Frozen (Disney film): Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[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 nighttimenight-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.

* [["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.}}