Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Welcome back to the Top 10 Modern Disney Characters! Last time on the list, I talked about a video game villain who tries to be a good guy, a young waitress who tries finance her own restaurant, a beautiful princess trying to see the floating lanterns, and a young teenage boy teaming up with his friends and other Disney characters. Now, before we get to # 1, I'd like to add in an honorable mention.

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Now, finally for number 1!

The number 1 modern Disney character(s) is....
Anna and Elsa-Frozen (This will be long. REALLY long.)

What we have here are 2 outstanding characters from an outstanding movie from 2 outstanding directors. Anna and Elsa are 2 royal sisters who live in the kingdom of Arendelle. The 2 where really close when they were young. However, one night while the 2 are playing in the castle, Elsa accidentally strikes Anna in the head with her magic powers, giving Anna a streak of the same color of that of her sister. Elsa, Anna and there parents leave the kingdom to go and search for the rock  trolls. Their leader, Pabbie, manages to cure Anna of the spell. He also tells the king and queen that he must wipe Anna's memories of Elsa's powers, but he will still keep memories of when they had fun together. He also tells Elsa that her magic is beautiful, but if she doesn't learn how to control them, she'll be seen and viewed as a monster. The king and queen then decide to close the castle gates and separate anyone from Elsa, including Anna. Throughout the years Elsa's parents then try to help her control her powers to no avail, while Anna tries to see her older sister. When the 2 sisters are teenagers, the king and queen then leave for trip out to sea. Although Elsa and Anna are sad to see them leave, the 2 then promise that they'd be back. However the king and queen are killed in raging storm, leaving Anna (and especially Elsa) heartbroken and grief stricken. Luckily, about 3 years later, Elsa is crowned the queen of Arendelle. At the coronation ball, the 2 seem to talk to each other for the first time in forever(No pun intended.). But after Anna meets up with Prince Hans of the Southern Isles, Elsa criticizes her for engaging a man she just met. This leads the 2 sisters to an argument the finally ends with Elsa accidentally exposing her powers to the public, leaving Anna horrified and Elsa leaving the kingdom and causing a massive blizzard. Feeling as if she's responsible for this cataclysmic event, Anna leaves the kingdom of Arendelle to go find her sister. Along the way, Anna meets a somewhat snarky mountain man named Kritoff and his best friend, a reindeer named Sven. while trying to reach the north mountain, the group is attacked by a horde of wolves. They manage to escape, but Kristoff's sleigh is destroyed. Sven convinces Kristoff to help Anna find Elsa, with he does. The next day, Anna and Kristoff meet a talking snowman. Although Anna is frightened at first by the magical creature, Anna remembers him as Elsa's childhood creation. Olaf then leads the trio to the Elsa's ice castle. There, Elsa is happy to see her sister, but she fears she'll harm her sister again. This leads to Anna attempting to bring Elsa back to the Arendelle, which says that she's fine when she's alone. Anna then tells Elsa that Arendelle is trapped in an eternal winter caused by Elsa's ice magic. Elsa, shocked by this turn of events, she becomes agitated once again and accidentally striking Anna yet again, only this time in the heart. Frightened, a horrified Elsa creates a giant snow monster that throws the trio out of the castle. Not long after, Hans and a few other soldiers arrive to arrest Elsa, believing she killed her sister. Hans tries to convince Elsa to stop with her magic at the battle, but she's knocked out on contact and thrown in the castle's dungeon. Hans tries to convince her to stop the raging blizzard, but she says that she cannot. Meanwhile, Kristoff takes Anna to see the rock trolls, with Anna and Kristoff slowly but surely falling in love. Pabbie tells Anna that the only way she can break the spell that she's under is if she performs an"act of true love".  