FrankLapidus
Well-Known Member
If Frozen was an adaptation of The Snow Queen then I might have an issue with the changes that have been made. But to me it isn't, The Snow Queen has basically become a jumping-off point for the story that has evolved into Frozen, the film stopped being an adaptation a long time ago and is now more loosely "inspired by..." rather than "adapted from...". And I can't say I blame them, Disney have spent decades trying to adapt The Snow Queen without success. The studio back in Walt's time couldn't find a way to make it work on more than one occasion and gave up, Michael Eisner favoured a Legally Blonde-style romantic comedy that never saw the light of day. Some stories just don't translate easily or well to film and this one has given Disney problems for decades. Marketing and merchandise are important factors in filmmaking today but I personally don't think that they are the sole reasons for the changes that have been made in Frozen because of the long history of The Snow Queen at the studio, if it were an easier story to adapt then it would have probably been produced and released by Disney years ago. But that's just my view.
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