50 Things You May Not Know About Disney’s “Frozen” [UPDATED]

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38. Anna’s catchphrase “Wait, what?” is actually something that Kristen Bell says a lot.

39. Acting coaches were brought in to help animators create major and subtle character movements. So when you see Anna bite her lip, or Elsa’s diaphragm move, this is something both Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel, respectively, do in real life. Basically if it made it more believable, the animators put that in.

40. An entire wing of the Disney Animation Studio is dedicated to upcoming films. Each wing in itself is then decorated by the film’s theme. So for Frozen there is a lot of ice, transparency, and cool blue colors. Whereas Big Hero 6 was decorated to the theme of San Fransokyo, the fictional city (a hybrid of San Francisco and Tokyo) where the movie is set. This wing has a lot of postcards and posters with the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and other famous San Francisco landmarks in it.  The wing also decorated with Japanese-inspired building exteriors, paper lanterns, and posters of sumo-wrestlers.

41. Olaf’s song “In The Summer” was not the first song written for the character, nor was it the only song. Olaf, who is a snowman, doesn’t have much experience with summer, and as a part of that twisted humor, directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee wanted to be sure that “warm temperatures” was the theme of his song. Before settling on “In The Summer,” Bobby and Kristen Lopez wrote a song that involved Calypso. However, it was deemed too Sebastian by its directors who did not want to do the same thing twice.

Story Bits

The following bits may be considered spoilers, so if you don’t want to know anything about the story, now is your chance to turn back.  But if you want to know more about it, the scroll down.

42. Frozen has a unique situation of having an antagonist who isn’t inherently evil. It is revealed that Elsa is cursed with ice magic at birth. Not knowing how to fully control her powers she accidentally hurts her sister Anna. Anna is then taken to a magical troll who heals her of her injuries and has the incident wiped from her memory. To prevent this from happening again Anna and Elsa’s parents separate the two, with Anna not understanding why she has to stay away from her sister and Elsa being shunned for something she has no control over. The two love each other very much, they are just in a precarious situation.

43. Olaf is a symbol of Elsa and Anna’s childhood innocence. Not only does Elsa have the unique ability of creating ice and snow, but she also can bring it to life.

44. After Anna gets engaged to Hans, she asks for Elsa’s blessing. Elsa says she cannot give her blessing because she thinks Anna is marrying too soon. This drives a wedge between Anna and Elsa, and as a result a frustrated Elsa reveals her powers in front of her kingdom’s advisers, who proclaim her to be a sorceress. When she runs out into the court her frustration grows and her powers become more sporadic and as a result she shows her ice powers in front of the people.

45. She then runs off to the North Mountain to be alone, however she unwittingly sets off a curse of eternal winter on the kingdom of Arendelle.

46. Teaming up with an Kristoff, an Ice Harvester, and Sven, his trusty reindeer, Anna will travel up to the North Mountain to bring Elsa home and end the curse.

47. Their first attempt ends in failure with Elsa unwilling to leave.  However her frustration leads her to accidentally curse Anna with the same curse Arendelle is under.

48. After leaving Anna under the care of a village doctor, we learn that Kristoff had developed feelings for Anna during the course of their journey to the North Mountain, and that only one’s true love can break the spell.

49. You start to see how colors and emotions play into the way the ice changes in Frozen. When you see a happy Elsa form her ice palace for the first time, there are cool blue and purple colors. However, when he knights of Arendelle attacks her and forces her to go on the defensive, there are yellowish hues.

50. Like most Disney films, there is an animal companion. In Frozen, Kristoff, the male lead, has Sven, a reindeer. But the way the two communicate is different than what we have seen in previous Disney films. While the two look like they are communicating, it is actually Kristoff that speaks for Sven in what he thinks a reindeer would sound like if they could speak. So it may look Kristoff is conversing with himself because he is actually saying what he thinks Sven would respond with.