Secretsofthestorymakers - Where The North Wind Meets The Sea

I can hardly describe how much this movie has meant to me 🥹🥹

I’m not sure about a tumblr post, but the directors addressed this at one point! It used to be on the Frozen wiki. It’s not there anymore, but I have screenshots!

Hey if anyone can help me find the OG post that said Elsa’s power is Magic and Anna’s power is Love, that would be great because I love that theory and I have been walking around with it in my head for years but I feel weird talking about it when I can’t remember where on this hell site it came from

Wish Analysis Pt. 1/3

I just saw Wish and 😍😍✨🤩!!!!!! I love it SO MUCH!!!! I have a rule for myself: watch first, analyze later, so I only really have surface level analysis right now, but I figured I’d write and post it anyway! Sorry this is gonna be super long, I typed a whole essay! Obviously spoilers ahead:

First of all, let me just say that I was absolutely dazzled! The animation, the songs, the story, AHHH so good! And STAR 🤩🤩!! YES! The songs felt very Disney, but in a new way that I absolutely loved. I was crying, stifling screams (because movie theater), and I nearly fell off my chair a few times. I’m legit thinking about going to see it again tomorrow.

Ok, enough of me just fangirling haha. There were so many references to other Disney movies in Wish. I know I missed some while watching and I’ve forgotten some since then, but I’ll try to summarize what I saw. Beginning with a storybook was a beautiful choice as a nod to old Disney movies. So many Snow White references, it was insane. Dahlia and the other kitchen workers were the seven dwarves, the wishing well (that was also a hidden Mickey), Magnifico’s whole hidden lair (especially the poison apple and listing ingredients). There was a bear named John (Little John from Robin Hood), a bunny did Thumper’s foot tapping thing, a deer named Bambi, the mushrooms and flowers dancing could be Alice in Wonderland all in the You’re a Star sequence. There were lanterns and the boats as a reference to Tangled. The vines of magic across the castle at the end looked very much like Maleficent’s magic. The swirling clouds above the castle looked like Night on Bald Mountain. When Magnifico got trapped in the staff at the end was very Jafar in the lamp. At one moment in the forest Magnifico directly mirrored a shot of the Headless Horsemen from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad. Asha riding on a deer surrounded by other deer could have been a reference to Lost in the Woods. And all the wishes briefly mentioned/shown were references to other Disney movies; one directly used footage from Peter Pan (and then showed Peter and Wendy in the very end), a wish for true love could be any number of movies, the wish to sail a ship could be Peter Pan, but I think was probably Moana, the wish for a perfect nanny for their children must have been Mary Poppins (which is slightly odd, since every other reference I caught was to an animated movie, but whatever), and the one to climb a mountain was about Strange World. I know I’ve missed dozens of references, but that’s all I can think of right now!

The Theory of Magic

Magic works a little differently in every fantasy universe. Some things are typically consistent however, like that magic follows emotion. Frozen definitely follows this but the Frozen universe also has some very unique elements to its magic.

Here’s the basic theory: Memory is magic and magic is powered by emotions and the memory of emotions. The two most powerful emotions are love and fear, but love is always strongest. Many emotions can fuel magic, but only love and fear can create life. This is shown by how Elsa creates life with her magic, both in Frozen and Frozen Fever. Magic and memory are inextricably intertwined.

I wrote this paragraph (inspired by Myth: A Frozen Tale) as a poetic version of my interpretation of the beginning of magic. It was intended to be a passage from Secrets of the Magic Makers.

“In the beginning there was memory. In the beginning there was magic. Magic flowed through the air, fire, water, earth. It danced on the glow of the aurora. It sang with the clouds painted by the setting sun. Magic and memory swirled together in an endless, beautiful harmony. And our world danced. And out of this magic was born life. Ahtohallan emerged from the sea, the perfect combination of magic and memory, uniting them and bringing spirit to the elements of nature, letting the world shine with life.”

Hi! This is my first time having a tumblr account, but I’ve kind of been lurking for a while! I absolutely love Disney and especially Frozen, and really enjoy writing about them, so I’m planning to post some analyses soon!