Frozen 3 Needs To Avoid Repeating The Same Elsa Threat Again
If Disney decides to make a Frozen 3, it needs to stop making Elsa a threat to other characters. Her destructive power forms a central part of the plot in the two previous Frozen movies. It brings about the inciting incident for each film as well: in Frozen, Elsa plunges Arendelle into an eternal winter, while in Frozen 2, she awakens elemental spirits that wreak havoc on the kingdom. However, the franchise needs to avoid falling back on this trope if it wants to move forward.
The ending of Frozen seems to suggest that Elsa has finally found peace, after struggling to control her powers and inner demons – including her guilt over the harm those powers may cause – throughout the movie. Frozen 2 develops the narrative from the first movie, providing answers about her powers and revealing Elsa's role as the Fifth Spirit – a bridge between humans and the natural world. However, the inner peace Elsa found in Frozen continues to be disrupted throughout the sequel as she longs to learn more about her powers and her past, unable to shake off the sense that she’s meant for some greater purpose. After asking for answers in the beginning of the movie, she loses control of her powers, causing destruction and forcing the evacuation of Arendelle.
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Elsa doesn’t seem to feel guilty in Frozen 2 about the chaos that she’s unleashed on her people. Her loss of control with no sense of contrition causes a rift between the Elsa at the end of Frozen and the Elsa of Frozen 2. It is because of this that Frozen 3 needs a new conflict and should avoid making Elsa’s destructive power the center of the story yet again. A more prosaic reason for the change is that it
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