Frozen is one of the highest grossing and one of the most popular movies in the world.
Released in 2013 it has captured the hearts of many people with a majority being children.
But how much do you actually know about Disney's Frozen.
Welcome to ArcadeRaid, I'm Darnley, and today let's go through 40 very interesting
things that you may not have known about Disney's Frozen.
1.
Frozen About two sisters living in Arendale.
Both are princesses, but one has powers.
Elsa is the one with the powers, she is living in solitude, because she has no control over
them.
Elsa was able to keep her powers a secret from her sister, Anna, but she lost control
of them at a coronation.
Turned Arendale into winter forever by accident, and flees.
It is Anna's job to get her back to stop the eternal winter.
2.
When the gates open during "For The First Time in Forever," there is a cameo of Rapunzel
and Eugene (Flynn) from Tangled (2010).
Rapunzel has short, brown hair and is wearing a purple and pink dress (her celebration dress
at the end of 'Tangled'), and Eugene is wearing a maroon vest and a brownish sash.
They both the screen from the left.
3.
The characters of Hans, Kristoff, Anna and Sven are a reference to Hans Christian Andersen,
the author of The Snow Queen.
Try saying their names very fast and you'll hear the resemblance.
4.
According to Jennifer Lee, Anna is 18 years old in the film, while both Elsa and Kristoff
are 21 years old and Hans is 23 years old.
5.
Idina Menzel auditioned for the part of Rapunzel in Disney's previous fairytale, Tangled (2010).
Even though Menzel didn't get the part, a Disney casting director recorded her audition
and two years later, it got her the part of Elsa.
6.
Elsa is the second animated Disney princess to become a Queen during a film, and the first
animated Disney princess to be crowned Queen on-screen.
(Princess Kida from Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) was first but her coronation happens
off-screen.)
7.
According to actor Josh Gad, a handful of Olaf's dialog in the film was improvised to
make the producers laugh.
8.
A live reindeer was brought into the animating studio for animators to study its movements
and mannerisms for the reindeer character, Sven.
Co-director Jennifer Lee said it was the best moment during production for her.
9.
In early designs, the giant Snow Monster that Elsa creates was a giant version of Olaf,
who addressed him as "little brother."
But it was later decided that although it was cute and kind of funny, it ultimately
looked a bit dumb.
10.
In addition to being the first woman to direct a full-length Disney animated feature film,
Jennifer Lee also became the first woman to solely write an entire screenplay for a Disney
animated film since Linda Woolverton for Beauty and the Beast (1991).
11.
Kristen Bell stated that with this film, she has fulfilled a lifelong dream of voicing
an animated character ever since she saw The Little Mermaid (1989) and Aladdin (1992) as
a kid.
When she was around that same age, she recorded a voice box where she sang a couple of songs
from The Little Mermaid, including "Part of Your World."
Her Little Mermaid vocal tracks were part of the reason why she got the part of Anna,
as director Jennifer Lee said to her that if she hadn't recorded her own vocal tracks
from Mermaid, it would've been very difficult to the find the right one to play Anna.
12.
For the song "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?", three different actresses respectively provided
the singing voice of Anna: Katie Lopez as Young Anna, Agatha Lee Monn as Teenage Anna,
and Kristen Bell as Anna.
Agatha is the daughter of the film's writer/director Jennifer Lee and Katie is the daughter of
its songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
13.
Upon winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, Frozen (2013) became
the first full-length Disney (non-Pixar) animated feature film to win the award for the category
after the studio was nominated four times before.
Frozen is also the first Disney animated feature film to win a Golden Globe since Tarzan (1999),
also directed by Chris Buck.
14.
The production crew went to Norway on a two-week long trip before production begun, and the
movie is largely inspired by this trip.
The landscape, clothes, music, buildings and names resemble a lot of Norwegian culture.
The Arendelle castle is loosely based on Akershus Fortress in Oslo, the Arendelle town is inspired
by Bryggen in Bergen, a west-coast Norwegian city, and the landscape around Arendelle is
similar to the Nærøyfjord, also on the west side of Norway.
15.
In a magazine interview, Idina Menzel claimed her young son boasted to his classmates that
his mom sings the songs in Frozen.
To this, another child replied, "So does everyone else's."
16.
Elsa is the third Disney vocal role for Idina Menzel.
