Disney’s new movie “Frozen” has caught the eyes of viewers and has surprised us all, reaching No. 1 in the box Office and have pass over $300 million of tickets sold, this movie has no sign of slowing down any time soon. “Frozen’ is one of the few recent Disney films to capture the classic Disney script, like “Cinderella” or “Snow White”, it’s a heart warming and loving story, guaranteed to thaw a frozen heart. Unlike the usual Disney princess story line where the girl has a poor life or things just don’t turn out like there suppose to, they wish upon a star, fall in love, then bibbidi-bobbdi-boo they have a happily ever after. Frozen strayed off from tradition and decided to go for more of a different approach. True love has always been a key concept for Disney films. Sleeping Beauty, true loves kiss broke the spell, Beauty and the Beast, true love broke the curse, Snow White, again true love broke the spell, its the same concept, but in Frozen instead added a twist and showed love between sisters Elsa and Anna. It adds a twist in tradition, so that a reason why older viewers and even critics can enjoy, its something new and different. The movie “Frozen” is based off of “The Snow Queen”, a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about an evil troll, also known as “the devil”, makes a mirror that when looked into distorts the beauty and good of people and things to the complete opposite, ugly and bad. One day the troll and his friends try to take the mirror to Heaven the make angels and God look like fools, but when they were almost there the mirror falls and shatters into little pieces almost dust. This “dust” travels around the world and gets into peoples eyes and into their hearts freezing them. Years later a girl n... ... middle of paper ... ...t matter. This movie got popular because it was new, it was different and it showed it through out the entire movie. It still had the key factor that all Disney movies have songs and a happy ending. In the usual Disney concept there is a princess or a poor girl that’s gets into a situation and ends up into the hands a prince and then they live happily ever after, but in this case Anna and Kristoff do end up being together but it the other way around, Anna is royalty and Kristoff is poor. Also the main ending wasn’t trying to tell the love story between Kristoff and Anna; it was the love and bonds that Anna and Elsa share as sisters. So this is a Disney movie it just that it different, there’s twist and differences from regular but that’s what makes it so unique, and that’s why it is so popular because its unique and different, something that we needed from Disney.
It is important to know that Disney characters have played an important role in today’s society especially when the media is expanding over time. People would mostly rely on the media to encourage them to discover their identity. Parents are purchasing Disney films for the entertainment of their young one but little do they know that children will look upon the princess characters to shape their identity. It is crucial for parents to recognize the message and value that Disney films are conveying to their children and guide them to take on the agreeable identity and values. Ward (2002) have stated that the power of Disney animated film is so great that it “can
If children or adults think of the great classical fairy tales today, be it Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, or Cinderella, they will think Walt Disney. Their first and perhaps lasting impression of these tales and others will have emanated from Disney film, book, or artefacts (Zipes 72)
There has been a lot of controversy surrounding Walt Disney Animation’s most successful film of all time. For the most part this controversy can be equated to the fact that Disney’s Frozen is perhaps the studio’s most on-the-nose queer text there has been. Yes one could apply a queer reading to many of Disney’s previous films but this one seems to be the most “in your face”. This is not to say that was directly the studio’s intention, or that the film is not for all audiences. In fact the great thing about Disney films and why they continue to be so successful is that they are created for all audiences regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, personal beliefs etc., everyone can seem to relate and enjoy.
The Little Mermaid was released after the women’s liberation movement but sadly we still see the typical princess in Ariel. The typical princess is where they are passive and everything happens around them. Ariel does take the initiative to do the things she sets her heart to but the princess still ends up with the prince and creates the happily ever after. In contrast with The Little Mermaid, Frozen does not fall in the same category has the “typical” Disney movie. Frozen never ends up with a prince , nor do the girls just sit around and do nothing. It is very important we do not let our younger girls surround their lives around a Disney
It is in such communities that young girls do not receive the opportunities and attitudes they should in order for them to grow into a strong, independent lifestyle. This is where Frozen and Elsa come in. Elsa’s story while growing up can be an empathetic journey for young viewers. Young girls can relate to her being locked up and kept away from the rest of the world, although to a lower extent. For the very same reason, this empathetic connection continues even when Elsa breaks free of her bonds during the song “Let It Go”, influencing and motivating children to do the same. As Rustad claims, “The whole idea of the song is that she won’t let herself be defined by anyone else’s expectations,” (Rustad 158). Another empathetic impact the story has is with its portrayal of the relationship between Elsa and Anna. “Many viewers have siblings with whom they share a complicated or strained relationship, but very few have had the sort of romance often described in fairy tales” (Rustad 156). The complicated relationship presented in the story is a relatable factor, especially when it comes to young sisters. What these young sisters have not experienced however, are the romantic escapades characters such as Beauty experience in Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s version of Beauty and the Beast. Elsa is not the only one however, to break the stereotypes regarding gender roles. Anna’s character may seem out of place due to her awkward and clumsy nature, but these characteristics defy feminine ideals and the expectations of the role of an elegant
Disney is a brand synonymous with magic and fairytales – their princesses play a huge role in that mysticism. In the debate considering which one is the best, we can examine the message of the corresponding film, the princess’s aesthetic, and the audience’s reception to their film. In comparing the princesses: Belle, Moana, Elsa, and Mulan, all post-modern Disney princesses – Moana is the best.
