![]() ![]() The movie, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, The Snow Queen, is the top-grossing animated movie of all time, and the fifth highest-grossing film in history. She’s also klutzy and likes fart jokes, as one of my colleagues pointed out. Like Elsa, she’s also strong-in one of the last scenes she punches the daylights out of Hans, her love interest-turned-antagonist. She is altruistic and impulsive and a total romantic. Anna, meanwhile, spends the entire movie running around trying to save the day. Sure, Elsa has the cool dress and the magic powers, but she’s also cold-both figuratively and literally-and introverted and hangs out with an ice monster. Maybe because I’m the youngest child (I was raised with two older sisters), I walked away from my first experience with the movie feeling pretty convinced that Anna was the heroine. ![]() (Why do good people do bad things? Try explaining that one to preschoolers.) Most of those conversations have centered on why Elsa is “mean” to Anna, even though they are sisters and love each other. Interestingly, Frozen has also led to many thought-provoking and even philosophical conversations in my household. They routinely run around the house belting out the lyrics to the movie’s hit song, Let it Go, and constantly act out scenes from the movie in their own role playing games (I usually get the part of Hans or Kristoff, or if I’m lucky-Olaf the snowman). Months later, I’ve now watched Frozen at least ten times, with both of my daughters. ![]()
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