Film analysis – Animated movie “Frozen”
Story Arc Breakdown
Frozen basically follows the story framework of Andersen’s original Snow Queen, and is a bold adaptation of the current audience’s aesthetic experience.The story takes place in the picturesque arendale (Arendelle) kingdom, the king’s two beautiful princess-sister esa (Elsa) and sister Anna (Anna), originally happily live in this land, but esa is born with magic ability to freeze the world, in a happy play hurt sister Anna, almost caused Anna died.Fear of magic and love for her sister forced Essa to put on her cold gloves and isolate herself in a closed, cold house.Ten years later, the King and Queen disappeared on the beach.
As an adult, Aisha is about to inherit the throne, but at the coronation, after trying to stop her sister’s absurd love, she manages to escape to the snow mountains in fear, and everything about Arendale is frozen.Anna finally understood her sister’s difficulties, in order to save the frozen kingdom, in order to recall the warm affection, Anna resolutely set foot on the road to find her sister, and the common teenager Christopher (Kristoff) arrived at the ice palace where her sister lives.After seeing her sister, originally thought that there would be a sisterhood touching scene, did not expect Elsa’s magic out of control again, shot Anna’s heart.Anna asks the beloved Prince Hans (Hans) for help, Hans refuses to give the “kiss of true love”, trying to occupy the kingdom of Arenddel regardless of Anna’s transformation into arendale.Asa shed sad tears in despair, tears into a magical power will melt Anna’s frozen heart, the gap between the sisters was solved, the two people happily embrace, Arendale once again ushered in a warm spring.In the past, Disney “Princess Animation” mostly took love as the story line. “From then on, the prince and princess began a happy life” seems to become the eternal and beautiful ending of the fairy tale.But instead of using love as a narrative thread, Frozen focuses on the relationship between Esa and Anna, interspersed with some more realistic love factors.For example, Prince Hans’s hypocrisy to Anna is nothing more than to get the Kingdom of Arundale, Anna and Christopher are only in love and did not get married, these are all major breakthroughs in the film.The theme of the story is to overcome the fear of the inner world, release the free nature, and obtain the true self, in order to achieve the full end of the fairy tale.
Story Arc Breakdown
The film abandons the stereotype of the “Prince and Princess” model and takes two women as the protagonists of the story, which advances in Disney’s animated film.Sister Elsa is introverted, closed, indifferent and noble, while sister Anna is cheerful, optimistic, lively and lovely.Under the similar appearance, the character is completely opposite, which forms a great emotional tension, which plays a crucial role in the deduction of the story and the expansion of conflicts.It is worth noting that the perfection of the heroine in the Disney animated film is not shown in the film, neither Esa nor Anna is absolutely perfect, Esa becomes timid and inferior because unable to overcome her fear, Anna’s ignorance of love makes it almost bury the entire kingdom.These all make the fairy tale closer to the real life, the characters have a more three-dimensional sense, more full sex.
Elsa’s growth path twists and turns, from initial innocence to fear and depression after the discovery of magic, until putting down all constraints, find her true self, and finally rebuild the powerful self that releases nature to return to freedom.Asa’s emotional outbreak occurs when she was misunderstood by the nobles, and she fled the castle alone on the road of the mountains.At this time, Elsa sang “Let It Go”, wanton magic between heaven and earth, magic everywhere all ice crystal bloom, snow waves surging.As the melody of the song is getting more and more high, Aisha has also reached the emotional peak, so as to vent the inner depression, she no longer cares about the shackles of palace etiquette, no longer need to hide the magic, she has sprinkled the inner chill to the world without reservation, Eisha’s new image shines between heaven and earth.However, at this time Anna was very sad to losing her sister, she was on the way to save her.Young as her, she is bound to grow rapidly on the road to find relatives.Both female characters are very tough, and they interpret the great character of women in a growing way.
Characters Archetypes Breakdown
The male role in the film Frozen is the first Disney animated film.Although the film portrays Christopher’s delightful male character as a balance of power between the characters, it still did not replace the isha sisters as masters of the film.The presence of Prince Hans has completely overturned the image of “Prince Charming” in previous Disney animated films, broke the original expectation of the audience, and made the viewing experience more fresh and exciting and full of suspense.
Hans seems to appear, as many viewers imagined, as handsome, charming, dancing with the princess, and even having a long talk all night.The princess fell in love with the prince at first sight and is willing to pay for each other. The next end is that the princes and nobles can witness the beautiful love between the prince and the princess together.On the contrary, however, the prince, the 13th heir of the family, was entirely prepared to occupy the kingdom.Prince Hans is sinister and ugly, in order to gain power and status to deceive Anna’s pure emotions, the prince as a villain image really gives the young little princess a cruel lesson.By contrast, the civilian teenager Christopher is kind, brave, witty and humorous, and his reindeer highlights his rugged and kind character, while the identity of the “ice seller” suggests his constant relationship with the Elsa sisters.So, arrange for Christopher to accompany Anna to the Snow Palace to find her sister, and along the way, for the next performance of the love between Anna and Christopher.Christopher’s image is a representative of a group of “grassroots” figures, symbolizing the unknown, ordinary and great people at the bottom of the society.This character is important, but it is still only a supporting role in the film, the usual advantage of male characters falls second in the film, instead of female identity is enough attention, which is the progress of The Times.
Xuebao (Olaf) is a comic character in the film, which reconcthe original sad atmosphere and enhances the film’s interest and rich imagination.Snowtreasure (Olaf) is a snowman pushed together by Elsa and her sister Anna in their childhood, and was later given to life by her magic.It is innocent and lovely, carefree, looking forward to the warm summer and warm love, symbolizing the best fairy tale memory between the Aisha sisters, but also represents the unvanished power, courage and love.The setting of Xuebao image reflects the consistent entertainment spirit of Disney animated films, achieving great achievements in entertainment and telling the truth in the game.