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Line 7: ''I’m never going back, the past is in the past!}} '''''Frozen''''' is [[Disney]]'s 53rd entry in its [[Disney Animated Canon\|animated canon line-up]], very loosely inspired by [[Hans Christian Andersen]]'s longest [[Fairy Tale]] "[[The Snow Queen]]". It's animated in 3D using computer-generated imagery. In the fictional Nordic kingdom of Arandelle, there are two princesses, Elsa and Anna. Elsa, the eldest, was born with the gift of controlling ice. However, after Elsa accidentally injures Anna while playing with her powers, their parents arrange for Anna to magically forget the incident while instructing Elsa against using her powers and keep an stern facade, with the girl does at the price of separating and alienating her from her younger sister. About a decade later, after their parents' death, Elsa is vow to get crown queen, but the increasing stress of the coronation and Anna's sudden engagement with one prince Hans make her slip and reveal publicly her ice powers, causing Elsa to flee in shame. Anna, not truly understanding the situation but determined to find her sister, ropes an ice dealer named Kristoff to help her. And they must be fast, before Elsa freezes the county and palace conspirators get a hold of the trone... The movie has gotten a lot of attention as the source of the song "Let It Go", sung by [[Idina Menzel]]. The song made such an impact that, in the words of Co-Director Jennifer Lee, "the minute we heard the song the first time, I knew that I had to rewrite the whole movie." Line 15 ⟶ 17: A series of children's books entitled ''[[Anna & Elsa]]'' was [[Spin-Off\|spun off]] from the movie and began being released in early 2015. A seven-minute-long short entitled ''[[Frozen Fever]]'' was released in 2015 as a mini-sequel, showing a little of what happens after Elsa learns to fully control her powers., followed by a Christmas featurette entitled ''[[Olaf's Frozen Adventure]]'' focusing on Olaf. A feature-length sequel entitled ''[[Frozen 2II]]'' was released in November 2019. Not to be confused with the 2010 drama/thriller film [[Frozen (film)\|of the same name]]. Line 28 ⟶ 30: * [[Anti-Villain]]: Elsa, who is only "villainous" by accident and out of fear. * [[Art Initiates Life]]: If Elsa sculpts a snowman with her powers, it ''will'' be alive. * [[Artistic License]]: The extensive use of purple in 1840s Arendelle would imply that the kingdom is far wealthier considering the price of [[wikipedia:Tyrian purple\|Tyrian purple]] at the time; such was the astronomical price of purple during those days that it never saw use in national flags and even members of royalty would sometimes balk at using something that's far more valuable than gold. Fast forward over a decade later and we got [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauveine Mauveine], the first synthetic purple dye which pretty much made the hue more accessible than sacrificing a thousand or so snails to get ''a gram's worth'' of purple. * [[Award Bait Song]]: "Let It Go", which ended up winning the [[Oscar Bait\|2014 Academy Award for Best Song]]. Its potential was understood from the moment it was first played for the production team: they rewrote the entire movie into a completely original story because it was entirely too positive and life-affirming to be a [[Villain Song]] and they didn't want to lose it. * [[Awesome Anachronistic Apparel]]: Elsa's off-the-shoulder ice-blue gown is gorgeous and turns her into a sub-zero sex kitten, but is ''way'' too 20th-century for medieval Arendelle. Line 36 ⟶ 39: * [[Closed Door Rapport]]: Anna and Elsa during the opening "growing up" [[Montage]]/musical number. * [[Composite Character]]: Elsa is a composite of the Snow Queen and Kai. * [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: The Duke of <~~strike~~s>Weaseltown</~~strike~~s>Weselton, for sufficiently medieval values of "corporate" and "executive". * [[Crowd Song]]: "Fixer Upper", the trolls' "shipping song". * [[Death Trap]]: {{spoiler\|It's not a purpose-built machine, but locking Anna in a room to die is exactly this trope, right down to Hans walking off to execute his evil plan, assuming she'll die right on schedule.}} * [[Demoted to Extra]]: Zigzagged: Gerda and Kai were the heroine and damsel in ''[[The Snow Queen]]'', but they were portrayed as castle staff; Elsa, Anna and some of the other principal characters were composites of Gerda, Kai and the Robber Girl from the original story. * [[Development Hell]]: Oh my Lord. This film is over 70 years in the making! ''The Snow Queen'' got a place on the Disney production schedule -- as production #1092 -- a year or two after ''[[Snow White (Disney film)\|Snow White]]'', but was shelved with no preproduction development work (that anyone can find in the Disney archives, at least). As far as ''this'' incarnation was concerned, Disney planned to produce it in the 90's as a hand-drawn feature. But they scrapped it during their change in management and their shift to CG features starting with ''[[Chicken Little]]'' and only just recently picked it up again. * [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: Practically the first line of the Duke of Weselton, after musing about how he'll use the occasion of Elsa's coronation to figure out how to exploit Arendelle's resources. * [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler\|Anna.}} * [[Dodgy Toupee]]: The Duke of Weselton, to the point of practically flapping in the wind. * [[Everything's Worse with Wolves]]: Especially below-zero ~~nighttime~~night-time rides on reindeer-drawn ice sleds. * [[Evil Costume Switch]]: Subverted. Elsa's transformation of her modest medieval garb to something out of a Hollywood movie is not an indication that she's become evil, but that she's finally begun to accept herself as she is. * {{spoiler\|[[Evil Redhead]]: Prince Hans is a lot more manipulative, devious, and nasty than he initially seems to be.}} * [[Extremely Short Timespan]]: Once we're out of the growing-up [[Montage]]/musical number, the main action seems to take place in the space of about 24-48 hours. * [[Fairy Tale]] * [["Falling in Love" Montage]]: Anna and Hans' duet. {{spoiler\|Except it's a subversion -- the entire duet is Hans manipulating Anna into thinking they've fallen in love in a grand fairy tale way when all he's doing is setting up his short route to the throne of Arendelle.}} * [[False Widow]]er: {{spoiler\|In order to seize the throne of Arendelle, Hans claims that he married Anna in the minutes before she died from her sister's attack, when in fact he has locked her away to die.}} * [[Finishing Each Other's Sentences]]: Played with in Hans' and Anna's duet: Line 106 ⟶ 109: * [[Yellow Snow]]: To be avoided, according to Olaf. * [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: The trolls dismissing head injuries as trivial and easy to fix compared to damage to the heart. Then again, this ''is'' a fairy tale, and this may be as much a metaphorical moral as a literal diagnosis. * [[Youngest Child Wins]]: {{spoiler\|Subverted by Hans, who is the youngest of thirteen brothers, and a charming but ruthless villain out to seize the throne of Arendelle for himself. Fortunately, he doesn't succeed and is returned to his brothers for punishment.}} {{reflist}} {{Template:Academy Award Best Animated Feature}} ~~[[Category:~~{{Disney Animated Canon]]}}▼ ~~[[Category:Frozen (Disney film)]]~~ [[Category:~~Academy Award~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Animated Films]] [[Category:Films of the 2010s]] [[Category:All CGI Cartoon]] [[Category:Disney]] ▲[[Category:Disney Animated Canon]] [[Category:Disney Self-Subversion]] [[Category:The Millennium Age of Animation]] ▲[[Category:Academy Award]] [[Category:Pages Original to All The Tropes]] [[Category:BAFTA Award (Film)]]