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[alexseanchai]

Saw Frozen. Much feminist...very white.

Hans missed a trick, though. He shoulda kissed Anna, said they shouldn't expect her recovery to be instantaneous, locked her in the room with the fire burning, and gone off exactly as he did in the movie. With Anna still convinced Hans was a good guy, the movie would have ended very differently.

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[madgastronomer]

The usual complaint on Tumblr is that the movie, while maintaining a focus on the sisters, actually gets rid of a lot of female secondary characters, and replaces them with men. The original has an almost entirely female cast, with the exception of one young boy that the heroine saves, IIRC.

[alexseanchai]

I gave up expecting Frozen to be anything like The Snow Queen when I heard they were sisters. But yeah, that is a point.

[madgastronomer]

Well, yes. But that's where the sexism accusation comes from.

[rooibos]

I actually found the original story to be much more sexist, especially when we contrast the characters of the Snow Queen and Gerda. Kai is trapped by the sexually-mature Snow Queen and is rescued by the young, innocent Gerda. Totally portrays female sexuality as dangerous.

That being said, I was annoyed that all of the side characters were men. But still, it didn't have that level of ick.