Frozen 2013 full script

Frozen

Directed by: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Produced by: Peter Del Vecho
Screenplay by: Jennifer Lee
Story by: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Shane Morris
Based on: The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson
Starring: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana
Music by: Christoph Beck
Edited by: Jeff Draheim
Production company: Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
Distributed by: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Theatrical release dates: November 19, 2013 (El Capitan Theatre), November 27, 2013 (United States)
DVD/Blu-Ray release date: March 18, 2014
Running time: 102 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $150 million
Box office: 1.274 billion
MPAA Rating: PG: "Parental Guidance Suggested. Some Material May Not Be Suitable For Children."
Rotten Tomatoes: Critic Score: 89% Certified Fresh. Average Rating: 7.7/10. Reviews Counted: 214. Fresh: 190. Rotten: 24. Critics Consensus: Beautifully animated, smartly written, and stocked with singalong songs, Frozen adds another worthy entry to the Disney canon.
Aspect Ratio: 2.24:1
Subtitles: (GOLD)

(On a night sky background, we see a star, a la Pinocchio. Then, some clouds appear, a la Mary Poppins, and a pirate ship, a la Peter Pan. We then see the castle, a la Cinderella, done in CGI, while different fireworks are appearing. A circular line is drawn over the castle (in the same vein as the previous logo), then the castle enters many dots from the bottom of the screen to reveal "DiSNEY", in the post-1979 Disney script logo font, albeit slightly revised. The circular line is nearly staying visible on the logo. Cantus, the female choir and Frode Fjellheim performs "Eatnemen Vuelie" and plays it over the logo)
(A gold paper flips in the logo onto screen, drawing a red outline of Mickey Mouse wearing a steamboat hat. The paper finishes flipping as an outline of Mickey turns into a scene from the 1928 Disney cartoon Steamboat Willie, and below the picture, the words "WALT DiSNEY" write themselves in the signature corporate font (with a slight modification), with "ANIMATION STUDIOS" fading in underneath. Cantus, the female choir and Frode Fjellheim performs "Eatnemen Vuelie" and plays it over the logo)
(ICE. We're underwater looking up at it. A saw cuts through, heading right for us)
(EXT. SNOW-CAPED MOUNTAIN — DUSK. ICE HARVESTERS, dressed in traditional Sami clothing, score a frozen lake. They SING)
("The Frozen Heart (Ice Worker's Song)")
Ice Harvesters: Born of cold and winter air
And mountain rain combining,
This icy force both foul and fair
Has a frozen heart worth mining.
(The men drag giant ice blocks through channels of water)
Ice Harvesters: Cut through the heart, cold and clear.
Strike for love and strike for fear.
See the beauty sharp and sheer.
Split the ice apart!
And break the frozen heart.
Hup! Ho! Watch your step! Let it go!
(A young Sami boy, KRISTOFF (8), and his reindeer calf, SVEN, share a carrot as they try to keep up with the men)
Ice Harvesters: Hup! Ho! Watch your step! Let it go!
(Kristoff struggles to get a block of ice out of the water. He falls, ends up soaked. Sven licks his wet cheek)
Ice Harvesters: Beautiful! Powerful! Dangerous! Cold!
Ice has a magic can't be controlled.
(A sharp ice flows overtakes the workers, threateningly. They fight it back)
Ice Harvesters: Stronger than one, stronger than ten
Stronger than a hundred men!
(Massive fjord horses drag heavy ice plows)
Ice Harvesters: Born of cold and winter air
And mountain rain combing
(The sun sets. Lanterns are lit)
Ice Harvesters: This icy force both foul and fair
Has a frozen heart worth mining.
Cut through the heart, cold and clear.
(In the dark, Kristoff and Sven finally manage to get a single block of ice out of the water)
Ice Harvesters: Strike for love and strike for fear.
There's beauty and there's danger here.
Split the ice apart!
Beware the frozen heart.
(The workers pile onto the giant horse-drawn ice sled as it pulls away)
(Left behind, Kristoff and Sven push their ice block onto a dinky little sled then head off)
KRISTOFF: Come on, Sven.
(We sweep up from them to the Northern Lights filling the sky... then move across the mountains... beneath the snowline... and descend upon...)
(EXT. THE KINGDOM OF ARENDELLE — NIGHT. A humble castle, build of wood, nestled in a deep fjord)
(INT. CASTLE, NURSERY – NIGHT. ELSA (8) sleeps in her bed. Her little sister ANNA (5) pops up beside her)
Young Anna: Elsa. Psst. Elsa! Psst.
(Elsa doesn't stir. Anna sits on Elsa and bounces)
Young Anna: Wake up. Wake up. Wake up.
Young Elsa: (grumbling) Anna, go back to sleep.
(Anna rolls onto her back and spreads all her weight on Elsa)
Young Anna: (drama queen-ish) I just can't. The sky's awake, so I'm awake, so we have to play.
Young Elsa: Go play by yourself.
(Elsa shoves Anna off the bed)
(Anna lands butt to floor, sighs, defeated. But then she gets an idea. She hops back on the bed and lifts one of Elsa's eyelids)
Young Anna: (mischievously) Do you want to build a snowman?
(Elsa's eyes both pop open. She smiles)
(INT. CASTLE STAIRCASE — NIGHT. Anna, now wearing snow boots, pulls Elsa by the hand)
Young Anna: Come on, come on, come on, come on.
(Elsa tries to shush her, but Anna's too excited)
(INT. BALLROOM — NIGHT. The girls sneak into the ballroom. Elsa shuts the door)
ANNA: Do the magic! Do the magic!
(Elsa laughs and waves her hands together. Snowflakes suddenly burst forth and dance between her palms, forming a snowball)
Young Anna: Oh...
Young Elsa: Ready?
Young Anna: Uh-huh. (CHUCKLES)
(Elsa throws the snowball high into the air. Snow bursts out and flurries around the room. Anna dances about, catching flakes in her palms and mouth)
Young Anna: This is amazing! (SCREAMING EXCITEDLY)
Young Elsa: Watch this!
(Elsa stomps her little slippered foot and a layer of ice suddenly coats the floor, forming a giant ice rink. Anna slides off, giggling)
(PLAY MONTAGE: Anna and Elsa roll giant snowballs and build a snowman together. Elsa moves his stick arms around)
Young Elsa: (goofy voice) Hi, I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs.
(Anna jumps up and hugs him)
Young Anna: I love you, Olaf.
(-Anna and Olaf appear to be dancing. REVEAL: Elsa is actually propelling them across the ice floor with her magic)
ANNA: Olaf...
(-The girls slide down snowbanks together!)
Young Anna: Tickle bumps!
(Anna fearlessly jumps off a snow peak into mid air)
Young Elsa: Hang on!
Young Anna: Catch me!
(Elsa makes another peak to catch Anna)
Young Elsa: Gotcha!
(Anna keeps jumping. Elsa keeps casting magic)
Young Anna: (jumping faster) Again! Again!
Young Elsa: (struggling to keep up) Wait! Slow down!
(Elsa suddenly slips)
Young Elsa: Anna!
(Her magic accidentally STRIKES Anna in the head. Anna tumbles down a snowbank and lands, unconscious. Elsa runs to Anna and takes her in her arms)
Young Elsa: Anna!
(A streak of Anna's hair, where struck, turns white)
Young Elsa: Mama! Papa! (SOBBING) No, no...
(The room around them fills with frightening ice spikes, causing the snowman to fall apart)
Young Elsa: You're okay, Anna. I got you.
(The parents burst through the frozen door. GASP at the sight of the room)
King: Elsa, what have you done? This is getting out of hand!
Queen: (seeing Anna) Anna!
(The King and Queen rush to Anna and take her in their arms)
Young Elsa: It was an accident. I'm sorry, Anna.
Queen: (about Anna) Oh. She's ice cold.
King: I know where we have to go.
(INT. DARK ROOM — NIGHT. The King sifts through a shelf to find an ancient book inscribed with Old Norse runes. He opens the book, scrambles to a page with an ancient map)
(EXT. ARENDELLE — NIGHT. Carrying the girls, the King and Queen ride their horses out of the kingdom. Snow streams from Elsa's hands, leaving a trail of ice behind them)
(EXT. FJORD MOUNTAIN FOREST — NIGHT. A sleepy Kristoff and Sven travel alone through the dark woods. All of a sudden, the King and Queen race by with the girls, leaving the wake of ice)
Kristoff: Ice?
(EXT. BLACK MOUNTAINS — NIGHT. Kristoff rides Sven as they follow the trail of ice)
Kristoff: Faster, Sven!
(EXT. THE VALLEY OF THE LIVING ROCK — NIGHT. Kristoff hops off Sven at the edge of a deep valley. They hide behind a rock and peek out)
(Down below, the King holds a frightened Elsa. The Queen holds the still unconscious Anna)
King: Please, help. It's my daughter!
(Suddenly, a bunch of rocks tumble down the valley toward them. It looks as though they'll be crushed!)
(But, luckily, the rocks stop at their feet. The rocks then unfold, revealing bright faces)
Troll: It's the king.
Kristoff: Trolls?
(The rock in front of Kristoff "wakes up." Meet BULDA)
Bulda: Shush. I'm trying to listen.
(She grabs Kristoff and Sven by hand and hoof and hugs them close. Sven licks her face and she eyes them both)
Bulda: Cuties. I'm gonna keep you.
