Outline of 1st Term Paper

Movie name: Tangled

I.                    Introduction
a. Introduce movie (title, year, animation studio, brief summary of the movie)
b. Walt Disney’s style: realistic, follow the law of physics
c. Hypothesis

II.                  Body 1: Center of Gravity
a. Minute 8, when Flynn go down from the roof to get the princess’s crown, the rope were tight around his center of gravity
b. Minute 15, when Flynn stopped by the tree to catch his breath, he has one of his arm against the tree, to create more base area for his body.
c. Minute 16, when Flynn is running away, he changed direction suddenly, so to balance out, he put one of his leg out.
d. Minute 18, when Maximus bite on Flynn’s feet, make the base of support smaller, and the center of gravity is outside the base of support, so he fails down.

III.                Body 2: The Falls and consequences
a. Minute 18, the horse Maximus and Flynn both fall down the cliff for 11 seconds. Both of them are physically fine about such a big fall, which won't happen in real life
b. Hour 1:20, Flynn was lifted up and landed on Maximus’s back
c. Hour 1:25, Maximus and Flynn flied out of the castle’s wall and land on the street
d. Hour 1:25, Rapunzel’s mother fall to her death from the towel

IV.                Body 3: Rapunzel’s hair
a. her hair is magical, main point of the movie
b. how strong is her hair in this movie is not consistence
c. Minute 10, she used her hair to pull Flynn with all of her strength
d. Minute 28, she moves the chair with Flynn on it with one hand easily
e. Minute 30, used her hair to come down the towel for the first time
f. Minute 45, used her hair to swing across a 70 feets wide cannon
g. Hair simulation in the movie and how Rapunzel use her hair to grab things very precisely.

V.                  Conclusion
a. realism in Disney’s movies
b. Physics laws are taking into consider
c. Physics laws were broken to remind the audience that it’s a magical world