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>>217548 >Public Domain How many high quality animated adaptations did we get for Beauty and the Beast and Little Mermaid after Disney's? Public domain ensures someone will do something but that's about it. In terms of getting something of quality, the odds are damn low. "The Snow Queen" is a unique enough character that even showing up in a bastardized form, the odds are low that any really competent animation company will tackle the story. And really, this was a project Disney's been tossing about for long enough that I wanted to see their take on it. It should've been playing to their strengths.
>There's a version out now And of the 6 reviews I've seen, all 6 were very negative. It's just not a good movie. Poor CGI animation, a muddled script, bad dubbing into English (it's Russian originally). It might not have been direct to video, but neither was Alpha and Omega.
>>217549 >Oh yes because switching gender roles is so unique and inspiring.
A reversal that makes both villain and heroic protagonist women? And makes the male protagonist an individual who just gets rescued, taking no active role in his rescue? Rare in general and extremely rare in the body of stories that Disney draws most of its inspiration from.
Out of Fables and Fairy tales I suppose Tam Lin does come the closest that I can think of (and it's been modernized in very fun ways), but... seriously? Your average telling has the female protagonist getting herself mysteriously pregnant, thinking about getting an abortion, and "riding" a naked man. Disney's no stranger to taking liberties, but that one's pushing it way past the plausibility point. They've Seen Some Shit and still adapted it, but Tam Lin just ain't gonna happen. And Tam (unlike Kai) plays a fairly active role in his own "rescue." Plus the Snow Queen plays around more by having Gerda run into female variants on some classic hero trials - befriending the (female) thief on the road, being tempted with eternal happiness (and forgetting her past) by the Circe-like sorceress. It was already great fodder for a movie, so getting Frozen instead... this blows.
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