Elsa (Frozen) of the song "Let It Go", with critics frequently calling her a "powerhouse". Attempts were made as early as 1937 by Walt Disney to adapt Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, "The Snow Queen", into a film. The tale focuses on two children, one named Gerda, who served as the basis for Princess Anna, and the other named Kai, who is "cursed with negativity" after his heart is pierced with a shard of glass from an enchanted mirror and is later kidnapped by the Snow Queen. However, Disney struggled with creating a believable, multi-dimensional adaption of the fairy tale's title character,
Blockhead Hans Blockhead Hans "Blockhead Hans" (Danish: "Klods-Hans") is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published in Danish in 1855. An early English translation appeared in Andrew Lang's 1894 "The Yellow Fairy Book", although Lang gave no source for the tale. The tale has been variously translated as "Clumsy Hans", "Silly Hans" and "Jack the Dullard". It is number 119 in the Hans Christian Andersen's register of Andersen's literary works. The two educated sons of an old squire wanted to marry the princess, who said that she would marry the man who chose his words best. They