SPOILERS FOR AN ALMOST-THREE-YEAR-OLD MOVIE TO FOLLOW
In Frozen, from the time Elsa freaks out, freezes the kingdom, and goes into exile, until the time the story is resolved with the heartwarming ending, how much time passes? I’d never given it much thought, but to me it seems like it couldn’t have been more than a few days. A couple weeks, tops.
However, the first entry in this article presumes that Elsa’s Surprise Winter lasted months, if not years.
What do you think?
What article?
Yes, few days or a week at most. If it went on for years, everyone would have starved.
I don’t think the article is claiming it lasted weeks or years. You can freeze to death a lot quicker than that if you don’t have firewood and it’s 20 below for a few days. Especially babies & old people, as the article claims.
I always thought it was a single day. Elsa freezes everything, night falls, Anna goes up the mountain, bad guy goes up the mountain, Else is captured, it’s dawn, and the situation is resolved.
I agree the article doesn’t say it was weeks or years. The freeze would just kill babies or old folks, who could die in a few days.
I had the impression it was for a few days or at most a couple of weeks.
The article puts the worst possible interpretation on the other examples, too.
Yeah, from the coronation and it all going pear-shaped until the resolution, it’s like a day and a half total. Which is a shame, as that’s barely enough time to figure out what’s going wrong let alone pronounce impending doom from the consequences.
I just want to know how she eats if everything she touches freezes.
I thought it was about 60 hours.
Day 1: Coronation Day. Elsa flips out.
Night 1: “Let it Go,” Anna meets Hans.
Day 2: Anna goes to the ice castle and meets Elsa.
Night 2: Elsa gets captured, Anna and Hans hang out with trolls.
Day 3: Elsa breaks free, Anna almost dies, story is resolved.
So the climax of the story would be the morning of the third day.
And now that you’ve figured that out, you can be a Cracked writer too! Seriously, that’s like 90% of their articles - put the worst possible interpretation (or misinterpretation) on the source material.
She’s not King Midas.
nitpick: Kristoff, not Hans
But, otherwise looks spot on.
But didn’t they establish that true love fixes anyone who is harmed by freezing?
I mean, I know they only showed someone who was actually frozen, but didn’t it reverse the damage? Someone who just got cold would be worse.
And even old people and babies can survive a few days without food.
This bugged me from the start. It was never explained to my satisfaction why everyone assumed the winter was eternal right out of the gate. There seems to be no reason to think that was the case.
I got the impression that the whole story (from coronation onward, not the depictions of childhood) was only over the course of a couple days.
A person could live on Popsicles. And for Elsa, everything is a Popsicle. (Unless she puts on gloves…? I’m no expert on the Frozen world rules.)
The new queen turns out to be some kind of ice wizard, who freezes the entire country in the middle of summer, then disappears. Why would you assume it wouldn’t be eternal? If nothing else, it’s prudent to try to find her and get her to reverse it, as opposed to kicking back and hoping everything thaws out soon.
That’s less relevant than the question of whether she’s an avatar of Felix Hoenikker.
Disney characters have staggering good health considering the time period/technology level,maybe Troll Tooth Whitening and Strengthening™?
I’d heard in another Cracked article that she was originally to me more evil, like the Snow Queen from the original Hans Christian Anderson tale. Get this, her dress was supposed to be made of live ermines. Then they made her good and lost the living dress.
I’m like, the heck, she can be as good as she needs to be, she can still have a cool dress, made of live ermines, scampering all over, always keeping her clothed with quick tail motions covering gaps, who wouldn’t want to see that animated?