The best part of the hate directed at Brie is...

Tangled comes out on Wednesday (shhhhhh, don't tell my daughter!). In case you don't know, Tangled is Rapunzel.
Except Disney didn't want to call it Rapunzel because they fear they are losing all the little boys of the world to Iron Man and Transformers.

So, two years ago they re-vamped this film and called it Tangled.
Which obviously will trick little boys into thinking it's just like Transformers. They both start with T!

On Wednesday, Disney will be releasing "Tangled," the studio's 50th animated film. You might think that this would be cause for celebration, but from recent stories in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times, it appears that Disney Animation is in the midst of a major freak-out/reinvention. The main takeaway from these articles was that Pixar guru (and Disney Animation bigwig) John Lasseter is in the midst of reviving Disney's slumping non-Pixar animation projects. Oh, and he's done making movies about fairy tales and princesses.

"They may come back later because someone has a fresh take on it," Lasseter's Disney Animation co-chief Ed Catmull told the L.A. Times, "but we don't have any other musicals or fairy tales lined up." One reason is because the studio is fearful of alienating young boys, who supposedly won't see something like last year's "The Princess and the Frog." The other reason, frighteningly, is that young girls consider themselves too cool to want to be princesses.


Media critic Dafna Lemish, who has written about the influence of film and television on children, said in the same article, "By the time they're 5 or 6, [girls are] not interested in being princesses. They're interested in being hot, in being cool. Clearly, they see this is what society values." (That's right: A girl born in 2005 already is worrying about how "hot" she is. Have fun with that, moms and dads of the world.)

The actress and filmmaker made headlines last year for calling out the gender imbalance within the film criticism world while accepting an award at the Crystal + Lucy Awards. And her assertion that “there is an insanely low chance a woman of color will have a chance to see your movie and review your movie” is backed up by recent research from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which found that only 22.2 percent of 2017 reviews for the top-grossing films were written by women, while critics from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds represented only 18 percent.

“About a year ago, I started paying attention to what my press days looked like and the critics reviewing movies, and noticed it appeared to be overwhelmingly white male,” Larson said in a recent Marie Claire interview. “Moving forward, I decided to make sure my press days were more inclusive.”

For “Captain Marvel” co-star Samuel L. Jackson, Larson’s public push to open up press opportunities to underrepresented groups wasn’t something he necessarily knew needed to be done, but it’s made him more aware of the kind of disparities his co-star is attempting to rectify. In a recent interview with IndieWire, Jackson said, “It’s good that she did it, and it’s good that she said it, and I guess it made me more aware.”

Awareness is essential, and when asked about the concept of press inclusion and diversity, Jackson took the opportunity to reflect on the kind of journalists he typically chats with when making his own press rounds. The answer was surprising. Maybe Jackson and his team were already on to something.

“I always feel like when I’m on junkets, I talk to a disproportionate amount of women, just because, you know, from other countries, from other outlets, there are, in my opinion, a ton of women that do it,” he said. “I’ve never sat and counted how many dudes I saw in a day as opposed to the number of women. I always think that I see a lot women when I’m on junkets. This particular junket, I guess I’ve seen more women, I’m not sure, because I’m not used to making that judgment or estimation.”

It’s not lost on Jackson that the Oscar-winning actress has long been an outspoken advocate for women’s rights, and that her casting in the blockbuster machine that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe was a smart choice for a franchise that is still thriving in a changing cultural atmosphere.

“It’s really wonderful that they made a choice and she is that choice, because she is a strong online presence, a social media presence for women’s rights, and she advocates for women and young girls, and women around the world all the time,” Jackson said.