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What Are Your Unpopular Dis Opinions + Mine?
I’m curious to know what you guys are going to say. I don’t have any in mind tbh except for a few. Also wanted to say that my opinions are not meant to offend anyone. These are just harmless opinions, and you can like what you like as long as it’s not hurting you or others.
Here are some of mine:
1. I prefer An Extremely Goofy Movie.
I mostly prefer it because it focuses on Goofy and it’s set in college(I’m going there soon). I also relate to Max’s wish to have his own life. Though, I prefer the first movies soundtrack by a lot.
2. Moana is an okay movie.
It’s a fine movie. The plot was cool, the soundtrack was nice, and the twist was good. Moana is not as outstanding as other Disney movies like Tangled.
3. I prefer Frozen 2 over the first one.
I like the world building and the discovery of Elsa’s powers. It was more interesting than Frozen’s plot.
4. Toy Story 4 was not needed.
In my opinion, Toy Story 3 was a perfect ending to the series. It had heart and solidified the characters as a family. Toy Story 4 kind of ruins that for me.
5. I don’t like Naveen that much.
His character change was a bit too quick and was not as well done as I thought when watching the Princess & the Frog for the first time.
Thanks for reading!
I was just rewatching Frozen II and I have a few thoughts regarding Elsa being the 5th spirit.
When this movie first came out I thought it was stupid that ice was the fifth element, however that isn't exactly true. Elsa is, not ice. Firstly she is a connection between the spirits and humans as she is the only human spirit. Secondly, her powers have some elements of each of the spirits. While her connection to water is obvious, she is also connected to fire, air, and earth. This might be a stretch but her ability to make snow and ice fly is her connection to air. Her ability to melt her creations is her connection to fire, along with her being able to help tame the wild nature of fire. The earth one could be a lot of things but I would say her being able to create structures could be one or how she can create life since there are multiple earth giants, this one I'm still kinda working out. However this kinda connects to the third reason it works. That she has the ability to create life, unlike any of the others. I don't understand the earth giants, but it seems like it's just them representing the live earth. Elsa has created multiple forms of life and have protected them.
But idk. This is all just a theory, a FILM THEORY!!! Thanks for reading.
I was very excited to get electric, and then fire type! Also I'm saying that look like the lizard from Frozen 2 but electric and fire type
pokèmonize yourself!!!!
spin this wheel to see your pokemon type
spin this one to see how you'll look like
(Comfort Characters part 6.) Queen Elsa ❄️
I still haven't figured out how I want to draw Elsa but this is my most recent drawing of her. I remember when I was a kid, when Frozen just came out that everybody was obsessed with Elsa but I liked Anna better, I thought she was the actual main character and hero of the story and that she was cute and funny and that everybody just liked Elsa more because she had cool powers. Then rewatching Frozen for the first time in years on New Years Eve I realized "oh wait, I've literally become Elsa". She's painfully relatable now, I even wrote an essay for my best friend Monique explaining why but probably nobody wants to read that :')
This also might be the last of the comfort characters series thingy because the rest of them are not human, lol
Basic Anna sketch (and by sketch I mean this took me like an hour and four layers). Gonna be honest and say I don’t know what my drawing style is anymore. Also I finally saw Frozen 2 last night so yay :D!!
Thaw
Back to your usual programming — hopeful Elsa sketch. And this time, her braid is on the correct side 🩵❄️
Frozen (c) Disney — fanart by @sunflowers-and-sandwiches . Please do not repost or use my art without permission.
Wait? We’re already up to chapter 6?! It’s Pirate!Hans redemption-ish arc binge reading time!
The Pirate of the Southern Isles - chapter 6
Eng:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/64319587/chapters/166275535
Pol:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/64320010/chapters/166275907
And it comes with a picture!
I finally watched this incredible video and wow — I’m blown away by the professional presentation and detailed research that has been presented! A must watch for anyone who writes canon inspired fan-fiction, or just loves Frozen!
Don’t you just love the screen shots behind each outfit? Now we need a Boys wardrobe edit to complete the set 💚
Anna -> Costume Design (animation edition) DISNEY'S FROZEN • FROZEN FEVER • OLAF'S FROZEN ADVENTURE • FROZEN 2
do not repost/remove my username. Elsa's version
Wow look how much work went into this! An absolutely beautiful Elsa collection 🩵
Elsa -> Costume Design (animation edition) DISNEY'S FROZEN • FROZEN FEVER • OLAF'S FROZEN ADVENTURE • FROZEN 2
do not repost/remove my username. Anna's version
Frozen 2 was kinda good
Also let's petition for Iduna's call to be replaced with the immigrant song. Even the lyrics fit.
Hold up, cushfuddled made that video?? Cushfuddled, the RISD alum who made Warriors: Twin Shadows, an absolute masterpiece of a comic in terms of visual storytelling? Well THAT gave me whiplash to find out Like cushfuddled, I'm an artist, not a musicologist-- but I love looking at the scores for my favorite games and movies, and for Frozen, it was a special kind of musical fixation. So I've been putting off watching that video.
I made leitmotif compilations combing every animated feature and even the Broadway musical. Comparatively observing where the Frozen musics use themes and how. What I learned from doing that is, the way Frozen uses its leitmotifs, it's like the equivalent of consistent writing for music.
