Disney V Dreamworks in Secret?

Disney and Dreamworks

For a long time similar ideas/themes have bounced back and forth between the Disney and Dreamworks animation studios.

Here's one that I don't think anyone else has noticed yet.

In 2000 Dreamworks put out a wonderful little movie called "The Road to El Dorado." It is about two Spanish con men who end up on an adventure at sea that leads them to the mythical city of El Dorado. They end up being more or less mistaken for Gods, and in the end help to save the city from being discovered from Cortez, the famous Spanish Conquistadore.

In 2010 a fairly good movie "Tangled" came out of Disney. This movie is an adaptation of the fairytale Rapunzel. Despite some majorly bizarre plot holes, and mostly grating bubblegum pop-songs, it's a good film.

Similarities between these two films:

Tulio & Flynn Rider: Both are disliked by a white military horse with a penchant for apples. Both have dark hair, are snarky, plotting thieves who have a bit of a soft side, and put up with strange behavior from their blond counterparts.

Miguel & Rapunzel: Both adored by the horse character I mentioned earlier, both are inquistive, generally fascinated by the world, and live for fun not money.

Altivo & Maximus: White Military Stallions who love apples. Altivo jumps off a boat to get an apple, and Maximus just generally loves apples. Also they both dislike the dark haired member of the duo they are "with" and adore the blond one. Altivo adores Miguel, and Maximus adores Rapunzel. Altivo kinda dislikes Tulio, who at one point utters the phrase "Your horse bit me in the butt!" Maximus is an active "villain" towards Flynn for a while.

Here's a good example:

Miguel and Tulio are sitting in a boat thinking they're going to die. Miguel and Tulio comiserate about the fact they think they are about to die. Miguel says his greatest regret in life is that "Their greatest adventure is over before it began." Tulio says that "I never had enough gold!" Miguel consoles him that he made his life rich, and Tulio returns that Miguel made his life an adventure.

Early in the film Rapunzel sings about her dream of seeing floating lanterns on her birthday (adventure) and Flynn sings about his dream of being alone on an island he owns surrounded by enormous piles of money (gold)
Near the end of the film Flynn is dying, and Flynn says to Rapunzel that she was his new dream.

See the similarities yet?