Finally saw Frozen this weekend, and subsquently viewed Ebony's spoiler. Agreed.
I also found it funny that this song is directly responsible, on a meta level, for Elsa not being an out-and-out villain, if IMDb's trivia page is to be trusted: They were working on a reasonably straight adaptation of The Snow Queen, until the songwriting team presented "Let It Go". The song was a big hit with the production team, but they decided it was too positive and uplifting for a villain to sing. So rather than dump obvious Oscar bait, they rewrote the entire movie to turn Elsa into an innocent victim of her own powers instead of a genuine villain. The only remains of the Hans Christian Anderson story are a couple of characters with the names of the children from the story, and the names of four of the new main characters: Hans, Kristoff, Anna and Sven.
EDIT: Oh, and did anyone sit all the way through the credits for the Easter Egg at the end? Or notice that one of the staff positions on the movie was "Caffeinator"? Or the disclaimer that Disney doesn't agree with Kristoff's assertion about certain "universal" behaviors by men?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
I also found it funny that this song is directly responsible, on a meta level, for Elsa not being an out-and-out villain, if IMDb's trivia page is to be trusted: They were working on a reasonably straight adaptation of The Snow Queen, until the songwriting team presented "Let It Go". The song was a big hit with the production team, but they decided it was too positive and uplifting for a villain to sing. So rather than dump obvious Oscar bait, they rewrote the entire movie to turn Elsa into an innocent victim of her own powers instead of a genuine villain. The only remains of the Hans Christian Anderson story are a couple of characters with the names of the children from the story, and the names of four of the new main characters: Hans, Kristoff, Anna and Sven.
EDIT: Oh, and did anyone sit all the way through the credits for the Easter Egg at the end? Or notice that one of the staff positions on the movie was "Caffeinator"? Or the disclaimer that Disney doesn't agree with Kristoff's assertion about certain "universal" behaviors by men?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.