Film Theory: Frozen 2 is DANGEROUS. Here's why.

You know, sometimes I'll be listening to a Disney song and I can't get rid of the similarities it has to something else. Now I can't play the samples

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because you know the copyright, but you can search for both songs and listen to them. do it yourself or heck I'll put some of my favorite examples on twitter if you're interested in matpat GT because twitter is the Wild West and anything goes t

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, for example I'm constantly confusing the opening of tangles, when will my life start? with the pinball wizard, those guitar chords and rhythms are undeniably similar, then there's The Lion Sleeps Tonight, which actually sounds a lot like the Zulu chant song Jubei, oh wait, that's a true story with a tragic outcome , watch the Netflix documentary, most of it if you're interested in that dark little secret, but probably the strangest comes from our topic today

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: you know, that haunting call that Elsa hears in the song towards the unknown that makes her go explore the north.

Well, it was derived by songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen. D s Anderson-López is part of the traditional Catholic Requiem Mass and you already know which other Frozen movie prominently features DC Ray. The Shining Seriously, right at the beginning of the movie, does this mean the two potentially share a universe? No no. It's not like that, but does that mean I'm way past this movie where Elsa discovers a haunted ice hotel and then gets chased by Olaf while he attacks her with an axe? Yes, yes, count Elsa's years. Olaf, hello Internet. Welcome to Film Theory, the show that ventures into the unknown each week to lift the fog of uncertainty separating us from the outside world, so that extended metaphor probably wouldn't make sense if you haven't seen Frozen, but don't worry, it's barely makes sense.

It's no secret that I've thought a lot about this movie, wondering everything from how cold it must be to freezing Elsa, who she showed to Kristoff's reindeer. The one singing must have been Christoph and where do all those sick electric guitar riffs come from when he's in the middle of the forest? Is it the sixth elemental creature? The elemental spirit of ATS radicalism, but one thing that stands out the most in this

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is Olaf. Who Diz evolves from being a naive, magical,

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snowman to the version we see in this movie where he is the equivalent of a little boy who drinks about twenty Pixy sticks and insists on telling you every thought that crosses his mind and Well, that could come up.

It may seem annoying, but it still gives us one of the most memorable scenes in Frozen Two and the best jokes in which Olaf blurts out some of his favorite scientific facts. It's as random as it sounds and I can only assume it was included because the writers had seen a wacky list on WatchMojo and really wanted to show that they had done their research for this movie. No, I'm used to watching Disney movies and I really have to think about what

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is worth in that movie, so I didn't really give it to him. Disney on this one, thanks for the help guys, why look for a

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when the movie hands you one on a frozen silver platter?

So in today's episode of Movie Theory we'll look at Olaf's frozen scientific facts and determine how well Disney is teaching our kids that he's the 2020s equivalent of Bill Nye the Scientist, or is he selling a bunch of Snapple data at the onion level. The answer is actually more nuanced than you might expect. The number one turtles on the right side can breathe through their frozen bodies. He ends his little list of facts with a joke, but I'll start it off with one because we have a class here in

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theory and surprisingly, breathing is actually a scientific fact when turtles hibernate in the winter they need very little oxygen to sustain themselves. themselves, instead of breathing in and out with their lungs, the oxygen from the water passing over their little Toshi's turtle can penetrate their bodies to breathe.

It's a process known as Chloe's carbon breathing. It's not just turtles that do it, frogs, even salamanders. some snakes can do it, I don't know how you found out about that one in the pre-internet snowman days, that little fire lizard you just met might not want to go to sleep with you, it's probably sneaking up on him through the night. science number two, no. wombat proof squares, look what I did there, it made poop one number two, it's another one of those little intellectual details you can expect, unlike Disney content, now the first little detail, a square is a shape two-dimensional with zero thickness, so no poop or squares. if by squares everything outside refers to cubes, then yes, this is indeed another scientific fact, we know for sure that the wombat Duty is made up of small blocks that look like this, even stranger scientists are not one hundred percent sure How do wombats do it, I mean, we're wasting all this money trying to get us into space and yet we can't dedicate money to researching the really important questions: how are wombats able to release their droppings in Cuba?

