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Disney's Frozen - Grading and Discussion

Your grade?

  • A+

    Votes: 28 36.4%

  • A

    Votes: 22 28.6%

  • A-

    Votes: 4 5.2%

  • B+

    Votes: 3 3.9%

  • B

    Votes: 9 11.7%

  • B-

    Votes: 4 5.2%

  • C+

    Votes: 2 2.6%

  • C

    Votes: 4 5.2%

  • C-

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • D+

    Votes: 0 0.0%

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  • F

    Votes: 1 1.3%
  • Total voters
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Admiral2 said:
Mark_Nguyen said:
It didn't help that Travolta royally messed up her name too.
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Adele Dazeem...

The word "dyslexia" keeps getting floated around, but that's not what that was. That was bad eyesight and poor preparation mixed with whatever adult beverage John Travolta was powering down on Oscar Night. I mean, even if there was a legitimate reason he couldn't read her name off a 'prompter, the intro was obviously scripted, which means at some point during rehearsals you would think he'd been told at least once that he was introducing Idina Menzel and his memory would have kicked in as the flub started.

But no...Adele Dazeem, the most famous non-person on the planet right now...I'm following her on Twitter... :D
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/...l_adele_dazeem_what_s_your_travolta_name.html


AvBaur said:
Here's a much nicer live version of Let It Go:

http://youtu.be/17QQcK4l6Yw
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Not a song best suited to Jimmy's Classroom Instruments thing (stolen from DMK on Youtube I think...) but she's looks so pretty smiling throughout.
 
I'm cool with that. Idina is a very classy singer and it's a shame they changed things up on her at the last minute. Such is the biz in live TV I suppose.

And just because I can, and hopefully because a couple of you may enjoy it, here's my wife and myself goofing around and singing "Love Is An Open Door":

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Aq7HJjJvI[/yt]

While here she is singing "Libérée, délivrée", the French version of "Let It Go", because she's a professional singer from Quebec, and because SHE can. :P

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5-SEU9HL0k[/yt]

Mark
 
Tom Hendricks said:
The arraignment was sped up and portion of the song was chopped for time just before her performance because of the show going over. It's a three and half minute song reduced to just over two minutes for the broadcast. From the start you can tell she was out of sorts, probably from having to remember where the changes were. When you sing a song over and over again, it becomes second nature but to add wholesale changes make even professional broadway singers nervous and uncomfortable. About half way through, after her initial bout of nervousness she was freer. However she had to really rush the last few lines of the lyrics and don't think she recovered for the last high note. If you watch the Jimmy Fallon version you can see that one was also quicker but more natural and how effortlessly she hits that last note.
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Agreed. As I mentioned upthread, it felt like the arrangement was paced too quickly. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought so. I loved how fun and free the Fallon version is. Shows what Menzel can do when given the chance to let her voice fully hit those notes.
 
I don't usually go to Youtube and start posting covers of songs all that much (if at all) but I heard this and figured I would share it. This is Let it Go from a Male perspective. It really shows how hard of a song this is to sing, and that just doing it as an Oscar performance on the fly is almost impossible to live up to the original.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kohD5z5mE0E[/yt]
 
Interesting clip. Thanks for sharing it. I can't pretend to know anything about how difficult that performance was (I imagine it's exceedingly challenging, and I concede at the outset I'd be nowhere near able to match it). But I'd say this performer is at his best when he isn't trying to overdo the needless deeper, growling tones and is more closely matching what we hear from Menzel.
 
Mr. Adventure said:
Admiral2 said:
Mark_Nguyen said:
It didn't help that Travolta royally messed up her name too.
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Adele Dazeem...

The word "dyslexia" keeps getting floated around, but that's not what that was. That was bad eyesight and poor preparation mixed with whatever adult beverage John Travolta was powering down on Oscar Night. I mean, even if there was a legitimate reason he couldn't read her name off a 'prompter, the intro was obviously scripted, which means at some point during rehearsals you would think he'd been told at least once that he was introducing Idina Menzel and his memory would have kicked in as the flub started.

But no...Adele Dazeem, the most famous non-person on the planet right now...I'm following her on Twitter... :D
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/...l_adele_dazeem_what_s_your_travolta_name.html
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Thanks. I am now "Declan Cambeem"
 
Aaand, in the interest of providing equal time...

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd9V0Xo8tXE&list=PLWdTF5FulcwfswhVib5TonoEtAdxexUYB[/yt]
 
‘Frozen’ Sells Massive 3.2 Million Discs in One Day

Animated hit scores one of the biggest debuts in the past decade

“Frozen” has sold 3.2 million DVDs and Blu-rays, Walt Disney Studios said Wednesday.

Those figures make it one of the biggest home entertainment debuts of recent years; an accomplishment that is all the more notable because it takes place at a time when the DVD market has suffered a steep decline.

The movie officially debuted Tuesday, and the 3.2 million figure also includes pre-sales. Customers have been able to reserve copies on sites such as Amazon since November. Earlier on Wednesday, the digital retailer also said that “Frozen” has become the strongest selling home entertainment title in its history.

Initial sales compare favorably with other recent home entertainment successes (studios don't tend to share the bad results and disc sales are closely guarded). Earlier this month, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” sold an estimated 3.9 million DVD and Blu-Ray units in its first weekend of North American release.

In December, “Despicable Me 2” sold 4.5 million units, the most of any animated film during its first week since the first “Despicable Me” in 2010.
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Great news for Disney.
 
I wonder if Disney knew what kind of a hit this movie would be. It makes me even more curious why they chose to promote the film a whole lot different that what we got with that first teaser. Maybe it was the attitude of they just came out with Planes, Disney needed the young crowd, and hopefully word of mouth would have just spread like wildfire. I guess they got their wish because Frozen will be considered a Disney Classic for years to come.
 
I honestly didn't see what was so great about it. I mean, I didn't think it was bad, but just reversing stereotypes? I don't consider that innovative or groundbreaking at all. Unlike Toy Story where it actually had a really great and inventive story. But Frozen? "Ooh, let's have TWO princesses this time, and TWO funny sidekicks! And let's make Prince Charming an evil douchebag while we're at it! OMG, most original story ever!" <just sort of shrugs>

Then again, I don't have whatever gene is required to care much about music, either. It's just sort of there for me in media. None of the songs in this one were at all catchy to me, but I can't remember a single Disney song that was, except maybe that Hakuna Matata one from a while back.
 
Yeah, I'm also baffled by the success of Frozen. I thought Tangled was far superior. It's a good movie, but I just don't see it being this popular.
 
It's not just a great song, though. The song presents a universal theme of defiance, self-acceptance in the face of social pressures, and independence. That the song itself isn't the end of the story - that it's the reconciliation of independence with an accepting family and society - makes its fundamental message accessible to people from all walks of life, with a variety of personal experiences.

The film is a success because, quite simply, it's story is written in a way that it resonates with a *lot* of (though, clearly, not all) people.

And yes, the song doesn't hurt. ;)
 
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