The Walt Disney Film: The Retold Story In Disney

The Walt Disney Company is renown for many of it’s parks and merchandise, but the Jewel of the crown would have to be it’s acclaimed movies. There is a fascination for the art, animation and the music as well as the lovable characters put out in these movies... But how much of the retold story is actually accurate? A majority of Disney's movies are recreations of old existing fairy tales like Cinderella and the process of making these films original itself creates a difficulty for the original to survive holistically. Pieces of the story will be kept and stitched together while others may be thrown away because of the existence of time limits in movies, changes that the studio desired to make and the demographic Disney is trying to reach. Because

With the final script being written by Jennifer Lee and lyrics written by Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, this story told the tale of a newly crowned queen named Elsa and her sister-princess Anna. Due to an incident involving her sister having a near death experience with Elsa's magic, she is given the mentality that her magic(which is the control of ice) is taboo and shuts out all communications with the outside world, including her sister. The movie highlights the struggle for freedom and control within Elsa and with the help of Anna, Kristoff, Sven and Olaf the internal struggle is solved through the power of love and they receive a happy ending and a successful conclusion to how Elsa would use her powers for good. The original work that “Frozen” was based off of was “The Snow Queen” written by Hans Christian Anderson and was difficult to adapt such a large work nearly verbatim. The fairy tale itself had seven sub-stories4 to read so the best way was to focus on the “main ideas” the fairy tale had to offer but if we were to focus on the overlying world of these two works, we wouldn’t be able to notice many common traits as characters and the plot situations have changed in order to fit the time limit given to the

Along with Kay, another motif that no longer exists would be one of the major themes: the shattered glass mirror. The mirror in the original story was a cursed object broken up into pieces by troll(s) which fueled most of the story. However, this could be the fault of time limitations of movies, compelling original ideas offered in novels or plays to be cut from the movies storyline in best interest of the viewers attention. Both of the ideas are dependent on each other as the story arch’s problem was that Kay had gained some of the shattered mirror in both his eyes and heart, making him no longer see the beauty in the world and him becoming more pessimistic/meticulous. This caused Gerda to save him from the ice queen, as when he escaped the ice queen was poisoning Kay with her kisses5. The story arch was deleted but Disney compensated by having traits of Kay and the glass to lie within the, now, sisters. We can see a few instances where Elsa resembled the mirror: In the beginning, she was shown as being a very organized and composed character in both the movie and book “A sister like Me” but when the Big night happened and Anna had pulled Elsa’s glove off, she had also stolen the facade of a