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What Made Frozen Great

So in 2019 Frozen 2 was said to be 'the best movie of the year'.

And here I am in 2020 talking about Frozen.

What is quarantine doing to me?

What made Frozen, the original Frozen, so great?

Short answer: It was different.

Disney usually tells the tale of girls who find their princes. Cinderella, Snow White, Belle, Tiana, Jasmine, Ariel- whatever! So I was surprised Elsa had totally no love interests in the entire movie, or even the mention of one. Her problems were much more complicated than that- and GOD I WAS HAPPY!

I mean, yeah, I love a great romance (because I love torturing myself when two people made to be together are so bad at communicating they can't just admit their feelings and dance around it for 500 pages straight-) but I'm tired of seeing the main characters ALWAYS getting their prince/princess. Because it makes me feel like 'happy endings' always mean 'finding true love'. And that's not the case. To me, happiness is having pizza and burger in one sitting! Happiness means different things to different people.

Also, in most Disney movies- heck, in most movies in general- love at first sight. People, like me, are so tired of seeing this. You know who falls in love with a complete stranger? Creeps! That's who.

So Frozen was a great message to young hormonal boys and girls who believe in love at first sight and think falling in love with strangers is romantic, when it's actually just....

ANYWAYS, to add to the list of stuff I loved in Frozen, are the characters. I felt like Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Hans, Kristoff and even Sven were 3 dimensional, with their own thoughts and mind. Plus, Elsa was a very relatable girl, who was still a strong female character. (Instead of Wattpad 'not like other girls' female protagonists, who actually turn out to be JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER FEMALE MC ON WATTPAD! And also, the 'tomboy' who is actually just a very mean and unlikeable girl. What the hell are these writers tryna say? That boys are naturally agressive and violent, and that's sexy in man?)

Being a strong female character does not mean you have a to punch everyone who slightly annoys you! It doesn't mean you have to be like 'Oh ma god! Is that a dress? I hate dresses!' and 'Oh ma god! Is that female human wearing makeup? Must be a bitch then!'

The character does not need to be physically strong. They just need to be mentally strong, emotionally strong, and have a memorable personality. THAT'S what a strong character means, to me at least.

That's why I really loved Elsa. She was a girl who liked dresses and behaved like a normal girl. She wasn't a girly girl or a tomboy. She was a normal girl, a normal person. What made her special was how she responded to her unique situation.

Since the characters were unique, there was a unique story to go along with it. Frozen completely fooled me into thinking it was following the love-at-first-sight trope, and totally stole my heart by making Hans the villain. I loved, loved, loved, how the 'act of true love' was not a kiss. It was a sacrifice for a sister. It was the purest form of love, and the scene where Elsa wept over Anna was memorable.

So that's some of the things I loved about Frozen. What do you guys think of Frozen? What did you love about it, what did you hate about it?