The idealized portrait of love painted in Disney’s The Little Mermaid leaves a sad impression for reality. The love at first sight and concept of a soul mate are not only portrayed as the romanticized “true love” (a common theme in Disney films) but are questioned by reliance on physical attributes. The necessity to change in order to obtain that love is portrayed to extremity. The film’s focus on “true love”, and the self sacrifice made to obtain it, give the target audience a notion that it is not only acceptable, but mandatory, to alter one’s self in order to achieve acceptance and love.
In both Hans Christian Andersons “The Little Mermaid,” and Disney’s version of the story, the main character— a young and beautiful mermaid— waits anxiously for her fifteenth birthday to venture from her father’s underwater castle to the world above the water. As the story carries on the mermaids priorities change; her modest and selfless nature is revealed towards the end in Andersen’s version. However, Disney’s version encompasses a rather shallow ending and plot throughout. The theme found in comparing the two versions reveal that Andersen’s substance trumps Disney’s entertainment factor in fairy tales.
In the past the Disney’s version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” has been recognized as being the original story of Snow White even though it was produced in 1937, a hundred and twenty-five years after the original. The Newest version of Snow White called “Mirror, Mirror” came along in 2012, exactly two hundred years after the Brothers Grimm’s version was published. This version brought comedy and color into the story. As a result, they changed a little more of the story to make it more appealing to an audience of today’s generations.
As a student of Contemporary World Geography, the movie Frozen Planet: The Last Frontier is a must watch movie. The film is suitable for students of Contemporary World Geography because the BBC shows the Physical Geography of the Polar Regions and most importantly, it shows the Human Geography of the Arctic Region and Antarctica. As for me, the most important part of the film is about how people of the Arctic and Antarctica survive and adapt to the hostile and extreme weather conditions of the Arctic and Antarctica.
Everyone at some point in their lifetime has seen or heard of the Disney fairy tales such as the well-known Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and so on and so forth. However, what you might misconstrue is where these stories originated from. A majority of Disney’s stories are an adaptation of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales which aren’t nearly as exhilarating as Disney dipicts them as. However, how do the two stories compare and contrast to one another? The major similarities and differences between these two kinds of fairy tales can be found in the titles, plots, characters, conclusions of the stories, and how they state the happily ever after.
In 2013 Disney Studios released Frozen which is a musical based loosely on an old tale called The Snow Queen. This film broke box office records during its first weekend of release. This was the first film to gross 1 billion worldwide, and is now an officially the highest grossing animated film of all time. It won an Academy
The fictional movie Frozen is based on the lives of Anna and Elsa, two sisters who are also princesses. Frozen received many prestigious awards in the film community, such as Academy Awards and Golden Globes. The fact that Frozen proved to be such an adored and acclaimed movie did not come as a surprise to me. After watching Frozen with my younger daughter, it quickly became one of my favorite Disney movies due in part to the positive messages it taught throughout the movie.
To sum up, Frozen criticizes the traditional women that society wants every girl to be like. It shows how men oppress women. They cheat them using the power that society gave them over women. Yet women do not need men to save them anymore. Their womanhood love is strong enough to protect them. The typical definition of love according to heterosexual relationships is shaken, because it appears that siblings’ love is more powerful and more important.
Frozen is one of the best animated movie Disney made since “Lion King”. This film is the story about the emotional connection between two sisters Anna and Elsa. Elsa is born with magical powers, anything she touches or point towards turn into ice. Because of that she had locked herself in a small room to control it. Then there is Princess Anna who is young, innocence and enthusiast. On the coronation day Queen Elsa accidentally freezes the kingdom, runs away far from her kingdom and leaves it in the cold weather. Anna decides to overcome snowstorm to find Elsa and hopes that her sister can withdraw magic. Along the journey, Anna meets interesting people, such as mountain boy Kristoff, his reindeer Sven and snowman Olaf. These are the main characters beside Anna and Elsa.