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The thing I was so excited about when Jenn and Chris, and came to us to do Frozen 2 was looking at ‘could we open the lens to finding your own power?’ Finding, without needing anybody, that moment, especially for a woman when they know, ‘ This, this is my purpose in life. “I know early on, for you Kristen, it was the one thing coming in where if we could ever do something like that for Elsa, it would mean so much.”Īnderson-Lopez agreed, recalling, “ Frozen 1 was trying to open the lens of true love to include familial love.
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She was speaking about how no Disney Princess movie from her childhood was about the heroine discovering true self-realization, as opposed to true love. “We’ve never seen that for a woman, growing up, to know you have the answers within you,” Lee said during a virtual press conference earlier this week. It’s a surprising revelation, especially since the tune’s spiritual growth in Elsa’s character is what her arc builds to throughout Frozen 2, and was what songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez were most excited about tackling in a sequel when directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck approached them. Into the Unknown: Making Frozen 2, a new docuseries on Disney+, details this at length, including how the song was almost cut from the movie. It didn’t work out that way, but then as we now know the birthing process of “Show Yourself” was not particularly easy for anyone involved. The scene is preferred by many over the more straight-forward attempt to recapture “Let It Go,” aka “Into the Unknown,” including apparently Menzel herself, who previously hinted she would’ve liked to see Disney campaign “Show Yourself” for Best Song at the Oscars.
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Yet even with Idina Menzel’s highest of high notes, the song is unlike “Let It Go” due to a melancholic undertone about Elsa facing the ghosts of her family’s legacy and accepting her full identity. And she does it all while singing an empowering anthem. Inside of Ahtohallan, a river of memories that’s been frozen into a glacier of ice, Queen Elsa of Arendelle finally confronts the truth about her past, her family’s history, and her own soul. For many Elsa fans, it’s the highlight of Frozen 2.