My favourite Disney film among those we studied in Disney Lit Weeks 1 and 2 is Frozen.  Here are two new items based on that movie, one a song to be sung by my favourite male Disney character – Kristoff – and the other a plot outline for a sequel to the movie.

The song is called Kristoff's Lament.  He sings it to his reindeer Sven after Sven urges him to go to Anna and kiss her but before he sees the snowstorm in Arendelle, telling him that she's in trouble and needs his help.  Until then, he must surely be longing for Anna and feeling sorrow and a new and painful awareness of his own inadequacy.  Here are the words.

I once was contented and happy
All alone with just you as a friend,
But when I fell in love with fair Anna,
All my happiness came to an end,
For I know that she never could love me:
I'm a homely and simple guy too,
And I'm hopeless at wooing a woman.
I can only speak freely with you.

You urge me to kiss her to save her,
Ah, but how could my kiss have a chance
When she'd rather be kissed by another:
That most charming and handsome Prince Hans?
I just want life and joy for dear Anna.
It's with Hans that she wishes to be,
And I long to be frozen by Elsa,
For there's no joy in life now for me.

I wrote the music, including the accompaniment, as well as the words.  Although I'm not a trained singer, I sang the song because I want the good guy to be sung by a bass for a change.  The accompaniment is a synthesized string quartet: violin, viola, cello and string bass.  Here is the URL of the mp3 file:

http://www.info2.uqam.ca/~walsh_t/music/Kristoff's_Lament.mp3.  Clicking on a link doesn't work; so copy and paste the link into your browser.

Disney studios has announced that they will make a sequel to the movie Frozen.  Here is an outline of a plot for a sequel.  It couldn't be made into a movie because in contains anachronisms, but here it is for your amusement.

Elsa freezes part of the nearby sea to save Kristoff the trouble of climbing up the North Mountain to get ice.  He puts removable wheels on his new sled to make it easier for Sven to pull it, and then sets off to deliver the ice.

When he returns, Anna tells him what changes he has to make if he wants to marry her: take a shower and use deodorant every night before going to bed and learn how to talk diplomatically to people, in particular when Elsa is entertaining foreign dignitaries in her castle; it wouldn't do for him to call a foreign dignitary a crook.  He replies that he hasn't asked her to marry him, but that he is nevertheless happy to meet all her conditions.  He cleans up his physical habits right away, but his first attempts at diplomacy are laughably inadequate; so Anna and Elsa teach him some stock phrases and tell him to let them do the talking whenever a situation comes up for which none of the stock phrases is appropriate.  Under their expert tutelage, he gradually learns how to be an acceptable consort to a princess, and he and Anna start planning their wedding.

Meanwhile, in the Southern Isles, Hans is on trial for his attack on Arendelle's royal family.  In his own defense, he states that he didn't try to become King of Arendelle for himself alone.  Everyone in the Southern Isles would benefit by his taking over Arendelle: they could plunder Arendelle and share the wealth gained thereby.  Since his first plan failed, he has another one up his sleeve: to build up an army and conquer Arendelle by force.  The prosecutor protests that Arendelle has a weapon against which the Southern Isles have no defense: Elsa's freezing curse.  Hans answers that Elsa's curse takes half an hour to freeze a person, during which time the soldiers could continue to fight, and once the Southern Army wins the war and Elsa is killed, the soldiers' wives and girlfriends could come and undo the curse by kissing them.  The majority of the spectators cheer his plan; so the judge decides to give him a suspended sentence, to be served if his new plan fails.

One of the spectators, by the name of Abi (named after the current leader on the Year 3 leader board), pretends to approve of his plan, but in the dead of night she sneaks away, journeys to Arendelle, warns Queen Elsa about Hans' plan and tells her that she can aim her curse more accurately by focusing on her target and make it act faster and at a greater distance by applying more willpower to it, something she learned in an online course in Charms.  Abi declines to serve as Elsa's practising partner because she no longer has a boyfriend to undo the curse: her ex-boyfriend doesn't know it yet, but she dropped him when he volunteered to join the army.  Kristoff does have a girlfriend who can undo the curse; so he volunteers to be Elsa's partner.  He finds it disconcerting to be alternately frozen and thawed, but he considers it a small price to pay to get kissed by Anna each time.  Eventually Elsa is able to make her freezing curse work fast enough and at a great enough distance to freeze an attacking soldier before he could shoot any of Arendelle's soldiers with his bow and arrow.  Then she assembles an army of her own, which she will lead into battle when Hans' army enters Arendelle.

