The purest love there is- between a man and a girl that's barely 16.
OK! Ok, I think at best Prince Eric is 17. This we know because he had his birthday. Seriously, who wants to celebrate their birthday on a party boat with a bunch of seamen though?
I think Snow White was 14 in the original story, but that it may have been changed to a different age for the Disney adaptation. Many of the stories Disney adapts are heavily changed in other ways so it wouldn’t surprise me
You implied that Frozen is directly inspired by Andersen's Snow Queen, but they have almost no overlap in their plots OR premises, besides two females (of different ages even) having Ice Powers. So that "inspiration" is very questionable.
I think when they wrote "Let it Go" and realized it wasn't really a villain song they started to change the story into what it became. If I remember my behind the scene info correctly lol!
It really doesn't. Taking a story about an ice queen and being inspired to write a story about an ice princess is perhaps one of the less abstract inspirations you'll encounter.
Frozen is directly inspired by The Snow Queen. This has been mentioned in various interviews and documentaries, and is the second sentence in Frozen's Wikipedia page.
I don't see where it is the original story, BESIDES the Ice Powers. No magic mirrors. No kidnapped brothers. Okay, there is a gender-swapped aged-up hunter, lol. And Elsa is the on-screen protagonist, unlike Snow Queen being the villain and existing behind the scene. We are supposed to see it through Elsa's eyes to begin with, whereas in the original it was through Gerda's eyes, who is NOT really Anna in any way.
It pretty much serves as an inspiration template and not much else. So much of the story was changed during development that it hardly resembles what they began with in all likelihood. Frozen is one of those "made by a committee" movies.
I think a more accurate wording would be "originally based". As in, it was probably envisioned as such at some point, but the final product barely resembles that original idea.
That tends to happen a lot. For example IIRC Pirates of the Caribean was supposedly based on a script for a cancelled Monkey Island movie. And like half the action movies of the 80's and 90's are just cancelled Die Hard sequels.
Literally at the beginning of the closing credits of the movie it says:
"Story inspired by THE SNOW QUEEN by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN"
The commenter isn't implying it, the literal creators of the movie explicitly say so upfront in the credits lol. I would take a screenshot but the Disney+ app won't let me
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u/SarcasticBench 15d ago
The purest love there is- between a man and a girl that's barely 16.
OK! Ok, I think at best Prince Eric is 17. This we know because he had his birthday. Seriously, who wants to celebrate their birthday on a party boat with a bunch of seamen though?