#south asian rapunzel

[rottewanges]

fuck your discourse btw

[ft. a simple edit of rapunzel’s mural under the cut]

[erinmcdowellart]

South Asian Rapunzel concept

[mushruem]

South Asian Rapunzel because this discourse has taken years off my life

[handbarfs]

rapunzel and gothel

[holyflyingcow]

Rapunzel (●'◡'●)

Tangled is one of my favourite movies. It's a bit sad to see the comments on tiktok about castings, when I can totally envision such a beautiful princess and storyline. (～￣▽￣)～

[sobashahzadi]

peoble are upset w the rumors of avantika playing Rapunzel in a live action tangled and guys....

I hate to break it to you but she is perfect for the role- expect a long winded explanation post soon my friends we have much to discuss

coming from a non biased source of course like there's literally no reason I would want my favourite Disney princess to represent my culture like nooo course not!!!

[sagesolsticewrites]

Y’all listen up @winniemaywebber and I have the perfect Tangled live action fancast

Rapunzel: Amita Suman (Shadow & Bone, Doctor Who)

Flynn Ryder/Eugene Fitzherbert: Anthony Boyle (Masters of the Air, Manhunt, Shardlake)

sources: we said so <3

[magickgirl786]

as much as i like florence pugh, i really hope that the rumours of her rapunzel casting are just rumours because i really want rapunzel to be south asian/desi

my choices for rapunzel are maitreyi ramakrishnan, charithra chandran, ari afsar, or avantika vandanapu

do you guys have any other south asian/desi rapunzel choices? i'd love to hear them!

[lorenlily]

live action tangled in the works STOP IT

[kookygobbledygook]

Some people have been saying this, but I don't think it's been said enough and I'm just going to add my voice to the mix.

Nimona's nomination is being framed as an example of "Look at what Disney missed out on!" and I get it. It's a nice, tasty schadenfreude situation and we all like to see The Mouse get taken down a peg.

But I think we need to be very clear; Disney did not miss out on anything because they were never going to take that sort of risk.

Disney was never going to release anything close to the Nimona we got. It would have been sanded down until anything obviously queer or controversial was as faint and unnoticeable as possible by the casual viewer. And then they would still be too scared of any potential backlash. So they would have given the film a limited release at theatres, with no advertising, or social media or support.

Like what happened with Strange World.

You remember Strange World, right?

No?

That's because no one does.

And I believe that was deliberate, because that way Disney can go "Weeellll... obviously we would LOVEto take more risks and have more inclusive stories but that's clearly not what the public wants!"

Look at the original concepts for Wish. The evil royal couple? The peter-panesque star boy that would have made the gen zers go feral the same way millenials went feral for Jack Frost? These could have been the best things about the movie, and even they were scrapped, and replaced with something more homogenised. And those ideas are nowhere near the level of the concepts and discussions Nimona brought to the table.

Disney can barely have explicit gay people. Nimona has a gay south Asian man in a relationship with an east Asian man. As a protagonist! But more than that, you think Disney could ever come up with a relationship as complicated and difficult as Boldheart and Goldenloin's? They would never have the guts to show one love interest cutting off the other's arm in a straight relationship. Let alone a gay one! And then for them to be on opposite sides of the conflict, shifting between feelings of betrayal, and questioning each other motives? That's some adult dark shit for a kids film.

Asha as a character was forced into the quirky girl role that Disney has already flogged to death with Anna and Rapunzel. You ever think they would allow a Disney princess to be as dark and violent and nuanced as Nimona? You ever picture the titial character of a Disney film AS the third act conflict, rampaging through a city in a self destructive rage? Nimona is anti authoritarian, vengeful, bloodthirsty, a pretty explicit trans allegory, and even, by the climax, openly suicidal. You KNOW that terrified Disney.

I had a thing about the Director here too but I was shocked by how long that got so I'll have to save her for a different post.

My point is the things that make Nimona art, that make Nimona a great story, that make the film important and Oscar worthy, are all things that Disney has become too chicken shit to produce. If Disney had released a film called Nimona it wouldn't have been Nimona. I fully believe that if the film hadn't had been 90% finished it wouldn't have been shelved. It would have been lobotomised and vivisected. Everything special and vital about the movie and its message would have been removed, and no one would have known what could have been. Once again we would have gotten scraps and been thankful for them.

It makes me think about films like Wish (and others we don't know the name of, and never will) and think of what they could have been if studio's like Disney were braver and let their artists make art, instead of content.

tl;dr Disney didn't miss out on Nimona because they are incapable of making Nimona. If they had produced it the real Nimona wouldn't exist. We didn't miss out on Nimona. And that's purely by luck.

