Frozen
The Snow Queen is good story, you should read it!Anna is an older version of Gerda, the protagonist of Han Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen, the inspiration for Frozen. Except Anna is a princess, knew roughly where she was going, and had money to offer people who helped her. Gerda was a penniless commoner who wandered aimlessly from place to place, getting an extraordinary level of help by using pity alone.* And by talking to animals. It’s hard to believe Disney left that part out.
Gerda didn’t have any siblings; she was on a quest to find her childhood friend, a boy named Kai. He didn’t hide on the other side of a door; he was just a jerk. But he had a solid excuse – a demon mirror infection in his eye and heart.* The shards of the demon mirror cause him to interpret everything good and beautiful as ugly and bad, and vice versa. As a result, the demonic Snow Queen looks beautiful to him. Then she carries him off, because why not? To create Elsa, Disney merged Kai and the Snow Queen together.* Now you see how Disney got into the weird position of trying to make Anna fix Elsa’s emotional problems. Gerda saved Kai from the Snow Queen, so Anna needed to save Elsa… from herself.
So where did Kristoff come from? Clearly from some Disney executive who thought the movie needed more testosterone. A boy who gets rescued by a girl? Not adequate. Instead of a mountain man, Gerda meets a series of women. First an enchantress who tries to make Gerda forget Kai and stay as her daughter, then an unusually helpful princess, followed by a spoiled robber girl who keeps her captive for a while, and finally a couple wise women who help her get ready to face the Snow Queen. To find Kai, Gerda receives direction from some flowers, a pair of crows, a couple doves, and a reindeer who takes her most of the way to the Snow Queen’s palace on its back.
Though the kingdom is never threatened with eternal winter in the original, both stories end in pretty much the same way – with Anna/Gerda using the power of love to defeat both the literal and metaphorical cold. On top of a frozen body of water even. Except in the original story, the lake was inside the Snow Queen’s palace, and called the Mirror of Reason, but was broken into thousands of pieces, and yet was stable enough to rest a throne on, and the finest mirror in the world.*
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