Evil Elsa

Elsa was originally portrayed as a dramatic, evil,
heartless, theatrical villain in early drafts of the film, akin to villains of
Disney's past such as Cruella De Vil in One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and
Ursula in The Little Mermaid, as well as being unrelated to Anna. 
However, as the film's development went into several
problems story-wise, two major changes were made; the alteration of Elsa's
moral role in the story, and her relationship with Anna. Once the two became
sisters, the filmmakers felt it would open new possibilities for story
elements, making the process of finalizing the completion of the Disney
adaption of The Snow Queen all the more accessible. Elsa's original portrayal
as a villain depicted her as being a rogue cold-hearted tyrant who had an
entire army of giant snowmen as henchmen (who would eventually be turned into
one giant snowman, Marshmallow), and was designed to resemble either Bette
Midler (Georgette the poodle's voice actress) or the late singer Amy Winehouse,
where she was depicted with spiky black or blue hair (and even blue-gray
skin), a more angular body (as opposed to the final, heroic Elsa's rounder
body) and constantly malicious smile, and wearing a clearly sinister-looking
outfit made from live weasels, as opposed to having an innocent, angelic
appearance and personality seen in the final film, and was originally going to
be very hostile and bitter toward others about not wanting to contain her
powers instead of being fearful and insecure about not wanting to appreciate
her powers. However, this did not work out very well, as it would've been
difficult for her to reform if she was an outright evil villain, and after
listening to the song "Let It Go", intended to be Elsa's villain song
when it was written, the writers realized that her motivations of
self-empowerment and wanting to be herself were too positive to be expressed by
a villain and did not fit the villain role, and as a result, instead of
changing the lyrics they ended up changing the plot, and therefore the
character was changed from a villainous role to a heroic role seen in the
actual film (this may have also led to the creation of the film's real villain, Hans).
Category:Characters
Category:Antagonists
Category:Reform villians