Rapunzel – Germany Disney's 2010 hit film, Tangled, was loosely based on the German tale of Rapunzel. Though the film is set in a fictional island kingdom, the architecture and cultural influences appear to closely resemble medieval Germany.
Rapunzel Settings. Rapunzel is a folklore story told about a young girl in Germany. The Rapunzel settings according to the Grimm Brothers are a garden, the tower, the wilderness, and a castle in Germany in the past.
Tangled is a movie based on the story of Rapunzel, which takes place in Germany. In the movie, the kingdom, likely in Germany, in which Tangled is set is that of Corona. Further, according to an article on the locations of Frozen and Tangled, the Kingdom of Corona is along the Baltic Sea coast along Germany or Poland.
Tangled is based on Rapunzel, a fairy tale popularized by the Brothers Grimm. They took it from a German translation of the French Persinette by Charlotte-Rose de la Force, which was probably inspired by the folktale Petrosinella.
It is loosely based on the German fairy tale "Rapunzel" from the 1812 collection Grimms' Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm. Featuring the voices of Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi, the film tells the story of a lost, young princess with long magical hair who yearns to leave her secluded tower.
Rapunzel's iconic stone tower is hidden in a typical alpine forest, and even the style of her purple dress alludes to German fashion in the 18th century, when the events of the film were meant to have taken place.
It's easy to see that Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy has been the inspiration to the castle of Rapunzel's parents in Tangled. The island and monastery are equally breathe taking in reality. It's almost a magic sight that meets you, when Mont Saint-Michel pops up in the horizon.
"Rapunzel" (/rəˈpʌnzəl/ rə-PUN-zəl, German: [ʁaˈpʊnt͡sl̩]; French: Persinette) is a German fairy tale most notably recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Children's and Household Tales (KHM 12).
By looking at five things: architecture, nature, landscape, politics, and the styles of dress in Tangled, the best fit for a real-world Kingdom of Corona would be along the Baltic Sea coast of Germany and Poland at some point from 16th to the 18th century.
It's assumed that Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Belle, Tiana and Rapunzel are Christian because they all celebrate Christmas. Snow White in particular has more evidence since she was seen praying.
Rapunzel is a German fairy tale about a young woman named Rapunzel with impossibly long hair and who lives alone in a tower, held captive by a witch. It's also the German name of a vegetable commonly used in salads. Related words: Brothers Grimm.
In order to market the new film to both sexes and additional age groups, Disney changed the title from Rapunzel to Tangled while also emphasizing Flynn Rider, the film's prominent male character, showing that his story is just as important as that of Rapunzel.
In many ways, Arendelle looks like a quintessential fairy-tale setting, complete with a grand castle in lush surroundings. Much of it is inspired by Bergen, Norway´s second largest city, one of numerous places in Fjord Norway where you can experience a little bit of fairy-tale magic in real life.
(For an interesting video about the relationship between the Sami, Norway, and the making of Frozen 2, click here.) Anna and Elsa are not white either. They are Northuldra raised Arendellian, aka Native Raised Other. Regardless of where they end up by the end of the movie, they are and always will be Native women.
The story of "Rapunzel" is based on the tragic life of Saint Barbara, who is thought to have lived in the third century. The true story of Rapunzel is thought to be about a young woman in Italy named Barbara who was so beautiful that her father locked her away in a tower so no men could get to her.
Moana as she appears in Moana (2016). Inspired by Polynesian mythology, Moana is depicted as the strong-willed daughter of a chief of a Polynesian village, who is chosen by the ocean itself to reunite a mystical relic with the goddess Te Fiti.
There are currently only seven Caucasian Disney Princesses: Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Rapunzel, and Merida. Snow White and Rapunzel are German. Cinderella, Aurora, and Belle are French.
Tangled is set in late-1700s in Poland, specifically somewhere right around this area (see red marker on map below)... Frozen takes place in the early-to-mid-1800s in Norway, specifically somewhere along the west or southern coast of Norway (see the long blue highlighted region on map below)...
Rapunzel is the secondary antagonist of DreamWorks' 14th full-length animated feature film Shrek the Third, the third installment of the Shrek film series.
YouTuber Movie Munchies spliced scenes of some of the most iconic Disney songs so that the princesses would actually be singing in the languages in which each story takes place. That means Frozen's Elsa is singing in Norwegian, Ariel in Danish, Jasmine in Arabic, Mulan in Mandarin Chinese, and Rapunzel in German.
What's the age gap between Flynn Rider and Rapunzel?
Flynn Rider is 26 years old in Tangled, while Rapunzel is 17 turning 18, creating an age gap that raised some eyebrows. Flynn subverts the typical Disney prince archetype, with some finding him too cocky and obnoxious to be likable.
While based in the fictional kingdom of Corona, the setting including the iconic tower is a very Bavarian-like one, as well as the fact that Rapunzel's iconic dress is of traditional Germanic origins, known as a dirndl.
Disney's Aladdin (the 1992 animated version, not the 2019 live action remake) is set in a fictional city called Agrabah, which is based off Baghdad, Iraq (which was supposed to be the setting of the film, but was changed to Agrabah during production due to the Gulf War of 1990–91 which involved the Iraqi invasion of ...
In fact, records show that the folktale on which Disney's Aladdin is based is originally set in China, and later mixed with a story set in Persia as told by a Syrian woman, then translated and added to 1001 Arabian Nights by a French man, adding to the layers of cultural conflation and Orientalism at play.