[black-is-beautiful18]

So let me get this straight: Y’all saw a fancast of Avantika as Rapunzel and proceeded to lose your freaking minds. There is no Tangled or Rapunzel adaption coming anytime soon and you lost your minds. All because a South Asian woman, a beautiful and talented woman, was given the role of Rapunzel in a FANCAST. Dpmo. Rapunzel has been Black and Asian. She’s even been freaking animals. Fairytales do not solely belong to white people. At all. The day y’all stepped foot off them boats they stopped being yours. The POC who have been in Europe for centuries have also had them. They were never just yours

[julieemarine]

Must I do EVERYTHING by myself?! /nm

(Probably should’ve used South Asian!Rapunzel to not exclude any other South Asian who want to play Rapunzel, but point still stands.)

[erinmcdowellart]

More stuff with South Asian Rapunzel. Trying to figure out how her hair would look. The ideas were that her hair is dark but it would light up when she sings, the blonde/gold streaks hint at her hair being magical but it's still mostly dark, the blonde and copper are more closer to the plot where it's a completely different color because it's magical.

[paschameleon]

After some research, I was able to find out where all of the princesses are from. Here are my notes…

Snow White: Snow White was first published in Germany by the Brothers Grimm, in 1812, in their book Grimm's Fairy Tales. Because of this I assume the Disney version is from Germany.

Cinderella: Cinderella takes place in France and it is based on the French fairy tale by Charles Perrault, it says so in the credits. More proof is that all of the women at the ball have French names and Cinderella’s house is referred to as Château which is a french word.

Aurora: The French symbol the Fleur-de-lys can be found everywhere in the castle and in the credits. Plus, the credits it says the movie is based on the Charles Perrault version of Sleeping Beauty.  

Ariel: Ariel is from Atlantica which is a kingdom that is located somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea. This is confirmed on Disney Wiki "Eric's Castle is located on the shore of a Mediterranean-like country". The official Disney Princess youtube channel has a video titled: Fun Facts About Ariel! How Many Do You Know? | Disney Princess, where it says that Ariel grew up in the Mediterranean and specifies that Eric’s caste is in Italy.  

Belle: The movie literally says that it is set in France.

Jasmine: Ron Clements and John Musker, the directors of the film said that the movie was originally intended to be set in Baghdad, Iraq. However, it was changed to the fictional city of Agrabah during production due to the Gulf War in the early 1990s. Here is part of the interview:  “We kept it Baghdad in our first treatment, and then the Gulf War happened […] This can't be in Baghdad. So, I took letters and did a jumbled anagram and came up with Agrabah, Musker told E! News." Agrabah is an adaptation of Baghdad.

Pocahontas: The movie starts off with “In sixteen hundred seven We sail the open sea For glory, God, and gold And the Virginia Company”.

Mulan: It says so in the movie that it is set in China.

Tiana: The movie says that it takes place in New Orleans.

Rapunzel: In the TV show a satellite shot can be seen showing that Corona is located in central France. Mont Saint-Michel and Rocamadour (France) where some of the inspirations behind the kingdom. The video A Tangled World: Creating the Look on the Walt Disney Animation Studios YouTube channel explains that the executive producer wanted to make Rapunzel’s tower look like “the most charming B and B in the south of France”.  

Merida: Scotland obvious clues in movie.

Moana: I guessed Samoa because she wears a Samoan-inspired ceremonial dress at one point in the movie. The song “We Know the Way” features more lyrics in Samoan than other Polynesian languages, and Motunui, the fictional island of the film, mostly drew inspiration from elements of the real-life island nations of Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga.

Anna and Elsa: Arendelle was based on multiple locations in Norway. The team behind Frozen visited Norway to gain inspiration, and you can see Nordic influence all throughout the movie.

Raya: It's difficult to figure out one specific country since Kumandra is based on multiple Southeast Asian countries.

[octopiller]

South asian rapunzel has been chatted about a lot I wanted to give it a go!

[fancylala4]

Maybe this fandom should be considered the kkk within the Disney fandom at this point because they are being racist over a fan casting.

If they feel like that bugged eyed freak being white is so important because “it’s made by white people”, then get rid of the lanterns in the live action movie. Those were culturally appropriated them from Thai culture and it wasn’t in the “original” fairy tale. Also, get rid of that stupid flower as well. It makes zero sense for her to be named “rapunzel” when there is no rapunzel. It would also get rid of the stupid “blonde hair is magical” crap Disney put in their version and shut these racists up.

It’s also stupid how he says “blackwash” when the actress being fan casted as rapunzel isn’t even black. She’s south Asian! Not to say that he should be racist towards that group instead because that’s still fucked up. However, why is this neo confederate even spreading this racist nonsense about black Americans? Projecting what white people have and do on to us. Just stuck in his own bubble at this point.