In the television series of Hercules (1998), she was the speaking and singing voice of
the sorceress Circe.
In Enchanted (2007), she played the live action character Nancy who made a brief cameo as
her animated alter ego 17.
The horses featured in the film are all Norwegian Fjord horses.
They are one of the oldest breeds and have been used in Norway for hundreds of years,
and as the film shows, are known for their distinct dark stripe that runs through the
center of the mane.
Their Manes are typically cut to a Mohawk-like crescent shape to emphasize this feature and
the breed's neck.
18.
Elsa's ice castle changes color with her emotions.
Blue is happy, red is fear and yellow is anger.
19.
The minor characters Kai and Gerda are named for the main characters of the original story
of The Snow Queen.
20.
Visiting Norway was obviously essential in coming up with the design aesthetic for Frozen
(2013) in terms of color, light, and atmosphere.
According to Michael Giaimo, there were three important takeaways from the research trip
in making Frozen unique to the Disney canon: the fjords, which are narrow inlets surrounded
by massive vertical rock formations, and serve as the setting for the secluded Arendelle
kingdom; the medieval stave churches, whose rustic triangular roof-lines and shingles
inspired the castle compound; and the rosemaling folk art, whose distinctive paneling and grid
patterns informed the architecture, decor, and costumes.
21.
Walt Disney Animation Studios attempted several times before to develop Hans Christian Andersen's
classic fairy tale "The Snow Queen" into a film in the 2000s but it never worked.
They first tried it in 2002, and master animator Glen Keane famously quit the project, then
it was scrapped.
"The Snow Queen" was resurfaced again in 2009 and John Lasseter recruited directors Kirk
Wise and Gary Trousdale to helm the project.
Producer Don Hahn and writer Linda Woolverton also signed on to the project, alongside Alan
Menken and Glenn Slater who were commissioned to write the songs.
22.
Michael Giaimo, the film's art director, is well known for his exuberant art direction
for Pocahontas (1995), which was the last time he served as art director at Walt Disney
Animation Studios.
Frozen marked his return to the studio after being fired when Home on the Range (2004)
disastrously and embarrassingly bombed with critics and audiences - it caused massive
layoffs and the short-lived demise of traditional animation.
23.
Producer Peter Del Vecho explained the English title change from "The Snow Queen" to "Frozen":
"The title Frozen (2013) came up independently of the title Tangled (2010).
It's because, to us, it represents the movie.
Frozen plays on the level of ice and snow but also the frozen relationship, the frozen
heart that has to be thawed.
We don't think of comparisons between Tangled and Frozen, though.
The decision to call the film Frozen was the filmmaker's decision.
The studio's decision to then call it the Snow Queen overseas was because that just
resonated stronger in some countries than Frozen.
Maybe there's a richness to the Snow Queen in the country's heritage and they just wanted
to emphasize that."
24.
He continued to make his statement saying, "We're telling a story about family and relationships
and that in itself can be very complicated.
A lot of times what you perceive something to be isn't what it turns out to be - Elsa
has to hide for her whole life who she is, even from her sister.
That clearly affected her and made her into the character she is.
Hopefully, if you look at the story through Elsa's eyes, you'll be able to understand
what she does, or if you look at it through Anna's eyes, you'll be able to understand
why she does what she does, but they're all complicated relationships.
We don't think of it as a Princess movie.
They happen to be Princesses, but we don't think about it that way, so I always get a
bit thrown when people talk about this.
But I can say we want to make them really believable and not set them up on a pedestal.
Our version of these characters should feel really real and be relatable to things you
might go through in your life."
25.
When Elsa is holding the scepter and orb, the bishop proclaims (In Icelandic): "Sem
hón heldr inum helgum eignum ok krýnd í þessum helga stað ek té fram fyrir yðr..."
In English this means: "As she holds the holy properties, and is crowned in this holy place,
I present to you...
Queen Elsa of Arendelle."
In the script, it reads: "Sehm hon HELL-drr IN-um HELL-gum AYG-num ok krund ee THES-um
HELL- gah STAHTH, ehk the frahm FUR-ear U- thear..."
26.
Many viewers have wondered how Kristoff knew to travel in a winter sled in what was, until
a few minutes ago, the middle of summer.
The junior novelization explains that the sled is convertible and can be fitted with
wheels or runners as desired, presumably like changing a spare tire by the side of the road.
