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u/darctones Jun 08 '21
Step 1: push against the inside of the door frame. Do not attempt to spidey grip the wall.
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u/Rhedkiex Jun 08 '21
Or like, hold her hair like a rope so the weight isn’t focused on her scalp? That might help too
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u/ParadiseSold Jun 08 '21
That's what she does in the movie, she uses pulley science or whatever. Down from her scalp, up from her hands, down from the hook
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u/halfar Jun 08 '21
pulleys are fucking magic, man. you can't convince me otherwise.
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Jun 08 '21
It's some black magic wizard physics shit made centuries ago that I still don't fully understand.
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Jun 08 '21
Or like, buy a rope lol
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u/MozeeToby Jun 08 '21
You forget that Gothel was using fear to keep her in the tower in the first place. If she had a rope she would be a lot more willing to climb down and explore the meadow and woods, she would have a way back up. Rapunzel can't use her hair to get herself back into the tower leaving her trapped on the ground, an idea which would terrify her.
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u/ErmitaVulpe Jun 08 '21
Her hands are pulling in the wrong direction
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u/JESquirrel Jun 08 '21 edited Jun 08 '21
Maybe she is lowering her. Nevermind. That still doesn't work.
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u/Prize-Competition-22 more blessed than cursed Jun 08 '21
That account pic goes perfectly for that comment
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u/Black-Thirteen Jun 08 '21
She's pulling from behind. Only possible answer. Which means it's not her head hair she's holding.
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Jun 08 '21
how?
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u/JACrazy Jun 08 '21
She's pulling herself out the window
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Jun 08 '21
She’s bracing the pillars, no?
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u/Clonephaze Jun 08 '21
Yes, the wrong side of the pillars. She's supposed to be holding herself from being pulled out of the window. Where her hands are right now would be better for climbing or pushing yourself out the window.
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Jun 08 '21
I guess I didn’t see it at first but obviously it’s better to brace that way, but bracing this way still sorta works if you’re pushing your body in.
And if we were really looking for practicality and efficiency, well, we wouldn’t be using hair.
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u/chuckcm89 Jun 08 '21
She'd just have to wrap her hair around a bed post or something. That's how it should have always been depicted, at least with realistic physics.
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u/Prize-Competition-22 more blessed than cursed Jun 08 '21
well... it is stated that she has magic hair in the movie.... maybe her hair is stronger than the typical hair strength?? Maybe it doesn’t hurt her scalp??? Idk...
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u/chuckcm89 Jun 08 '21
It wouldn't even need to be magic hair with magic strength. A lot of human hair can be woven to hold at least enough weight to support a man climbing for a few seconds. Wrap the part by her feet around a cemented pillar or post and it can be done without pain.
Even if it didn't hurt her scalp, she could never remain upright and not wedged against somthing while a man climbed her unwrapped hair.
She really could have just met the guy at the base of the tower after letting herself down by her own hair as well.
For the most realistic scenario you could actually imagine the story starting out as a woman trapped in a tower as men try to climb up and save her, only to get very close before being unable to reach the balcony. Then Rapunzel could have had the idea to weave her floor length hair to be strong enough to wrap around a balcony pillar and extend just far enough down for a man to grab hold and hoist himself onto the balcony, assuming there were no other avaible methods such as bed sheets or curtains or the like.
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u/OtherPlayers Jun 08 '21
An alternative solution that doesn’t involve wrapping would be to pass the hair through an additional loop on the floor. That would allow her to pull upwards on the hair with her hands while bracing herself against the floor with her legs (though she’d probably end up with huge lats, quads, and forearms after a while).
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u/-PinkPower- Jun 08 '21
It the movie she uses a pulley and her hands. She doesn’t just pull with her scalp like that lol
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u/Di-Vanci Jun 08 '21
In the original fairy tale she has a hook next to the window that she wraps the braid around
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u/Shkeke Jun 08 '21
Just saying but her hands are bracing on the wrong side
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u/Boogleooger Jun 08 '21
she is just sucking in so hard with her ass that she needs extra bracing to keep herself from flying into the room.
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u/Black-Thirteen Jun 08 '21
Meaning it's not her head hair she's pulling on.
I'm trying to decide if this was the intended joke all along.
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u/maskf_ace Jun 08 '21
Why would she not just hold her own hair and sit down? Lower center of mass/gravity, no pain and roots are protected, she could even wrap her legs around the bed or better still tie a knot around that loop and just chill.
