Film Theory: Disney's FROZEN - Anna and Elsa Are NOT SISTERS?!

Take a break from building your snowman. Because for the first time in a long time we're doing a

theory

about Frozen! Hello Internet, welcome to Film Theory! Do you know the Frozen story you thought you knew? Well get ready to 'let it go' because today's

theory

will change everything you thought you knew about the adorable Anna and the incomparable Adeledazeem. Now Disney Animation has gotten into a fun little habit over the last few years of dropping hidden Easter eggs in their movies. Make it seem like some, or maybe even all, take place in a larger connected universe.

And since Frozen is the animated movie that makes the most money, well, they've connected Frozen to a lot of other movies. There are many other theories floating around about The Little Mermaid and Tarzan; but the connection that interests me most today is between Frozen and Tangled. And before you run away thinking you've heard this because of course there are things on the Internet that connect Tangled and Frozen, hear me out. Because this is a completely new finding that I think will change the way you watch these two movies. Yes, they're movies about long-lost magical princesses, but the evidence in both points to a big secret about the relationship between Anna, Elsa, and Rapunzel.

Specifically, Anna and Elsa are not the

sisters

in these movies. That's right, Anna and Elsa: not

sisters

! I mean, is that really hard to believe? Look at the family portrait. One of these things is not like the others. Someone looks a lot like the milkman. No! They are not Anna and Elsa the sisters, but Elsa and Rapunzel. And sure! You may be shaking your head now, but the support for this theory is real. From the history of the movies to Disney's own information. And if you stick with me, I think you'll agree. The first evidence we have comes from Disney itself.

That they have slipped in bits of information about the story of Frozen since the movie came out. First, Frozen writer and director Jennifer Lee confirmed a great point in a Reddit AMA about the King and Queen... uhh... King and Queen... What are their names? Agnar and Iduna? Actually? Scandinavia, we need to talk about their naming conventions here. In any case, while Agnarr and Iduna are lost at sea, they will not be setting out on an ancient 3-hour journey, but will instead be sailing to attend a wedding. It was also confirmed that this is not just any wedding they are going to attend: it is Rapunzel's wedding from the end of Tangled.

That's huge! We already have a solid connection between the

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s in two senses: space and time. Looking at a map, this makes a lot of sense based on where these movies take place. It's pretty well established that Frozen's Arendelle location is a hybrid of Arednal and Bergen Norway. In fact, it's so well known that the Norwegian area of ​​Epcot was completely overrun after the movie premiered and Disney organized special Frozen tours in Norway to handle all the crazy Elsa fans storming the country. Probably the only time in Disney history that people were actually excited to visit Epcot.

Tangled likely takes place just around the corner, across the North Sea, in modern-day Germany, in a fictional town called Corona. This coincides with where the Rapunzel story was originally based, as it was one of Grimm's fairy tales. So they're definitely close enough to meet on their real yachts or real ice barges, I guess. I don't know what you guys are doing so far north. We also know when they connect on time. Based on hints Disney has already given, we know that these

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s are three years apart. Closer than any other Disney Princess timeline. We start with extra scenes at the end of Tangled.

Where Rapunzel and Flinn get married and begin their happily ever after. We know at this point that Agnarr and Iduna are supposed to be on their way to a wedding, Rapunzel's wedding, but they never make it. When the main story of Frozen begins, we are specifically told that it takes place three years after the shipwreck. Which means exactly three years after the Tangled wedding. What's fascinating is that this moment plays out in both the movie and real life at the same time. In the movies they throw themselves. The release of Tangled was on November 24, 2010. Frozen was released almost exactly 3 years later, on November 27, 2013, and picks up exactly three years later, as soon as you start the movie.

The timelines happen both in the real world and in their own universe, which is brilliant and also not by chance. We know, according to the Wikis, that Rapunzel is 18 years old after his movie. He marries shortly after appearing at the castle even though Flinn says it took him many years. "After years and years of asking" If you need proof of that, Rapunzel already says she's lying on that line: "Eugene" If the wedding had lasted longer, Rapunzel's hair would have grown And unfortunately a delayed wedding It also means that Pascal wouldn't be at the wedding party... He would be dead, according to the average lifespan of veiled chameleons.

Sorry, it's called the circle of life. *Blow Raspberry* So Rapunzel is 18 at the wedding AND when Frozen happens 3 years later. We know that Elsa is 21 years old. In short, some simple math tells us that Elsa and Rapunzel are the same age. And I mean exactly the same age. They were born at the same time. They're twins. Fraternal not identical obviously. But now I know you're saying that's just ridiculous. Yes, the movies are connected and yes, they overlap and stuff, but there's no way the two are twins, right? Mistaken! In fact it is completely possible! To demonstrate, I'll start with some good, old-fashioned biology.

