Which Disney Movies Are Based on Fairy Tales?
The Dark, Twisted Fairy Tales Behind 10 Classic Disney Movies
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Although Frozen was originally said to be an adaptation of the original tale by Hans Christian Andersen, Snow Queen, the two are completely different. In the origin story, an evil fairy creates a mirror that turns all the beauty of the world into something ugly and repulsive. The sprite drops the mirror, and it shatters into a million pieces that lodge into the hearts and eyes of people around the world.
The story shifts, talking about a little boy named Kay and a little girl named Gerda. Kay gets some of those mirror splinters in his eyes, and later gets abducted by the Snow Queen and taken to her ice palace far away. Gerda seeks to find him, going through trials that include imprisonment by a sorceress in the garden of eternal Summer, a prince and princess in a different palace, a robber, a captive reindeer (Sven? Is that you?), and finally, the Snow Queen's palace.
Kay has been frozen on a giant frozen lake called the Mirror of Reason, but Gerda's warm tears thaw him out. Meanwhile, his own tears get all those pesky mirror splinters out of his eye. They return home, where it's Summer.