DIRECTOR'S CUT: Psychology of a Hero: ELSA
Added 2022-09-21 04:25:41 +0000 UTCElsa shuts people out because she doesn't want to hurt the people she loves - especially her sister Anna. But shutting them out is what actually ends up hurting them.
Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright take a look at Disney's iconic ice queen Elsa and her transformation as she learns to face her fears, accept herself, and open her heart. In both Frozen movies, Elsa pushes people away to try to protect them, and has to learn that by actually letting people in and learning to trust herself and others, she can not only harness her powers but also repair and build healthy relationships.
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"This reminds me of all the introverts during COVID." Yes, accurate. My husband is a massive introvert, and he was so happy during quarantine haha.
SaucyJTD
2024-05-19 23:22:24 +0000 UTCI loved the sequence during “Show Yourself” — right around the discussion of wardrobe and its function. Elsa has never looked more free than she does in that moment. I related VERY strongly to Elsa in the first movie, as the eldest sister who did watch her sister(s) make poor life choices. Love this episode bunches. 💙💙
IndyDraws
2024-05-15 14:46:38 +0000 UTCInterest fact about the Frozen Snow animation…Disney developed a 3D effect simulator to create realistic snow effects. This simulator references real-world snow and uses computer calculations for each snow flake and also to simulate how snow acts at different weights, masses, and sizes. While elements like the snow magic are animated using a different system, the physical snow effects are all simulated using real-world math and physics simulation system that they named Matterhorn. (It was modified and use to simulate Moan’s water effects as well actually) This simulation was so authentic that it was used to solve the Dyatlov Pass Incident mystery. This incident involved a group of college students who died under mysterious circumstances while camping, leading to various theories ranging from human intervention, big foot, military weapon testing, to extraterrestrial attacks. The case went cold (pun intended) for years until a group investigating cold cases saw Frozen and realized the accuracy of The Matterhorn Simulator could be the key to proving or disproving the theory’s around the incident. They contacted Disney and worked with the animators to rerun simulations based on the terrain where the incident happened. This collaboration led to the revelation that the students were killed by a flash avalanche. The Disney effects simulator with a bit of tweaking was able to return the weather patters of that night and sure enough they were able to cause a flash avalanche to happen and where able to calculate the force the student would have experience which explain the wounds and later causes of there deaths. Not what Disney animators problem expected but pretty interest how a children movie ended up solving an unsolved mystery almost 60 years later.
Chad Dewey
2024-04-02 13:58:13 +0000 UTCalso, yes she is totally an omega level mutant
Alex Boynton
2024-01-26 18:32:54 +0000 UTCI can totally see where you’re coming from with their parents, but I disagree. i think that they still made a mistake, but it’s redeemable by their actions in the 2nd movie. the reason their ship went down was because they were looking for atehollan. they were looking for the reasoning behind her powers which could help them figure out how to best live with their situation. still, they shouldn’tve done that to them.
Alex Boynton
2024-01-26 18:32:27 +0000 UTCAlso my husband loves Elsa and says she’s an Omega Level Mutant.
Stefan and Erin S
2023-12-12 21:16:24 +0000 UTCI’ve run out of things to watch today so I’m revisiting the old catalogue to see if I missed any director’s cuts from before I was a patron. My 4yo daughter is obsessed with Frozen and I’ve seen it exactly ten billion times (don’t fact check that). I can’t listen to Do You Want To Build A Snowman anymore without crying. It breaks my heart that Elsa and Anna were separated from each other in a way that neither of them could really understand and then spent their childhoods alone, without that love and companionship that could have made their lives so much more enriched. I’m not sure if I will ever forgive their parents for doing this to them because of their own fear. It’s irredeemable to me. They needed each other so much and had to wait so long to reunite. It’s so cruel. (And I’m aware it’s fiction, but still. Seeing my own small children love each other just makes this situation too hard to think about.) Also I try not to listen to Let It Go in the car because it makes me drive too fast. -Erin
Stefan and Erin S
2023-12-12 21:09:25 +0000 UTC