Back in the Southern Isle, Hans is now satisfied that he has assembled a strong enough army and leads them towards Arendelle.  At this point, Christophe Beck, who wrote the score for the movie, decides to accompany that scene with music that is not his own.  Here is the URL of a web site in which this music is being played:

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=in+the+hall+of+the+mountain+king&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=B8DF0D1265BA9BA97799B8DF0D1265BA9BA97799

Elsa hears the music, realizes that Hans' army has begun to march on Arendelle and sounds the alarm.  Hans' army is bigger and better armed than hers, but she freezes all his front-line soldiers (accompanied by the final chords) before they can shoot any of hers; so he calls a truce.  He drops his sword, offers to surrender, asks Elsa, Anna and Kristoff to drop their swords too and approaches them.  He shakes hands first with Kristoff, then with Elsa, and finally with Anna.  Suddenly he pulls Anna in front of him as a shield, pulls a knife out of his pocket, holds it at her throat, tells Elsa that he'll kill Anna if she freezes any more of his soldiers or if anyone makes a move towards him, and orders his troops to charge.  Anna grabs his knife arm and twists it away from her, and before he can grab his knife with his other hand, Kristoff knocks him out cold with one blow from his mighty fist.  Elsa immediately freezes Hans and then proceeds to freeze his oncoming soldiers.  The unfrozen soldiers come to a screeching halt and then beat a hasty retreat, carrying away all their frozen comrades including Hans.

Elsa remarks that she enjoyed the music she just heard.  Then Christophe Beck appears on the scene and admits that the music wasn't his own composition.  It was "In the Hall of the Mountain King", from the first Peer Gynt Suite, composed by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.  Elsa sends a messenger to find Mr. Grieg and bring him to her so that she can offer him the position of court composer.  Poor Mr. Beck says: "I wanted that position.  Why did I have to open my big mouth?" and walks sadly away.

Soon Edvard Grieg has moved into Elsa's castle and assembled a chamber orchestra to play music, including his own.  Elsa is so charmed by his music that she proposes marriage to him, and he gladly accepts; so now the two sisters plan to have a double wedding and they agree on a date, which is some time after Anna's next birthday.

At this point the seven-minute short film "Frozen Fever" is inserted into the sequel.  Elsa is planning a birthday party for Anna, but she catches a cold, and every time she sneezes, a bunch of little snowmen emerge from her.  On Anna's advice she agrees to call off the party and go to bed, but before she does, she blows into the alphorn and an enormous snowball flies out of it all the way to the Southern Isles.  It hits Hans, who has been sentenced to community service – cleaning stables – and knocks him into a pile of horse manure.

The wedding day comes, and the two couples get married to the accompaniment of Grieg's chamber orchestra playing wedding music, including his own composition Huldigungsmarsch.  While he is walking down the aisle with Elsa, one of the musicians has to conduct the chamber orchestra, and he can't keep the beat, but they ignore him and play correctly anyway.

One November day seven years later, Elsa and Anna are in Disney World greeting customers as part of a trade deal with the United States and Kristoff is up in the North Mountain collecting ice, leaving Edvard in charge of the two children: Elsa's and Edvard's son Jack and Anna's and Kristoff's daughter Jill.  Jill complains that she doesn't want to wait until the winter to go ice skating, and Jack, after a few tries, manages to create a skating rink.  Edvard is delighted that Jack has inherited not only his musical talent but also Elsa's magical powers and decides to call him Jack Frost.  But when Elsa and Anna return to Arendelle, they are less than pleased to learn of Jack's newfound power, because they're not sure that he'll be able to control it.  This sets up another sequel, either a full-length feature if Frozen II is a box-office hit or another short film otherwise.