Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, I'm Jan and in this video I'm revealing 14 incredible scenes
cut from Frozen 2, plus the amazing Anna and Olaf songs that you'll wish had been in the
movie.
If you want to jump to any individual deleted scenes or songs, there's timestamps in the
video description.
There's an intriguing deleted scene from early in the movie called "Elsa's Dream" which was
the original inspiration for Elsa's big ballad "Into The Unknown".
The scene takes place just after the sisters fall asleep together following their game
of charades; then Anna is woken up by snowflakes falling
from a cloud created by Elsa's dream.
This deleted scene shows how Elsa's ice magic can manifest physically even when she's sleeping,
and that she can unconsciously project moving images from her dreams.
The images of Iduna and the Enchanted Forest from this discarded scene became the basis
for the dream-like memories and visions that appear to Elsa during Into The Unknown.
Elsa's dream continues and takes a nightmarish turn as images of Arendellian soldiers appear
in the forest.
And the strong emotions this generates in Elsa bring out more of her magic, creating
a mini-storm inside the bedroom.
In that final moment, Elsa literally freezes the rain outside the castle into thousands
of ice crystals, which was where the idea came from to fill the sky in Arendelle with
crystals at the end of Into The Unknown.
Another fascinating deleted scene from early in the movie sees Elsa and Anna discover a
hidden room inside Arendelle castle, where they uncover secret studies being carried
out into the origins of Elsa's powers.
"Magical arts.
Dangers of dark magic.
Father was studying magic."
"Ooh.
Oh!"
"He was studying me too."
"Wait, what?"
"This is some sort of journal.
I can find no record of a human with power like hers but for the ancient myths with their
tragic fates."
"Wait a minute, this isn't father's handwriting, it's mother's."
If we look more closely at the journal, we can see a page about the white gloves Elsa's
father gave her in the first movie in an attempt to supress her ice magic.
"The gloves will help.
See?
Conceal it."
"Don't feel it."
And the journal entry which mentions "the ancient myths with their tragic fates" helps
us understand why Elsa's parents wanted to try and contain their daughter's powers for
fear that her magical nature would lead her to tragedy.
This moment would also have set up the idea of Elsa as a mythical being and foreshadowed
her fate later in the movie when she freezes deep inside Ahtohallan.
The final part of the deleted scene gives the sisters another shocking revelation:
"These next pages are in English, but also..
Northuldrian."
"Northuldrian?
But that language is forbidden.
Why would mother know it?
Or dare use it?"
"Whatever evil my people did, whatever darkness still roams our forest,
I can no longer turn my back on the past."
This tells us that Northuldra culture was actively suppressed inside Arendelle and that's
probably why Iduna kept her research secret including writing in her own language, and
perhaps why she hadn't yet told her daughters that she was Northuldra.
The deleted scene helps explain just how much Iduna and Agnarr were searching for answers
about how to deal with Elsa's magic and shows why they attempted the voyage to Ahtohallan.
It also reveals how the sisters ended up with their mother's Northuldra scarf.
This is also likely where Elsa and Anna would have sung the deleted song "I Seek The Truth"
in which they try to understand the meaning of the messages hidden in this secret room.
A wonderful song deleted from the beginning of the movie was a solo for Anna called "Home"
in which she sings about how much she loves Arendelle.
Let's take a look.
The intention behind this beautiful number was to establish how Anna will be the perfect
Queen for Arendelle by the end of the film.
It shows how she is completely at ease and loves everything about her kingdom.
"Either way, for what it's worth, this perfect corner of the Earth
Is home My home."
And it would also have highlighted just how much Anna had to lose by her decision to destroy
the dam that threatens to flood Arendelle.
And it would also have highlighted just how much Anna had to lose by her decision to destroy
the dam that threatens to flood Arendelle.
The sweetness of this song also contrasts perfectly with her much sadder song "The Next
Right Thing" which she sings at her absolute lowest after realising that both her sister
and Olaf are gone.
"Home" would have also contrasted more with Elsa's big number "Into The Unknown", highlighting
the differences between the sisters and foreshadowing the end of the movie.
In other words, Anna loves her kingdom and her place is there.
"Hey, come 'ere.
Take this coin and go buy a custard bun for everyone."
"OK."
Whereas Elsa is drawn by a call from afar and her destiny lies outside Arendelle.
Sadly, the filmmakers had to cut the song and replace it with the ensemble number "Some
Things Never Change" when they realised they still hadn't set things up sufficiently to
show what was at stake for Elsa, Kristoff and Olaf when Arendelle came under threat.
However, they did take the overall theme of the deleted song and one of its lyrics and
compressed it into the line that Anna says to Olaf just before they sing "Some Things
Never Change": "I have you and Elsa and Kristoff and Sven...
and the gates are open wide... and I'm not alone anymore."
"Unmeltable Me" is a great song by Olaf that ended up being cut from the final film.
It was the movie's original way to explain why the magical snowman no longer needed the
little snow flurry that Elsa gave him in the first movie to stop him from melting.
"Who is present, but not liquescent?
That's right, I just learned to read And I like the big words."
I imagine a lot of fans would have loved to have seen it in the movie.
In the final film, this song was replaced with the scene where Anna visits the little
snowman and casually asks him about his new "permafrost" while he basks in the warmth
of an autumn day.
