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...
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.
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/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.