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Frozen Stereotypes
Hello Disney, I'm back. You’re back too! Unfortunately still making female and male stereotypes. Congratulations you have achieved nothing...again. In 2013, the movie Frozen presented a terrible screenplay that reinforces all the gender stereotypes Disney has helped create. Directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee are taking kids who are in front of their televisions all day and teaching that princesses always need help.

In Frozen the two princesses parents die and Elsa takes over as queen. Elsa has freezing powers she is trying to hide. One day she gets scared and almost hurts people. She runs away to a mountain where she hides. Anna chases after her and meets a man and a reindeer named Kristoff and Sven. They help her get to the top of the
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With Kristoff being the one who has to save a princess like every other Disney movie. Sleeping Beauty, Tangled, Snow White, I can go on for days naming films that have a princess that needs saving. Also the movie has Elsa who has pale skin, with big blue eyes, and blond hair. This is obviously being stereotypical because this is how Disney thinks they make their characters more “Pretty” when really it's just hypnotizing the current generation of children that females have to be pale skinned, with big blue eyes, and blond hair. Kristoff was also stereotypical because at the very beginning of the movie the ice men said “stronger than one hundred men.” This is showing the stereotype that men always have to be strong and never need help with anything they do. Finally Hans was stereotypical because in Disney movies there always has to be an antagonist In this case it was Hans. Hans seemed like a great nice guy until the end when he turned his back and almost killed Elsa if it weren't for Anna. Disney movies normally has a bad guy, up until the end everyone must have thought that there either was not one or it was Elsa. No one expected such a nice guy to to such a thing but he did, when we least expected

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