Term Paper Outline: Tangled

Introduction:

- Introduce Walt Disney Animation Studios "Tangled"
- Thesis: The movie pushes the laws of physics beyond real life.

Body:

Tension
- Rapunzel uses her hair to swing across a gorge.
- Flynn hangs on Rapunzel's hair.
- Mother Gothel propels down Rapunzel's hair.

Exaggerated Action and Reaction
- Flynn escapes the prison and is rushed propelled from the floor to the top of the wall and lands safely on Maximus.
- Anybody hit with a frying pan has a lasting impression.
- During "I've got a dream" song Flynn again is being flung from the floor board.

Gravity
 - The hang time through out the film seems to be prolonged, when Rapunzel jumps and swings from her hair.
- Maximus and Flynn fall from a cliff and completely fine and Flynn was somehow able to land long before Maximus to hide from him.
- When items are tossed into the air they hang, for example during the prison escape the guards lose their helmets and the helmets hang.
- Maximus jumping over buildings.

Conclusion
- The physics laws are intentionally broken.
- By breaking the rules they serve the purpose of clarification, entertainment, and is shown throughout the film so that we know this is a different world based on our own.