Snow Queen

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• jonnathanson · Nov 4, 2014 · Mentions

  Hans Christian Andersen published "The Snow Queen" in 1844, which is roughly 169 years prior to Disney's release of Frozen. Frozen is a loose adaptation of "The Snow Queen," and for all intents and purposes, it is mostly new material. Andersen's heirs…

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• wodenokoto · Mar 19, 2021 · Mentions

  …story about an evil Ice Queen, so it makes sense that the early iterations had a fairly sinister Elsa. According to Wikipedia: > The 2013 Walt Disney Animation Studios film Frozen was inspired by "The Snow Queen", and closely followed the original Andersen story early in the film's development. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen

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• andsoitis · Dec 18, 2023 · Mentions

  …Disney itself is a talented and successful practitioner of building upon the public domain. In fact, the public domain is Disney’s bread and butter. Frozen was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. The Lion King draws from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Biblical stories, and possibly an epic poem about the founder of the Mali Empire.[3] Fantasia showcases public domain classical music, and “The Sorcerer’s…

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• goto11 · Dec 21, 2018 · Mentions

  The Little Mermaid is not a Disney creation, it is a story by Hans Christian Andersen, as is The Snow Queen which Frozen is (very loosely) based on. You can't trademark a story or idea, but you can trademark a particular character design. You can make your own Cinderella interpretation as long as you don't…

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• bunderbunder · Jun 25, 2024 · Mentions

  …Riffing and building on existing cultural artifacts does not erase them. Nobody's telling Hans Christian Andersen to shut up, and nobody's telling publishers to stop publishing him, and readership of The Snow Queen - the original version - is presumably much greater now than it was in 2012. My kids have specifically asked for it, while I wasn't even aware it existed as a child. On the other hand, the implied message…

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• Retric · Jan 4, 2022 · Mentions

  Your examples of public domain movies take a rather flexible view of the source material. Frozen is a long way from The Snow Queen. A queen had powers over ice there where trolls and someone was saved by a kiss, but in the Snow Queen it was a guy saved by the kiss and the trolls where evil etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone…

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• akkartik · Feb 16, 2015 · Mentions

  Purchased. It occurs to me that the opposite category is also quite interesting. Books like Hammerfall and Snow Queen by Joan Vinge are fantasy with scifi elements that are hard to dismiss.

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