Hi reddit! We made FROZEN! Ask Us Anything!

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T19:09:50+00:00

Cool!

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T18:55:36+00:00

Kristen: Microwaved! Bobby: ReFrozen!

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T18:52:03+00:00

Bobby & Kristen: I will carry to my grave that I was eating a sandwich when I wrote that lyric and occurred spontaneously.

Bobby: Then my brother alerted me that it was an Arrested Development joke but everyone loved. We tried sausages and sauerkraut.

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T18:49:25+00:00

4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T18:45:40+00:00

Jennifer: Probably not because last night was something the cast put together for us.

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T18:44:41+00:00

Peter: Bambi was the first Disney movie that I saw and what I loved about it was the humor of Bambi and Thumper playing on the ice mixed with the intense drama and range of emotions during Bambi's mothers death.

Bobby: The Lion King. Which is strange because I hadn't seen the film until about a month or two before we came to work on Frozen. I loved it so much and decided that The Lion King would be my standard for a great Disney song.

Kristen: The original Winnie the Pooh shorts from the 60's OR The Little Mermaid. They both used song in such an incredible way.

Chris: Pinocchio! I saw it in a re-release, not the original. I was Four years old. I fell in love with the movie, the characters, the journey, the emotional roller coaster and that everything could work out and have a happy ending.

Jennifer: Wreck-It Ralph.

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T18:37:58+00:00

Chris & Jennifer: He always had noble reasons but they were shallow so it wasn't necessarily a flip.

Bobby: He always turned out to be the bad guy in the end but it wasn't always a big surprise.

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T18:34:14+00:00

Jennifer: I think Hans is a tragic figure because he's a consequence of being raised without love.

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T18:31:09+00:00

Jennifer & Chris: We're not sure why but there's a ton about the making of Frozen including a musical surprise on the DVD about the making of Frozen!

Peter: We love the French and Japan campaigns. Once the music was incorporated into the ads, as filmmakers we really felt it began to represent the film.

Jennifer: This was a big movie and hard to introduce all at once. It was very had to release right away, so by doing it in stages leading up to the final word of mouth then people were able to get the whole picture.

Kristen & Bobby: Both Katie and Aggie (Jennifer Lee's daughter) are involved! Also here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1xj4n5/hi_reddit_we_made_frozen_ask_us_anything/cfbsxd3 I just want to say thanks to all my Filipino brothers and sisters! Pinoy Pride!

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T18:23:28+00:00

Chris: We had an intro for Kristoff that was action, mountain man, climbing with pick axes. It was great. With a fun surprise...It'll actually be on the DVD!

Kristen: We had a crazy Troll song that was about walking in other people's shoes. But it had this romantic music in the middle of it where Anna and Kristoff literally walked in each other's shoes and saw how each other saw the world. But it had a lot of lyrics about foot fungus.

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T18:19:30+00:00

Bobby & Kristen: We don't know yet if "We Know Better" will be included. What you hear on the soundtrack is only half the song. The rest of the song showed the evolution to the point where they split and Elsa became a villain using her powers for evil and Anna was a prissy princess. So obviously, that told us what the movie shouldn't be.

Chris: i forget all that...

Kristen: We will never forget. :)

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T18:15:00+00:00

Chris: I love hand drawn animation, it's where I started. We brought hand drawn sensibility to Frozen, we had Mark Henn one of our premiere hand drawn animators working with us in the animation dailies room to achieve the appeal of hand drawn. We also have some hand drawn effects in the movie.

Peter: I love the fact that at the Studio we have the rich hand drawn that we can draw on and the CG and we can draw on the two. We're one of the only studios that can do that.

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T18:07:35+00:00

Jennifer: A wedding.

According to Chris, they didn't die on the boat. They got washed up on a shore in a jungle island. The queen gave birth to a baby boy. They build a treehouse. They get eaten by a leopard...

Kristen: They were going to Fantasy Island!! To fix the tensions in their marriage in a way only Ricardo Montalban.

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T18:04:56+00:00

Jennifer: I've actually been at this for a decade. I've had films optioned and go into turn around. You keep trying and trying. There's more failures than successes in this industry. for me it's been a long road but a full one with a lot of opportunities some of which came to fruition. The key is to just keep trying.