Science anyway, most think that wombats use the cubes to identify territory and that small blocks are less likely to fall over. This is gross but mildly interesting. A curious fact was the provisional title of the program when we started at number three. You know, we think four million times a day we get back to normal. Olof, that's great science. Fiction, in fact, is not even close to being true, we humans blink a lot, usually between 15 and 20 times a minute, and considering that we are supposed to be asleep for seven hours a day, that means we blink around 20,000 times a day. day. day on average, orders of magnitude of Olaf's number to reach four million Olaf, even if you never slept, you would have to blink more than forty-six times a second, so unless you are an insomniac whose eyes like to imitate strobe lights, I'm not blinking four million times a day.

I literally have no idea how they could have come up with such an incorrect number. Anyway, number four, you know, men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning. I can't say those numbers. They are necessarily perfect, but we'll call this a scientific fact. According to popular science, between 1995 and 2008, men accounted for 82% of all lightning deaths in the US. Is it possible that it has something to do with chemistry? of men's bodies? Zeus is just trying to reduce the male population so he can seduce more Earth women. Vilnius, actually, is a much simpler explanation in the immortal words of Sailor Jay because men are stupid.

Men have been found to be much less likely to give up outdoor activities such as fishing, golfing and camping. when there's a thunderstorm and you wouldn't know it, that's when they get hit, so if you're out in the storm, the chances increase significantly that you'll be the one who gets hit by lightning when it hits someone really. Something shocking, I know and, Finally, number five, did you know that water has memory? A true fact, many question it, but it is true. I saved this one for last because, well, this isn't just Olaf's scientific fact, it's pretty much the entire thesis of the movie.

There are these elemental energies that connect us with the past and with other people and that water has memory, water has frozen, it really wants us to believe that this is true, water has memory, what is it? It is fair to say that water has something that can be remotely classified as memory, that is a more complicated question and the main issue of current theory is whether water has memory and what that would mean if it did. The answer to that question, like the answer to the strangest questions, begins in the 1980s. Cue that elemental '80s guitar riff in 1988 French researchers Jacques Benveniste found results of a study in the scientific journal Nature that showed the surprising ability of water to remember substances that had been in it previously the study was called human basophil degranulation caused by a very dilute antiserum against IgE hoo boy, aren't you excited to read it?

Really page-turner. Anyway, the studio basically worked like that. The benveniste news team began by isolating some very small amounts of human antibodies that attack bacteria and viruses in the body and then diluting them. antibodies in water to the point where the concentration of the antibodies was effectively zero, they were obviously still there, but they were surrounded by so much water in the sample that the solution should have been no more reactive than just water, then he agitated the water, which It's fancy science talk, because they shook it really hard before taking samples and testing them by introducing what are known as basophils, a type of white blood cell that reacts to the presence of antibodies and basophils reacted if that were for science.

Basically it is this. I'm allergic to dogs, so I walk into an absolutely huge room, a huge room, it looks like a room the size of an airport hangar, all your normal stuff is there, but it's huge, huge, and somewhere there's a alone. little chihuahua walked in and boom, he sneezed even though he's a small dog in a huge room that wouldn't make me sneeze, that's what happened in this test, basophiles sneezed in a giant room where there was essentially only one dog, welcome . he parts his findings with this analogy, quotes like shaking a car key in the river, going miles down the river, extracting a few drops of water and then starting the car with the water and quotes benveniste, stick to the science, I'll take care of it of the explanatory metaphors that one sucked like Anyway, you managed to confuse me even more with that.

His conclusion was that water remembers what it contains and what has passed through it long after those materials are no longer president, water itself, hence the short version, water has memory and Jacques Benveniste does not. The only one to come to this conclusion in the mid-1990s, a man named Masaru Emoto claimed that he could change the way water crystallized based on the types of emotional energies the water had been exposed to. In his tests he exposed water samples to positive words and images, words like love and appreciation and images like elephants and shrines, as well as negative stressors like heavy metal music and words like fool, you suck when it comes to water samples, you're a big drip, I have seen toilet. water that is better than you should be ashamed of yourself you are the worst water ever sounds stupid but basically this is equivalent to a man telling a glass of water to die and calling it science, then he will freeze the water and drink photographs using a high-powered microscopic lens he discovered that water receiving positive feedback froze in elaborate geometric designs, while water from contaminated sources or those that had been exposed to other negative stimuli froze in a distorted way.

