Seabean
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It's been about 6 weeks since Tangled came out, so I thought enough time has passed to ask...
(and pardon me if someone already had a thread on this, I couldn't find one)
As we all know, the Rapunzel movie was in production for quite a few years, and was intended to be a regular girl-centric Disney princess movie. In the last year or so, they decided (for box office rea$on$) that they didn't want the movie to be so skewed towards a girl audience and get a little more of the "boy demographic". So they increased the emphasis on the Flynn character and made the overall feel of the movie more "Shrek-like".
So did it work? Did any appreciably higher percentage of boys show up to see this movie?
IMHO, no. My own DD's went to see the movie with their friends (with their mom as chaperone) and according to them the theater was "all girls". I can see the posts in the other "Tangled" threads here that everyone was mainly taking their DD's.
Anyone else have any observations/opinions on this? Would it have made no difference in box-office receipt$ if the movie had been just as female-centric as it probably was originally intended? Did the attempt to reach out to boys for this movie not work?
(and pardon me if someone already had a thread on this, I couldn't find one)
As we all know, the Rapunzel movie was in production for quite a few years, and was intended to be a regular girl-centric Disney princess movie. In the last year or so, they decided (for box office rea$on$) that they didn't want the movie to be so skewed towards a girl audience and get a little more of the "boy demographic". So they increased the emphasis on the Flynn character and made the overall feel of the movie more "Shrek-like".
So did it work? Did any appreciably higher percentage of boys show up to see this movie?
IMHO, no. My own DD's went to see the movie with their friends (with their mom as chaperone) and according to them the theater was "all girls". I can see the posts in the other "Tangled" threads here that everyone was mainly taking their DD's.
Anyone else have any observations/opinions on this? Would it have made no difference in box-office receipt$ if the movie had been just as female-centric as it probably was originally intended? Did the attempt to reach out to boys for this movie not work?