Film Theory: How To FREEZE Elsa! (Disney Frozen 2)

So Punk, where is Queen Elsa? You were the last block of ice she made, so now it's time to talk. Playing it cool, huh? Well, we have ways to make you sweat. Ha now you're feeling the heat so I ask you again where is Elsa? What she said ah It turns out that nothing, water has no memory or voice or honestly anything that will help us solve this case. It's literally just water Hello Internet, welcome to movie

theory

, where it's January and that means it's time to YouTube and relax since it's too hot in Southern California to build a snowman whether you want to or not.

I have to find other ways to celebrate this time of year. So I'm making my own sequel to Un

frozen

: a silly but less profitable version of the Disney version. Yes, I'm ready to break the ice to talk about the most anticipated animated sequel of all time with the most shameless Merchandise. every costume change in Disney history in case you were wondering, yes there will be spoilers. So if you don't want to hear the ending, you don't want to

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this video and go watch the movie now or in other words. Let's end this now. Despite the beginning of this video, I'm not actually going to talk about the big theme of this movie, which is that water has memories.

Actually, that's a

theory

for another day. Not today. In fact, they're returning to the

frozen

character to address Elsa's famous saying. I don't know if you guys heard this, but the cold never bothered anyway. Apparently that's her reasoning for her walking on mountain tops and silk organza dresses that are easy to mass produce for the world's children and one of our most famous lines from the most famous song in the movie Elsa tells us. she lets everyone know that part of her power says that she is impervious to how cold her ice castle is, not only that, but she walks in the snow and has a dress with a very cold looking neckline, but it doesn't seem to matter because None of that can affect her, it seems like a very clearly defined set of powers.

I can respect that and then it flashes forward frozen to where? They Throw Everything Out the Window Frozen: We get this massive climactic moment near the end of the movie where we see Elsa

freeze

. Solid what we just saw how Elsa can't be hurt by the cold. Oh, she's literally swimming. the Arctic Ocean and walking through this permafrost forest for days in a jacket That's perfect for your next trip to Walt Disney Land, by the way, and when we see her defeated it's by freezing her today Oh, not only is this a blatant rip-off of the climax of the last movie where honor froze to death?

But it just doesn't make sense. The cold doesn't bother her, so you know what the question is that a theorist who watches this movie asks today. Well, there are so many questions, but the question I want to ask today: Is it that cold? Does it have to be to bother Elsa clearly? She is not immune to freezing. So at what temperature does what is actually happening in the scene freeze? Where is the temperature we get comfortable? Elsa is cold now in case you didn't feed the Disney sequel machine beast or your memory of this movie is foggy or you just checked after the words North old run at Holland which we repeat like 47 times in this movie for four - The one-year-olds also end up in this cold little situation after embarking on a quest at the behest of Well, almost nothing, some spirits that whisper tor or something and almost kill their entire kingdom, but they're not the same spirits who are trapped in the misty wood?

It's very confusing, really inconsistent and not that well written. It's okay, I just have to vent. Anyway, she travels north to claim her place as the ultimate ice queen. She abandons her sister, who clearly has PTSD from the last movie and is angry at being left alone on this trip. Which is a plot that is never resolved. Fantastic, she travels on a Mermaid-Horse Hybrid to the North Country and forgets about Kristoff along with the rest of the cast and crew of this movie, who is left alone to sing an '80s-inspired power ballad. The real deal theory here is whether Disney knew how poorly made this movie was. but I don't really need to start with that long story short, what you need to know for this theory is that at the end of the movie, Elsa finds herself in the North Country and in a dark and mysterious ice cave of self-discovery.

She falls from a great distance. That's all. She eventually freezes. She is unfrozen by the power of who cares about her. Let's assume, for the sake of this theory, that they were trying to make a logically cohesive movie that addressed how the hell a literal Ice Queen could freeze to death? real scientist? Explanation here or someone was just relying on too much Disney magic if we're trying to figure out how creepy it must be for Elsa to freeze. We need to get some perspective on the temperatures we're dealing with throughout these

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s. We know that Elsa has no problem surviving the cold in the

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s' two main settings, Arendelle and the northern forests, as well as most of the rest of the time she spends in the North Sea in Holland.