Kristoff, Olaf and Sven head back to the kingdom where Anna is immediately taken into to the castle to find Hans. Anna begs the prince to kiss him, but he instead reveals his evil agenda to marry a maiden of royalty in order to become king of Arendelle. Hans then locks the doomed princess in the castle library, but Olaf manages to start a fire for Anna and tells her that Kristoff loves her. The 2 then head out into the howling snowstorm. When Hans catches up to Elsa she tells him that Anna died because of her accidental curse, causing the monstrous storm to cease. Anna and Kristoff manages to see each other, but just then Anna sees Hans about to murder Elsa. Anna immediately rushes in and puts herself in just as she freezes soild, causing the evil prince to knocked out on contact. Elsa sees the state of her sister and sobs histericly. However, Anna is soon thawed back to life, as her intervention indeed "an act of true love." Elsa is overjoyed at her recovery, and Olaf says that Anna's sacrifice was "an act of true love." Realizing that love is the key to controlling her powers, Elsa uses the to remove the the giant blizzard from the kingdom. Elsa gives Olaf a magical ice cloud to survive all summer long, Hans is sent back to the Southern Isles to be punished, Anna and Kristoff share a romantic kiss, and Anna and Elsa finally reunites with, Elsa promising to never shut the castle gates ever again. NOT the end! Now onto the characters themselves, which in this case are Anna and Elsa. Anna is Elsa's younger sister and the princess of Arendelle. She's really eccentric, free-spirited, and fun loving. She's shown to be very impulsive, believing that finding someone romantic and similar to her will make her fill happy, even though she's betrayed by Hans(spoiler alert!). This causes Anna to look down upon herself and thought of herself as nothing but ordinary.Luckily, she was wrong, as she found out that there were people like Kristoff, Pabbie, Olaf, and even Elsa herself who show a great deal of care for the young princess. Another thing that makes Anna a great Disney character is that of her voice actor, Kristen Bell. She's said that she has always loved Disney Animation and has always wanted to do a Disney film. Heck, she even did voice recordings of "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid! She fought hard for this role and she did with determination! And that's another thing I want talk about, Anna's determination. She's pretty much shown to be the only one(besides Olaf) to have faith in Elsa that she's not a monster, but a very loving and caring sister who fights for her own young sister's safety. She treated Elsa with kindness when no one else did. She even saved Elsa from Hans when no one saw it coming, in sense that Anna might have saved herself from the spell she was under. Even the she finds real, true romance(spoilers above!), it's definitely clear that Anna's most valued treasure is the love and care for her sister. Now, one to the Snow Queen herself, Elsa. She is Anna's older sister and the one who is now the queen of Arendelle, but runs away after her powers are exposed to the public.She creates a giant ice castle, as well as recreate her childhood snowman, Olaf(Let It Go). One thing that makes Elsa a great Disney character is not only her personality, but her voice actress, Idina Menzel. She's the perfect choice to play Elsa, seeing as how she played Elphaba in Wicked, which(no pun intended) are very similar to each other. They were both feared by everyone they knew, they had someone who someone cared and loved them and had great break-out song that explained who they were and why. Elsa shown to very relaxed, quite, and elegant, unlike her sister who is goofy and and free-spirited. In fact, that's another thing I'd like to talk about, is Elsa being free spirited. When we see her in "Let It Go", she's shown to be afraid of those around that she cares about and just be herself when show was alone building her ice castle via her magic. But despite all these troubles and trials she feels as if she has to go through, Elsa truly loves her sister, Anna. For example, after Anna throw herself between the evil Prince Hans and after she froze solid, she felt really sad and heartbroken. Luckily, it's not until Anna's sacrifice was an act of selfless love that Elsa finally learned to control her powers and saved Arendelle from the blizzard and even creates a magic cloud for Olaf. This shows that Elsa REALLY cares for those she loves, even if that someone isn't Anna.
At the end of the movie she's shown to really enjoy her powers and promise never to shut the castle gates or anyone else ever again. And this is what makes Anna and Elsa the greatest Modern Disney Characters ever created.
Well, that's all folks! I hope you enjoyed this list of great new Disney characters. I can't wait to see next time on the new blog post.
See you later, folks!

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