The upcoming Pixar film “The Bear and the Bow,” the first film from the studio to feature a female heroine, has apparently undergone a title change. According to Stitch Kingdom, the Walt Disney Company has fired several patent applications for the title, “Disney/Pixar’s ‘Brave.’”
This is the second re-title of an upcoming Disney film this year after “Rapunzel”had it’s title changed to “Tangled.” Leave it to Disney and Pixar to make their movies next to impossible to Google, which was the case with last years’ “Up”.
This title change parade from The Walt Disney Company has gone too far. And I hate that title, “Tangled.” I find it misleading and disrespectful to the Grimm Brothers, especially Walt Disney. He would never change titles on fairy tales, because what he would do is make the story stronger that will fit to the title. Here’s a message to Walt Disney Animation Studios: I don’t think it’s the title that caused boys to not like “The Princess and the Frog,” it’s the story itself. Disney is not making the story stronger for fairy tales since they did for a list of fairy tales with girlish titles that became a huge success: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Cinderella,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Pocahontas,” and “Mulan.” I even miss the title logo that Disney made for the name, “Rapunzel.” I love the art of that name, it makes me want to see it so much. I may be a man, but I still have passion over Disney’s animated movies, no matter what title is called, but when it comes to adapting fairy tales, I strongly suggest they stick to it, and make the story stronger for fairy tale titles. That title, “Tangled,” I might see it, but I would strongly find it a flop, and a mockery to list of fairy tale parodies: “Shrek,” “Hoodwinked,” and “Happily N’ever After,” even though it follows only one fairy tale. According to Floyd Norman, a retired Disney and Pixar animator, says that he himself finds changing the title from “Rapunzel” to “Tangled” beyond stupid, he even created a parody of Disney’s title change by making a poster called, “Rapunzel Salvation: Not a Princess Movie.” I got a good one for Floyd Norman: “Disney’s Strangled (it rhymes with “Tangled”),” a story of an evil princess names Rapunzel, who uses her hair like a noose to whoever gets in her way shall have their necks break. When Flynn Rider came along, she decided to have sex with him, and cuts off his penis with her own hair, so that no woman can ever have sex with the charming handsome bandit. Her weakness is Madame Gothel’s scissor of doom. Once she cuts off Rapunzel’s hair, she casts her out from her tower (courtesy to the scene where Mrs. Baylock casts Katherine Thorn out the window from the hospital from the hit Antichrist movie, “The Omen”) to watch her die. And Madame Gothel became a hero. Disney’s “Strangled,” is rated NC-17, for brief nudity, strong language, graphic violence, and too much murder. You’ll probably wonder why I developed such a dark synopsis like that, because Disney’s title change stinks. For Pixar, I actually don’t care if they change the title or not, their movies are always better, especially better than Dreamworks Animation. The only thing Dreamworks Animation does is hire famous celebrities that Disney and Pixar did not hire, and make fun of movies that is going to cost them a lot of money. Pixar knows better, they always make stories stronger to match the titles they create (why can’t Disney, instead of changing the title from “Rapunzel” to “Tangled,” boy I hate that name so much). And best of all, they don’t care what celebrities they hire, all they care about is putting up a good story, to become a good movie. And above all, their animated movies always top it off. Anyways, title changes from The Walt Disney Company are driving me nuts, and I say this ends now, or else they WILL fall to Dreamworks Animation, even though Pixar is better than them. They need to work harder on stories than trying to appease boys into watching fairy tale movies by changing the title.
Jeff,
Very well written. And I must give extra credit to anyone who can use the words “Disney” and “Penis” in the same article!
I do agree that, sadly, Disney is just Disney in name only. With Roy gone the inmates are running the asylum and they have no desire to do it the way Walt would have.