(Back below, the crowd parts for a troll as old as the Earth. They call him GRAND PABBIE. He approaches arthritically, but determined. He nods respectfully to the king)
Grand Pabbie: Your Majesty. (referring to Elsa) Born with the powers or cursed?
King: (STAMMERING) Born. And they're getting stronger.
(Grand Pabbie motions for the Queen to bring Anna to him. She does. He examines her)
Grand Pabbie: (about Anna) You are lucky it wasn't her heart. The heart is not so easily changed, but the head can be persuaded.
King: Do what you must.
Grand Pabbie: I recommend we remove all magic, even memories of magic to be safe.... But don't worry, I'll leave the fun.
(Grand Pabbie pulls out a glowing blue energy from Anna's head. We see her memories floating right above her. Grand Pabbie changes all of her magical memories to ordinary memories -- snowy play indoors with the girls in their nightgowns changes to outdoors on the winter fjords with the girls in winter gear. He puts the ordinary memories back in her head)
Grand Pabbie: She will be okay.
Young Elsa: But she won't remember I have powers?
King: It's for the best.
Grand Pabbie: Listen to me, Elsa, your power will only grow.
(As he speaks, he conducts the Northern Lights to show a silhouette of an adult Elsa creating magical snowflakes)
Grand Pabbie: There is beauty in your magic.... But also great danger.
(The snowflakes turn to sharp spikes)
Grand Pabbie: You must learn to control it.
(In the Northern Lights display, the sharp spikes cause human figures to panic and attack Elsa)
Grand Pabbie: Fear will be your enemy.
(Elsa gasps and buries her face in the King's chest. The King wraps his arms around Elsa, protectively)
KING: No. We'll protect her. She can learn to control it. I'm sure.
(Over the King's words we...)
(-The Arendelle castle gates shutting)
King: Until then, we'll lock the gates. We'll reduce the staff. We will limit her contact with people and keep her powers hidden from everyone... including Anna.
(The castle shutters close)
(-Anna sits on her bed as Elsa's furniture disappears)
(-Anna rushes to the hall to see Elsa shut the door to her new room. Anna watches, confused and sad)
(INT. CASTLE WINDOW — DAY. We look out on a gentle snowfall. Little Anna skips up to the window. She lights up at the sight of the snow and rushes down the hall.
(INT. HALLWAY, ELSA'S DOOR — DAY. Anna knocks on Elsa's door and SINGS)
("Do You Want to Build a Snowman?")
Young Anna: Do you want to build a snowman?
Come on let's go and play.
(Anna peeks under the door)
Young Anna: I never see you anymore.
Come out the door.
It's like you've gone away.
(-INT. ANNA'S ROOM — Anna plays with two dolls, gives up, sad)
Young Anna: We used to be best buddies
And now we're not.
I wish you would tell me why.
(-ELSA'S DOOR. Anna peeks through the key hole)
Young Anna: Do you want to build a snowman?
(-Anna calls through the keyhole)
Young Anna: (MUFFLED) It doesn't have to be a snowman.
ELSA: Go away, Anna.
Young Anna: (hearbroken) Okay bye.
(-BEHIND THE DOOR — DAY. Elsa sits at the window looking out, longingly. Suddenly, her icy hands freeze the windowsill)
(-LATER. The King slips leather gloves onto Elsa's hands)
KING: The gloves will help.
(He pats her gloved hand)
King: See? You're good.... (starting their mantra) Conceal it.
Young Elsa: Don't feel it.
Young Elsa & King (Both): Don't let it show.
(-INT. HALLWAY, ELSA'S DOOR — DAY. Anna, now 9, knocks on Elsa's door)
Teen Anna: Do you want to build a snowman?
(-INT. HALLWAY — DAY. Alone, Anna rides a bicycle built for two in the hall by standing on the back seat)
Teen Anna: Or ride our bike around the hall?
I think some company is overdue...
(-INT. PORTRAIT ROOM — DAY. Anna runs around the portrait room, gaining momentum to flip over the arm of the couch)
Teen Anna: I've started talking to
The pictures on the walls.
(Anna lands PLOP on the cushions, then looks up at the painting above her of the courageous Joan of Arc)
Teen Anna: Hang in there, Joan.
(-INT. EMPTY LIBRARY — DAY. Looks like no one's around)
Teen Anna: It gets a little lonely
All these empty rooms.
(But then we find Anna, laying at the base of the grandfather clock, playing with her braids, bored out of her mind)
Teen Anna: Just watching the hours tick by.
(Anna's eyes follow the grandfather clock's pendulum)
Teen Anna: (MIMICKING TICKING)
(-INT. ELSA'S ROOM — NIGHT. Elsa (now 12) paces as she panics. The entire wall is frozen behind her)
Teen Elsa: I'm scared. It's getting stronger.
King: Getting upset only makes it worse.
(The King goes to hug her)
Teen Elsa: No. Don't touch me. I don't want to hurt you.
(He and the Queen look at each other with alarmed sadness)
(-INT. LIBRARY — DAY. Anna, now a teenager, slides past Elsa's room without stopping)
(-INT. KING AND QUEEN'S QUARTERS — DAY. Anna runs into the room and throws herself into her parents' arms)
Anna: See you in two weeks.
(-INT. ELSA'S ROOM — DAY. Elsa curtsies in front of her parents, formally, not touching them)
Elsa: Do you have to go?
King: You'll be fine, Elsa.
(-EXT. DOCKS — DAY. The King and Queen leave on a ship)
(-EXT. ROUGH SEAS — NIGHT. Lightning flashes. The sea rages in a storm. The King and Queen's ship is lost in the waves)
(-INT. CASTLE — DAY. A portrait of the King and Queen is covered in mourning cloth)
(-EXT. CEMETERY — DAY. Anna looks small, standing before her people, beside burial stones)
(-INT. HALLWAY, ELSA'S DOOR. Anna, still in her mourning clothes, approaches and knocks)
Anna: (singing) Elsa? Please I know you're in there
People are asking where you've been
They say have courage
And I'm trying to
I'm right out here for you.
Please let me in.
(Anna slides down the door and sits with her head against it)
Anna: We only have each other.
It's just you and me.
What are we gonna do?
(Weak, internal) Do you want to build a snowman?
(We move through the door..)
(INT. ELSA'S ROOM — DAY. Elsa is sitting in the exact same pose as Anna. Her bedroom is frozen with ice. Snowflakes hang in the air, suspended by grief)
(EXT. THE KINGDOM OF ARENDELLE — MORNING. A new dawn rises over the fjords)
(Ships pull up to the docks. Guests pile out)
CAPTAIN: All ashore!
Dock Master: Welcome to Arendelle!
(A BOY tries to get away as his MOTHER tries to stuff him in his bunad jacket)
Boy: Why do I have to wear this?
Mother: Because the Queen has come of age. It's Coronation Day!
Boy: That's not my fault.
(They pass the May Pole being raised and a Sami ice harvester chatting with his reindeer. We recognize them as Kristoff and Sven, all grown up. Sven hops around excitedly like a dog and nuzzles Kristoff's chest)
Kristoff: What do you want, Sven?
(Kristoff leans in and speaks for Sven, as if he can)
Kristoff: (as Sven) Give me a snack.
Kristoff: What's the magic word?
Kristoff: (as Sven) Please!
(Kristoff pulls a carrot out of his shirt pocket and hands it to Sven. Sven tries to bite the whole thing)
Kristoff: Hey, hey, hey! Share!
(Sven takes a smaller bite. Kristoff then has a bite himself, not seeming to care that it's covered in reindeer slobber)
(We move on to PERSI and AGGIE, a super-excited couple who rush towards the castle)
Persi: I can't believe they're finally opening up the gates!
Aggie: And for a whole day! Faster, Persi!
(They pass a tiny but menacing DUKE, who wears taps on his shoes to "enhance" his presence. Two THUG guards follow close behind him)
Duke: Ah, Arendelle, our most mysterious trade partner. Open those gates so I may unlock your secrets and exploit your riches. (catching himself) Did I just say that out loud?
(We leave him and head down the bridge towards the castle gates, passing an Irishman and a Spanish Dignitary)
Irishman: Oh, me sore eyes can't wait to see the Queen and the Princess. I bet they're absolutely lovely.
Spanish dignitary: I bet they are beautiful.
(We move past them, to a particular castle window)
(INT. CASTLE, ANNA'S BEDROOM — DAY. Anna, 18, snores. Drools. KNOCK. KNOCK)
KAI: Princess Anna?
(Anna sits up. She's got major bedhead. She coughs. Snorts. Pulls a hair from her mouth)
Anna: Huh? Yeah?
Kai: Sorry to wake you, ma'am but--
Anna: No, you didn't. I've been up for hours.
(She falls back asleep while sitting. She snores. Her head drops, startling her awake)
Anna: Who is it?
Kai: It's still me, ma'am. Time to get ready.
Anna: Ready for what?
Kai: Your sister's coronation, ma'am.
Anna: My sister's cor-neration.
(One eye opens enough to catch sight of her coronation dress. She bolts, wide awake in excitement)
Anna: Coronation Day! Ha ha!
(EXT. CASTLE HALL — DAY. Anna bursts out of her room, wearing her coronation dress. She finishes pinning ribbons in her hair. Seeing the hustle and bustle of preparations, she can't help but SING)
("For the First Time in Forever")
Anna: The window is open!