There's a great shot in the first teaser trailer for Frozen 2 of Anna grabbing Kristoff's sword
and attacking someone off camera.
That scene never made it into the final movie because the story changed and it wasn't needed
any longer.
However, when the filmmakers discovered just how much fans loved seeing Anna wield a sword,
they made sure she had one in the movie, albeit in a slightly different way.
In the final film, when the gang are scared by the noise of approaching strangers in the
forest, Anna grabs an ice sword from one of Elsa's ice memory statues and uses it to defend
the group against the Northuldra and Arendellians who suddenly appear.
Kristoff's part in Frozen 2 underwent some major changes as the movie developed.
At the beginning of the original story, Kristoff was a lord in Arendelle, having been promoted
again from his official title of "Ice Master and Deliverer" that Elsa gave him at the end
of the first film.
However, given Kristoff's humble origins, he was finding it difficult fitting into Arendellian
high society.
And he was keeping his feelings about this a secret, presumably to avoid upsetting Anna.
The truth would eventually come out though in a deleted scene with Kristoff and the Nokk
water spirit.
"I think he's offering you a ride."
"Are you afraid?"
"No, afraid of what?"
"Afraid he won't see truth in your heart and he'll drown you?"
"Er."
"Are you?"
"What?
No.
Course not."
"Then get on."
"See, I knew it would be fine.
Kristoff!"
"I'm OK.
I'm.."
"Except the part where his heart's full of lies apparently."
"Are you OK?
Are you good?"
"I'm good.
Thank you."
"Except you're lying about something."
"I don't like fancy shoes or regal jackets."
"Not a problem."
"I don't like ceremonies or polite conversations."
"How about ice mastering and delivering?"
"No, cos it's not a thing."
"Formal dinners and ballroom dancing?"
"No, and no."
"Do you even like your life in Arendelle at all?
Just tell me the truth."
"No I don't like my life in Arendelle."
"So, it was all a lie, all of it?
"Anna, I.."
"I don't think we should get married."
I think this scene would have come around the middle of the movie after the gang enter
the Enchanted Forest.
The Nokk did appear briefly to Olaf in the forest in the final film, and this break-up
between Anna and Kristoff would have been an alternate way to separate them.
Overall, this unused scene feels just a little too unhappy though compared to the final movie
where the couple are split up in the forest more because they are a little of out of sync
with each other and because Anna is focussed on helping her sister with her quest to Ahtohallan.
However, there is another deleted Kristoff and Anna scene in which he proposes to her
in a grand, glorious and hilarious way when he sings to her.
You can watch my full breakdown of that in my Frozen 2 Deleted Ending video.
The opening scene and prologue of Frozen 2 which tells the story of young Iduna and Agnarr
and the Enchanted Forest was changed many times during the movie's development as it
had to match up with any other story changes in the main part of the film.
On the Blu-ray, there's an alternate prologue that would have shown how Iduna and Agnarr
escaped the fighting between the Arendellians and the Northuldra.
In this version, when the spirits are angered, young Agnarr almost falls off a cliff before
Iduna rescues him.
Mattias then picks them both up and puts them on a cart fleeing the chaos inside the forest
and heading back to Arendelle.
In the final film, Agnarr says he never knew who saved him that day, and instead of the
deleted scene, what we get is Elsa seeing memories of the past inside Ahtohallan and
learning that it was Iduna who smuggled herself and an unconscious Agnarr on to a cart that
took them out of the forest.
An interesting detail in this alternate prologue is that there's a mysterious human character
in the forest who can either shapeshift or moves with the appearance of a reindeer.
This mystery human saves Iduna at one point and is also attacked by Agnarr's father, the
King of Arendelle.
This Is Us star Sterling K Brown's character Mattias also had a different storyline in
earlier versions of the film.
Originally, the high-ranking military man was going to be trapped in the Enchanted Forest
all by himself, rather than with his fellow Arendellians as happens in the final film.
Mattias's original story would have included him singing a song, though that ended up being
deleted from the movie as, ultimately, it 'didn't fit in with the story'.
The trailer scene of the wind spirit Gale uncovering young Agnarr from a bed of leaves
in the forest and blowing him into the air didn't make it into the final film either.
The reason for that is the scene is actually part of a test that the animators did to learn
how to animate the personality of the wind spirit.
The longer version of this scene is on the Blu-ray which also shows some cute moments
between young Iduna and Agnarr.
Another cut trailer scene shows a young Iduna carrying a baby reindeer as the Northuldra
cross over the dam to greet the Arendellians.
And this trailer scene of Kristoff riding a herd of charging reindeer wasn't in the
final movie either.
The trailer scene of Olaf standing next to Elsa as she tries to put out the fires in
the forest was altered for the final movie where Elsa fights the fire spirit alone.
And in another change from the trailers, this shot of Queen Iduna looking out of the bedroom
window at the Northern Lights was replaced with Iduna carrying young Elsa to look out
of the window together.
There's also a much darker original ending to Frozen 2 in which Disney almost killed
off Elsa and destroyed Arendelle.
To learn all about that as well as Kristoff's alternate proposal to Anna, tap here or follow
the link in the video description.
And if you want to see all the deleted scenes in full, check out the Blu-ray – I've added
links to that in the description.
So, which of these deleted scenes and songs do you wish had been in the movie and which
are you glad were cut?
Leave your thoughts in comments below!
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