Posted on 12/16/2014 9:11:51 PM PST by smokingfrog
No one wants to let go of "Let It Go" more than parents, and "Frozen" director Jennifer Lee has become brutally aware of that fact.
The Oscar-winning director is now apologizing for the phenomenon that swept (and continues to sweep) the nation because adults are fed up with the animated film.
"A year ago, I'd meet people who, when they found out who I was, they'd say, 'Oh, we love the songs! We sing them all the time.' Now they're like, 'Yep, we're still listening to those songs,'" Lee tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I've gone from, 'Thank you,' to, 'Sorry!'"
But Lee, 43, definitely has the last laugh, as "Frozen" has become the highest-grossing animated film of all time, earning $1.27 billion worldwide. And not only did it earn the Oscar for Best Animated Film, it also nabbed another gold trophy for the now-infamous hit "Let It Go."
Parents won't be catching a break anytime soon, though, because Lee is directing "Frozen Fever," an animated short that will appear before Disney's live-action flick, "Cinderella." Chris Buck will team up with Lee to direct the mini-installment that will also feature a new original song written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
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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.
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.
well, when that happens I hope they find a decent Elsa, because nearly every Elsa I have ever seen was ridiculous looking.
Ok ...that was funny stuff.....thanks !
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.
It is a good song. It is parents own fault if they let their kids play it 900 times.
You hit the nail on the head. A terrific musical and I enjoyed it immensely.
I’m guessing that all of us ten who haven’t heard it frequent FR. I take that as a good thing!
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.
lol
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.
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.
Yeah, but how does the songs “stickiness” compare to the Lego Movie’s “Everything is Awesome”?
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.
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.
"Do what thou whilst shall be the whole of the law."
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.”
It’s basically a rehash of “Defying Gravity” from Wicked, which Idina Menzel also made famous.
yeah, they’re making a killing off the merchandising.
I saw this cheap little raggy looking frozen doll - $30.
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