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"Frozen" Director Jennifer Lee Apologizes to Parents for "Let It Go"
NBC Los Angeles ^ | 12-16-14 | Francesca Bacardi

Posted on 12/16/2014 9:11:51 PM PST by smokingfrog

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To: lee martell

I’ve never heard it or heard of it until I read this thread. Unless I’ve heard it in a store while I was shopping or on a commercial. Most of my exposure to pop music comes from shampoo commercials. I find out later a lot of them are actually real songs. I just heard Happy for the first time in my Zumba class this fall, even though I’d heard a lot about it before. It dawned on me after hearing it for several weeks.


41 posted on 12/17/2014 12:03:59 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: lee martell
The secret to Frozen's phenomenal success is that it is a Broadway musical disguised as children's entertainment. The inevitable live version will eclipse Lion King (the musical), I predict.
42 posted on 12/17/2014 12:56:27 AM PST by Company Man ("Be sure you're right, then go ahead." -- Davy Crockett)
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To: lee martell

It’s success was pretty predictable.

They just returned to the original formula for animated movies and didn’t insert any PC crap or black characters.


43 posted on 12/17/2014 1:02:03 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Company Man

well, when that happens I hope they find a decent Elsa, because nearly every Elsa I have ever seen was ridiculous looking.


44 posted on 12/17/2014 1:05:22 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: mlo

Ok ...that was funny stuff.....thanks !


45 posted on 12/17/2014 1:15:35 AM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: smokingfrog
Just came back from WDW.

I estimate 9 out of 10 little girls ("Princesses") there were wearing "Elsa" costumes - at least $70 apiece.

Can't fault the marketing.

We had a good time, saw and heard all the Disney Christmas stuff (Candlelight Procession at Epcot, Osborne Lights at DHS, Gingerbread House at Grand Floridian plus masses of decorations all around the parks).

It's a real joy to know that Disney hasn't been caught in the anti-Christmas movement. Hope it stays that way.

46 posted on 12/17/2014 1:23:26 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim ("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
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To: smokingfrog

It is a good song. It is parents own fault if they let their kids play it 900 times.


47 posted on 12/17/2014 4:53:41 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: Company Man

You hit the nail on the head. A terrific musical and I enjoyed it immensely.


48 posted on 12/17/2014 5:08:24 AM PST by buffaloguy
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To: lee martell

I’m guessing that all of us ten who haven’t heard it frequent FR. I take that as a good thing!


49 posted on 12/17/2014 5:47:36 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: smokingfrog

I have heard it over and over again. My children are not the culprits either. I had to listen to it on several long bus ride field trips. The screaming nasally voice yelling the lyrics really grates on my nerves. I don’t know what it is that makes the people in my house all hate the voice of Idina Menzel, but it is unanimous. We all think she has a terrible voice. She can carry a tune. But I bet I could scratch out a tune on a chalkboard with my fingernails. Lol

There is a clip of Idina Menzel singing ‘Let It Go’ on the Tonight Show. My teen sons love to taunt me and my husband by playing that song when we least expect it. I do like a few other songs in the movie.


50 posted on 12/17/2014 6:15:58 AM PST by petitfour
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To: mlo

lol


51 posted on 12/17/2014 7:44:14 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I particularly liked the twist on the “true love” concept. The movie also pokes fun at the “love at first sight” theme so prevalent in other princess movies.


52 posted on 12/17/2014 8:25:35 AM PST by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: smokingfrog

The song is very well written and powerful (as noted technically upthread). The other thing it has going for it is its placement in the film. Up until that point, you’re pretty much wrapped up in following an “Anna” storyline, but this moment shifts all of that and you realize the narrative is equally about Elsa.

I’ve tried to apply the “turning points” timeline to the movie (almost every movie follows an extremely specific pattern of five turning points at precise run times: 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 90-99% the defines the narrative - missing those points makes the audience subconsciously feel things are rushed or dragging). What I worked out was that if you use a 90 minute run-time, the turning points are about Anna; at 95 minutes, they’re about Elsa. This duality of storyline is why Frozen might be more popular (and with staying power) with audiences than a movie like Tangled, which I thought was in many ways a better movie.


53 posted on 12/17/2014 8:34:56 AM PST by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: smokingfrog

Yeah, but how does the songs “stickiness” compare to the Lego Movie’s “Everything is Awesome”?


54 posted on 12/17/2014 8:37:08 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: dfwgator

Some of the lyrics....

“Don’t let them in, don’t let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know
Well now they know

Let it go, let it go
Can’t hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don’t care what they’re going to say
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway.

It’s time to see what I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong, no rules for me,
I’m free

Let it go, let it go
I am one with the wind and sky
Let it go, let it go,
You’ll never see me cry
Here I stand and Here I’ll stay
Let the storm rage on…”

Yeah, this is what I want my 5 year old to be processing each time she hears the song. “No right, no wrong, no rules for me” Sounds like a LGTBPDQXYZetc primer for pre-adolescents.


55 posted on 12/17/2014 8:44:03 AM PST by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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I’m afraid I’m not up to speed on all that since I don’t have any younger children. I just happen to notice that there is a whole lot of ‘Frozen’ merchandise for sale out there whenever I happen to be shopping.


56 posted on 12/17/2014 8:46:55 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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“No right, no wrong, no rules for me”

"Do what thou whilst shall be the whole of the law."

57 posted on 12/17/2014 8:51:01 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Lots of different ways to read it. In the context of the story, I see it as “on the day she comes of age, she throws off the burden placed on her by her father to conceal her ‘birth defect’ and embrace who she *is* as opposed to who she’s supposed to be.”


58 posted on 12/17/2014 9:04:16 AM PST by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: kevkrom

It’s basically a rehash of “Defying Gravity” from Wicked, which Idina Menzel also made famous.


59 posted on 12/17/2014 9:06:35 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: smokingfrog

yeah, they’re making a killing off the merchandising.

I saw this cheap little raggy looking frozen doll - $30.


60 posted on 12/17/2014 9:08:09 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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