Analysis of the Movie Frozen by Dani Colman

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Dani Colman talks about many ideas in her article that show how the new movie Frozen does not show realistic feminist ideals as everyone may think it might. Her article is very opinionated, and seemingly biased or exaggerated. Instead of embracing how Disney has taken a step in the right direction with the movie when trying to embrace new societal ways of thinking, she attacks how it does not affectively show all of values held by feminists; what she fails to overlook, however, is the idea that the movie was not meant to be a feminist movie, but rather was made to entertain young children—it just included aspects that Disney thought was progressive and compliant to today’s society. Colman does not seem to be validated with her ideas on Frozen; however, her opinions and issues about how Frozen may not be that great of a movie are easily arguable, and even comparable to other movies. One movie in particular that comes to mind would be the Harry Potter series, which was also meant for entertainment purposes, but could be taken both positively and negatively in regards to feminism.
To begin, the article is definitely long enough to take multiple ideas from, but one of the ideas that Colman discusses that seem to encompass the overall meaning of her article would be the description of the two main characters in the movie, Anna and Elsa. The main argument that Colman has is that the two characters really are not as strong as people make them out to be. Colman focuses mostly on the protagonist, Anna, for most of the article, and barely discusses Elsa, though the concepts that she thinks of the two sisters are quite similar. She describes Anna as being beautiful, though not in a positive way, clumsy, unintelligent, self-absorbed, vain, u...

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... that may be controversial in comparison to older Disney films, any viewer should be proud of the fact that Disney is willing and able to not conform to the same themes as before, and actually pursue a new concept. It is because of this that Colman’s article seems to be just opinionated without many facts to actually prove her points.

Works Cited

Buck, C. (Director), Lee, J. (Director), Andersen, H. A. (Writer), & Morris, S. (Writer) (2013). Frozen[Theater].
Colman, D. (2014, February 7). The problem with false feminism (or why “frozen” left me cold). Retrieved from https://medium.com/disney-and-animation/7c0bbc7252ef
TV Tropes Foundation, LLC Staff. (n.d.). Useful notes: The bechdel test. Retrieved from http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest
Wikia Staff & Helpers. (2014). Disneywiki: Anna. Retrieved from http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Anna

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