Loyal theorists know that some of my favorite theories here and in game theory are supported by genetics and this is no exception. One of the reasons people often assume that Elsa HAS to be Agnarr and Iduna's daughter is that her eyes are blue just like her mothers. Now, the genetics around eye color are a little more complicated than what we were taught in 8th grade science class, but to roughly simplify, to prove the point, both blue and green eyes are recessive. , so you must have two light eye alleles to have blue eyes. child. When one parent has green eyes and the other blue as seen in Frozen.

The chances of Anna or Elsa individually having blue eyes are 50%. Good for the Scandinavian recessive gene pool. but it's just as likely genetically that Elsa belongs to the King and Queen of Tangled. Who I couldn't for the life of me find their names, it turns out Agnarr and Iduna aren't the only ones with blue and green eyes. The Tangled King and Queen are another royal couple with blue and green eyes. Strange coincidence, right? Maybe... Maybe not... At least this means that genetically they are just as likely as the royal couple from Frozen to end up with a blue-eyed baby like Elsa.

But that is not all! Beyond the eyes, we can also tell that they are twins due to the fact that they are both left-handed. 22% of twins are left-handed, more than double the world average. We see Elsa doing the important things in the movies left-handed. Her main hand for shooting ice is on the left. She creates Olaf with her left hand. She touches her face to the left. She unties his left braid. her and even she tries to save Anna with a crucial left-handed ice attack. It's a pretty similar story on the Tangled side. Rapunzel is definitely more ambidextrous than Elsa and does things with both hands.

However, he shows a preference for his left hand in crucial activities. Especially the ones where he has to act on instinct. He paints and brushes his hair with his right and left hands, but in case of emergency he swings the frying pan with his left hand or bats with it. Naturally, he extends his left hand toward his parents' flashlight. He holds candles with his left. She holds Pascal to the left and throws to the left. And lest you think I have favorites, other characters are clearly right-handed. In Frozen, Anna always punches with her right hand and extends her right hand.

In Tangled, Eugene swings his sword to the right, points to the right, and touches Rapunzel's face with his right hand. But all this left-handedness has to come from somewhere, right? or left? one of the two *ba-dum tiss* Fortunately it happens that Mummy Tangled is probably left-handed. We don't get much camera time with the Kings and Queens in general, but Rapunzel's mother is shown to be left-handed in most of the scenes in which she appears. She holding Rapunzel with her left hand. She gesturing with her left hand and reaching out to touch Rapunzel with her left hand after seeing her for the first time in 18 years.

There isn't enough evidence on Frozen's side to say whether Agnarr and Iduna are left-handed or not. But we know that genetics align with Tangled. And finally we have hair. Honestly, none of these parents are likely to have kids with bright blonde hair like Rapunzel or Elsa. But, as we learn in Tangled, Rapunzel's blonde hair comes from the magic his mother absorbed from a bright yellow flower. If in fact these two are twins, it would also explain Elsa's unusually vibrant blonde hair. Which is surprisingly more plausible than Iduna and Agnarr's slim genetic chance of producing a finger-headed Ice Princess.

So at this point, the location of the movie, the timing of the movie, and the biology of the movie all support Rapunzel and Elsa being Disney's first true magical princess sisters. But what about the really exciting stuff? What about his real magic? If these two are really twins like I say, they should have the same powers, right? I don't know if you've seen these movies lately, but ice blasting? Definitely not the same as the old healing hair here. Well, keep your anthropomorphic reindeer! Because there is even more evidence for this theory. First of all, it is very important to reiterate the fact that Elsa and Rapunzel are the only two princesses who have EVER had magical powers in a Disney movie.

Seriously, the only two princesses in the 80-year history of Disney movies who can use magic! That's pretty incredible if you think about it. And it's not an accident. This doesn't happen just because they're cool northern Europeans who share the same magical universe. It's because they share the same magical mother. As I said before, Rapunzel absorbs magic from a healing potion that her mother drinks before she is born. That's how we explain Rapunzel's magic for the rest of the movie, and for better or worse, it makes sense. The writers clearly took the time to build a backstory that justifies the magic of it instead of it having to come out of nowhere.

