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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- Behind the scenesAn Andersen tale that waited decades
Frozen grew out of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen. Disney tried to adapt the tale several times starting in the 1930s and only cracked it once the Snow Queen became the heroine's sister.
source ↗ - CameoRapunzel came to the coronation
When the castle gates open, Rapunzel and Flynn Rider from Tangled walk in with the guests. It lasts about a second, during "For the First Time in Forever."
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe song that changed the villain
Elsa started out as the villain. Once Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez wrote "Let It Go," the team rebuilt the character around the song, which went on to win the Oscar for Best Original Song.
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- Behind the scenesResearch in the real north
The team traveled to Norway, Finland and Iceland. The Northuldra draw on the Sámi people, and Disney signed an agreement with Sámi representatives to consult them during production.
source ↗ - ReferenceFrozen in under a minute
In the Enchanted Forest, Olaf recaps the whole first film for the Northuldra, doing every voice. Even the Hans scene gets his take.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesKristoff gets an '80s music video
"Lost in the Woods" plays out like an '80s power ballad video, with slow motion, dramatic close-ups and reindeer on backing vocals.
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- ReferenceIt starts in the middle of Let It Go
The short opens the moment Elsa builds Olaf during "Let It Go." The film's camera follows Elsa; this one stays with the snowman she left behind.
source ↗ - ReferenceHis summer crush gets an origin
In Frozen, Olaf sings about summer without ever having seen one. The short shows where that obsession came from.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesDirected by Olaf's animator
Trent Correy, who animated Olaf in the films, directed the short with Dan Abraham. Josh Gad returned as the voice.
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- Behind the scenesIt opened before Cinderella
The short hit theaters on March 13, 2015, in front of Kenneth Branagh's live-action Cinderella. It was the sisters' first return after the film.
source ↗ - ReferenceHans gets the worst of it
Every sneeze from Elsa spits out tiny snowmen. At the end, a giant snowball flies all the way to the Southern Isles and flattens Hans while he shovels horse manure.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesSame team, new song
Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee came back to direct, and the Lopezes wrote "Making Today a Perfect Day," the short's song.
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- Behind the scenesIt began as a TV special
The special was made for ABC. Partway through, Disney changed course and sent it to theaters in front of Pixar's Coco.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesPulled from Coco early
Running over 20 minutes, the short drew complaints from audiences who came for Coco. Disney pulled it from screenings starting December 8, 2017.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe tradition was in Frozen's opening
The sisters have no holiday tradition after all those years behind closed doors. In the end they find out the tradition was Olaf himself, the snowman from "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"
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- Behind the scenesSix shorts on Disney+ Day
All six episodes dropped on November 12, 2021, for Disney+ Day. In each one, Olaf retells a Disney film, like The Little Mermaid, Moana and The Lion King.
source ↗ - ReferenceHe'd already rehearsed
In Frozen II, Olaf recaps the first film for the Northuldra. Olaf Presents turns that gag into a format.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesBefore that, Olaf at home
In 2020, during the pandemic, Disney put out At Home with Olaf, mini-shorts animated from home, with Josh Gad also recording from home.
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