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,
Statue of Hans Christian Andersen, Rosenborg Castle Gardens Statue of Hans Christian Andersen, Rosenborg Castle Gardens The Statue of Hans Christian Andersen in Rosenborg Castle Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark, is a bronze statue of famous Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. Saabye's sculpture depicts Andersen in a sitting position addressing his audience. The sculpture is mounted on a terracotta plinth with bronze reliefs. In December 1874, it was first proposed to create a Hans Christian Andersen monument in Copenhagen to mark the writer's 70 years birthday on 2 April 1875. A committee was set up and it was announced that the monument would be placed in Rosenborg Garden on his