How cold are these? places and how much colder is it when Elsa ends up frozen? Arendelle, as you may already know, is a cross between Aaron Dahl and Bergen, Norway's Aaron Dahl for its namesake and Bergen for its architecture and landscape. We talked about this in our previous little frozen theory about the fact that Anna and Elsa shouldn't be biological sisters. In case you're interested, you can catch up here if you missed it, as that Disney theory has released more information about Arendelle, including a map shown in Frozen Fever, which we can then cross-reference with the geography of Norway, since it is the only real feature.

Here is the forked river. I searched for similar geographic areas in Norway and found Alisoun, an area that lined up almost perfectly on a small map. Manipulation of Alice's historical ups and downs rolled up in the fall. Which is when the movie starts, it's seven point seven to twelve point two degrees Celsius or 46 to 54 degrees Fahrenheit Which gives us our parallels with Arendelle, interestingly Alice soon doesn't get very cold Even in winter, the highs and lows tend to hover just above freezing, meaning Elsa and the Ice Cream's Winter Wonderland was much colder than the geographic norm, plus we know the ancient roof of the north.

The Enchanted Forest is a day or two by cart from Arendelle. So we're probably seeing the same temperature averages there too, with maybe a degree or two difference. None of the people living there seem to be passed out from the frostbite. So Elsa can just survive there like everyone else. So, with those two out of the way, we can focus on the film's northernmost locations, the North Sea and Holland, as Elsa travels north again after abandoning her sister in the middle of nowhere. We reached a point. where, according to the frozen rush map, she runs into North Sooey, which now means North Sea in Danish.

The closest body of water to northern Norway on a real-world map is the Norwegian Sea. Interestingly, the name of the Norwegian Sea roughly translates to North Sea. So it's a fair substitute, a little research will tell you that the Norwegian temperature, especially in the near-shore areas we're dealing with, reaches a maximum. about 5.9 degrees Celsius or 40.8 degrees Fahrenheit, which is not exactly the best temperature for surfing, annual lows of 1.3 degrees Celsius or 36.2 degrees Fahrenheit, so the waters are barely above freezing point. Which makes this water very cold and easy enough to kill a normal person in a matter of minutes.

Interestingly, the OS's ability to survive in Cold Water is perhaps more impressive than our ability to survive in ice castles on dry land. Especially when you look at the thermodynamics of a human being and water falling on waters as hot as 68 degrees Fahrenheit or 20 degrees Celsius can trigger what is known as a cold. shock response Which is the same response you get if your shower suddenly turns cold, you gasp in surprise as a reflex part of the response. But if you're in a freezing ocean, the gas forces water into your lungs, your limbs are suddenly stunned by the cold snap, and you drown almost immediately.

That's not scary enough or you managed to avoid the cold shock response. You're not in a good place yet Even if you have control of your body to begin with, you lose control of your limbs in about ten minutes in water at 50 degrees or less in hypothermia. Your internal body temperature drops below 95 degrees. in less than an hour, even in the best possible conditions. So, for Elsa to survive even minutes in the waters of the North Sea, she would have had to be using the equivalent of several water immersion survival seats, these big old rubber-looking things.

This means in the water. where other people are literally paralyzed and where body temperature would drop below survivability in a matter of minutes. Elsa maintains a normal core body temperature and ice surfs with the best. It's incredible, but it doesn't freeze her. Location to consider. Dr Holland is Heinlein's glacier that he also rides, and what appears to be a few minutes north of Old Rock, well initially I wanted to say this was going to be Iceland, as the Frozen crew visited Iceland for inspiration from a geographical film . It's too far north. Honestly, the closest coast of Iceland is about 900 miles from Hollis Food or anywhere on the Norwegian coast, which would require for a horse, even a magic water horse, like 40 hours of straight running at top speed without a break. .