So's that door!
I didn't know they did that anymore.
Who knew we owned 8000 salad plates?
(-Anna slides along the floor of the ballroom in her socks)
Anna: For years I have roamed these empty halls
Why have a ballroom with no balls?
Finally, they're opening up the gates!
(-She shakes hands with a suit of armor. Breaks it. Hides the evidence)
Anna: There'll be actual, real live people
It'll be totally strange.
But wow! Am I so ready for this change!
(-Anna comes to a window and jumps out onto a window washer's pulley. She raises herself up to see the ships arriving)
Anna: 'Cause the first time in forever,
There'll be music, there'll be light.
For the first time in forever,
I'll be dancing through the night.
(-Anna walks through the garden and follows a family of geese)
Anna: Don't know if I'm elated or gassy,
But I'm somewhere in that zone
'Cause for the first time in forever,
I won't be alone.
(speaking) I can't wait to meet everyone! (GASPS) What if I meet The One?
(-Anna twists herself in a velvet drape like it's a gown. She acts like she looks gorgeous, but she looks ridiculous)
Anna: Tonight, imagine me gown and all
Fetchingly draped against the wall.
The picture of sophisticated grace.
(-She notices the bust of a man across the room)
Anna: (google-eyed) I suddenly see him standing there,
A beautiful stranger tall and fair.
(mouth full of chocolate) I wanna stuff some chocolate in my face!
(-She grabs the bust of the man and swings it around)
Anna: But then we laugh and talk all evening,
Which is totally bizarre.
Nothing like the life I've led so far.
(The bust goes flying and lands on the top of the cake)
(-Anna bursts into the portrait room, bounces on the furniture, and interacts with the paintings)
Anna: For the first time in forever,
There'll be magic, there'll be fun.
For the first time in forever,
I could be noticed by someone.
And I know it is totally crazy
To dream I'd find romance.
But for the first time in forever,
At least I've got a chance!
(-INT. LIBRARY. ELSA, now a very poised 21, watches out the window as the coronation guests arrive)
Elsa: Don't let them in.
Don't let them see.
Be the good girl
You always have to be.
(Elsa moves to a painting of her father's coronation. She takes off her gloves and mimics the painting by holding a candlestick and ornament in place of an orb and scepter)
Elsa: Conceal. Don't feel.
Put on a show.
Make one wrong move
And everyone will know.
(The candlestick and ornament ice over. Elsa gasps, slams them back down onto the table. She tries to reassure herself)
Elsa: But it's only for today.
(We cut between Anna's excitement and Elsa's nerves)
Anna: It's only for today!
Elsa: It's agony to wait.
Anna: It's agony to wait!!!
Elsa: Tell the guards to open up the gate.
ANNA: The gate
(-Finally, the gates are open! Anna moves through the crowd, admiring the people around her)
Anna: For the first time in forever.
Elsa: Don't let them in
Don't let them see
Anna: I'm getting what I'm dreaming of
Elsa: Be the good girl you always have to be
Anna: A chance to change my lonely world
ELSA: Conceal
Anna: A chance to find true love
Elsa: Conceal. Don't feel.
Don't let them know.
(-Anna hurries over the bridge and into the village square)
Anna: I know it all ends tomorrow,
So it has to be today!!
'Cause for the first time in forever
For the first time in forever!
Nothing's in my way!!!
(Anna SLAMS right into the breast of a HORSE!)
(She falls back and lands in a small wooden boat. It trips off of the dock. She's heading overboard. But just then, the horse slams his hoof into the boat and steadies it)
Anna: (frustrated) Hey!
Hans: I'm so sorry. Are you hurt?
(The rider, HANS, sure is handsome and regal)
Anna: (gentler) Hey. (CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY) Uh... (STUTTERS) No, no, I'm okay.
Hans: Are you sure?
Anna: Yeah. I just wasn't looking where I was going. But I'm okay.
(He hops down from his horse and steps into the boat)
Anna: I'm great, actually.
Hans: Oh... Thank goodness.
(He offers her a hand and their eyes meet. Chemistry. He helps her to her feet)
Hans: (bowing) Oh! Uh... Prince Hans of the Southern Isles.
Anna: (curtseying) Princess Anna of Arendelle.
Hans: "Princess"? My lady.
(He drops to his knees, head bowed. The horse bows too, curling his roof up and out of the boat)
(The boat tips. Hans tumbles on top of Anna. Awkward)
Anna: Hi. Again.
(The horse slams his foot back into the boat to stabilize it. Anna and Hans tumble the other way. Anna lands on top of him)
Hans: Oh, boy!
Anna: Ha. This is awkward. Not "You're awkward," but just because we're... I'm awkward, you're gorgeous. (did she just say that?) Wait, what?
(Hans quickly gets to his feet and helps Anna up again)
Hans: I'd like to formally apologize for hitting the princess of Arendelle with my horse. And for every moment after.
Anna: No! No, no. It's fine. I'm not that princess. I mean, if you had hit my sister Elsa, it would be... Yeesh! Because, you know... (patting the horse) Hello. (to Hans) But, lucky you, it's just me.
Hans: "Just" you?
(Hans smiles, amused. She smiles back. The bells RING. She doesn't notice at first; she's too busy drinking in Hans's handsomeness)
Anna: The bells. The coronation. (STUTTERS) I better go. I have to go. I better go.
(She hurries off, stops, turns back. Gives Hans a little wave)
Anna: Bye!
(As she rushes off again, Hans waves back. The horse waves too, once again taking his hoof out of the boat)
Hans: Oh, no.
(The boat falls, with Hans in it. SPLASH! It lands upside down in the water. Hans raises it up off of him, gasping for air)
(INT. CHURCH CHAPEL — DAY. Elsa stands at the alter. Anna stands off to one side. She peeks out to the audience)
(Hans waves at her from the pews. He's changed his clothes)
(The crown is placed on Elsa's head. The scepter and orb are presented to Elsa on a pillow. She slowly reaches for them)
Bishop: (a whisper) Your Majesty, the gloves.
(Elsa hesitates. She breathes nervously, removes her gloves, places them on the pillow. Her hands shake. She takes the orb and scepter, then turns to the people)
Bishop: (formal, in Old Norse) Sehm hon HELL-drr IN-um HELL-gum AYG-num ok krund ee THES-um HELL- gah STAHTH, ehk teh frahm FUR-ear U- thear...
(The scepter and orb start to freeze over)
Bishop: Queen Elsa of Arendelle.
All: Queen Elsa of Arendelle.
(Just in time. Elsa manages to set the orb and scepter back down on the pillow before anyone notices the ice. She picks up her gloves and slips them on. She made it)
(INT. GREAT HALL — NIGHT. Spring music fills the Great Hall. Guests dance. Eat. Laugh)
(TRUMPETS SOUND)
Kai: (announcing) Queen Elsa of Arendelle.
(Elsa enters, poised and looking surprisingly content. She stands under a formal awning)
Kai: Princess Anna of Arendelle.
(Anna runs into the room, waves awkwardly. Kai ushers her over to stand right to Elsa)
Anna: Oh. Here? Are you sure?
(She and Elsa sneak awkward peeks at each other)
Elsa: Hi.
Anna: Hi me? Oh. Um. Hi.
Elsa: You look beautiful.
Anna: Thank you. (CHUCKLES) You look beautifuller. I mean, not fuller. You don't look fuller. But more beautiful.
Elsa: (CHUCKLES) Thank you.
(They look out at the celebration)
Elsa: So, This is what a party looks like?
Anna: It's warmer than I thought.
Elsa: And what is that amazing smell?
(They both close their eyes and inhale)
Anna & Elsa (Both): Chocolate.
(Their eyes pop open. They laugh)
(Elsa looks back out at the party. Anna looks at Elsa. She want to say so much, but she can't think of where to start. Just as she finds her way, Kai interrupts)
KAI: You Majesty. The Duke of Weaseltown.
Duke: Weselton. The Duke of Weselton. (to Elsa) Your Majesty, as your closest partner in trade it seems only fitting that I offer you your first dance as Queen.
(The Duke does a funny flitters of his feet, a hitch-kick, and a deep bow)
Duke: (whispers to himself) One, two, three. Jump.
(As he holds out his hand, head down, his toupee dips forward. Anna giggles. Elsa looks at Anna, stifles a giggle herself)
Elsa: (to the Duke) Thank you. Only, I don't dance.
Duke: Oh...
Elsa: But my sister does.
Anna: What?
Duke: Lucky you.
Anna: Oh, I don't think...
(The Duke grabs Anna's arm and yanks her away before she can protest)
DUKE: If you swoon, let me know. I'll catch you.
(Anna looks back at Elsa, desperately)
Elsa: Sorry.
(OUT ON THE DANCE FLOOR: The Duke showboats, but he's just awful. Anna tries to make the best of it)
Duke: Like an agile peacock. (WARBLING)
(He lands on her feet)
Anna: Ow. Ow.
Duke: Speaking of, so great to have the gates open. Why did they shut them in the first place? Do you know the reason? Hmm?
(He gets in her face, suspicious)
Anna: No.
Duke: Oh, all right. Hang on. They don't call me the little dipper for nothing.
