Frozen Perfectly Flipped The Oldest Disney Princess Fairytale Trope

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Disney’s 2013 movie Frozen broke many records, but one detail, in particular, set the animated movie apart from previous Disney princess movies as Frozen completely flipped one of the oldest fairytale tropes. Although Brave was the first to do something similar, the 2012 animated movie set in medieval Scotland was produced by Pixar. And while Brave’s Merida (Kelly Macdonald) paved the way for Frozen’s Anna (Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel) to invert one of the most used fairytale tropes in Disney Princess movies, its reception was nowhere near as big as Frozen’s, which became the top-grossing animated movie of all time when it was released.

While Frozen wasn’t the first Disney princess movie to focus on family, as the ‘90s Disney Classics such as Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, and Pocahontas can attest, it was the first to feature two sisters as protagonists. Elsa and Anna’s familial relationship was at the front and center of Frozen despite the distance between the two for most of the movie. Considering the centrality of their sisterly bond, it’s only fitting that their relationship is instrumental in stopping Arendelle’s eternal winter in Frozen’s climax — and it was this detail that sets Frozen apart from previous Disney princess movies, whose protagonists’ happily-ever-after almost always included a prince in the picture.

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Unlike its predecessors, Frozen had romantic love, but it wasn’t that type of love that led the main story to a conclusion. While Kristoff’s (Jonathan Groff) love for Anna brought her to Arendelle, it was Anna’s act of true love and selflessness that made Elsa understand how to fix Arendelle’s eternal winter and thawed