DancingCrab wrote:Mach Full Force wrote:I have mixed feelings about this. I'm happy about Frozen winning, but I'm genuinely disappointed Let It Go did so as well. Say what you will, but to me it had no point even being a song and it didn't deserve that Oscar.
Lasseter said on the red carpet on MTV that
Let it Go changed the drive of the movie and Elsa's character completely from the original intention, so you can say you don't like the song all you want, but to say that it had no point is just plain wrong.
Actually, what I meant is that it was pointless in the context of
the story, in that I think they could have done so much more with that scene rather than just taking the easy route and making it a second-rate Defying Gravity. It could have been a great moment to quiet down from all the hustle of the coronation and let the visual storytelling do its job, conveying the necessary emotions solely through a powerful piece of score and Elsa's facial expressions. But what they did was nothing beyond shameless fanservice -- "Look at the pretty ice effects! Look at this pretty CGI attempt at reproducing Cinderella's transformation! See her hips, how they swish! Dreamworks face, SO MUCH SASS!"
This is the exact same problem I had with
the Legend War scene from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger; it does nothing to move the story forward and could have just as easily remained offscreen, but it's still shown just for the sake of making people cream their pants. Plus, without it, there would be an added surprise factor to the scenes that come afterwards, like Olaf showing Anna and Kristoff the way to Elsa's ice castle or Anna seeing Elsa in her new dress for the first time -- these scenes don't have as much of an impact when we've seen Elsa creating them in front of our very eyes.
They could still keep Demi's version of the song in the credits (a la If I Never Knew You), but in the context of the movie, the scene was something we did not need to see.