(He dips Anna back. Elsa peeks through the crowd, can barely hold in her laughter. Anna shoots Elsa funny, help-me looks)
Duke: (groove fully on) Like a chicken with the face of a monkey, I fly.
(MOMENTS LATER... Anna limps back to Elsa)
DUKE: Let me know when you're ready for another round, Milady.
Elsa: Well, he was sprightly.
Anna: (rubbing her sore feet) Especially for a man in heels.
Elsa: Are you okay?
Anna: (loving Elsa's attention) I've never been better. This is so nice. I wish it could be like this all the time.
Elsa: (sincere) Me too.
(But then Elsa catches herself. She stiffens up, looks away)
Elsa: But it can't.
Anna: Why not? If...
Elsa: It just can't.
(Anna's smile drops. She tries not to get emotional)
Anna: Excuse me for a minute.
(She walks away. Elsa watches her go, saddened)
(Moving through the crowd, Anna gets bumped by a bowing man's butt)
MAN: I'd be honored.
(She falls. Just before she hits the floor, Hans catches her. He smiles perfectly)
Hans: Glad I caught you.
Anna: Hans.
(He smoothly sets his drink down on a passing tray. He lifts her up and leads her in a romantic dance)
(LATER: Anna and Hans drink and chat)
Anna: I often had a whole parlor to myself to slide! Oops! Sorry.
(She hits him in the face by mistake with her hands. He laughs)
(-THE CASTLE DOORS: Anna and Hans stroll out of the castle)
Anna: Your physique helps, I'm sure, too.
(-THE ROSE GARDEN... Hans notices her white streak)
Hans: (about her white streak) What's this?
Anna: Uh, I was born with it. Although, I dreamed I was kissed by a troll.
Hans: I like it.
(INT. BALCONY — NIGHT. Anna teaches Hans how to eat krumkake)
Anna: Yeah, the whole thing. (CHUCKLES) You got it.
(They laugh as the krumkake crumbles in his face)
Anna: Okay, wait, wait. So your have how many brothers?
Hans: 12 older brothers. Three of them pretended I was invisible, literally, for two years.
Anna: That's horrible.
Hans: It's what brothers do.
Anna: And sisters. Elsa and I were really close when we were little. But then, one day, she just shut me out, and I never knew why.
(He takes her hand. Leans in close)
Hans: I would never shut you out.
Anna: Okay, can I just say something crazy?
Hans: I love crazy.
("Love is an Open Door")
Anna: (singing) All my life has been a series of doors in my face.
And then suddenly I bump into you.
Hans: I was thinking the same thing, because like...
I've been searching my whole life
To find my own place.
And maybe it's the party talking,
Or the chocolate fondue.
Anna: But with you
Hans: But with you,
I found my place.
Anna: I see your face.
Anna & Hans (Both): And it's nothing like I've ever known before.
(They jump to the neighboring balcony and enter a door)
(They come out on top of one of the castle's towers)
Anna & Hans (Both): Love is an open door!
Love is an open door!
(Cut to them sliding across an empty hallway in their socks)
Anna & Hans (Both): Love is an open door
Anna: With you!
Hans: With you!
Anna: With you!
Hans: With you!
Anna & Hans (Both): Love is an open door.
(They hop up on the castle roof and watch a shooting star)
Hans: I mean it's crazy.
Anna: What?
Hans: We finish each other's
Anna: Sandwiches!
Hans: That's what I was gonna say!
(They slide down the back of the roof out of sight)
(We next find them strutting on a bridge ledge)
Anna: I've never met someone
Anna & Hans (Both): Who thinks so much like me.
(SPOKEN) Jinx! Jinx again!
(Are they doing the robot? No. They're imitating the mechanical figures on the clock tower)
Anna & Hans (Both): Our mental synchronization
Can have but one explanation,
Hans: You
Anna: And I
Hans: Were
Anna: Just
Anna & Hans (Both): Meant to be.
(Anna and Hans dance on top of the lighthouse and cast dancing shadows across the sails of ships in the docks)
Anna: Say goodbye
Hans: Say goodbye
Anna & Hans (Both): To the pain of the past.
We don't have to feel it anymore!
Love is an open door!
(They play hide and seek amongst the stable doors)
Anna & Hans (Both): Love is an open door!
(They climb to the waterfall looking out over the kingdom)
(Anna raises up her hands to frame the moon. Hans puts his hands on top of hers. Together their hands form a heart)
Anna & Hans (Both): Life can be so much more
Anna: With you!
Hans: With you!
Anna: With you!
Hans: With you!
Anna & Hans (Both): Love is an open
Hans: Door.
Anna: Door.
Hans: Can I say something crazy? Will you marry me?
Anna: (GASPS) Can I say something even crazier? Yes!
(INT. BALL — NIGHT. Anna pushes through the crowd towards Elsa, Hans in tow)
ANNA: Coming through.
HANS: Excuse me. Oh...
ANNA: Pardon. Sorry.
WOMAN: Oh!
Anna: Can we just get around you there? Thank you. Oh, there she is. Elsa!
(Elsa turns to Anna. Anna curtseys awkwardly)
Anna: I mean, Queen. Me again. Um. May I present Prince Hans of the Southern Isles.
Hans: (bowing) Your Majesty.
(Elsa gives a polite but reserved curtsey)
Anna & Hans (Both): We would like--
Hans: Uh, your blessing...
Anna & Hans (Both): Of our marriage.
Elsa: Marriage?
Anna: Yes!
Elsa: I'm sorry, I'm confused.
Anna: Well, we haven't worked out all the details ourselves. We'll need a few days to plan the ceremony. Of course we'll have soup, roast, and ice cream and then... Wait. Would we live here?
Elsa: Here?
Hans: Absolutely!
Elsa: Anna!
Anna: Oh! We can invite all 12 of your brothers to stay with us.
Elsa: What? No, no, no, no, no.
Anna: Of course we have the room. I don't know. Some of them must--
Elsa: Wait. Slow down. No one's brothers are staying here. No one is getting married.
Anna: Wait, what?
Elsa: May I talk to you, please? Alone.
(Anna sees Hans's worried face. Hooks arms with him)
Anna: No. Whatever you have to say, you can say to both of us.
Elsa: Fine. You can't marry a man you just met.
Anna: You can if it's true love.
Elsa: Anna, what do you know about true love?
Anna: More than you. All you know is how to shut people out.
Elsa: You asked for my blessing, but my answer is no. Now, excuse me.
Hans: Your Majesty, if I may ease your...
Elsa: (flustered) No, you may not. (STUTTERS) And I think you should go.
(Elsa walks away. As she passes the Royal Handler--)
Elsa: The party is over. Close the gates.
KAI: Yes, your Majesty.
Anna: What? Elsa, no. No, wait!
(Anna grabs Elsa's hand. She pulls off Elsa's glove. Elsa gasps, spins around and reaches for the glove in panic)
Elsa: Give me my glove!
(Anna holds the glove away from Elsa)
Anna: (desperate) Elsa, please. Please. I can't live like this anymore!
(Elsa fights tears)
Elsa: (weak) Then leave.
(Elsa sees Anna's hurt face. It's too much. She can't hold it in. She turns and rushes away)
Anna: (heartbroken) What did I ever do to you?
(The party goes silent as everyone watches the sisters)
Elsa: Enough, Anna.
Anna: No. Why? Why do you shut me out? Why do you shut the world out? What are you so afraid of?
Elsa: I said, enough!
(Ice shoots from Elsa's hand, spikes across the floor! Guests cry out in shock, back away)
Duke: (ducking behind his men) Sorcery. I knew there was something dubious going on here.
Anna: Elsa.
(Elsa rushes out of the room)
(EXT. COURTYARD — NIGHT. Elsa bursts out of the castle door. The CITIZENS CHEER!)
WOMAN: There she is!
MAN 1: Yes! It is her!
Crowd: There she is. Your Majesty! Long live the Queen! Queen Elsa.... Come drink with us.
MAN 2: Our beautiful Queen!
(Elsa ducks through the crowd, holding her bare hand)
Bowing Townsman: Queen Elsa.
Townswoman with Baby: Your Majesty? Are you all right?
(Elsa backs away from the baby. She knocks into the fountain, grabs its edge. The waters freeze at her touch)
(GASPS of shock and fear sweep over the crowd)
(The Duke and thugs come out the door)
Duke: There she is! Stop her!
Elsa: (to the Duke) Please, just stay away from me. Stay away!
(Magic accidentally shoots from her hand and turns the staircase into ice. The thugs and the Duke fall)
Duke: Monster. Monster!
(The crowd panics)
(A snowstorm begins. Elsa flees)
(Anna runs out of the palace doors, carrying the glove)
Anna: Elsa!
(Hans follows closely behind her)
(GATES TO THE KINGDOM: Elsa runs out of the gates and down to the water's edge)
ANNA: Elsa!
(The shoreline freezes under her feet. Anna calls to her from the gates)
Anna: Wait, please!
(Elsa glances back at Anna, but turns away. She tentatively steps out onto the fjord. It freezes instantly. She breaks into a run, as the water freezes over with each step)
Anna: Elsa, stop!
(Anna rushes out onto the fjord ice, slips, falls)
Hans: Anna!
(Hans rushes to Anna's side. Elsa reaches the far shore. She doesn't look back. She just scrambles into the mountains)
Anna: No.
Hans: (shocked) The fjord.