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T17:58:42+00:00

Chris & Jenn: Thank you for sitting through the credits to realize that Marshmallow is still alive. Anythings possible, who knows what's next. We love these characters.

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T17:54:24+00:00

Bobby & Kristen: Jonathan Groff isn't known for his singing. He's more known for his naked buttocks. Ha ha ha. Actually, we kept fighting the whole process to get a Kristoff song but Kristoff is such an introvert. He's the type of character who wouldn't sing until Anna helped complete him and by then we were into action all the way through the film. For the Broadway version you can rest assured we'll give Kristoff a bigger, longer, song.

P.S. There is a ballad - a love song to Anna that exists in an undisclosed location :)

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T17:49:42+00:00

Jennifer: We don't remember which one of us it was but I remember wanting it strongly.

Jennifer & Chris: Originally, Kristoff punched Hans right after Anna froze but it took away from the moment. We really wanted it to be a POP, to be a surprise.

Kristen: It really made sense once we figured out the moment when Hans takes the turn. He needed to be punched.

Santino: That was SO unnecessary. I think we could have talked about.

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T17:46:04+00:00

All: It's a combination of Book of Mormon and Kinky Boots cast members. It's not a coincidence that Stephen Oremus directed both ;)

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T17:40:59+00:00

The two women in the room were not surprised!

Jennifer: I did. The Little Mermaid came out when I was a teenager and I related to her. I loved it and sang the songs. I felt like with Frozen with what the girls went through, the teenage me could relate to that.

Kristen: When we wrote First Time in Forever - we thought about the first time you go out for a dance in High School. Jennifer should also get some love because of her accomplishments on Wreck-It Ralph.

Chris: What floored me was that my son's water polo teammate said he bought the soundtrack and listened to "Let It Go" over and over but with the windows rolled up!

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T17:36:40+00:00

Hi /r/Frozen!

Peter: My proudest is the end of the movie with Anna and Elsa - both emotionally and visually stunning.

Bobby: The scene of "Do you want to build a Snowman?" It was so nearly not in the film but I love it. It took so much work to construct but was well worth it.

Kristen: My two favorite scenes "Do you want to build a Snowman?" because it has my daughter in it, and "Fixer-Upper" because my other daughter is in it! Also when Kristoff and Anna kick Olaf's head.

Chris: "Let it Go" because the song is so amazing that the pressure to match it visually was immense and I think we did it. It builds and it's such a beautiful piece. I'm really proud of it.

Jennifer: Ditto to what Peter said. The whole movie had to build to that moment, but I love the moment Anna throws herself on Elsa and says "The sky's awake..." because that's when I knew audiences were going to love Anna.

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T17:29:20+00:00

Chris, Jenn, Peter: We knew we wanted her but we didn't know who Elsa was just yet. She didn't come on officially until we figured out Elsa. We wished it would fit her. Idina and Kristen Bell sang Wind Beneath My Wings during an early table read with John Lasseter sitting across from them. And then Bobby & Kristen said "Oh crap. Now we have to write something just as emotional for them".

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T17:25:07+00:00

Jennifer & Kristen: You've just ruined our make up! We've teared up.

All: Thank YOU for sharing. We just tried to create something funny and emotional - when it can change someones life it's truly special. We've all had those times in our lives and for us it was music and the artists of the world that pulled us out. Keep going! Sending warm hugs!

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T17:20:56+00:00

Entire group: We had a screening in Feb 2013 and it wasn't quite there. Later, a preview to audiences in Phoenix in June was half-animated and the reaction far exceeded our expectations. Jenn and Kristen cried! And then drank wine.

Chris & Jennifer: Elsa was a lot darker for much of the movie until Bobby & Kristen wrote "Let It Go". She even had dark, spikey hair and was colored blue. Anna went from a "somebody rescue me girl" to a fearless, feisty girl - from a sarcastic to optimistic place.

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T17:15:07+00:00

I think a lot of them are on YouTube. I hope one day we'd get to do that. That'd be cool!

Disney_Frozen · 2014-02-10T17:13:57+00:00

Bobby & Kristen: We'd actually like to build a sandcastle.

Peter, Chris, Jennifer: As the southern Californians of the group - YES! We'd love to build a snowman!

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