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The answer came in some concept art shown to the Lopezes. In the scene, a young Anna and young Elsa sit on the floor, their worlds separated by a door. Needless to say, this lead to ‘Do You Want to Build A Snowman?’ which had its own struggles to remain in the film. but before we got the version every one knows, there was another version with different lyrics and a very different tune which we heard a demo of — ‘I don’t think the director even heard this,’ Bobby added. The original is an upbeat tune sung to a tune I can’t help but liken to Sammy Davis Jr.’s ‘The Candy Man.’ The tune, composed by Bobby, was ‘kind of sweet, but [wasn't] emotional enough,’ Kristen explained — she had a different tune in mind. Interestingly enough, the lyrics of the original song seem to fit the tune of the film’s version pretty well. This portion of the program was closed with a live performance of ‘Do You Want to Build A Snowman?’ sung by three of Poly Prep’s students, including the Lopez’s daughter, Katie, who reprised her role as the youngest Anna.

But they wanted something extra for Olaf — what if Olaf loved warmth? Before ‘In Summer,’ there was another Olaf song, which the Lopezes seemingly apologetically wrote. They had not found the naivete of Olaf, they remained fixated on his annoying aspect. The result was a Caribbean-inspired song called ‘Hot Hot Ice,’ for which we heard a demo of the cocky Olaf sing about how his ‘snow-ninja technique’ would leave the snow smokin’. The demo was followed up by a live performance of ‘In Summer’ as performed by the Olaf puppet with the assistance of Mazzarino.

And now it’s time for a riddle: how many ways can Elsa send an icy blast through Anna’s heart? The answer: at least three. It all depends on what the current story idea is and the subsequent song that plays out between them at Elsa’s ice palace. Originally, Elsa was a villain and ends up kidnapping Anna during her wedding and summoning her to the palace where Elsa ends up intentionally freezing Anna’s heart so she would empathize with Elsa’s plight. For this version of the film, the Lopezes wrote a song called ‘Cool With Me,’ which was performed live with Kristen assuming the role of Elsa and Butler as Anna. This was, by far, one of my favorite Frozen songs yet and it’s a shame it couldn’t find its way into the film due to the story changes. I can only hope it gets reworked and inserted into the Broadway musical somehow. The song basically starts out as a conversation between an Elsa willing to bury the hatchet and an uncertain, wary Anna and features verses such as the following:

E: I wanna make peace between you and me A: Oh yeah?
A: You got a funny way of showin’ it!
A: I invite you to my wedding E: And I came, are you forgetting?
A: Then you trash the church and freeze the guests and ruin it!

E: Elsa’s dead, now instead, you’ll address me as the Snow Queen A: Nah, no way!
E: I got a gift, I’m a superstar A: And your point is?
E: That people should revere me!
A: Yes, you’re really quite the showman with these mean and mutant snowmen —
E: Hey, if no one wants to love me, they can FEAR me!

E: We’ve been falling out for way too long
E: So let’s forget I’m right and forget you’re wrong
E: Okay! Let’s try forgivin’, maybe we could live in — harmony
E: We could really have a ton of fun
E: If you could just chill out! and say what’s done is done
E: Okay! Let’s not be bitter and that’s why I am liter-ally
E: Gonna make you cool with me!

Perhaps more epically, the song also features a rap of sorts performed by Elsa in which she rattles off the names of her henchmen that are ‘cool with’ her.



By all accounts, the trolls were ‘last minute’ when it came to Frozen’s development. As a given example, ‘Fixer Upper,’ according to Kristen, was recorded in July of 2013, for the film’s release in November. Still, like many other elements in the film, the trolls went through several versions, as did their respective song. Throughout the changes, however, there were two key elements that needed to be addressed: first, the song must depict the moment in which Anna and Kristoff fall in love and second, it must convey the film’s message, which of course changed throughout the process. According to Bobby, one person at Disney said the song had to be ‘both a floor wax and a dessert topping.’

In the first iteration, the trolls were mop-topped in a ‘Burning Man meets hot springs environment’ with the film’s message of heart vs. head, feeling vs. thinking. The result was a boy-band type song whose demo was played. Personally, to me, the song sounded like it was something straight out of Labyrinth. Bobby noted Disney’s response to the song was ‘we love the energy of that song,’ which Kristen decoded to ‘when they say that, you know you’re going to have to go back to the drawing board.’

Story revisions transformed the trolls into magic creatures that live in an underground cave with the new message about seeing things from another’s perspective. This was a particular treat for me because I have heard Kristen talk about ‘Someone Else’s Shoes’ multiple times before, noting it always ended up with John Lasseter wondering how foot fungus made its way into the film, but I had never heard it until it was played for us in demo form. The gist of the song is that the lead troll instructs Anna and Kristoff to walk in each other’s shoes and he’s not making a metaphor. The song also gets in rhyming ‘reindeer poop’ and ‘tomato soup’ — at least until Anna and Kristoff exchange shoes, in which case it’s now ‘reindeer soup’ and ‘tomato poop.’ After the film found its final message of love being stronger than fear, ‘Fixer Upper’ was born. The sequence from the film was shown with proud mother Kristen explaining how youngest daughter Annie — now in kindergarten — was in nursery school when she delivered her ‘I don’t see no ring’ line, to the audible amazement of the audience.

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Walter wrote:I want that Spell Card!

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Walter wrote:I want that Spell Card!

What game is that card from and where do you get them?

I'd love for someone with some influence to make a stink. I eventually caved and bought the UK version of the 3D Blu-ray (same with Maleficent). I would not have purchased either movies at all if it wasn't for that option (and even then, it was with much hesitation- for instance, I don't get any Disney Movie Rewards points, which are very important to me). I hate what Disney is doing with home 3D in the U.S. right now.

blackcauldron85 wrote:The Story of Frozen (the making-of documentary) is available on Amazon Prime:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00OFQ7X1 ... SY200_QL40

Retailers will carry twice as much Frozen merchandise this winter than last winter when the film was released.