He reported these findings in a best-selling book called messages from water and I traveled all over the world to discuss and present them, so apparently water not only has memory but also has not-so-fast feelings. Jacque Benveniste's findings were a bit worrying to the staff at Nature magazine, on the one hand the idea that water could have memory was a monumental and groundbreaking finding, on the other hand it was just an experiment and was completely contrary to a set of established scientific principles from physics and chemistry, so nature took the middle ground when they published the study they chose to include. a note from the editor to the newspaper telling readers to suspend judgment until the results could be replicated and verified and not only that the editor went a step further but assembled a team of scientists and skeptics to perform tests and a One of those people was a man named James Randi now, if you've never heard of this guy, he's literally one of the coolest guys of all time.

James Randi was a magician who became a professional skeptic. He developed the $1 million paranormal challenge, basically offering to give a million. dollars to anyone who could prove the existence of supernatural phenomena, in short, he used that million dollar bribe to lure the fakers onto television and then immerse them in public. The YouTube clips of James Randi, who completely owns all these fake psychic rogues, are cringeworthy. Anyway, when the team applied some controls to Benveniste's study, the results could not be replicated and so Nature published an advisory questioning their initial results a month after publishing it, since then several teams have tried again and again to replicate the results. results. findings about water memory, but to no avail, as we all know in the age of social media, once you publish a juicy headline for people to read,read as if water has a memory, that's what will stick, not the writing that happens a month later, meanwhile Masaru Many of Moto's findings have never been published by a scientific journal mainly because the whole thing wasn't actually done in no scientific way.

The guy took some water from a lake, he took some water from a contaminated body, and wow, the contaminated thing froze. in a really unnatural wait, well no, something tells me that those results were not linked to the Slipknot that you repeatedly played for water and it's not just me who says that when analyzing the messages of dr. Harriet Hall concluded by citing that the popularity of emoto is a sad commentary on the scientific illiteracy of our society. Her work is a morass of factual errors, misconceptions, misinterpretations, metaphors, and meaningless statements. She writes in the language of magical thinking and superstition, not that of science, and don't quote the cheese.

Stop Harriette and in 2005 another study that directly addressed the memory structure in water determined that water molecules can change their structure and build on each other, but that those structures are extremely short-lived. Quote from that paper water liquid essentially loses memory of the persistent correlations in its structure within 50 femtoseconds a femtosecond is 1 million billion seconds on a scale a femtosecond is two per second as a second is 230 1.7 million years so does water memory technically yes, but his memory is so much worse than Dorries overall, it's pretty safe to conclude that Olaf's big statement in Frozen 2 is in fact science fiction.

Now this might seem unnecessarily nitpicky to some of you. Okay, so Disney spread the truth about scientific facts in a big way. Why are you complaining about reality versus fiction in a movie with a magical melting snowman and yes, I understand that criticism and the idea of ​​water having memory and spiritual connections with nature is quite typical of the brand. Disney, hell, Mallanna is so-so? all about humans having a connection to water, but there is one difference which is that Moana and the original frozen do not claim to be invoking a fact, in fact, it goes a step further and says that many question it, but it is true that he is actively telling the audience.

To ignore the skeptics and more importantly the real science we just covered, scientific misinformation spreads very easily, just ask your aunt about using a chopped onion in your sock to remove toxins from your body, yes, that is a real thing that has been widely circulated on Facebook and No logic or rebuttal will change your mind when next Christmas she smells like a hamburger back. My biggest fear here on this is that kids will watch Disney movies with the same level of blind faith, so when a movie says "hello" to them. There are facts here and they are communicated to you through a character you know, love and trust.

In a movie they could watch dozens and dozens of times, they are likely to hold onto those beliefs for years and not question where. they got those beliefs in the first place, the good news is that I don't think anyone who believes that water has memory is really going to hurt them, but it's the beginning of everything if Disney really wants to invoke science and its stories. They need to be very careful about what they say is fact, and most importantly we all need to promote replication and independent verification of the science we hear about to make sure it is credible and not just there to grab some headlines. , so that the next time we're watching Frozen: with the family, remember to have a detailed conversation with the children present about the scientific method and replication standards.

I'm sure they'll thank you or, more likely, just tell you. let it go, but hey, that's just a theory, a film theory and it cuts you off.