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Wolfen Moondaughter is on the editorial board for the comics industry webzine Sequential Tart for which she has written since late 2001. She's also written for Newtype USA, contributed to Andy Mangel's book Animation on DVD, self-published a novel (Memory of the Brightwing), and one of her short stories, "Chase", is due to be published soon as the title story in an anthology from Wapshott Press (under the pen name Anastasia Witchazel). She's an artist, too, having done spot illustrations for Dragonlance, a few panels for Barb Lien-Cooper's webcomic series Gun Street Girl, and private commissions. In her spare time, she's a fanficcer/fanartist. See more of her work at her site, Wolfen's Webworld. 4 Comments
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I really enjoyed this movie and so did all my children (the boy and the girls) which is rare when we go to a kid's movie these days. Even better, no one cried, which is common when something sad happens. My oldest daughter is extremely sensitive. Anyone remember that movie "Flushed Away"? She cried because the mice didn't kiss at the end.
Anyway, I enjoyed all the things about this that you did. It was fun and silly, and the princess wasn't helpless. Always nice when a girl can defend herself. Made me want to get out a frying pan and do some damage myself.
Loved this movie as well, and for all of the reasons you've spelled out. I also liked that Rapunzel was beautiful but at certain angles, she wasn't "perfect". She had distinctive features and a unique face.
My biggest nitpick was the length of her hair. I even leaned over and said to my daughter that Rapunzel would have a neck roughly the size of an NFL linebacker from all of the muscles she would have developed hauling that tonnage of hair around all of the time. I wondered how in the world she'd ever wash it or keep it clean and untangled (no pun intended). I know her hair had to be uber-long in order for her to use it as a tool the way she did so often, but I wish they could have made her hair a reasonably long length, more of a symbol/metaphoric thing rather than a literal interpretation of the long hair.
I think Rapunzel's mother was animated to look almost exactly like Rapunzel only with dark hair, so my take on her parents recognizing the 18 year old version of Rapunzel was simply how much she looked like her mom.
And yes, Flynn is quite a dashing hero. Odd to have a movie crush on an animated man!
@Dawn Ah yes, the frying pan! Coincidentally, in my first novel I had a scenario where the hero (the one Flynn looks a bit like) walked in on the heroine, accidetally surprising her, and she clobbered him with a frying pan …
@Beth — I considered the weight of the hair issue too but decided that it's healing properties/the fact that it was magical probably took care of that. You're probably right about Rapunzel looking enough like her mother for them to see the resemblance, I should have considered that. Heck, maybe she looks like her mother at that age! As for Flynn … yeah, he's not the first animated character I've had a crush on, not by a longshot, LOL! I even had a crush on Raphael the Ninja Turtle ….