Our film travels more realistic. I chose the small I-can't-pronounce-those-letters island just off the northern coast of Norway. There are also possibilities like Bear Island up here. But you know, they all work basically the same way, so just plug them in as possible replacements for Otto Holland. Interestingly, all of these types of islands tend to have freezing temperatures at least nine months a year, meaning that when Elsa likely lands in warm Holland, the temperature will cause the water to freeze directly on her skin. Immediately on top of that, she will face ocean winds that will give her a wind chill effect that will make her feel even colder, starting at negative five degrees Celsius, the average temperature for unpronounceable.

Norwegian Island in November We can estimate the wind chill at 10 to 30 miles per hour or 16 to 48 km/h with these winds. Elsa's feeling is that the temperature will be about -10 degrees Celsius -15 degrees Celsius or 12 degrees Fahrenheit to 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Even then there is not even a shiver, so we know that even at significantly below zero temperatures. It's still not cold enough to be bothersome, so how cold does it have to be to make it seem like a dead end in the investigation, since we can't even guess the temperature in the magical cave he is in, how far it is falling things like that.

Heck, inside the cave it should probably be warmer because she's not subject to being wet by the wind, which says who is one thing we can still speculate about about Elsa herself. What if instead of looking at the air around her, at the water, she was swimming impossibly through all of those things? What if we stopped comparing her to the way humans freeze and stopped assuming she's human at all instead assuming her body functions like a normal person's body. It might make more sense to assume that it functions like the body of a normal person. element that is associated with ice.

Let's take a look at the moment when Elsa freezes again. We see her jump into the ice abyss to follow her past. She falls for a couple of seconds and we see her make a quick landing on her hands and fingertips for a moment. Later, she hears the truth about what terrible imperialists her people were. She sees it begin to freeze again on the tips of her hands and feet, where she landed. Interestingly, she may be the only scientifically accurate part of this movie. Elsa is freezing like ice to better explain what I mean here and what is really happening to Elsa and how her body works.

I'm going to have to move it to live action. Hello film theorists, Matpat may not look like it because they have less hair up here and more hair down here, but don't worry. That's what happens when you do a charity livestream and put your Hair on the line. I will be back to how I was before in about three months less. Who knows. Anyway, let's do some real world science. Are we going back to high school? Because you know this is not content aimed at children 13 and older here on this channel. You may have already done a little experiment in the realm of supercooling.

There are many YouTube videosabout this, but you're just trying to license those. Because they are expensive and doing science myself is really fun and cool. Anyway, supercooling is just one of those really nerdy things. It's fascinating to talk about and even more fascinating to see in person and, frankly, I want to try it here since I have the ability and the people to film me doing this kind of thing. So why not take advantage of that? This is also one of those rare things on YouTube that you can do yourself. It may take you a few times to get it right, but the idea is to cool a bottle of water.

I'm going to look for the water bottle. I'm going to take off the microphone and then get the bottle. Chris will go get the water bottle. Thank you Chris. Hopefully it's super cold and ready to crystallize now. What they got a note here is that the water, first and foremost, must be clean and must be left. Very still, no, this is because in a freezer the water will actually cool below freezing. temperatures after a couple of hours But it still has a magical area where it remains in a liquid state because it doesn't have what's called a seed crystal Just a couple of crystalline structures in the water that ice can form on.

There are many complicated things. math that goes behind seed crystals, but for our purposes we're going to think about frozen Elsa, since our little water bottle here could probably have cut a face off of it and glued it on here, right? Featured here is the small Adele Dazeem action figure. She looks human, but in the movie because she represents the element ice on a molecular level. Her body actually behaves more like ice water than a person now, when Elsa falls into that ice cave and hits. Below, we suddenly see her entire body crystallize into an Elsa popsicle as we should see with this experiment, ready Dan, ready Chris.

