“The icy monster has an icy heart!
It may not feel emotional or make art!
But come sun and the heat will be felt!
Then the emotional warm heart will melt!”
Now this story may seem familiar! A queen in a snowy place and a magic mirror created by trolls shatters, causing pieces of it to lodge in the heart and eye of a boy!
If your answer is FROZEN or Snow White then you are not wrong! But if you are really FROZEN to facts then the actual answer is the original story, “The Snow Queen!”
surprised!?
read on!
Published in 1845, “The Snow Queen” begins when a magic mirror created by trolls shatters, causing pieces of it to lodge in the heart and eye of a boy named Kai.
Seems nightmarish!? Well it was! In this Andersen’s story,the little boy named Kay gets shards of glass from a broken magic mirror embedded in his eye and heart. The glass somehow turns to ice, which — for reasons that aren’t clear — leads to Kay being abducted by a mysterious woman in white who swoops down on him during a snowstorm!
Here also you have a sister who in this case is called Gerda!
Like Frozen’s Anna, Gerda the sister also has to save her sibling by launching a search-and-rescue mission to retrieve him from the Snow Queen’s palace, which is guarded by an army of bear cubs, snakes and porcupines!
In fact The Snowy queen has also been the inspiration to many other famous stories and adaptations including the The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe! It is presumed that the White Witch from C. S. Lewis’s novel may be inspired by the Snow Queen, as she turned Narnia into a snow-covered land, is also depicted as wearing a white fur coat and first appears riding in a sleigh, and kidnapped a boy!
Recently the author Karen Foxlee has used it to inspire her children’s novel “Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy,”!
Now Frozen was a blockbuster which launched a sequel and a whole set of very profitable merchandise which was based on the close bond of sisters! But when it was in the initial stages, Anna and Elsa were not even sisters!
They weren’t even royal! Also Anna was not a princess!
Elsa was a self-proclaimed Snow Queen, but she was a villain and pure evil — much more like the Hans Christian Andersen tale!
It was initially a story with an evil female villain and an innocent female heroine, and the ending involved a big epic battle with snow monsters that Elsa had created as her army!
In the original ending, Prince Hans ends up being the real villain, who triggers a massive avalanche and ignores the fact that the storm also puts Anna, Elsa, and all of Arendelle at risk! And Anna must now convince Elsa to help save the kingdom!
Then the makers thought to themselves, ‘Does it always need to be true love’s kiss that solves that problem? Does it always have to be the man who comes in and rescues the female? Could it be something different?’
With these questions in mind, the whole story was changed and it actually lead into a revolution of sorts with a story which was not a typical Disney Fairy tale!
So the filmmakers of Frozen bought Gerda in the character of Anna and to the faithful reindeer who comes to Gerda’s aid in the character of Sven who turns out to be a delightful character! Delightful and funny also was birthday celebrity Jatin Kanakia!
Now unfreeze the alarm and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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