(The ice spreads out until the entire fjord is frozen, locking the ships in place)
(INT. CASTLE COURTYARD — NIGHT. Snow falls. Hans and Anna move through the panicking crowd)
Crowd: Snow? It's...snow...in July.
Hans: Are you all right?
Anna: (in shock) No.
Hans: Did you know?
Anna: No.
(Nearby, the Duke flutters about in fright)
Duke: Look! It's snowing! It's snowing! The Queen has cursed this land! She must be stopped! (to his thugs) You have to go after her.
(Anna rushes up to the Duke)
Anna: Wait, no!
(The Duke hides behind his thugs and points out at Anna)
Duke: You! Is there sorcery in you, too? Are you a monster, too?
Anna: No. No. I'm completely ordinary.
Hans: That's right she is. (realizing how that sounds) In the best way.
Anna: And my sister's not a monster.
Duke: She nearly killed me.
Hans: You slipped on ice.
Duke: Her ice!
Anna: It was an accident. She was scared. She didn't mean it. She didn't mean any of this. Tonight was my fault. I pushed her. So, I'm the one that needs to go after her.
Duke: Yes. Fine. Do.
Hans: What?
Anna: (to the Royal Handler) Bring me my horse, please.
Hans: Anna, no. It's too dangerous.
Anna: (SCOFFS) Elsa's not dangerous. I'll bring her back, and I'll make this right.
(The Royal Handler brings Anna her horse and a cloak)
Hans: I'm coming with you.
Anna: No, I need you here to take care of Arendelle.
(He sees the desperation in her eyes)
Hans: On my honor.
(She throws on the cloak and hops right onto the horse, coronation dress and all)
Anna: (to the crowd) I leave Prince Hans in charge!
Hans: (before letting her go) Are you sure you can trust her? I don't want you getting hurt.
Anna: She's my sister. She would never hurt me.
(She snaps the reins and rides out. Hans watches after her)
(The snow picks up and overtakes our view. We push through a blizzard... lose our way... then finds ourselves...)
(EXT. HIGH UP IN THE MOUNTAINS — NIGHT. Well above the snow-line, a small figure climbs the highest peak. It's Elsa. Finally, she stops, looks around. Catches her breath and sings...)
("Let it Go")
Elsa: The snow glows white
On the mountain tonight,
Not a footprint to be seen.
A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I'm the Queen.
The wind is howling
Like this swirling storm inside.
Couldn't keep it in,
Heaven knows I tried.
Don't let them in,
Don't let them see,
Be the good girl you always have to be.
Conceal,
Don't feel,
Don't let them know.
Well, now they know.
(Elsa takes off her gloves and throws it into the air)
Elsa: Let it go. Let it go.
Can't hold it back anymore.
(Elsa creates a snowman, just like the one she made with Anna when they were children)
Elsa: Let it go. Let it go.
Turn away and slam the door.
I don't care what they're going to say.
Let the storm rage on.
The cold never bothered me anyway.
(Elsa lets her cape fly back into the wind)
Elsa: It's funny how some distance
Makes everything seem small.
And the fears that once controlled me
Can't get to me at all.
It's time to see
What I can do,
To test the limits and break through.
No right, no wrong,
No rules for me. I'm free!
(Elsa creates ice steps and climbs them)
Elsa: Let it go! Let it go!
I am one with the wind and sky.
Let it go! Let it go!
You'll never see me cry.
Here I stand and here I'll stay.
(Elsa slams her foot down and forms a giant snowflake)
Elsa: Let the storm rage on...
(In a flurry of creative release, she raises the snowflake on ice beams, builds walls, archways, a glistening chandelier, and an intricate ceiling that leaves the sky visible)
Elsa: My power flurries through the air
Into the ground.
My soul is spiraling in frozen
Fractals all around.
And one though crystallizes like
An icy blast-
(Standing firmly in her mighty ice palace, Elsa removes her crown and throws it)
Elsa: I'm never going back,
(back to resolve) The past is in the past!
(She takes down her hair and creates a new dress made of ice)
Elsa: Let it go! Let it go!
And I'll rise like the break of dawn.
Let it go! Let it go!
(The sun rises. Elsa struts onto out onto a balcony and into the light. She's free)
Elsa: That perfect girl is gone.
Here I stand in the light of day.
Let the storm rage on!!
The cold never bothered me anyway.
(She turns and slams her ice palace door on us)
(EXT. THE FJORD FOREST — DAY. Anna rides her horse through two feet of snow. She shivers)
ANNA: Elsa! Elsa! Elsa, it's me, Anna, your sister who didn't mean to make you freeze the summer. I'm sorry. (SHIVERING) It's all my fault.
(LATER: Anna and the horse struggle through a wooded area)
Anna: (hearing a wolf howl) Of course, none of this would have happened if she had just told me her secret (CHUCKLES) She's a stinker.
(A branch of a nearby tree snaps and startles the horse. Anna goes flying off, lands face down in the snow. She sits up. Spits out snow. Sees the horse running away)
Anna: Oh, no. No, no, no! Come back! No, no, no! (SHIVERING) Okay.
(He doesn't come back. Anna grabs onto a branch of a leaning conifer, tries to pull herself to her feet, but the tree snaps upright and releases all its snow onto her. GROAN)
(EXT. MOUNTAIN — NIGHT. The Northern Lights shine as Anna struggles, out of breath, reaching the top of a hill)
Anna: Snow. It had to be snow. She couldn't have had tropical magic that covered the fjords in white sand and warm...
(She sees smoke rising up in the distance)
Anna: Fire! (CHUCKLES) WHOA!
(Anna goes tumbling down the hill. She lands with a crash in an icy stream at the bottom)
Anna: (from inside the snowball) Cold, cold, cold, cold cold.
(EXT. A SMALL BUILDING AND STABLE — NIGHT. Anna shuffles up to the building, her dress frozen stiff. She shakes the snow off a sign and reads:)
Anna: "Wandering Oaken's Trading Post".
(Snow drops off a smaller sign. She reads it, happily)
Anna: Ooh. "And Sauna"!
(INT. WANDERING OAKEN'S TRADING POST & SAUNA — NIGHT. Anna steps cautiously through the door--which hits her frozen butt and knocks her into the center of the shop. She looks around, sees only summer supplies)
Oaken: Hoo hoo.
(Anna turns to see a bright-faced fellow sitting low behind the counter, fingers tapping tip to tip)
Oaken: Big summer blowout. Half off swimming suits, clogs, and a sun balm of my own invention, yah?
Anna: Oh. Great. For now, um, how about boots? Winter boots and dresses?
Oaken: (slight disappointment) That would be in our winter department.
(The winter department contains one outfit, a pick ax, and a lonely pair of boots)
Anna: Oh. Um, I was just wondering. Has another young woman, the Queen perhaps, I don't know, passed through here?
(She brings the clothes and boots to the counter)
Oaken: Only one crazy enough to be out in this storm is you, dear?
(The front door suddenly blows open and in walks a mass of a man covered in ice. Underneath is KRISTOFF)
Oaken: You and this fellow. Hoo hoo. Big summer blowout.
(Kristoff walks right up to Anna)
KRISTOFF: Carrots.
Anna: Huh?
Kristoff: Behind you.
Anna: Oh! Right. Excuse me.
(Anna moves out of Kristoff's way. He grabs a bunch of carrots, tosses them on the counter, then moves through the place, gathering other supplies)
Oaken: (to Kristoff) A real howler in July, yah? Where ever could it be coming from?
KRISTOFF: The North Mountain.
Anna: (to herself) North Mountain.
(Kristoff brings his supplies to the counter. Oaken counts on his fingertips)
Oaken: That'll be forty.
Kristoff: Forty? No, ten.
Oaken: (sweet as pie) Oh dear, that's no good. See these are from our winter stock, where supply and demand have a big problem.
Kristoff: You want to talk about a supply and demand problem? I sell ice for a living.
(Kristoff motions out the window, where we see the blocks of ice on his sled, covered in snow)
Anna: Ooh, that's a rough business to be in right now. I mean, that is really... (he shoots her a look) Ahem. That's unfortunate.
Oaken: Still forty. But I will throw in a visit to Oaken's sauna. Hoo hoo! Hi, family.
(Kristoff and Anna turn to see a naked family waving through the window of the steaming sauna)
Naked Family: Hoo hoo!
Kristoff: Ten's all I got. Help me out.
Oaken: (isolating the carrots) Ten will get you this and no more.
(Kristoff seethes. Stalemate)
Anna: Okay, just tell me one thing. What was happening on the North Mountain? Did it seem magical?
(Kristoff pulls down his scarf and gives Anna a firm answer)
Kristoff: Yes! Now, back up while I deal with this crook here.
(Oaken stands up, revealing his seven-foot stature)
Oaken: What did you call me?
(EXT. WANDERING OAKEN'S TRADING POST AND SAUNA — NIGHT. Oaken stomps out the door, carrying Kristoff with one arm)
KRISTOFF: Okay, okay, I'm out. Whoa!
(Oaken throws Kristoff, who face-plants in the snow)
Oaken: Bye bye.
(Oaken slams the door. Kristoff sits up. His reindeer, Sven, canters over, snorts, and nudges him, expectantly)
Kristoff: No Sven, I didn't get your carrots.
(Sven huffs in his face. Kristoff turns away and sees something. He points to a dilapidated barn)
Kristoff: But I did find us a place to sleep. And it's free.
