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Ali07
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Location: Victoria, Australia
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 Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:33 am
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| EnzoM87 wrote: | | Or maybe you should watch both, selling points or not (also, those 3 are not the only reasons why Frozen is so great), since these are completely different movies with completely different purposes. |
Eh, nothing in promo materials made it feel like a movie "for me". Others tried to sell me on it, but nothing sounded interesting to me. Won't be watching it, and I was kind of being sarcastic with Tangled.
The discussion on the movie in this thread has brought some things to light, but nothing that makes me want to see the movie.
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Sacto0562
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:42 pm
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Someone on another forum suggested that the reason why Frozen became such a huge hit in Japan is the fact the Elsa character has powers over cold and ice akin to the yuki-onna of Japanese folklore. No wonder why many Japanese could relate to Elsa.
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Stuart Smith
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:39 pm
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I seriously doubt that. So many western properties which have vague similarities to Japanese culture or media do poorly more often than not for that to be a factor.
It did well because it's a Disney movie. That's really all there is to it. Disney movies 99% of the time always do well. Couple that with the absurd hype it has, and it's not exactly some big mystery.
-Stuart Smith
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enurtsol
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 1:51 am
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^ Has to be more than that. There's well, then there's Studio Ghibli phenomenal.
Here's Japan's Highest-Grossing Films of All-Time (by the end of June 2014, almost a month ago):
- 01 ¥30.40 billion - Spirited Away (2001)
02 ¥26.20 billion - Titanic (1997)
03 ¥24.25 billion - Frozen (2014) [108 days in release]
04 ¥20.30 billion - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
05 ¥19.60 billion - Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
06 ¥19.30 billion - Princess Mononoke (1997)
07 ¥17.35 billion - Bayside Shakedown: Save the Rainbow Bridge! (2003)
08 ¥17.30 billion - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
09 ¥15.60 billion - Avatar (2009)
10 ¥15.50 billion - Ponyo (2008)
11 ¥13.70 billion - The Last Samurai (2003)
12 ¥13.50 billion - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
12 ¥13.50 billion - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
14 ¥13.40 billion - Armageddon (1998)
15 ¥12.85 billion - Jurassic Park (1993)
16 ¥12.70 billion - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
17 ¥12.02 billion - The Wind Rises (2013)
18 ¥11.80 billion - Alice in Wonderland (2010)
19 ¥11.00 billion - Antarctica (1983)
19 ¥11.00 billion - The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
19 ¥11.00 billion - Finding Nemo (2003)
19 ¥11.00 billion - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
23 ¥10.90 billion - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
24 ¥10.80 billion - Toy Story 3 (2010)
25 ¥10.65 billion - Independence Day (1996)
26 ¥10.32 billion - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2004)
27 ¥10.10 billion - Bayside Shakedown (1998)
28 ¥10.02 billion - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
29 ¥9.70 billion - Mission: Impossible II (2000)
29 ¥9.70 billion - A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
There's only 2 other Disney animated films on the Top 30 of Japan, with the next one (Finding Nemo) not even half of what Frozen has gotten. It flat-out resonated with the Japanese like a Studio Ghibli animated film would.
Even according to Hollywood Reporter:
"Why 'Frozen' Was Such a Big Box-Office Hit in Japan"
- Japan's love of both animation and Disney is no secret — Tokyo Disney Resort has seen well over 550 million visitors since it opened in 1983, more than four times the population of Japan — so Frozen was expected to do well, though nobody foresaw the social phenomenon it became. Walt Disney Studios Japan scheduled the home entertainment release for July 16, clearly expecting the film to have left cinemas by then.
One factor that helped contribute to the success of Frozen was the local voice and song casting. Anna and Elsa were voiced by Sayaka Kanda and Takako Matsu, two singers and actresses whose performances received almost universal acclaim. Two postings of Matsu's Japanese version of "Let It Go" have more than 95 million hits on Youtube, and the song has been heard everywhere for months, while the bilingual soundtrack album has been in the top 10 since March, currently sitting at number two.
"Ari no Mama de," which translates roughly as "just as it is" and is the Japanese rendition of the "Let It Go" phrase, worked exceptionally well, and the independent-girl-power theme was a part of the film's appeal in a conformist society that is beginning to deal with ingrained chauvinism. Disney's marketing in Japan originally targeted young women and girls with the somewhat unconventional dual-female lead characters and the film's musical-like qualities. Spreading from that core audience, Frozen began to attract a wide age range, getting occasional cinemagoers into theaters, and a large number of repeaters.
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