Base on Chase (2014) Disney’s icy adventure ‘Frozen’ can now call itself the

highest grossing animated film of all time after surpassing ‘Toy Story 3’ by taking
over $1.072 billion at the world wide box office. That’s quite an achievement for
Disney, but what makes it all the more remarkable is the real story of how ‘Frozen’
made it to the big screen. A journey which took nearly 70 years until a seemingly
small idea was mentioned. The origins of 'Frozen’ lie in the Hans Christian Andersen
tale ‘The Snow Queen’, a story which had been the subject of a major Disney
headache for nearly 70 years at the time of ‘Frozen’s’ inception. Back in 1943 Walt
Disney saw the potential of the Danish author’s stories, which included 'The Little
Mermaid’, ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ and ‘The Snow Queen’. The original plan
was for Walt to collaborate with Samuel Goldwyn to produce a biographical
piece on Andersen and incorporate some of his famous works into the story, using
Disney animation. Eventually the project fell through and Goldwyn went on to do
his own movie on Andersen in 1952, leaving the animation part out. Despite the
setback, Disney never lost sight of the potential of Andersen’s stories, most notably
‘The Snow Queen’. Andersen's tale of ‘The Snow Queen’ begins with a magical
mirror created by the devil, that has the power to make people look at the ugly
side of others. When the devil tries to bring it to heaven, it falls and breaks into
shards which eventually pierce people’s hearts and fill them with contempt. Years
laters, a boy named Kai and a girl named Gerda become good friends, but soon
one of the shards finds its way into Kai’s heart and he changes like the others. One
day, he goes out and ends up being lured away by the Snow Queen while playing
on his sled. Greta, knowing of the legend of the Snow Queen, sets out on a
dangerous quest to rescue him and eventually thaw his icy heart. The concept of
course sounded perfect for Disney, a young girl setting off on an epic adventure
to save her friend and coming up against an evil villain. Adding to that, there was
the story's snowy setting, a perfect backdrop to give Disney lots of opportunities
to work some animation magic. The problem though lay in the titular character.
Really she was just a little lacking, the book didn't give too much about her away,
aside from her spectacular appearance and the general feeling with Disney was,
audiences just wouldn't be able to relate to her. As the idea of a 'Snow Queen'
movie got set aside, the early 90s came and Disney entered into its second
golden era, the ‘Disney Renaissance’ as it was called. Ironically the period was
heralded in by a different Andersen adaptation, ‘The Little Mermaid’. Its sucess
meant that once again ‘The Snow Queen’ was being talked about. Actor Harvey
Fierstein even made a story pitch, but by 2002 ‘The Snow Queen’ was once again
off the table. Hope again came in 2008 when Disney and Pixar head John Lasseter
showed interest after an idea from 'Tarzan' director Chris Buck but two years later
the idea still hadn’t moved any further. Then ‘Tangled’ came in 2011 and, you
guessed it, ‘The Snow Queen’ story was once again being looked at. This time
things looked a lot more promising and the movie title 'Frozen' appeared on
Disney's list of upcoming productions, to much speculation. But the problem
remained of what to do with the Snow Queen character. When their kingdom
becomes trapped in perpetual winter, fearless Anna (Kristen Bell) joins forces with
mountaineer Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his reindeer sidekick to find Anna's
sister, Snow Queen Elsa (Idina Menzel), and break her icy spell. Although their epic
journey leads them to encounters with mystical trolls, a comedic snowman (Josh
Gad), harsh conditions, and magic at every turn, Anna and Kristoff bravely push
onward in a race to save their kingdom from winter's cold grip. When their
kingdom becomes trapped in perpetual winter, fearless Anna (Kristen Bell) joins
forces with mountaineer Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his reindeer sidekick to find
Anna's sister, Snow Queen Elsa (Idina Menzel), and break her icy spell. Although
their epic journey leads them to encounters with mystical trolls, a comedic
snowman (Josh Gad), harsh conditions, and magic at every turn, Anna and
Kristoff bravely push onward in a race to save their kingdom from winter's cold
grip.
According to Schacht, Joe, and Oliver (2016) ,cited by Palmer (2013).An excellent
movie; it employs magic in the typical Disney fairy-tale fashion, but avoids the
satanic/demonic overtones of “The Princess and the Frog.” The animation is not state-
of-the-art, but far better than Saturday morning cartoons. The best Biblical reference
to be illustrated is Jesus’ advice in John 15:13, “Greater love has no one than
this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” It’s nice to have a princess movie that
isn’t the typical princess meets the prince, falls in love, and overcomes evil to
have their happily-ever-after. Princess Anna never doubts her sister’s love for her.
She knows her sister would never hurt her intentionally; this despite having not
seen her and spent time with her in years. Elsa is afraid of her powers and, after
nearly killing her sister, she just wants to be alone and away from anyone
because she doesn’t want to cause harm. The movie’s theme is love, plain and
simple. With all the verses on love, in the Bible, I would like to reference the
following with this movie review. The Hans twist is the thing that treated its audience
as children that can only understand black and white morality. Hans, like everyone else
in this movie, was just a guy caught up in a crazy situation and was dong his small part
to help out (when he had no obligation to and with no immediate reward at hand).
They was no need for a traditional villian plotting for world domination or anything
because Elsa's conflict was just that strong. "Fear is the enemy" as the trolls said, so "Fear"
is the only antagonist Frozen needed. What they were doing before the third act was
much more sophisticated and mature than turning an interesting character into a
hammy Mustache Twirler cliche. He guess in the era of Phil Robertson (who thinks girls
should get married before even the age of consent), the simple advice "You needn't
marry so young, nor necessarily to the first guy who sweeps you off your feet" becomes
controversial. This movie has no bad guys or big bosses who hurt people. It is a
simple movie about two sisters who try to understand each other and be happy
ever after. It is so sweet and simple. It is a good entertainer for both kids and
adults.
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