27.
When the snow monster scares Hans and the other men, the monster's initial gesture and
facial expression are almost exactly like Sully's when he scares Boo in Monsters, Inc.
(2001).
28.
Michael Giaimo's production design and art direction for Frozen (2013) is greatly inspired
by the works of Mary Blair in Cinderella (1950) and Peter Pan (1953) and that of Eyvind Earle
in Sleeping Beauty (1959) 29.
Alan Menken was originally going to write the songs for the movie, prior to becoming
a less direct adaptation of the Snow Queen, he even wrote a song called 'Love Can't Be
Denied'.
However it didn't make it, because Menken left the project.
30.
Michael Eisner, then-CEO and Chairman of The Walt Disney Company, was very interested in
"The Snow Queen" project when it was in early development in 2002.
Even though he had much less involvement in production of Disney movies in the 2000s than
he had in the 1980s and 90s, he had a special passion for the story and characters of the
Snow Queen.
Eisner offered his support to the project and even suggested doing the film with John
Lasseter at Pixar Animation Studios, when the two studios would get their contracts
renewed.
31.
When Anna, Kristoff and Olaf arrive at Elsa's ice castle, Anna tells Olaf to give her a
minute with Elsa alone.
Olaf starts counting, with Kristoff joining the count shortly thereafter, as Anna enters.
When Olaf enters, we hear him say "60" and it's actually been one minute between when
he started counting and when he enters.
32.
Olaf's name is a clue to his character's purpose in providing comic relief.
It can be interpreted to mean "oh laugh."
33.
Regarding the look and nature of the film's cinematography, Michael Giaimo, who also helped
with the cinematography, was greatly influenced by the legendary Jack Cardiff's work in Black
Narcissus (1947), which lends a hyper-reality to Frozen (2013).
"Because this is a movie with such scale and we have the Norwegian fjords to draw from,
I really wanted to explore the depth.
From a design perspective, since I was stressing the horizontal and vertical aspects, and what
the fjords provide, it was perfect.
We encased the sibling story in scale."
In fact, Ted D. McCord's work on The Sound of Music (1965) was another major influence
34.
There are many similarities between Elsa and Elphaba, the main character played by Idina
Menzel in the stage adaptation of the novel Wicked by Gregory Maguire.
They both are (eventually orphaned) daughters of influential parents.
They both have special powers that they try to hide, yet they manifest them unwillingly
in front of huge crowds.
Eventually, both Elsa and Elphaba embrace their magic talents - and become objects of
public hatred and outcasts from society.
35.
Olaf and Sven are also the name of the two Swedes at beginning of the film 'Titanic',
when they were betting their tickets to Fabrizio and Jack.
Ironically, both films are highest-grossing films and deal with ice.
36.
This is not the first time Idina Menzel and Jonathan Groff work together.
They previously acted in Glee (2009) together.
Groff as Jesse, a Vocal Adrenaline performer as a recurring character.
Menzel as Shelby, Vocal Adrenaline coach and mother of a main character, also a recurring
character.
37.
Originally, Queen Elsa was intended to be the villain of the story.
However, when the character's major song, "Let it Go," was played for the producers,
they concluded that the song was not only very appealing, but its themes of personal
empowerment and self-acceptance were too positive for a villain to express.
Thus, the story was rewritten to have Elsa as an isolated innocent who is alarmed upon
learning that her powers are inadvertently causing harm and struggles to control her
powers with Anna's help.
38.
Often in Disney animated films, the good guys wear light colors and the bad guys wear dark
colors.
In order to throw off the audience, Hans (the villain) wears light colors while Kristoff,
Anna, and Elsa (the heroes) wear dark colors.
39.
At the start of the movie, Elsa and Anna are wearing brightly colored clothes, symbolizing
their happiness.
But as they grow apart over the course of the movie, their clothes become progressively
darker.
(This is especially evident in the "Do You Wanna Build a Snowman" montage.)
At the end of the movie - when the sisters are finally reunited - their clothes are once
again bright.
40.
After Hans leaves Anna alone in the room, Olaf arrives and heats the fire up for Anna.
He begins to melt, much to Anna's dismay, proclaiming, "Some people are worth melting
for."
If Olaf had melted for Anna, this could have been the act of true love to save her life.
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