Frozen Revisited. I watched "Frozen" for a second time with the granddaughters and was irritated by the lack of foreshadowing that Hans was going to turn into the villain.
Frozen Re-Explained Six months later, I ran across an article that explained the lack of foreshadowing to me. However, support for my idea was still rather half-hearted.
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Two PC Spirits A competition between Indigenous Culture and the combined weight of Anthro professors, alt-religion, and gay people. At the time the answer was only partly in. The conflict has now been resolved by the latter coalition insisting that the Indigenous Peoples did too have two-spirit gender- switching people which was very modern of them. That the various tribes insist this was not so is simply ignored. The Indians lose again.
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I went down a bit of a rabbit hole digging up Last's article about "Frozen" from the wayback machine, and some of his supporting material, and I'm still not convinced the sudden switch of Hans was entirely a rewrite problem, at least in the way it was presented. After reading about the fairy tale characters and how they map into the movie, it doesn't seem to me that Hans really needs to be evil for the ending to work though I do see how eliminating the Troll prophecy makes having him trying to kill Elsa harder to justify. However, I think it could have just as easily been Anna reluctantly agreeing that Elsa has to be eliminated to save Arendelle, Hans leading the attack, and then Anna changing her mind and following him with the idea she can reason with her sister, and saving Hans by absorbing one of Elsa's attacks which then breaks the whole spell. I guess my point remains that "We have to have a villain I guess we'll have to flip Hans 180 degrees" just doesn't seem credible. There are other ways they could have gotten to a similar ending.
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