13 Movie Moments That Surprised The Hell Out Of The Audience
12. A Machiavellian Disney Movie?! - Frozen
Disneys Frozen has become the highest-grossing animated film of all time (not adjusted for inflation) and it isnt even a Pixar film - that's some achievement. Loosely based on The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, it tells the story of two royal sisters: Elsa, who has the ability to manipulate cold, snow, and ice; and her younger sister Anna, who has no powers. A childhood accident illustrates how dangerous Elsas powers can be, causing their parents - soon to be killed - to contain them in the castle in order to avoid striking fear into their subjects. Naturally, Anna meets a typical Disney romantic lead, who seems heroic and steps in to guide the country through adversity when Elsa's powers get out of hand and Anna is forced to abandon her own post to seek her out, and lift the unwitting winter curse. Eventually, Elsa accidentally almost kills Anna, and when she is imprisoned, and her dying sister is taken home, in pursuit of the true love's kiss that will save her, her apparent knight in shining armour flatly refuses to oblige. Wait. What?! A Disney Prince refusing to kiss a Princess? It gets worse: Hans then goes on to explain that, given his status as the 13th in line in his kingdom, he would never be king, and he therefore planned to marry Anna in order to give himself a better chance. Now he will use Annas impending death as justification for killing Elsa, giving him a clear shot at the throne of Arendelle. That level of political sophistication is unheard of in a Disney cartoon. Younger children just look at Hans as being a good guy who turned into a bad guy, but this is plotting of Machiavellian proportions. Its almost something you would expect in a Die Hard film instead.
