Rapunzel is proactive in ‘Tangled’ rather than waiting for something to just happen in her life.