Frozen: A Tale of Two Princesses 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. Anna and Elsa are the two main characters in this movie. In the beginning of the movie, Anna and Elsa have a seemingly unbreakable bond. They are seen building snowmen and playing together like one …show more content…
Anna begs Elsa time and time again to play and do things that they did earlier in their childhood. Elsa simply instructs Anna to go away and leave her alone, since she is not allowed to have contact with anyone for fear her powers might harm them. The movie takes another dark, twisted turn when Anna and Elsa are both orphaned at a young age when their parents’ ship is overturned at sea. Following their parents’ death, it is learned that Elsa will become the new Queen. The castle doors have remained locked for years in an effort to hide Elsa’s powers from the Kingdom of Arrendele. To celebrate Elsa becoming Arrendele’s new queen, a coronation celebration is held inside the castle. Elsa is apprehensive and anxious about the ceremony. She fears that the kingdom will learn of the powers she has been desperately trying to conceal her entire life. Anna sees the coronation ceremony as a
chance to interact with new faces and host an extravagant ball. While Anna craves for attention and interaction, Elsa shies away from new people and feels threatened by outsiders. Being that Anna is the hopeless romantic in the story, she is quick to fall in love with Prince Hans, almost immediately after they meet. Anna asks Elsa for her blessing to marry Hans. Elsa, being level-headed and the more rational of the two, quickly denies Anna’s request. An argument soon follows, and Elsa is
At the school she communicated to her uncle through letters. According to Elsa "Upon reaching the age of twelve, I was as much a woman in form, stature and appearance as most women at sixteen"(Guerin). While in New Orleans she met a boy that she really liked. Elsa states that, "He won my heart"(Guerin). She left school to be with him, since he couldn't visit her in school. Once she left school, she got married to him. She found out, after they got
Not only do Disney princesses result in bad self esteem, they also encourage passiveness and reliance on others. The feminine and vulnerable side of these princesses, reflect the reliance on their hero and true love. The Disney princess stereotype insinuates that girls should be sweet and submissive, and should fully rely on a male-counterpart. Conversely, new characters, such as Elsa (Frozen), Rapunzel (Tangled), and Merida (Brave), do not express this passive characteristic. At the same time, these princesses continue to need assistance to reach the desired solution. For instance, Princess Rapunzel still needed hero Flynn Rider, in order to navigate her to her parents throughout the movie. None of these princesses independently found a solution to the main conflict in any of these Disney films.
Anna is very hard headed. She did what she thought was right, even though her parents begged her to reconsider her choice. She kept Kate’s wishes a secret until the end of the story even though Kate’s choice made their parents upset with Anna. Anna did what was in the best interest of Kate even though it meant others would look down on her. Without the truth coming forward, their parents would have never understood why Anna wanted her body
We are first introduced to Anna, a thin woman with short dark hair, in her dialogue with her father where it quickly becomes apparent that they already have a difference in opinion on love, marriage and what she should wear on a yacht. “that guy will never marry you my darling daughter” to which Anna replies “so far, I’ve been the one who doesn’t want to marry him” “it’s the same difference” her father disagrees (Antonioni. 3:45 – 3:55). Although this is a short glimpse into Anna’s character we can see that she resists these social standards and almost seems annoyed by them. Anna is seemingly the most self- aware of the characters but seems to be stuck in a position where she is unsure of how everyone else will react to her true
In "Cinderella';, the ball is held so the prince can get to know the young women of the town, and to see if he will be able to find a suitable wife. In "Ever After';, Danielle's stepmother tells the queen that Danielle has left and she will be getting married to a Swedish man, when really she was locked up for fighting with Marguerite. Henry, the prince gave up on Danielle and his only other choice was Marguerite. The ball is actually held to announce that the prince will be marrying Marguerite.
The dwarves are amazed by the girl’s beauty and allow her to stay with them forever as long as she handles all the household chores. Snow White happily obliges and begins to take care of the dwarves. Unfortunately, the evil step-mother gets word of Snow White’s death being a fraud and makes three attempts to trick and fool the princess. On the third attempt, the old hag is successful and upon biting in to a deliciously plump red apple sends Snow White tumbling to the ground. The seven dwarves decide Snow White is to captivating to be buried underground so they decided to encase her in glass and take turns guarding her remains. One day a handsome prince happens to come across the beautiful dead princess and begs the dwarves to let him purchase her. Reluctantly, the dwarves give the prince Snow White and a bump on the transport home causes the poisonous apple to fall out of her mouth and the princess magically comes back to life. The prince marries Snow White, and the evil step mother is forced to dance in hot-iron boots until she dies.
