“I was so happy,” Lee told me later. “So relieved. We had struggled for so long, and then we heard ‘Let It Go’ and, finally, it felt like we had broken through. We could see the movie. We had been carrying the pieces in our heads, but we needed someone to show us ourselves in the characters, to make them familiar. ‘Let It Go’ made Elsa feel like one of us.”
Right. So. Here's the thing. Let It Go is...actually, I hate it, but it's objectively a decent song for what it's trying to be. The problem is, THERE IS NO STORY AROUND IT. All these things y'all keep saying didn't actually make it into the final cut. There are fourteen different little quirks that might, maybe, at some point develop into a plot, but never actually do. The only reason the movie was such a success is that Disney threw so much insane marketing money at it that it basically couldn't fail. Also, four year olds aren't known for their discerning artistic taste.