So where is Frozen's backstory? Where is our magical history lesson? Is it laziness? Well, no. This is an animation team that bothered to draw Snow White and Sleeping Beauty in the Rapunzel book collection. If they left something out it is because there is another explanation. No one in the Frozen royal family has magic or has been exposed to it. These are the muggle Disney characters that exist. Even when the royal family takes Elsa to the rock trolls, Agnarr cannot immediately answer whether Elsa was born with magic or was cursed with it. "Born with powers or cursed?" "-uh...

Born." What an oddly specific detail you've included there, Disney. But THIS is the reason. When Agnarr stutters in front of the rock trolls, she shows a natural reaction. 'Was she born with these powers?' 'Uh... y-yeah?' He doesn't know because he wasn't there when Elsa was born with magic. Have you ever wondered why Agnarr and Iduna are never surprised by Elsa's magical powers? Wouldn't that seem a bit initial to you? At least it's worth going to the pediatrician. We never see them doing normal things that you would expect parents to do in this situation. They don't try to cure Elsa, nor do they even seem to seek answers about the origin of her powers.

Don't you think that's a little strange? Well, it's not if you consider that they already know where her powers come from. Her real mother. The same one who gave Rapunzel her powers. But hey, enough beating around the bush, let's talk about that magic. One of the biggest criticisms of Frozen, directed from Honest Trailers to Cinema Sins, is that Elsa's power set has always seemed a little strange. "Meet Elsa, a manic-depressive princess" "with a confusing set of powers" "like...creating life?" "Are you alive? / Uhm... I think so?" "They kind of overlook that" Yeah, she freezes things that cause great destruction and blizzards build ice castles, all that.

But she also brings things to life by creating sentient creatures like Olaf and Marshmellow. She is literally everywhere! At first it seems that Elsa and Rapunzel have opposite powers. With Elsa stopping everything from growing and Rapunzel making everything young and new again. A Yin and Yang type situation. But if you look closer, her powers are actually more similar than you think. Let's review this: at the end of both movies, the princesses save someone they love. In Frozen, she is Anna. In Tangled, it's Flynn, or Eugene, or whatever his name is. To begin both scenes, the true love character saves the Princess.Eugene saves Rapunzel from Mother Gothel and Anna saves Elsa from Prince Hans.

In doing so, they both die in the process: Anna from frostbite and Eugene from a stab wound. Anna exhales her last breath. Eugene falls limp. These guys are gone. At this point, each of our Princesses of Power literally embraces true love for a strangely long minute of sobbing and then suddenly discovers a new power they never thought they had. Exactly the same power. Reviving the dead. Bring things to life. In Tangled he is playing Mother Gothel and Eugene. In Frozen she is giving life to the snowmen and Anna. Coincidence? No way! It's exactly the same power executed in exactly the same way!

Their powers are not opposites! In fact, they are twins! Like the princesses themselves, Elsa inherited the power to revive things like Rapunzel. She just ends up with some nice ice upgrades too. In short, everything in these movies, from the setting, the background, the story, the genetics, the magical powers, even the structure of her own stories, are direct parallels. So now I ask you to look at the evidence and look at the story once again through a new lens. Once upon a time in Corona, a kingdom in northern Germany, a sick queen drinks a magical healing potion, made from a magical yellow flower just before giving birth.

She has twin daughters. The girls are blonde, since they are both impregnated with the magic of the flower. One daughter immediately demonstrates magical healing powers as you sing and the other... doesn't really seem to do much. Mother Gothel discovers that Baby 1 will keep her young forever, but she can't just cut off some hair, so she has to take the whole baby. Which he does by kidnapping her and locking her in a tower. King and Queen Tangled are heartbroken that Baby 1 was stolen from them and realize they can't risk losing Baby 2 if they ever find out she has magical powers.

They know Corona is not safe and send Baby 2 on a journey across the North Sea to the neighboring kingdom of Arendelle to live with Agnarr and Iduna away from Mother Gothel. In Arendelle, the King and Queen finally realize that Elsa also has magical powers. Unprepared to raise a magical girl, they try to hide Elsa's powers to protect her from being kidnapped like her sister, Rapunzel. Close the castle Limit the staff Hide Elsa inside It is to prevent the news from reaching Corona that another princess with magic was born. And to protect her own daughter Anna from accidentally revealing Elsa's secret or becoming the target of a kidnapping, they wipe her memory of her.

The bad reputation Agnarr and Iduna get is intended to help keep Elsa safe until her sister Rapunzel reappears. And the two finally meet when Rapunzel ends up in Arendelle at the end of Frozen. So is that the TRUE origin story of Anna, Elsa and Rapunzel? I guess we'll have to see what happens in Frozen 2. But hey... That's just a theory... A MOVIE THEORY at that... CUT!