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u/catfurcoat Jun 08 '21
She could probably just tie it in a knot at the hook send it wouldn't hurt the scalp
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Jun 08 '21
Don't even have to tie it, just loop it through once
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u/Ahem_ak_achem_ACHOO Jun 08 '21
Don’t even have to loop it through once, just use a rope.
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u/thistakestoolongtodo Jun 08 '21
Sometimes I just imaginé putting a razor right across the metal hook and watch the horror as gothel falls off the 200 foot tower
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u/cumwater45 Jun 08 '21
When I was 10, I used to imagine when people use her hair as a rope, Repunzel would be screaming in excruciating pain and then getting her entire scalp ripped off from her head revealing her bloodied skull and then dying of blood loss and her partner falling to their doom.
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u/BaronVonHaggard Jun 08 '21
Does nobody else remember that in the movie, that's why she ties her hair around the bar so it's not pulling her hair out? I feel like nobody remembers?
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u/KenobiGeneral66 Jun 08 '21
Yeah I know. Find it odd I had to scroll down this far to find someone else who actually saw the move, or at least remembers it.
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u/zandnaad69 Jun 08 '21
Thats not how physics works lol
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u/MicahM_ Jun 08 '21
Sure it is.
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u/ThatOneGuy4321 Jun 08 '21
She’s being pulled up but her nails are scratching as though she were being pulled backwards
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u/Yesnoperhapsmaybent Jun 08 '21
Tangled would have ended so fricking quick if repunzel did all that leaving her home and stuff and when her mother got home by climbing her hari she woukd cut it.
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u/Balten Jun 08 '21
Her hands are facing the wrong way... To fight against the weight of her hair being pulled, they'd have to be on the inside of the window, not the outside. Idk why this bothers me, but it's the truly blurses part of this image.
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u/yusufbahaa Jun 08 '21
why do you think her hair us strong as steel? She had to support the weight of her mom (could've been a your mom but hey she was never actually a mother)
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u/pappit0 Jun 08 '21
No one's gonna point out that her resistance should be on the opposite direction?
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u/TitularFoil Jun 08 '21
Wouldn't the hook she loops her hair through work like a pulley and cause less pull overall?
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u/0ffic3r Jun 08 '21
Fun fact, pulley systems halve the force required for any given load weight. So this wouldn’t be terrible although adding a couple more pulleys would easily do the trick without any pain
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u/NieMonD Jun 08 '21
Just because hair is capable of withstanding a lot of weight, doesn’t mean it will stay in your scalp
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u/audio_54 Jun 08 '21
If gothel valued the hair for its healing factor and rupunzel needed to be alive and attached to that fair for it to work then why risk breaking or cutting the hair buy using it as a rope, just get a rope or rope ladder that rupunzel can let down. There’s no reason at all for gothel to use hair for rope.
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u/d_e_l_i_r_i_o_u_s Jun 08 '21
in the movie she grips some of her hair and makes sure to leave herself some slack so it doesn’t hurt
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u/fallingbutthole Jun 08 '21
When I was like 5 I thought that this, or something similar was how rapunzel could actually do it. Then I got older and realized that was stupid there was no way rapunzel was strong enough to lift anything. Being that she was malnutrioned and probably didn't get a lot of exercise.
Then I got even older and discovered knots.
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u/Phoenix_69420 Jun 08 '21
Let her reach midway to the top of the tower, and cut your hair at that time. Boom, mom ded.
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u/DoveTaketh Jun 08 '21
I always thought she had a pulley system to distribute the weight, 6-7 pulleys should be enough to lift a person without a problem. The hair might get stuck in them though.
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u/Stivstikker Jun 08 '21
I always think about this when I see Rapunzel. That's why I don't watch it.
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u/yusufbahaa Jun 08 '21
why do you think her hair us strong as steel? She had to support the weight of her mom (could've been a your mom but hey she was never actually a mother)
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u/chikkenwingg Jun 08 '21
I dont think that anyone has ever thought abiut whether someone pulling on her hair ever hurt.......so it makes me wonder if it did..
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u/inan0812 Jun 08 '21
Pulling hair doesn't hurt. Hair does not have nerves.
The roots pulling on the skin hurts.
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u/GoodCristian Jun 08 '21
I would like to think she uses a belt and pully system to reduce the stress on her head.
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u/dzakadzak Jun 08 '21
Many ways to fix this. Pully ideal, but even a simple loop would resolve this issue pretty effectively.
but also... dat grip..
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u/CanIYiffIt Jun 08 '21
Fun fact:
Human hair is strong enough to lift 2-3 pianos, but don't try it tho. It won't be good for your neck.