!nezorF Trivia Quiz

Answer: Kristoff

The Marshmallow scene, by the way, is a post-credits scene where we find out that Marshallow has survived a nasty fall at the hands of Hans, and goes on to live happily in Elsa's ice castle (which we'll see more of in a bit).

Kristoff's sled and love of reindeer are based on the Sámi people, who inhabit parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Sometimes people only know this group of people by an offensive slur for them, Laplander. They are crucial to the plot of "Frozen II", where we see the Northuldra tribe designed after them, and their musical traditions are incorporated into pieces of music in both films that have "Vuelie" in the title.

Answer: Anna

Contrary to what the audience expects beforehand, it is Anna herself who performs the act. She is about to reach Kristoff when she sees Hans swinging at Elsa with a sword, and runs between them as she freezes in order to protect Elsa. This act of true love for her sister saves them both, and fits with the female empowerment message of the film.

While the rest of Arendelle thaws, Olaf needs help from a cloud hovering above him that Elsa creates. He gets his "In Summer" wish of being able to experience the warmer climate.

Answer: Olaf

The snowman Olaf is possibly the breakout character of the film - a huge success, he became the title character in the 20-minute feature "Olaf's Frozen Adventure", to tide us over in the wait between "Frozen" and "Frozen II". The writers' decision to change him from annoying sidekick to hilarious comic relief was possibly one of their most brilliant.

He comes to rescue Anna in the library of the palace as she has been left by somebody to die... we'll see who in the next question... and starts a fire to warm her even though it puts his life at risk. The library door is locked, so the pair have to escape via a window that is opened by a strong gust of wind.

Meanwhile, Elsa is also trapped by the same somebody who betrays Anna, but she breaks free pretty easily with her ever-growing powers.

Answer: Hans

Prince Hans did not exist in the original draft of the film, and once he was introduced, the screenwriters had to walk a tightrope between making the audience approve of Anna eventually turning away from him and towards Kristoff, and not making the plot twist obvious.

For example, Anna flirting with Kristoff on their first encounter was removed from later drafts as it swung too far towards alienating the audience from the then-engaged Anna and devaluing the plot twist. The initial writing of Hans as clearly evil would have led to the twist falling flat. When I watched the film for the first time, I know I didn't expect Hans' betrayal at all, so the writers did a good job in the end!

Answer: Fixer Upper

The trolls' matchmaking - going so far as trying to actually get the Troll Priest to marry Anna and Kristoff on the spot - is interrupted by Anna's worsening frozen heart condition, which causes her to collapse, and well we know what happens from then on.

The music of "Frozen" was written by the husband and wife duo Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. To Kristen, the song is about Robert: when they started dating, he was living with his parents, had no employment and was writing a musical. (The musical would eventually become the highly successful but thoroughly not-suitable-for-children "Avenue Q".) "Fixer Upper" is probably the biggest clue that Anna and Kristoff will eventually end up together, as we watch their awkward denials of interest for each other.

Answer: For the First Time in Forever (Reprise)

"For the First Time in Forever" was one of the last songs written, just five months from the film's release. The reprise, then, had to be written even later! In the reprise, some of the percussion sound effects when Elsa strikes Anna in the heart come from the first song in the movie, "Frozen Heart", giving that song an extra meaning. The songs listed as wrong answers do not actually get reprise versions.

Elsa is a lovable character even when she is frustrating and dangerous, such as in this scene. It was not always this way. "Frozen" was adapted from the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale "The Snow Queen", continuing in their tradition of Andersen adaptations like "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Mermaid". In "The Snow Queen", the title character is outwardly villainous, and so too was Elsa for a while.

A Disney "Snow Queen" adaptation was a project pursued as far back as the 1990s, but the villainy of Elsa was a difficult hurdle for the production to overcome, leading to several abandoned attempts. The breakthrough that led to "Frozen" was in making the Snow Queen - Elsa - sisters with the protagonist - Anna. In doing so, they forced the audience to relate to her, and began to make her actions more understandable.

Answer: Wandering Oaken

Wandering Oaken's Trading Post and Sauna is run by Oaken. Anna needs winter gear to climb the North Mountain during the storm of Elsa's creation. Kristoff comes in, covered in snow, looking for carrots for Sven, along with a rope and an axe. Both are irritated by Oaken's comments that it's the off-season, which means he's got little winter gear in stock and the prices of the items Kristoff wants are prohibitively expensive.

In contrast to the drafted flirty meeting of Anna and Kristoff that we talked about a couple of questions ago, the final version of their first encounter is ice cold. Kristoff is kicked out of Oaken's store and is very rude to Anna, only reluctantly letting her come along and being quite insulting to her about getting engaged to Hans so soon after meeting him.

Answer: Anna and Hans want Elsa's blessing to get married

Though Anna was massively looking forward to Elsa's coronation (or... will be looking backward to it, in the reversed film on my screen), she is overeager. Deprived of friends and loved ones, she leaps at the first chance she gets for romance with Hans. But were Elsa to have given her blessing, it would only have advanced Hans' plan to take the Arendelle throne, and as it is, Anna's frustration and Elsa saying no causes Elsa to have an outburst that reveals her secret and puts Arendelle in danger.

The duet between Anna and Hans, "Love Is an Open Door", contains several hidden allusions to the secret plan of Hans. For Anna, the title represents a change from the closed doors of the castle in which Elsa hides from her, and the outside world are kept away. However, to Hans, they symbolize how Anna's love create an "open door" that he can easily walk through to gain royal power. His line "I've been searching my whole life to find my own place" isn't about Anna at all, but about owning the castle.

The line "You and I were just meant to be" sounds romantic, but Hans says "you" and Anna says "I", so both of them are actually talking about Anna. This is a hint to how she is the only one of them actually in love. Finally, in the line "We finish each other's... sandwiches... that's what I was gonna say!", you can see very brief confusion on Hans' face before he pretends to be in sync with Anna, showing that he is pretending.

By coincidence, the same joke about finishing each other's sandwiches appears in the sitcom "Arrested Development", a complete coincidence. Kristen Anderson-Lopez was eating a sandwich while song-writing and incorporated that into the lyrics.

Answer: In a boat during a storm

The plot of "Frozen II" will revolve around Agnarr and Iduna (who are not named until then), and particularly Elsa's relationship to her mother. We learn there what their boat journey is all about, and that knowledge brings even more poignance to the scene here where we watch the boat capsize. I will not spoil it here.

Their parents die just as Elsa are reaching adulthood, while Anna is developing as a teenager. The effect on Anna is terrible: she is forced to grieve alone, as her only remaining family member Elsa is still too afraid to build a relationship with her.

Answer: Grand Pabbie (Troll King)

Grand Pabbie is able to save Anna this time, but we know that things will prove too difficult for his healing powers when Elsa is a grown adult with much stronger powers, and her burst of ice hits Anna right in the heart.

Screenwriter Jennifer Lee based some of Anna and Elsa's personal journeys on her own relationship with her older sister, having lost close connection to her during childhood and then rebuilt a good relationship as adults. Cut from the final script was a scene with Anna and Elsa interacting as teenagers, as they needed to be almost completely separated after Elsa injured Anna and their parents realize that having the two together is a safety risk.

"Do You Want to Build a Snowman?", the first major song, needs three different singers for Anna: at age five, nine and 15. The youngest singer is the daughter of the songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez; the middle is the daughter of screenwriter Jennifer Lee; and the oldest is Kristen Bell, who voices Anna for the rest of the film.