Children can feel neglected when one of their siblings have a serious illness. Annas statement, which appears in her narration on the first Monday, refers to the way Anna’s parents conceived her. When Anna says she “didn’t get here by accident,” she means that her parents deliberately selected her, or rather the embryo that would become her, for a specific reason.“Although I am nine months pregnant, although I have had plenty of time to dream, I have not really considered the specifics of this child. I have thought of this daughter only in terms of what she will be able to do for the daughter I already have…Then again, my dreams for her are no less exalted; I plan for her to save her sister’s life.” Anna’s mother didn’t even have her because she wanted to she had her because she felt like she needed to. When that was done from there on out the neglection started
Similarly, frozen focuses more on the sisterly bond between Anna and Elsa and moved away from the typical story about the male figure being the savior. Instead, Elsa and Anna, both saved each other and proved once and for all that true love is everywhere.
Cramped in a small Los Angeles office, Walt Disney drew a few larger than life cartoons. After Disney’s big hit Alice Comedies and cartoons of Mickey and the gang, he moved his office to Burbank, California. There, Walt and his brother, Roy, came up with their most famous movies such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Alice in Wonderland. Now with two American amusement parks, three international parks, multiple cruise lines, multiple resorts, over five hundred films, and over thirty academy award, it’s hard to not heard of Disney. Every boy or girl has at least seen or heard of Disney movies. It’s such a big part of society today that it becomes influential in a kid’s childhood. This project will look at the underlying effect of the Disney princess phenomenon and how it shapes a young girls’ perspective of herself and how she’s “supposed” to be.
Lois Lowry, an American writer, is well acknowledged for her writing of the book The Giver. Similarly, American film directors, Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, are well recognized for their success of the film Frozen. While experienced differently, one being written while the other animated, both works follow the hero’s cycle of departure, fulfillment, and return, reinforced by their alternating settings. The stories’ emphasis on the value of love implies that the “feeling” is powerful enough to drive an individual to act in response to their emotional conscience. Consequently, Jonas, a dystopian character, and Elsa, the fantasy creation of Disney animation, share imagery in landscapes that reflect their coming of age transformations when, motivated by love, they recognize the value of sacrifice.
The film “Frozen” shows Anna as being emotional when she falls in-love with a man with whom she just met. Then, she forgets about him and falls for a man with who she has only known two days.
The snow queen Elsa cast a spell onto the kingdom of Arendelle. The spell makes Arendelle have eternal winter. Elsa sister Anna sets off to find Elsa to stop the spell with the help from Kristoff and his reindeer Sven. Anna and Kristoff and Sven go through horrible winter storms to try and find Elsa. Along the way they find olft a adorable little snowman from the past that Anna was to suppose to have forgotten about.
Anna is a very strong, very independent, and very self-reliant young woman, and she uses these character traits to overcome her life obstacles. She has no problem standing up for what she believes in or what she believes is right. Anna is very strong because she is dealing with a lot of serious issues, such as her sister dying, at a very young age. For example in this quote “If you don’t want to be my sister anymore, that’s one thing. But I don’t think I could stand to lose you as a friend” (57), Anna and Kate appear to pondering life without each other. She does not seem too upset at the fact that her sister would be passing on, but rather upset at the fact that she would be losing a friend. This is most likely due to the fact she knows that through her sister’s death, she would finally have the right to her own body. Another quote from the novel shows that anna is both independent and self-reliant; “ If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?” (85). This quote shows that Anna is pondering what life will be like once her sister has passed. She is trying to figure out if she would finally be the independ, young woman she longs to be or if
The makers of Frozen wanted to base their movie on this story but with a different and more of a “Disney” theme. Unlike in the story when Kai gets his heart frozen, Elsa, one of the main characters from Frozen, is born with her powers of snow and ice and accidentally freezes her sister Anna’s heart. Just like in the story, an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart; seeing what Elsa did to her sister she starts crying and apologies. Doing so she lets go of the fear that was controlling her from the beginning and accepts her and learns to control them. Frozen is a wonderful that teaches kids a lesson on that just because you are different that doesn’t mean that you have to lock yourself away and shut yourself from the world so you wont have to worry about the
As a child, most children become infatuated with the newest Disney movie. Although Disney movies target children, watching them as an adult, we start to notice hidden messages and themes in our favorite childhood movies. A category of Disney packed with secret meanings is the Disney princess films. We watch in awe a young girl living, for the most part, the perfect fantasy life. She sings to animals, her hair is always perfectly in place, and there is always a prince to come and save her. In reality, there is much more to the princess persona than we realize. In 2014, Disney’s Frozen took the world by storm and became the highest grossing animated film ever. Frozen takes us on a magical journey with Princess Anna to find her sister, Princess Elsa, whose power to create ice has forever trapped their homeland, Arendelle, in eternal winter. Elsa is haunted by the memory of almost tragically killing her younger sister Anna because of her icy powers. Isolating herself from the world, Elsa dedicated her life to concealing her powers and learning to control them. The movie Frozen teaches the importance of social development among children.