8 Dark Origins Behind Everyone's Favourite Disney Films
4. Tangled
Disney's musical animation Tangled hit cinemas in 2010, based on another of The Brother's Grimm classics Rapunzel, which was published in 1812. The story of both versions follows a young girl trapped in a tower with abnormally long hair, used for the witch who left her there to climb up.
The earlier text is adult and includes a variety of violent and disturbing moments inappropriate for the big screen. It was so extreme that the brothers were forced to release a second version of the narrative.
Much like the movie, Rapunzel is stolen from her parents as a baby. In the film her Mother and Father are King and Queen. However in the old text, the family are poor and the father steals cabbages from the witch's garden, to which she takes revenge by kidnapping the child.
As Rapunzel grows within the tower, she meets a prince who regularly visits her in the late hours for all sorts of mishap. The girl falls pregnant with the prince's child and is thrown out by the witch, forced to give birth in the desert. Meanwhile, the witch waits for the prince to return, and then throws him in to a thorn bush, blinding him.