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Frozen Is Cool! Elsa the Snow Queen Rules!

Hello everyone! My name is Moira, and welcome to my Tumblr page! 😁😁😁 I am an ISFJ, a Ravenclaw, and an American with Irish, English, French, and German roots. I love movies and have a deep interest in filmmaking. I am an avid fan of Star Wars, Harry Potter (both the books and films), and Disney, especially of animated ones and including those from Pixar. Since Frozen was released on November 27, 2013, it has become one of my biggest obsessions and passions, which has further strengthened since the release of Frozen II. I originally started this blog with the intention of liking and reblogging posts about Frozen, then in mid-2014, I began making my own works for said film in the form of analyses. I have written over 135 analyses for the original Frozen alone, and I currently have over 50 for Frozen II (some of which talk about both movies). Since then, though, I have branched out for the franchise by making gif sets from both feature films and the two shorts. I have also written analyses for Star Wars and other various Disney animated films, including Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, as well as some for Hey Arnold! and The Powerpuff Girls, which are my favorite cartoons.

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True Colors of Heroes and Villains

Besides using green as an eye color for some villains, Disney animation has also frequently used the colors of blue and red for personification, and symbolization, of good and evil, respectively. This has been frequently done by showing good characters primarily wearing clothes with blue and bad characters primarily wearing clothes with red. These two colors seem fitting because they can correspond to the elements of water (blue) and fire (red). Although water has no color, illustrations often show it as blue, while fire, which is actually orange, occasionally seems red. Fire and water are also, quite literally, natural enemies, just as villains and heroes are. This is because water is healthy (good) to consume, but fire is dangerous (bad), and it can only be destroyed by water.

While it has been noted that several films made after the death of Walt Disney did this trend with colors, such as The Rescuers and Beauty and the Beast, it is possible that this idea started even when Disney was alive, because there are a few films in which good and bad characters wear these colors, too. Here are the films that display this use of color personification (excluding Aladdin, since there are several other examples of it done in that film, which I will explain another time):

In Cinderella, the fairy godmother wears a blue hooded cloak and dress, while Lady Tremaine wears a red dress.
In Alice in Wonderland, Alice wears a blue dress while the Queen of Hearts wears a gown that contains red.
In Peter Pan, Wendy wears a blue nightgown and bow, while Captain Hook wears a red coat.
In The Rescuers, Penny wears a blue overall skirt, while Medusa wears a red dress. She also has fiery red hair, a perfect representation of her hot, fiery temper.
In Beauty and the Beast, Belle is the only person in her town who wears blue, which symbolizes how different she is from everyone else. Later, she encounters the Beast, another misfit, who also wears blue. Likewise, Gaston wears a red shirt.
In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, both Quasimodo and Esmerelda wear blue disguising cloaks are blue. And while his clothes don’t contain the color, the firelight near Frollo (as he plots evilly to himself) reflects off his face as red.

Gifs were made courtesy by my dA buddy disneynumber1fan

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Same Voice, Different Disney Characters

When Walt Disney was alive, many of his animated films (and some released after his death) featured different characters with the same voice actors. Some of these included Eleanor Audley (who voiced Lady Tremaine and Maleficent), Sterling Halloway (whose character voices included Adult Flower, Cheshire Cat, Kaa, and Winnie the Pooh), and Verna Felton (who voiced the Fairy Godmother, the Queen of Hearts, and Flora).

Among my most favorites is Kathryn Beaumont, who was one of the few child voice actors to voice characters who were also children. She is best remembered for voicing two female protagonists: the titular Alice of Alice in Wonderland and Wendy Darling in Peter Pan. Not only did she perform their voices, but she played both characters as a live action reference model for the animators in the two films. Because they share the same voice actress and model, Alice and Wendy also have extremely similar facial features, including blue eyes. Besides that, these two heroines share some other things in common:

Both live in England
Both wear blue clothing (although Alice wears an actual dress, while Wendy wears a nightgown)
Both are preteens (Alice is ten, Wendy is twelve)
Both are very imaginative and adventurous
Both have a pet (Alice has her cat, Dinah, Wendy has her dog, Nana)
Both interact with characters voiced by Heather Angel and Bill Thompson (Angel voices Alice's sister and Wendy's mother, Thompson voices the White Rabbit and Mr. Smee)
Both of them also wake up from what seems like a dream of their respective fantasy worlds, both of which also end in "land" (although it is made very clear that Alice's adventures were just a dream, while it doesn't appear so much that way for Wendy)

Another connection made between the two films is one of the songs. The opening song in Peter Pan, "The Second Star to the Right," actually contains the recycled melody of a deleted song from Alice in Wonderland, known as "Beyond the Laughing Sky."