Adrian Says: It's Tangled not Rapunzel
In the 2010 film, Tangled, we meet up with a princess (Rapunzel) who has lived their whole life in a tower because their parental figure (Gothel) tells them that the world outside the tower is very dangerous and it is only safe for Rapunzel to stay in the tower. Following Victoria Lynn Schmidtt's diagram of a heroine's journey, this is Rapunzel's illusion of the perfect world. While Rapunzel wants to explore the outside world, she is influenced by Gothel to stay in the tower because she believes it is a "safe place." After a song and dance number, we meet another character named Flynn Rider (real name is Eugene, so I'll be using that name to reference him) who happens to steal a crown from a royal family and runs away with it. He finds Rapunzel's tower and climbs up it, hoping to have some safe shelter from the guards chasing after him. Instead he gets beat with a frying pan by Rapunzel and uses Eugene to prove to...