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Sunday, July 05, 2020

Believe Care Invest: Frozen

Why it might be hard to identify with Anna
  • She has no skills. She’s very naïve. She doesn’t know how to take care of herself.
Believe
  • Right away, as a small child, Anna is brimming with unique personality. She says, “The sky’s awake, so I’m awake!” with mock-theatricality.
  • It’s a simple trick, but it usually works, Anna’s a klutz (She wrecks the cake) She’s very human (“Don’t know if I’m elated or gassy, but I’m somewhere in that zone.”) She wakes up looking like a mess. (We then skip over the scene where she presumably orders her servants to fix her hair.)
Care
  • Right away, Anna is almost killed, then her memories are taken from her, but we don’t really identify with those, because they’re not universal. But then her older sister shuts her out and won’t play with her anymore, and that’s a far more universal emotion many of us can identify with.  Then, of course, her parents die, because it’s Disney. We also feel for her when she embarrasses herself with Hans: “you’re gorgeous—Wait, what?”
Invest
  • We don’t invest in Anna very much. We adore her, we empathize with her failings, but she doesn’t seem like someone who we can trust to solve this problem. Her only secret weapon is love. When she trudges off into the snow after her sister, we believe that she would do it, because we know how much she loves her sister, but we’re also saying, “Her? She’s our hero? She’s not up to this.” Luckily she quickly finds allies.
Five Es
  • Eat: “I wanna stuff some chocolate in my face!”
  • Exercise: Little Anna plays energetically with sister. Older Anna rides her bike around the house.
  • Economic Activity: We begin with men engaged in the hard work of buying and selling ice, and we’ll soon meet a grown up ice dealer. Even the queen must deal with trade agreements.
  • Enjoy: Anna very much enjoys playing with her sister.
  • Emulate: Anna plays with dolls and emulates women in paintings
Rise above
  • Well, when we talked about this on the blog, I defined it as “rising above mundane circumstances”, and Anna does that, though she never really endangers her job.
High five a black guy
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did you watch Frozen 2?

Matt Bird said...

I did: http://www.secretsofstory.com/2020/01/not-on-best-of-2019-list.html