#arendale

Ice mountain shananigans. I made this Kingsta only because I caught marshmellow in mid air. 

Sora using his power to his advantage.

I like how in Frozen, Elsa’s hair is symbolic of her freedom. At the start of the first movie it is in a tight neat bun and symbolizes her need to fit into the mold her parents made for her. By the end of the first movie and start of the second she wears a messy braid symbolizing how she is starting to be her true self. At the end of the second movie her hair is down and flowing and she is finally 100% who she is supposed, and wants, to be.

There's a river full of memory

whenever I have been asked about my favourite disney princes, I have always said it was Eugene from Tangled...the typical "bad boy image". I mean,men have always been portrayed as Manly,powerful, natural leaders right?

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But come on guys- We are in 2019. Things are changing! Contemporary society is ALOT different with mental health being a particular struggle for both MEN AND WOMEN. Stereotypes aee changing! Girls can be powerful and influential!....

.....and men can be vulnerable and insecure.

THIS IS WHY I LOVE KRISTOFF.

The release of Frozen 2, I forgot how much I ADORE Kristoff as a character. I missed him. He is such a goofball,living life with his best friend Sven.

The character arc in the new movie shows how Disney are making relevant content, appealing to EVERYONE. Kristoff is struggling to find himself and express how he feels throughout the whole movie...surrounded by very powerful women (one LITERALLY being able to kill him instantly) on a journey 'Into the Unknown'.

Kristoff (Potrayed by Jonathan Groff - a true icon) was FINALLY given the opportunity to sing in Frozen 2 with a song called Lost In The Woods- a song dedicated to Kristoff struggling with his emotions! A powerful 80s Ballad showing how this MALE character is feeling VULNERABLE- something not shown in movies often as well as having masculine traits (Kristoff is a hard worker with a physically demanding job).

In summary.....Disney is destroying the stereotype and I live for it!👏

So I’ve heard a lot of people saying the wave not crashing into Arendale at the end of Frozen 2 was a cop out, and I want to address that. I personally don’t think of it as a cop out for wrecking the kingdom at all. I think it was completely necessary for Elsa to save it for her character arc for many reasons.

We can see throughout the movie that Elsa is becoming more confident and sure in her powers; she’s not experimenting with them like she was in the first movie. There’s also a general theme of maturing and growing into who you are in the film as seen with both her and Olaf’s iconic commentary (I think this is especially important as the original audience of the first movie has grown up some and is dealing with the struggles that come with that- I know it really resonated with me at least). With that being said, I think Elsa’s stopping the wave shows her powers having matured. Not only have her powers grown in that she is capable of creating such a huge blockade of ice to stop the wave, after learning more about the magic of the elements she has realized how to work with the water and not against it. She creates the blockade not just to halt the water, but shift the direction of the waves as opposed to just freezing the water- this shows she has a greater understanding now of how to work with the elements around her.

I also think it’s important to point out how this is her last act as queen (if you’re not counting abdicating the throne to Anna). This is her last attempt as queen to protect her kingdom, further showing her growth as a ruler and her dedication to Arendale. After years of worrying that she wasn’t the queen she was supposed to be, she can leave the throne knowing she’s saved Arendale one last time.

Another important point to touch on is how there was no need for Arendale to be destroyed just for their culture to clash with the Northoldra, and there’s an important message in that. Something that they could have done is have Arendale be wiped out so then the people of the kingdom would have to move in with the Northoldra and learn to co-exist. While this would have been a nice message about cultural interconnectivity, I found the actual message the film sent to be more refreshing. Instead of being forced to intermix, both peoples can now learn to co-exist separately, but with lots of interacting and harmony. I think if anything, destroying Arendale would have been a cop out just to get the two peoples to interact more. Now they can grow a healthy relationship between the two worlds with the Northoldra appreciating Arendale for their queen and princess releasing the forest’s trap and Arendale appreciating Northoldra for returning some of their lost citizens and their royalty having some Northoldra ancestry. I’m not smart enough to analyze this much further, but I really appreciate what was being said with this.

Gale the wind elemental

Elsa the water elemental

Elsa accidentally wakes the mountain guardian

Southern Isle soldiers

Honeymaren doesn’t trust the group