I read your post as "Frozen Embezzling Norway" which would be uncomfortable.I read the title as Frozen Embarrassing Norway.
I read your post as "Frozen Embezzling Norway" which would be uncomfortable.I read the title as Frozen Embarrassing Norway.
My hope is down the road this feature will maybe move them (if anyone there even cares anymore) to include more Norway specific touches or references somehow into the ride itself etc. Because aside from architecture and costumes, nothing was left about Norway, everything has been over saturated with princess stuff. Inside the stave church yes there are references, but that is not enough.
Good first step. If we're lucky, the Frozen lasses will now embrace Norwegian history and culture, polar bears, sacked Viking villages, long boats, trolls that don't suck, oil rigs, and high seas adventures.
What I don't get is how some people are perfectly fine with Snow White being German and Pinocchio being Italian even though those movies don't explicitly say "Hey, we're in Germany/Italy!"; but, they have trouble with a clearly Norwegian-ish film being in Norway without it saying, "Hey, we're in Norway."
Well, now, the film is saying, "Hey, we're in Norway!"
Nor I.Not quite grasping Norway as a modern invention eh?
It is an interesting question as to when a story of specific authorship becomes a part of a larger culture.The difference obviously being that neither of the films you mentioned have dark rides in either of those pavilions, so they are not using those films to represent the real-world version of the country from which they originate. I imagine several people would take issue with Snow White's Scary Adventures being built in the Germany pavilion or Pinocchio's Daring Journey in the Italy pavilion.
This. While Norway had various unions with Denmark and Sweden over the past millennia, Norway was still recognized as a distinct political entity, usually a distinct kingdom in a union of crowns.
Oh purleeeezeee don't start doing LOGICS on Frozen. My personal favorite is the "eternal winter" that lasts how long? Yep. About 3 1/2 days, from Elsas flight from the royal castle to the happy end. That's definitely a HUGE problem in a nordic country that has normally probably winters that last 4-5 months or more. So how long does Elsa live her "life of solitude" in her new built ice palace? Watch the movie, it's 3 days.Makes more sense this way however now causes issues.. Elsa is queen of Arendelle right? You can't be queen of just a city lol
Given the close bloodlines of Europe’s monarchies, the Duke of Weselton is probably Hans, Anna and Elsa’s uncle.Oh purleeeezeee don't start doing LOGICS on Frozen. My personal favorite is the "eternal winter" that lasts how long? Yep. About 3 1/2 days, from Elsas flight from the royal castle to the happy end. That's definitely a HUGE problem in a nordic country that has normally probably winters that last 4-5 months or more. So how long does Elsa live her "life of solitude" in her new built ice palace? Watch the movie, it's 3 days.
But the absolute rock bottom of this movie is the behaviour of FOREIGN diplomats, like this "Duke of Weselton", who, as a foreigner, shouts orders to the palace guard to arrest their own queen - and they even try to obey! I also think, the idea of a foreign prince who orders the execution of the rightful queen of the country is a tad to much, isn't it.
Even though I'm on the "C'mon, it's in Norway" side of the debate, I need to acknowledge that, based on the movie itself, it's Norweg-ish and not explicitly Norwegian.
Now, it's indisputable that the animators went to Norway and incorporated full-on Norwegian fashion and architecture into the film. But, they didn't slavishly copy exact Norwegian things. Just like the town is set in Arendelle and not the real town of Arendal, the film is set in a fictionalized Norway; only, they didn't say Norway. And when they put in FEA and the Sommerhus, it was the imagineers' turn to go to Norway so as to make the architecture as really real Norwegian as possible for the sake of the pavilion.
What I don't get is how some people are perfectly fine with Snow White being German and Pinocchio being Italian even though those movies don't explicitly say "Hey, we're in Germany/Italy!"; but, they have trouble with a clearly Norwegian-ish film being in Norway without it saying, "Hey, we're in Norway."
Well, now, the film is saying, "Hey, we're in Norway!"
Not quite grasping Norway as a modern invention eh?
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