Frozen (Disney film): Difference between revisions

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* [[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.

* [[Big Bad]]: [[Large Ham|The Duke of Weselton]]. He remains an active threat through the movie and the audience has come to believe that he's the main mastermind, but they couldn't be more wrong. The duke fancies himself as the mastermind, planning to exploit Arendelle for its riches but is unable to hide his intentions. When Elsa runs away and causes the eternal winter, he tries to restore the kingdom [[Pragmatic Villainy|for his own benefit]]. He sends [[The Dragon|Prince Hans]] and [[Those Two Bad Guys|his two bodyguards]] on a rescue mission to kill Elsa, but Prince Hans saves her. Hans then proceeds to frame Elsa's accidental freezing Anna's heart as intentional murder, leaves Anna to die and sentences Elsa to death, so he can claim the throne for himself. This turns the Duke into a complete non-entity.

* [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: The Duke of Weasel-Town ("[[Running Gag|WESELTON!]]") and Hans become this.

* [[Characters As Device]]: Hans is the mirror from The Snow Queen in human form, always reflecting the emotions of people around them back at them. Even [http://imgur.com/gallery/fNQ0K confirmed] by [[Word of God]].

* [[Closed Door Rapport]]: Anna and Elsa during the opening "growing up" [[Montage]]/musical number.

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* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Anna.}}

* [[Dodgy Toupee]]: The Duke of Weselton, to the point of practically flapping in the wind.

* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Prince Hans}} to [[Big Bad|the Duke of Weselton]].

* [[Everything's Worse with Wolves]]: Especially below-zero nighttime 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:

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* [[Gorgeous Garment Generation]]: During the closing bars of "Let It Go", Elsa transforms her medieval outfit into a slinky, sparkly gown with a high slit that wouldn't be out of place on a Hollywood starlet at the Oscars.

* [[Hate Sink]]: since this story almost is a case of [[No Antagonist]], the Duke of Weselton provides a handy dose of ineffective annoyance.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Hans confesses and apologizes to Anna for trying to kill Elsa by saying that [[This Cannot Be!|she froze her heart]].

* [[An Ice Person]]: Elsa, of course, as the Snow Queen of this tale.

* [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me|I'm Taking Them Home With Me]]: Gerda about Sven and Kristoff at the start of the film.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Hans Kristof Anna Sven.

** Olaf, with his body reassembled in the wrong order: "Man, am I out of shape."

* [[Jerkass]]: The Duke of Weselton.

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Applied to the young Anna by the rock trolls, making her forget Elsa's accidental attack on her.

* [[Love At First Sight]]: Anna and Hans. {{spoiler|It's a subversion, though -- Hans manipulates Anna into falling in love with him over the course of an evening, taking advantage of her complete ''starvation'' for affection and their accidental [[Meet Cute]], and then rush immediately into marriage as part of his plan to gain the throne of Arendelle.}} Everyone who hears about it tells her it's a bad idea to get married to a guy she just met.