(INT. WANDERING OAKEN'S TRADING POST AND SAUNA — NIGHT. Anna stands watching Oaken and all his great height as he squeezes behind the counter and sits down low again)
Oaken: (teddy bear) I'm sorry about this violence. I will add a quart of lutefisk, so we'll have good feelings. Just the outfit and boots, yah?
(Anna looks between Kristoff's supplies and the door)
(INT. OAKEN'S STABLES - NIGHT. Kristoff, now unfrozen, relaxes on a bed of hay, playing his lute and singing to (and for) Sven)
("Reindeer(s) are Better than People")
Kristoff: Reindeers are better than people.
Sven, don't you think that's true?
(As Sven) (throwing his voice) Yeah, people will beat you & curse you & cheat you.
Every one of em's bad, except you.
(speaking) Oh, thanks, Buddy.
(singing, as Kristoff) But people smell better than reindeers.
Sven, don't you think I'm right?
(As Sven) That's once again true, for all except you.
(As Kristoff) You got me. Let's call it a night.
(As Sven) Good night.
(As Kristoff) Don't let the frostbite bite.
(The door opens. Anna enters)
Anna: Nice duet.
(Kristoff sits up with a start...sees who it is)
Kristoff: Oh, it's just you. What do you want?
Anna: I want you to take me up the North Mountain.
Kristoff: I don't take people places.
(He lays back down, closes his eyes)
Anna: Let me rephrase that...
(A sack of supplies lands in Kristoff's lap)
Kristoff: Umph.
(He sits up. Looks in the bag)
Anna: Take me up the North Mountain. Please.
(He eyes her. He clearly doesn't take orders)
Anna: Look, I know how to stop this winter.
(He considers, lies back down, pulls his hat over his eyes)
Kristoff: We leave at dawn. And you forgot the carrots for Sven.
(A bag of carrots hits Kristoff in the face)
Kristoff: Ugh!
Anna: Oops. Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't... (catching herself) We leave now. Right now.
(She steps back outside and waits, anxiously. Annoyed, Kristoff offers Sven a carrot. Sven has a bite. Then Kristoff has a bite, contemplating)
(EXT. MOUNTAIN HIGH — NIGHT. Sven races, top speed, up a narrow cliff, pulling the sled, which skids precariously. Kristoff mans the reins. Anna sits beside him)
Kristoff: (trying to scare Anna) Hang on! We like to go fast!
Anna: (fearless) I like fast!
(Anna leans back and puts her feet up on the dashboard)
Kristoff: Whoa, whoa! Get your feet down.
(He pushes her feet down)
Kristoff: This is fresh lacquer. Seriously, were you raised in a barn?
(Kristoff spits on the dash to clean it. The spit flies back and hits Anna in the face)
Anna: (grossed out) Ew. No, I was raised in a castle.
(She wipes off her face)
KRISTOFF: So tell me, what made the Queen go all ice-crazy?
Anna: Oh well, it was all my fault. I got engaged but then she freaked out because I'd only just met him, you know, that day. And she said she wouldn't bless the marriage--
Kristoff: Wait. You got engaged to someone you just met?
Anna: Yeah. Anyway, I got mad and so she got mad and then she tried to walk away, and I grabbed her glove--
Kristoff: Hang on. You mean to tell me you got engaged to someone you just met?
Anna: Yes. Pay attention. But the thing is she wore the gloves all the time, so I just thought, maybe she has a thing about dirt.
Kristoff: Didn't your parents ever warn you about strangers?
(Anna eyes Kristoff up and down, then slides)
Anna: Yes, they did. But Hans is not stranger.
Kristoff: Oh yeah? What's his last name?
Anna: (SCOFFS) "Of the Southern Isles."
Kristoff: What's his favorite food?
Anna: Sandwiches.
Kristoff: Best friend's name?
Anna: Probably John.
Kristoff: Eye color.
Anna: Dreamy.
Kristoff: Foot size?
Anna: Foot size doesn't matter.
Kristoff: Have you had a meal with him yet? What if you hate the way he eats? What if you hate the way he picks his nose?
Anna: Picks his nose?
Kristoff: And eats it.
Anna: Excuse me, sir. He's a prince.
Kristoff: All men do it.
Anna: Ew. Look it doesn't matter. It's true love.
Kristoff: Doesn't sound like true love.
Anna: (SCOFFS) Are you some sort of love expert?
Kristoff: No. But I have friends who are.
Anna: You have friends who are love experts. I'm not buying it.
(Sven suddenly stops, ears perked in alarm)
Kristoff: (to Anna) Stop talking.
Anna: No, no, no. I'd like to meet these--
(Kristoff clamps his hand over Anna's mouth)
Kristoff: I mean it. SHHH.
(Kristoff stands, looks into the dark woods surrounding them. Sensing something behind them, he holds up his lantern. Its light reflects off...EYES. Several)
Kristoff: Sven, go. Go!
(Sven takes off)
Anna: What are they?
Kristoff: Wolves.
(Flashes of white dart through the woods. Kristoff hops into the back of the sled, grabs a torch. Lights it)
Anna: Wolves. What do we do?
Kristoff: I've got this. You just, and don't fall off and don't get eaten.
Anna: But I wanna help.
Kristoff: No.
Anna: Why not?
Kristoff: Because I don't trust your judgement.
Anna: Excuse me?
(A wolf jumps at them, but Kristoff kicks it off)
Kristoff: Who marries a man she just met?
(Anna grabs the lute, swings it right at Kristoff's head)
Anna: It's true love!
(He screams, as she...BAM!...swings past Kristoff and knocks a wolf away)
Kristoff: (shocked) Whoa.
(Just then, Kristoff is yanked off the sled by another wolf. The torch goes flying. Anna catches it, shocked)
Anna: Christopher!
(Kristoff grabs onto a loose rope hanging from the back of the sled and holds on for dear life as he’s dragged behind)
Kristoff: It's Kristoff!
(A wolf jumps on Kristoff's back)
Kristoff: AH!
(Anna thinks fast, uses the torch to light a blanket on fire)
Anna: Duck!
(Anna throws the flaming blanket right at him. He ducks. The blanket hits the wolves. They tumble off Kristoff)
Kristoff: You almost set me on fire!
(Anna reaches out a hand, pulls Kristoff back onto the sled)
Anna: But I didn't.
(Sven cries out. There is a massive gorge ahead)
Anna: Get ready to jump, Sven!
Kristoff: You don't tell him what to do!
(Kristoff shoves a satchel into her arms then scoops her up)
Kristoff: I do!
(Kristoff tosses Anna onto Sven, then unhooks Sven's harness from the sled)
Kristoff: Jump, Sven!
(Sven jumps the gorge with Anna on his back)
(Kristoff goes flying off behind them, still on the sled)
(Anna and Sven land safely on the other side of the gorge)
(Kristoff's sled loses momentum. It's not going to make it. He leaps off. He flaps his arms, claws at the air)
(He slams into the snowy edge of the cliff. Hanging by his hands, he looks down to see his sled hit the ground far below and burst into flames)
Kristoff: (shocked sadness) But I just paid it off.
(Suddenly, he starts to slip. He claws at the loose snow, but it's clearly hopeless. He's going down)
Kristoff: Uh-oh. No, no, no.
(To make matters worse, an AXE comes flying right at his face)
Kristoff: Ah! no, no, no!
(The axe slams into the snow, inches from his nose)
ANNA: Grab on!
(Kristoff grabs on)
Anna: Pull, Sven! Pull!
(REVEAL: The axe is tied to a rope, then wrapped around Sven. Anna helps Sven pull Kristoff to safety)
(Kristoff rolls onto his back, exhausted. Anna peeks down at the burning sled)
Anna: Whoa. I'll replace your sled and everything in it.
(Kristoff groans)
Anna: And I understand if you don't want to help me anymore.
(Anna walks off, sadly. Sven comes over and nuzzles Kristoff)
Kristoff: Of course I don't want to help her anymore. In fact, this whole thing has ruined me for helping anyone ever again.
ANNA: It's this way?
Kristoff: (As Sven) But she'll die on her own.
Kristoff: I can live with that.
ANNA: Here we go.
(Through their conversation, they watch Anna go the wrong way...turn, go the other wrong way, turn, trip...)
Kristoff: (As Sven) But you won't get your new sled if she's dead.
ANNA: I think, actually, it's up.
Kristoff: (knowing he's got a point) You know sometimes I really don't like you.
(Sven licks Kristoff happily)
Kristoff: (to Anna) Hold up. We're coming?
Anna: (excited) You are?! (catching herself) I mean, sure. I'll let you tag along.
(EXT. SHARP MOUNTAIN RIDGE — DAWN. Kristoff, Sven and Anna walk on a narrow rim of a mountain)
(EXT. MOUNTAIN FOREST CLEARING — DAY. As they step out of the thick trees, Anna catches sight of something far below)
Anna: Arendelle.
Kristoff: It's completely frozen.
Anna: But it'll be fine. Elsa will thaw it.
Kristoff: Will she?
Anna: (uncertain) Yeah. Now come on. This way to the North Mountain?
(She points straight ahead)
Kristoff: More like this way.
