I've been *slightly* obsessed with "Frozen" for a couple of months now. "Let It Go," a very good song, is up for an Oscar tonight, but I absolutely adore "Love Is An Open Door," both for lyrics and the sequence's direction.
Actors tend to get a lot of love, as they should -- adulation is practically oxygen to Wilfair's Prior Yates -- but I want to thank Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, the film's songcrafters, for writing this exchange in "Love Is An Open Door":
Hans: I mean it's crazy!
Anna: What?
Hans: We finish each others'--
Anna: Sandwiches!
Hans: That's what I was gonna say!
Perfect writing. The secret to humor is surprise, the tiny twist at the end. Applause applause applause.
"Frozen," by the by, and "Get a Horse!," the short that preceded it in theaters, both had female directors. Cheers to Jenny Lee and Lauren MacMullen!
And am I into the idea that the film's main guy is an easygoing working man -- Kristoff the Ice Cutter -- and the film's main lady is royalty -- Princess Anna?
I wouldn't be into that particular dynamic at all.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! THE BEST.