Are you going to land right here, ready? Three two one And you see, look, that's it, what you're seeing here is water molecules, so all of a sudden they hit each other, a little seed crystal on top and all the water molecules hit it and crystallize into it. that. The structure continues all the way to the bottle until now we have mostly ice. With a little water left, how much? Not much Okay, a little more than I expected But you can see that as soon as there was a big impact on that bottle By disturbing the super cold water inside it, everything crystallized from top to bottom and now this happened. because when the bottle fell on the table it sent a shock wave through the liquid, literally forcing the water molecules to collide with each other randomly, that extra motion eventually results in the water molecules forming something close to the structure crystalline ice.

Once that happens, the water suddenly has the seed crystals it needs and now more water molecules quickly collide with that seed crystal and align into the proper structure locking and freezing almost instantly in the case of Elsa in Frozen 2 we see the Crystallization or nucleation process when it is cold starts from it. The right extremities of his feet and the tips of his fingers where he landed on the ground, but if we were really scientifically accurate, we would actually start from the top of his head because that is the end of the shock wave he experienced when falling and which, he said, this experiment still provides. the best explanation we have for how an ice queen could freeze to death.

She is not a human being who controls ice at a molecular level. In reality, she herself is ice in a very indirect way. This explanation also helps us understand why Elsa is impervious to cold climates. Heck, even brutal chills on a molecular level, Elsa is effectively colder than all of those things. She's super cool. Which means they're not cooling it. She is the one who is cooling them down. It's science. She's frozen and super cool, literally and figuratively. It's fascinating to even understand that another person's body functions like a supercooled liquid. It still doesn't give us a real idea of ​​our molecular temperature according to a 2018 study at the University of Frankfurt in Germany.

The supercooled water could reach temperatures of 42 point 5 5 degrees Celsius or negative 44 degrees Fahrenheit, meaning Elsa has the potential to reach a massive range of temperatures that would allow her to not only survive the harshest conditions on Earth, but even survive in some places on icy planets. like Mars and all this It actually makes sense in the context of the movie or as complicated as the story of it is, like the terrestrial giants are made of rock. The wind spirit literally only has wind and water horse water just ignores that silly little cute fire lizard Elsa is made of the element she controls if she really is the fifth elemental creature.

Which, honestly, it shouldn't be because ice isn't an element. that's different from the water horse over there, but still, if ice really is a different element in this world, she's supercooled and only gets frozen by a hard-hit landing, it makes a lot of sense, so, in An ironic twist, Elsa really is impervious to the cold as long as she doesn't. Don't get hit too hard by anything for future reference to all the villains in the inevitable Frozen 3. Keep all the swords, guns, flamethrowers or whatever and just give Elsa the good old swamp with a frying pan.

Tangled-Style Organ: A particularly aggressive pillow fight. and, frankly, she's done for, but don't tell anyone I warned you. Because if you are a regular viewer of this channel, you will know that Mickey Mouse and I already have a cold relationship. But hey, that's just a theory. I can't pronounce this island nor can I find any pronunciation guides online because it is very difficult to find pronunciations for very small areas. Can I say I'm sorry, cut the video? Oh, you have travel logs on YouTube right now. Why don't you speak in them? There are so many Norwegian travel logs I've clicked on while researching this video in the hopes that someone will teach me how to pronounce the names of these places and they're all just clips with music and moderate amounts of text on top.

It doesn't help me, please teach me how to pronounce these places, not even Wikipedia as a pronunciation guide for this painful Fuglie Ola. I mean, look at these cards. What am I supposed to do with this? It's a zero. It's an O that has been crossed, which is like no. No. Thanks Oh, this is a damn old O pronunciation. Could you even put a G there sore people sore fug Lowa sore fugu, OA Can anyone watch this video in Norway? Can you please upload videos of yourself? Pronounce sore fug Lua and then link them on Twitter matpat GT or the game theorist subreddit.

I will try to make a compilation of the best hits of all of them. We'll make a post on the community tab or something. It would be great, please teach me how to pronounce or cut Foglia.