(He points her finger up towards a perilously mighty mountain)
(INT. FROZEN WILLOW TREES — DAY. Anna, Kristoff, and Sven walk beneath frozen willows. The hanging branches glisten like Christmas lights. Sven knocks them with his antlers. They tinkle like chimes)
Anna: I never knew winter could be so beautiful.
(Suddenly, a voice comes in from nowhere. We'll call that voice OLAF)
OLAF: Yeah. It really is beautiful, isn't it? But it's so white. You know, how about a little color? Must we bleach the joy out of it all? I'm thinking like maybe some crimson, chartreuse.
(While this is going on, Anna and Kristoff look around for the source of the rambling. They look at Sven - could he actually be talking? Sven looks back at them, his antlers tangled in branches, just as baffled as they are)
(In the meantime, a nose-less snowman, Olaf, wanders up behind them)
Olaf: How about yellow? No, not yellow. Yellow and snow? (SHUDDERS) No go.
(He stops between Kristoff and Anna. They look down at him. How did he get there? He suddenly looks up at Anna)
Olaf: Am I right?
(Anna SCREAMS! Reflexes take over and she kicks Olaf's head, sending it flying off his body and into Kristoff's arms)
Olaf: (cheery, to Kristoff) Hi!
Kristoff: You're creepy.
(Kristoff tosses the head back to Anna and they commence a game of hot potato)
OLAF: Whoa!
Anna: I don't want it!
Kristoff: Back at you!
OLAF: Please don't drop me.
Anna: Don't!
Kristoff: Come on, it's just a head.
Anna: No!
(Olaf's body runs at Anna, arms waving)
OLAF: All right, we got off to a bad start.
Anna: Ew, ew, the body!
(Anna slams Olaf's head back on the body, upside down. Olaf smiles happily, then looks confused)
Olaf: Wait, what am I looking at right now? Why are you hanging off the earth like a bat?
Anna: (sympathetic) Okay. Wait one second.
(Anna kneels in front of Olaf and rights his head)
Olaf: Oooh! Thank you!
Anna: You're welcome.
Olaf: Now I'm perfect.
(She looks over his innocent face, gets an idea)
Anna: Well, almost.
(She digs into Kristoff's satchel, holds up a carrot just as Olaf turns toward her. The carrot accidentally slams all the way through his head)
Olaf: Woo! Head rush!
Anna: Oh! Too hard. I'm sorry! I was just... Are you okay?
(Olaf sees a tiny piece of carrot sticking out between his eyes. He lights up)
Olaf: Are you kidding me? I am wonderful! I've always wanted a nose. (going cross-eyed to look at his tiny nose) (IN HIGH-PITCHED VOICE) So cute. It's like a little baby unicorn.
(Anna reaches behind Olaf to the bulk of the carrot sticking out the back of his head, and pushes it forward)
Olaf: (IN NORMAL VOICE) What? Hey! Whoa. (seeing his now big nose) Oh, I love it even more! Hah. All right, let's start this thing over. Hi, everyone. I'm Olaf. And I like warm hugs.
(Olaf opens his arms wide to Anna. That triggers a memory. It takes her a moment to place it, but then she does)
Anna: Olaf? That's right, Olaf.
Olaf: And you are?
Anna: Oh, um... I'm Anna.
Olaf: And who's the funky-looking donkey over there?
Anna: That's Sven.
Olaf: Uh-huh. And who's the reindeer?
Anna: Sven.
(Olaf looks from Kristoff to Sven, confused)
Olaf: Oh. They're... Oh, okay. (accepting it) Makes things easier for me.
(Sven tries to bite Olaf's nose)
Olaf: (SQUEALS) Ha. Aw, look at him trying to kiss my nose. (gushes) I like you, too!
Anna: Olaf, did Elsa build you?
Olaf: Yeah. Why?
(Curious, Kristoff takes one of Olaf's twig arms off, studies it. It seems to be moving in sync with his other arm)
Anna: Do you know where she is?
Kristoff: (studying the arm) Fascinating.
Olaf: Yeah. Why?
Anna: Do you think you could show us the way?
Olaf: Yeah. Why?
Kristoff: (bending the arm) How does this work?
(Olaf's dismembered arm slaps Kristoff across the face)
Olaf: Stop it, Sven. Trying to focus here. (to Anna) Yeah, why?
Kristoff: I'll tell you why. We need Elsa to bring back summer.
Olaf: (shocked) Summer? (sinking into wistfulness) Oh, I don't know why but I've always loved the idea of summer, and sun, and all things hot.
Kristoff: Really? I'm guessing you don't have much experience with heat.
Olaf: Nope. But sometimes I like to close my eyes and imagine what it'd be like when summer does come.
(OLAF'S FANTASY WORLD — PERFECT SUMMER DAY. Olaf walks through a grassy meadow with the sun shining behind him. He SINGS)
("In Summer")
Olaf: Bees'll buzz
Kids'll blow dandelion fuzz
And I'll be doing whatever snow does in summer.
(-Olaf now lies in the sand on a beach)
Olaf: A drink in my hand
My snow up against the burning sand
Prob'ly getting gorgeously tanned in summer.
(-Olaf sails in a boat)
Olaf: I'll finally see a summer breeze
Blow away a winter storm
(-Olaf floats in the water. All his pieces begin to separate)
Olaf: And find out what happens to solid water
When it gets warm.
(-Olaf tumbles on a sandy beach with sand-snowmen)
Olaf: And I can't wait to see
What my buddies all think of me
Just imagine how much cooler I'll be in summer!
(-Olaf and the seagull break out into a tap-dance)
Olaf: (VOCALIZING)
(-Olaf and another snowman drink hot chocolate in a hot tub)
Olaf: The hot and the cold are both so intense
Put them together, it just makes sense!
(-Olaf tap dances with a gaggle of seagulls)
Olaf: (SCATTING)
(-Olaf bounds down a grassy hill)
Olaf: Winter's a good time to stay in and cuddle
But put me in summer and I'll be a...
(He stops at a puddle, looks down at it. Smiles. Hops over it)
Olaf: Happy snowman!
(-Olaf runs with a checkered blanket that he spreads out. He relaxes and stares at the blue sky)
Olaf: When life gets rough I like to hold on to my dream
Of relaxing in the summer sun just letting off steam!
(Sven, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf have a picnic)
Olaf: Oh the sky will be blue
And you guys'll be there too
When I finally do what frozen things do in summer!
Kristoff: I'm gonna tell him.
Anna: Don't you dare.
Olaf: In summer!
(Olaf sings the final note. We swing around him and return to:)
(REALITY. He then straightens up and smiles)
Olaf: So, come on! Elsa's this way. Let's go bring back summer!
(Olaf grabs Anna's hand and pulls her along up the mountain)
Anna: (laughing) I'm coming!
(Sven hops along, happily following them. Kristoff watches all of them like they're nuts)
Kristoff: Somebody's got to tell him.
(EXT. ARENDELLE, VILLAGE — DAY. A layer of solid ice coats everything. People huddle around weak fires. Anxiety runs high amongst the villagers and guests. We pass two CITIZENS fighting over a woodpile)
Citizen 1: No, no. You've got the bark facing down. The bark needs to be face-up)
Citizen 2: Bark down is drier.
MAN 1: Bark up!
MAN 2: Bark down!
BOY: Papa!
(Like a light in the dark, Hans moves through the crowd)
Hans: Cloak? Does anyone need a cloak?
Gerda: Arendelle is indebted to you, your Highness.
Hans: The castle is open. There is soup and hot glogg in the Great Hall.
(He hands the stack of cloaks to a guard)
Hans: Here, pass these out.
(Just then, the Duke approaches Hans)
Duke: Prince Hans! Are we expected to just sit here and freeze while you give away all of Arendelle's tradable goods?
Hans: (tall and confident) Princess Anna has given her orders.
Duke: And that's another thing! Has it dawned on you that your princess may be conspring with a wicked sorceress to destroy us all?
(Hans's nice eyes turn to threatening slits)
Hans: Do not question the princess. She left me in charge and I will not hesitate to protect Arendelle from treason.
Duke: (flabbergasted, offended) (STAMMERING) Treason?
(Suddenly, they hear the alarmed whinny of Anna's horse. It returns alone, bucking and kicking. Hans grabs its reins)
Hans: Whoa! Whoa! Whoa, boy. Easy. Easy.
MAN: It's Princess Anna's horse.
WOMAN 1: So, where is the princess?
WOMAN 2: Where could she be?
WOMAN 3: Where is she?
Crowd: (various) Princess Anna's horse. What happened to her? Where is she?
(Hans steadies the horse, looks up at the mountain. He sees all the panicked faces of the kingdom looking to him)
Hans: Princess Anna is in trouble. (calling out) I need volunteers to go with me to find her.
(Volunteers, some from Arendelle, some from other lands, rush up to offer their services)
Duke: I volunteer two men, milord. (quietly to his thugs) Be prepared for anything. And should you encounter the Queen, you are to put an end to this winter. Do you understand?
(His two thugs sneer)
(EXT. THE NORTH MOUNTAIN — DAY. Anna, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf move through hostile terrain. Wind-swept icicles face horizontal)
Kristoff: So, how exactly are you planning to stop this weather?
Anna: (confident) Oh, I am gonna talk to my sister.
Kristoff: That's your plan? My ice business is riding on you talking to your sister?
Anna: Yep.
(Kristoff, so stunned by her casual plan, doesn't look where he's going and ends up with an ice-spike to the nose. He stops shorts, GULP, moves carefully around the spike)
Kristoff: So, you're not at all afraid of her?
