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to have important questions regarding Frozen?

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Brittapieandchips · 10/04/2014 17:07

My main one being - how do they know it is an eternal winter when it seems to have lasted about five minutes?

Also (sorry, very inappropiate) - if Elsa ever gets a boyfriend/girlfriend, and she gets excited, will she turn them into ice?

How does she know how to build the castle if she has spent all that time trying not to use her powers?

What is she planning to eat in her castle?

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Backtobedlam · 10/04/2014 22:16

A lot of this is explained if you buy the Frozen soundtrack with the outtakes. I got it by accident but the outtakes are fab! Theres a song about the 'Troll Prophecy' which is how they know it's an eternal winter, there's another when Elsa and Anna are young and she practises her magic a lot then. I think the gloves don't freeze as they have a placebo effect-she thinks they work so calms down and then they do work. Actually, think maybe Im becoming a Frozen geek!

MrsHoolie · 10/04/2014 22:18

We have the soundtrack in the car and I'm desperate to have a journey alone where I can belt out the songs.

Why is Anna pronounced Arna??

TattyDevine · 10/04/2014 22:18

What about the salad plates though?

Seriously this is a big issue.

WanderingAway · 10/04/2014 22:20

I love love love frozen. Could watch it everyday. However i do like to tease my dd by telling her that if her parents hadnt locked her away none of the film would have happen ie the eternal winter, anna getting her heart frozen.

Goldmandra · 10/04/2014 22:21

My DD's have been singing "Do you wanna hide a body?" all day.

I don't know if it's worse than the original or not!

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 10/04/2014 22:25

Thanks. Too tired to think for myself obv- those are all proper examples Blush

Goldmandra · 10/04/2014 22:27

Sorry that's

Iammelting · 10/04/2014 22:27

My Ds's keep looking quizzically at me & my (21 yr old) DD
when Anna asks Chris to "take me up the north mountain" Shock

Backtobedlam · 10/04/2014 22:29

TattyDevine-considering the size of Arundel eight thousand does seem rather a large number of salad plates! However, I'm thinking as they never ate out, attended a dinner party or anything similar maybe Anna is mistaking side plates, main plates and others for salad plates? That's plausible right?!

Thereistoomuchconfusion · 10/04/2014 22:36

At the beginning when Elsa sprays ice everywhere in the ballroom, Anna Runs after her but when Elsa gets outside she is there for ages whilst everyone is staring at her not knowing what to do, then she finally runs off, then Anna comes out after Elsa has run off, where the hell did Anna go?? Between the ballroom and the entrance?? What was she up to that took her so long to get outside?

I think I've seen it too many times also, I do love it though.

Thereistoomuchconfusion · 10/04/2014 22:38

Isn't it A thousand salad plates not 8 thousand??

Backtobedlam · 10/04/2014 22:45

Depends which site you look the lyrics up on...some say a thousand, some say 8 thousand.

Oddthomas · 10/04/2014 22:47

My Ds's keep looking quizzically at me & my (21 yr old) DD
when Anna asks Chris to "take me up the north mountain"

Whenever we hear that line, DH and I snigger like the immature children we are....

Sendintheshiraz · 10/04/2014 22:48

Apparently it is based on Hans Christian Andersens "The Snow Queen" ...

My fave misinterpreted lyrics from Let it Go as sung by DD

"It's time to see what I can do, to taste the lemons and make fruit!"

AGnu · 10/04/2014 22:48

Gold That video's made me cry! Grin I've had a difficult day & needed cheering up! Thanks!

pictish · 10/04/2014 23:07

"It's time to see what I can do, to taste the lemons and make fruit!"

Grin I love misheard song lyrics. That's brilliant.

Heathcliff27 · 10/04/2014 23:14

Do you want to build a snowman?

ImAThrillseekerHoney · 10/04/2014 23:18

A) lucky guess
B) yes
C) magic
D) magic

girlwhowearsglasses · 10/04/2014 23:26

Oh I gave in and let the DSs watch the DVD today. I withheld it for a star chart prize, but no stars were being earnt I needed to pull something out of the bag today for a moment's peace.

DS1 is 7 and I swear he has his first crush on both the frozen heroines. We've had a shrine to them in his room since Dec....

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 10/04/2014 23:46

How do The Little Mermaid and Snow White pass the Bechdel test? Two female characters have to have a conversation about something other than a man. Female characters in The Little Mermaid are Ariel and Ursula - that's it. And all of their conversations revolve around how to get your man. Unless we're counting the end where Ursula reveals her evil plan for under the sea domination, which isn't really a conversation, more of a monologue. Snow White and the wicked queen can't really be said to converse - does the disguised queen selling her the poisoned apple count?

Why is Olaf so fucking annoying and why does he look like he wandered out of a totally different film?

Where does the ship come from when the fjord unfreezes? One minute they're standing on ice, the next it melts but it's okay because suddenly there's a ship underneath them that wasn't there before? If they are in the middle of a blizzard, why does the ice keep melting just enough to let the frozen ships roll about and nearly crush people? Wouldn't it remain frozen solid?

Where do Elsa's powers come from? Where are their parents going when they get on a ship which promptly sinks? Why is there an interregnum for 3 years until Elsa 'comes of age', and who has been running the country for all that time? Why can't she be crowned at any age - which is precisely what would happen in every monarchy I can think of.

Why does it look so unaccidental when Elsa freezes Anna's heart? I would have made the soldiers burst in before then, sparking off a battle during which Elsa hits Anna accidentally. As it was it looked like she did it on purpose, and then she tries to kill them with the snow monster. Bit excessive in a sibling fight, no? Oh, and why are they not killed when they jump off the cliff to escape the monster? Can you really land in a snow drift and not either die from the impact or be buried fathoms deep in soft snow?

I could go on...

showtunesgirl · 11/04/2014 00:08

The thing that annoys me about the film is the geography.

Elsa manages to get to the North Mountain in a few hours but it takes Anna much longer and she also goes by sled.

Hans also sends to manage to get there pretty quickly too.

Tallalime · 11/04/2014 00:29

Every time I watch it I wonder why Elsa hasn't made any furniture in her ice palace.

DD adores it, she is called Anna (so Anna is her favourite my favourite is Sven )

I love that Rapunzel and Flynn came to the coronation, you see them momentarily when Anna comes out of the newly opened gates.

Oh and also right at the very end of the credits where the big snowmonsterman finds Elsa's crown and puts it on Grin That tickles me.

carolinecordery · 11/04/2014 01:48

I think the (eight) thousand salad plates and the OP's 'eternal' winter for 5 minutes can be put down to youthful exaggeration by Ana. " OMG we've got like eight thousand salad plates ready for the coronation" and "Er, like, you kind of set off, literally, an eternal winter?"

Lj8893 · 11/04/2014 02:20

I love it!! And I love all the different theory's on here Grin

I think the Olaf/Sven relationship is a little gay.

I too wake up singing let it go.

Idina menzal (elsa) is fantastic but the whole character reminds me of elphaba (Idinas character in Wicked) and even lots of the film remind me of Wicked too.

Oddthomas · 11/04/2014 03:33

Where are their parents going when they get on a ship which promptly sinks?

It's set in the same world as Tangled so the leading theory is that they were going to Rapunzel's wedding. When the gates open when Elsa comes of age you can see Rapunzel and Flynn crossing the bridge. Then it goes on to say that The Little Mermaid is also set in the same world as the shipwreck remains Ariel and Flounder are playing in look exactly like the ship Ana and Elsa's parents were sailing on.