Talk:Flynn Rider/@comment-31152477-20190613180453/@comment-43298362-20190727125630

you're entitled to your own opinion but i would like to give my opinion on this take.. im not trying 2 start an argument but it honestly really seems like you've misunderstood a lot of his character dklskdskdlas;

so basically, eugene isn't supposed to be a good person at the start. he's supposed to be a selfish, egotisical, dishonest person who will do whatever it takes for his own personal gain. and yeah if you wanna hate him for being a bad person like that that's fine but in the movie, eugene changes as a person. it's a kind of unrealistic for a person to change so drastically in a span of like, 2 days max but. it's a movie, not a novel or a tv show, so things are obviously gonna be a little bit more fast paced and therefore less realistic. regardless, through meeting rapunzel eugene realizes that he's not so great of a person and decides to become a better person. consider watching tangled the series because he does get some good development in the show.

secondly, eugene cut rapunzel's hair so she wouldn't have to stay with gothel. i know you said that the two could easily overpower her but the thing is that rapunzel promised gothel that she would be her prisoner forever if she could heal eugene and the thing about rapunzel is that she literally doesn't break promises. ever. eugene knows this and would rather die than to see the woman he loves become a prisoner for the rest of her life (which is extremely likely to be FOREVER considering how rapunzels powers would of made gothel and her immortal). in a way, rapunzel was in danger - she was literally about to be imprisoned for the rest of her life and trapped with a woman who she knows doesn't really love her and has manipulated and lied to her for 18 years. she may not be about to die but for rapunzel? that would be a fate worse than death.

lastly, eugene cutting her hair is extremely symbolic for the movie bc it represents rapunzel being freed from gothel. poetic cinema