Or about blooming time Disney!
Watch the trailer here.
Well, almost a full year since I last promised I would post again, here I am! We'll catch up on that later.
So last night I watched Frozen, (massively late to the party I know, but we'll get on to that later too!) this morning I purchased the soundtrack with my iTunes voucher (thank you Beardface) and drove into work belting out Let It Go on repeat.I'm not going to even pretend that I'm not a huge Disney fan, and I'm certainly not going to apologise for it. I know the evils, I know all about the commercialisation of childhood, I studied it at university for Pete's sake (I did actually write my dissertation on Disney) and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I know many argue that Disney has dictated an illusion of childhood for many, but for me it created a childhood of jumping from sofas playing Peter Pan (1953), the pleasure in singing as loud as you can instead of screaming at someone, and taught me from a very young age the importance of good storytelling. I think my fascination for film and plot all comes from my love of Disney as a child and is probably the reason I write, and why this blog comes to you now.
As I'm sure you can tell already, I really loved this film. It was the final conclusion to my hopes for Tangled (2010) and The Princess and the Frog (2009). The realisation of the return to the Disney model. The last of which I haven't seen since Mulan (1999) when I was still pretty young.
Now, being a 'Princess' film (or more importantly in this case, a 'Queen' film), Frozen is of course rife with gender politics which I may touch on, but I'm pretty sure every other reviewer would have done so already. Also, I have already dedicated a whole dissertation to gender politics in Disney films so I've done that to death for now. Therefore I'm going to look at it more as an analysis of the Disney model.
As I'm sure you can tell already, I really loved this film. It was the final conclusion to my hopes for Tangled (2010) and The Princess and the Frog (2009). The realisation of the return to the Disney model. The last of which I haven't seen since Mulan (1999) when I was still pretty young.
Now, being a 'Princess' film (or more importantly in this case, a 'Queen' film), Frozen is of course rife with gender politics which I may touch on, but I'm pretty sure every other reviewer would have done so already. Also, I have already dedicated a whole dissertation to gender politics in Disney films so I've done that to death for now. Therefore I'm going to look at it more as an analysis of the Disney model.