The goal is for those leitmotifs to be recognizable, and you can hear callbacks all throughout the film. (Sorcery shows up very often of course, which makes sense given how many magical duels are going down, and how often it's used to represent Elsa.)
But there's also PLENTY new recognizable leitmotifs which F2 introduces-- the spirits all share one (G#, G, E) in addition to each having their own unique one. More on this.
And concerning Atohallan's kulning / Dies irae, it actually does show up a lot, just not in a form that would be glaringly obvious to the audience.
The notes in the siren call are F# F, F# D#. As characters are moving through the mist, or find the ship, you get little inklings of the spirits' theme (that G#GE I mentioned, though sometimes it's transposed to something like E E♭ C or has a few notes changed to sound dissonant and create tension). The general formula though is: a root note, followed by a half-step down, and then three semitones down from that.
The relation of the siren call is that it's a resolved form of this dissonance. The first two notes will have the same relationship as in the spirits' theme but it ends with D#, completing the chord. Almost like Ahtohallan is a higher power presiding over the spirits...
There's a special leitmotif which plays whenever Elsa performs "the next step" in her journey (i.e. taming a spirit). This one begins F# E C. I'm pretty sure anyone who has watched the film can hear the moment when Elsa gets on Nokk's back and there's that triumphant swell of strings as she rides toward the glacier. That same motif plays again when she stops the flood. THAT'S THE ONE I'm talking about. That's beautiful! That's so beautiful actually!
And guess what! It's designed to resolve the spirits' themes (or at the very least Nokk's), and then it leads into Show Yourself, which is itself a resolution of the main theme which all the spirits share
Saying the music is bad because it's not putting up more glaring road signs about the siren's call... takes away the artfulness? It's intelligently written. It's also so fun to catch bits of other songs in parts of the score. The Epilogue does a really good job of weaving them all together, especially with how many new ideas are musically introduced with old ones.
If they're talking about the songs being unmemorable, there are entire videos dedicated to how wonderful SY and TNRT are. But even When I'm Older, which the thumbnail suggests they're using as the butt, messes with the playful instrumentation that Olaf is always known for. His musical entrances are a bit less cohesive, but they always sound like someone tripping up a set of stairs. He has a jazzy showtune feel to all of his songs (When Everything Falls Apart, from the Broadway musical, is so fun) and When I'm Older, I would argue, incorporates that instrumentation at center stage. So if anything they should not be couching their argument in that song, because it uses glaring instrumental choices that make sense for Olaf.
And if anyone who's actually good at music theory wants to articulate better on anything I’ve said, feel free-- I'm going back into hermitage while I try to survive finals
I feel I have to write something about this video critique on Christophe Beck's score of F2, especially since I'm mentioned favorably in the video description. The creator (cushfuddled on Tumblr) had a chat with me a while back on the Frozen 2 soundtrack, as they were creating this video.
Unfortunately, this video gave me great pain as I watched. I couldn't finish it and stopped at about 30minutes.
This is an opinion video, so, we can agree to disagree. The creator did tell me in Tumblr chat that they didn't like the F2 soundtrack, so, fair warning, but I was not prepared for the level of criticism in the video.
The creator said that the score of the film is not memorable - I totally disagree. I could play any of the themes from the score right now on the piano for you, even 5 years after the movie was released. The creator also set a 3 question quiz testing the listener on whether they could identify which 3 out of 12 excerpts of music was from F2, trying to "prove" that the music of F2 is forgettable and unrecognizable - well, I got all 3 questions correct. Easily.
The creator made a big deal about composer Christophe Beck not being "allowed" by Disney to use the 4-note "siren" call in his score because its use had to be reserved for the moments in the plot that the siren calls to Elsa. This is sort of true, Beck has mentioned this in interviews but I don't see the problem. He wasn't "banned" by Disney per se, it's mutual discussions between the filmmakers and the composer about what is best for the film and Beck is just doing his job and what a damn fine job he did!
This is not a personal attack on the creator, it's just my opinions. Agree to disagree, I'm not one to start online wars. The creator did mention me favorably in the description. I do recognize that I am on the other end of the spectrum in that I'm hyper fixated on the music, am a musician myself and I memorize and internalize music effortlessly, and most of all, I LOVE THE SCORE.
Since we might lose Twitter, I had to preserve my favorite thread on Frozen 2 from the amazing Ryan La Sala whose books you should absolutely be reading!
I wanted to share something special I made last year: a compilation of FROZEN LEITMOTIFs. This featured video is Elsa's theme.
You've probably heard this during the critical action scenes of Frozen-- like when she flees the kingdom, or when Weselton's mercenaries attack the ice castle. For those of you wondering what it sounds like when she's not having a mental breakdown, though: Elsa's theme appears in major chords during Elsa & Anna in the original soundtrack (when they are playing as kids), and also the tracks Iduna's Scarf and Reunion during F2! (She is having a mental crisis for most of the first movie, so it really does not sound happy there.)
Please take a look at the leitmotif folder for more leitmotifs and where they appear in the soundtrack (Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, Hans, elemental spirits, songs, etc) This was a lot of work and brainrot, so I hope it gets used and appreciated by other Frozen fans ^-^