FROZEN is an original story, loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's “The Snow Queen.” Published in 1845, “The Snow Queen” begins when a magic mirror created by trolls shatters, causing pieces of it to lodge in the heart and eye of a boy named Kai.
"Frozen" producer Peter Del Vecho revealed to Entertainment Weekly that in the original version of the film, Elsa freezes her own heart after being stood up at the alter and was a self-proclaimed snow queen. And she was pure evil. Neither Elsa nor Anna were royalty — or even related.
Disney originally planned for Elsa to be a spiteful villain in Frozen, but the story evolved into the beloved version we know today. Elsa was supposed to be voiced by Megan Mullally, but Idina Menzel ultimately portrayed the character and sang the iconic song "Let It Go."
The explanation? Frozen is not meant to be a heartwarming tale of two sisters bonding and saving each other. It's actually a story of how abuse and neglect during your childhood can screw you over into your adult years.
Indeed, the plot is loosely based on the tale of The Snow Queen by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, who based many of his books on old Scandinavian folktales.
Producer Peter Del Vecho said that in an early draft, Elsa was written as an evil villain, while Anna was an innocent heroine. The final act made Hans the true villain and involved him triggering a huge avalanche that puts Arendelle in danger, resulting in Anna seeking Elsa's help.
It's also worth noting that Frozen, like Disney's recent The Princess and the Frog, is set in a diegetic world with overtly Christian — indeed Catholic — elements.
One particularly dark theory posits that Moana actually died during the storm at the beginning, and that was why she encountered the demigod Maui when she washed up on the island he had been trapped on for millennia.
When Elsa's ice palace is under attack, the colour of her ice changes depending on her current emotion. For instance, the ice is yellow when she combats Duke Westleton and his soldiers. However, the ice becomes purple or turns into a dark colour when she struggles to control her magic. The colour reflects her fear.
Towards the end of the movie, when Kristoff is holding Anna in his arms, his thumb passes through her torso for a moment. When Anna and Kristoff first meet Olaf, Anna throws Olaf's head back onto his body. At this point, from our perspective Anna is on the left and Kristoff is on the right with Sven.
Both characters have two daughters (Agnarr is the father to Elsa and Anna, while Big Bob is the father to Olga and Helga). In Frozen II, Agnarr is voiced by Alfred Molina, while Iduna is voiced by Evan Rachel Wood.
While they're in there, Anna and Elsa also discover another twist: They're half-Northuldran. Their mother, it turns out, was a tribe member who saved their father during the battle, escaped with him out of the forest, and later married him.
The implication, and it's only ever just that, is that Elsa and Anna's mother is herself somehow attuned to the magical forces such that Elsa was given the gift of superpowers. (Why Anna never received such powers is equally vaguely defined: just as Elsa and Anna's father had no powers, so too would she be power-free.
A few months after the film's release, visual development artist Claire Keane (the daughter of Disney Legend Glen Keane) published early concept art of Elsa that was modeled after the singer Amy Winehouse.
Yes, this is liberating. But is it healthy? In Part I of the Frozen series, I suggested that Elsa experiences something like borderline personality disorder (BPD). In this interpretation, Elsa's frozen rages are an outward display of the emotional dysregulation she feels inside.
The importance of dress in this film crystallises especially clearly in Elsa's show stopping number 'Let It Go'. Trudging up the mountain away from her kingdom, she remains in her coronation outfit, her thick cloak weighing her down and slowing her ascent, its deep purple colour indicative of her royal ties.
The theory suggests that Peter Pan's tendency to murder his friends once they begin to age serves as the true basis for the bad blood between Hook and himself and that the pirate's crew is made up of other former Lost Boys who help Hook resist Pan's magic.
The overarching message of Moana is, truly, that the worst thing to happen to you doesn't have to define you. Moana's father lives in fear due to a tragic past; Maui feels as though he is missing a critical part of himself without his hook; Te Fiti turns into a literal monster after she is attacked.
Originally Answered: In Frozen What are Elsa and Anna's full names? They would either take their kingdom's name (Elsa of Arendelle/Anna of Arendelle), or, at that time in Norway, they would've taken the name of their father (Elsa Agnarrsdotter/Anna Agnarrsdotter).
Best of all, FROZEN gives a shining example of sacrificial love, which ultimately reminds us of the sacrifice Jesus made for our sins. Take a closer look at the Biblical teachings found in the film. Elsa discovers early on that her power to wield ice is something to fear.
Anna and Elsa's last name in Frozen has finally been decoded as Agnarrsdatter or Idunasdatter, based on historical context and naming patterns in Norway in the 1860s or 1870s.
