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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-12-15 03:37 pm

[ SECRET POST #2539 ]


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(Anonymous) 2013-12-16 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Idk, I think Anna would have come off as terribly ditzy and unsympathetic if we'd focused on Elsa instead of Anna. Seeing Anna as a sad, lonely girl growing up without her favorite companion makes her less like a hyperactive, needy thing of loud awkwardness. Focusing on Elsa would also probably just BURY the audience in angst. When she couldn't even touch her parents anymore, it was heart-wrenching enough. If we'd seen her crying into her pillow about it every night while Anna got warm hugs and snuggles... geez, how depressing.
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[personal profile] saiika_von_maou 2013-12-16 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
I don't really agree with you there; I feel like Anna came off pretty unsympathetic on her own, as the main character. She didn't seem fully-developed to me to begin with. The idea of her wanting a man to marry seemed to come out of nowhere, no matter how lonely she was without her sister.

I had a lot of issues with everything BUT Elsa. It's just my opinion that focusing on her would have made a better movie, but I do stand by it.

(Anonymous) 2013-12-17 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
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Yeah, I get it; if you didn't connect with Anna, then you would feel most of the movie like a drag.

If the focus was Elsa, it would have been a very different movie; would have been a better movie? Don't think so; it wouldn't be worse either, but the tone would shift greatly, and it would appeal to people on a different level. And by appealing to you, it might have lost other people; like a trade off.

So yeah, different people, different appeals. Focusing on Elsa would have made the movie more introspective and it would need a different ending than Anna's love saving the day, cause if we don't get to know Anna and her outlook on things, and isolation and fear being the enemy, the sacrifice would ring more hollow.

It would have been a different movie, with Elsa controlling her powers, much more in tone with an "origin story"; and, this being my opinion on these facts, I prefer that the focus was on Anna's love pulling her sister from a dark place, that's a story that get's told less and thus, more precious to me. I just think that focusing on Elsa could have made a great, albeit more ordinary, movie.