Snow Queen back on

[princealia]

Comments

[kanashimichan]

YESSSSS!

But as happy as I am, I can't help but groan at the new title. I know I shouldn't nitpick, but it just bugs me like crazy. Please just give your films a classic, timeless title, Disney. You used to before. Why can't we go back to that?

Just call it The Snow Queen.
Just call it Rapunzel.
Why a generic short word that vaguely describes the film like Frozen or Tangled? Argh.

[elvensapphire]

I agree with you about the titles. :|

[kanashimichan]

Can you imagine if they'd done it twenty years ago?

The Little Mermaid would have been called Wet, and Beauty and the Beast would have been called Hairy.

[princealia]

Those sound like porn titles XDDDD

[elvensapphire]

OH MY GOD. xDDDDDDDDD

[kanashimichan]

Oh the unfortunate implications. xD

[whittertwitter]

Because little boys won't watch a movie that has a girl in the title. [eyeroll]

[princealia]

What's sad is it works. Tangled did tremendously better than PATF in roping in boys, which is ironic considering all the merchandise is for girls.

[semi_subtle]

But it was also marketed as more of an adventure film than a romance. I think that probably had more to do with it.

[whittertwitter]

Yes. [sigh] I sound like such a hipster, but people are sheep.

[princealia]

Disney has a history of changing titles to make them the most money. Basil of Baker Street was renamed to The Great Mouse Detective to scrub away most direct references to Sherlock Holmes due to the poor reviews and performance of Steven Spielberg's Young Sherlock Holmes movie. There's actually a hilarious spoof on that.

So the titles sound generic, but it works. The less specific, the more curiosity it brings. Or something like that.

[kanashimichan]

I had no idea it went back that far. I think my favorite on that list has gotta be Robin Hood with Animals. xD

I still honestly don't like it though. But I guess there's nothing I can do but just shrug it off and pretend they have more dignified titles in my head.