Walt Disney Animation Studios is now officially marking the 10th Anniversary of Tangled
On its social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) WDAS just made this announcement (within an hour as I type this):
This month marks the 10th anniversary of Tangled! Join us as we celebrate the 50th Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film with a look behind the scenes, starting with visual development art by David Goetz, Paul Felix, and Lisa Keene. #Tangled10
(First I wanna thank @tangledaddict for hosting the countdown this year. Although I slacked at the end, I had a MAJOR blast editing through the series! Thank you again!) 10. Years. WOW. I wanted to do something super special for the anniversary, so I decided to sort of tell Eugene and Rapunzel’s love story. I mixed Love Story (Taylor Swift), Something That I Want/I’ve Got a Dream (Tangled), Rewrite the Stars (The Greatest Showman), My Heart Will Go On, and Life After Happily Ever After (Tangled the Series) with sort of my own thing thrown in in between. (So sorry if some is cheesy😂)
I love this movie SO much, my goodness. It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since it came out. (I wouldn’t see it until the following April though) I can 100% positively say that it has remained my favorite movie for the past 9 years and will continue to be until the day I die.😂 Okay, sorry that this is suuuper long... anyway, I totally did not intend to have ten edits for its tenth anniversary, but pretty cool nonetheless.
Tangled is my favorite movie, because it saved my life.
The Great Recession (lol good old days) hit us pretty hard. By the time the 2010 holiday season rolled around we were living in my sister’s house while they took helped their children in another part of the country. One day we received a knock on the door, and the stoop was piled with food and gifts. You know one of those feel good Christmas miracles you see in the movie. But to tell you the truth, I just wanted to die. Sure, food and presents were nice, but work and dignity would have been more helpful.
Tangled was in theaters but we didn’t notice because no money for something like that and at the time I didn’t care. I had bigger problems, getting work in the best of times is difficult for my, the holidays were the worst time of all. We had lost a child a decade before. Everything hurt and nothing worked. But in the presents there were gift cards to the local movie theater and the restaurant next to it. Well I set that aside and forgot about them until Valentine’s day came around. Our situation had not gotten any better and by this time dispair had set in. I found the gift cards and we went out as one last hurrah, because at this point I had given up. I had applied for nearly 3000 jobs and I hadn’t had an interview in ages.
We were looking at what movies were available and we chose Tangled because Disney always gives a happy ending even if we didn’t seem to deserve one ourselves.
Tangled was fun, we laughed for the first time in months. But then the scene just before the lantern scene came up, and the king wept for his lost princess. And I lost it. I never cried in movies but in that moment, I saw someone else that knew my pain. And wept for him pain and mine and our lost children.
I was a mess, but I was less less broken then I had been before the movie. I felt the first stirring of hope then I had in a long time. I was glad that the theater was basically empty and I could clean myself up.
Yet on the way home I had questions about how things happened and they didn’t go away so I started writing how I thought it went. I wrote Rapunzel Goes Home and it was something for me and my pain and it helped. I am a writer now because of that movie and I am glad I saw it.
I don’’t expect anyone to get the same revelation from Tangled but for me it is the greatest movie every made.