Anna: Why would I be?
Olaf: (oblivious) Yeah. I bet she's the nicest, gentlest, warmest person ever.
(Olaf backs right into an icicle. It runs through his torso)
Olaf: Oh. Look at that. I've been impaled.
(He laughs it off)
(EXT. STEEP MOUNTAIN FACE — DAY. Anna and Kristoff hit what looks like a dead end. The face of the mountain goes straight up)
Anna: What now?
(Kristoff looks around, sighs. Digs in his rucksack)
KRISTOFF: Mmm... It's too steep. I've only got one rope and you don't know how to climb mountains.
ANNA: Says who?
(Sven nudges Kristoff, who looks up to see Anna trying to climb the cliff's flat face)
Kristoff: (finding her ridiculous) What are you doing?
Anna: (straining) I'm going to see my sister.
Kristoff: You're gonna kill yourself.
(Kristoff watches her searching for footholds and hand-holds)
Kristoff: I wouldn't put my foot there.
Anna: You're distracting me.
Kristoff: Or there. How do you know Elsa even wants to see you?
ANNA: All right. I'm just blocking you out because I gotta concentrate, here.
Kristoff: You know, most people who disappear into the mountains want to be alone.
Anna: Nobody wants to be alone. Except maybe you.
Kristoff: I'm not alone. I have friends, remember?
(Anna kicks a foot above her head to catch a foot hold)
ANNA: You mean, the love experts?
Kristoff: Yes, the love experts!
(Anna realizes she's stuck)
Anna: Please tell me I'm almost there.
(REVEAL: she's only about six feet up. Her muscles shake)
Anna: Does the air seem a bit thin to you up here?
(Kristoff smiles, getting a kick out of her)
Kristoff: Hang on.
(He pulls the rope from his bag. Just then, Olaf steps out from behind a rock and waves to Kristoff)
OLAF: Hey, Sven? Not sure if this is gonna solve the problem, but I found a staircase that leads exactly where you wanted to go.
Anna: Ha-ha! Thank goodness. Catch!
(Anna drops off the cliff. Kristoff catches her)
Anna: Thanks. That was like a crazy trust exercise,
(She hops down, brushes off her dress, and bounds off. Kristoff watches after her, digging her fearless pluck)
(EXT. BASE OF THE ICE PALACE — DAY. Anna, Kristoff, and Olaf approach Elsa's elegant ice palace)
Anna: Whoa.
Kristoff: (in awe) Now that's ice. I might cry.
Anna: Go ahead. I won't judge.
(Anna climbs the steps with Olaf. Sven tries to follow. His hooves slip out. He scrambles but can't get traction. Kristoff runs to his side)
Kristoff: All right, take it easy, boy. Come here. I got you.
(Kristoff settles Sven back down the stairs and pats him)
Kristoff: Okay. You stay right here, buddy.
(Sven obediently plops his reindeer butt down and wags his tail. Kristoff climbs the stairs, admiring the ice details)
Kristoff: Flawless.
(Anna arrives at the door. Hesitates)
Olaf: Knock. (she doesn't) Just knock. (she doesn't. To Kristoff) Why isn't she knocking? Do you think she knows how to knock?
(Anna finally KNOCKS. The sound echoes inside. The ice doors slide open)
Anna: Huh. It opened. That's a first.
(Anna goes to step in. Kristoff follows. She gets a thought, stops him)
Anna: Oh. You should probably wait out here.
Kristoff: What?
Anna: The last time I introduced her to a guy, she froze everything.
Kristoff: But, but... Oh, come on! It's a palace made of ice. Ice is my life!
Olaf: Bye, Sven.
(Olaf starts to head inside. Anna stops him)
Anna: You, too, Olaf.
Olaf: Me?
Anna: Just give us a minute.
Olaf: Okay.
(As Anna walks inside. Olaf starts counting)
Olaf: (SOFTLY) One, two, three...
(Kristoff joins in)
Olaf & Kristoff (Both): Four...
(INT. ELSA'S PALACE — DAY. Anna walks into a great foyer. The place is beautiful, but also eerie)
Anna: Elsa? It's me, Anna.
(Anna slips. Steadies herself)
ELSA: Anna.
(Elsa steps out of the shadows onto a balcony. She sees Anna, Looks to her longingly)
(Anna can't help but he struck by Elsa's beauty)
Anna: Whoa. Elsa, you look different. It's a good different. And this place... It's amazing.
Elsa: (cautious, polite) Thank you. I never knew what I was capable of.
(Anna starts to climb the stairs)
Anna: I'm so sorry about what happened. If I'd known...
(Elsa backs up, away from Anna)
Elsa: (on guard) No, no, no. It's okay. You don't have to apologize, but you should probably go. Please.
Anna: But I just got here.
Elsa: You belong in Arendelle.
Anna: So do you.
(Anna takes another step up. Elsa backs up more)
Elsa: No, Anna, I belong here. Alone. Where I can be who I am with hurting anybody.
Anna: Actually, about that...
OLAF: Sixty!
Elsa: Wait. What is that?
(Olaf comes running in the front door. He waves)
Olaf: Hi! I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!
Elsa: (shocked) Olaf?
(Olaf stops beside Anna, looks up at Elsa, intimidated)
Olaf: (bashful) Yeah. You built me. Remember that?
Elsa: (astonished) And you're alive?
Olaf: Um... I think so.
(Anna kneels down beside Olaf)
Anna: He's just like the one we built as kids. Elsa, we were so close. We can be like that again.
(Elsa smiles, but then a memory returns to her)
YOUNG ANNA: Catch me!
YOUNG ELSA: Slow down!
(FLASHBACK: Young Anna is struck by Elsa's powers)
Young Elsa: Anna!
(Young Anna falls unconscious. Young Elsa races to her)
(THE PRESENT: Elsa's face sinks in pain)
Elsa: No. We can't.
(Elsa turns and heads up the second story steps)
Elsa: Goodbye, Anna.
Anna: Elsa, wait.
Elsa: (calling back) No, I'm just trying to protect you.
(Elsa continues to flee. Anna pursues)
Anna: You don't have to protect me. I'm not afraid. Please don't shut me out again.
(Anna sings)
("First Time in Forever, Reprise")
Anna: Please don't slam the door.
You don't have to keep your distance anymore.
'Cause for the first time in forever,
I finally understand.
For the first time in forever,
We can fix this hand in hand.
We can head down this mountain together.
You don't have to live in fear.
'Cause for the first time in forever,
I will be right here.
(They arrive on the top floor, Elsa's main living space. Elsa turns back to Anna, grateful, but determined)
Elsa: Anna. Please go back home.
Your life awaits.
Go enjoy the sun
And open up the gates.
Anna: Yeah, but...
Elsa: I know! You mean well,
But leave me be.
Yes, I'm alone but I'm alone and free.
(Elsa opens up the balcony doors)
Elsa: Just stay away and you'll be safe from me.
Anna: Actually, we're not.
Elsa: What do you mean you're not?
Anna: I get the feeling you don't know?
Elsa: What do I not know?
Anna: Arendelle's in deep, deep, deep, deep snow.
Elsa: What?
(Elsa looks past Anna's shoulder out white-peaked mountains)
Anna: You kind of set off an eternal winter everywhere.
Elsa: Everywhere?
Anna: Well. it's okay, you can just unfreeze it.
Elsa: No, I can't. I don't know how.
Anna: Sure you can. I know you can.
(Snow starts to swirl around the room)
Anna: 'Cause for the first time in forever,
Elsa: (panicking) Oh, I'm such a fool!
I can't be free!
Anna: You don't have to be afraid.
Elsa: No escape from the storm inside of me!
(The snow picks up. Anna tries to fight through it)
Anna: We can work this out together.
Elsa: I can't control the curse!
Anna: We'll reverse the storm you've made.
Elsa: Anna, please you'll only make it worse!
Anna: Don't panic.
Elsa: There's so much fear!
Anna: We'll make the sun shine bright.
Elsa: You're not safe here!
Anna: We can face this thing together
(But as Anna sings, we lose sight of her in the thickening blizzard taking over the room)
Elsa: No!
Anna: We can change this winter weather,
And everything will be...
(Anna's voice disappears in the storm as Elsa cries out)
Elsa: I can't!
(Elsa's fear, so strong, sucks the blizzard back into her and then it bursts out, unwittingly, like a sharp snowflake)
(Anna is STRUCK right in the heart. She grasps her chest in pain and stumbles back. She falls to her knees)
(Elsa gasps when sees Anna. Just then, Olaf and Kristoff rush into the room to Anna's side)
KRISTOFF: Anna! Are you okay?
Anna: I'm okay. I'm fine.
(Anna gets to her feet, determined to hide the pain)
Elsa: (scared) Who's this? Wait, it doesn't matter. Just... You have to go.
Anna: No, I know we can figure this out together.
Elsa: (desperate) How? What power do you have to stop this winter? To stop me?
(Anna doesn't have the answer. Kristoff sees spiky ice shadows creeping down the walls. Puts a protective arm around Anna)
Kristoff: Anna, I think we should go.
Anna: (close to tears) No, I'm not leaving without you, Elsa.
Elsa: (heartbroken but decisive) Yes, you are.
(Elsa waves her arms and builds a giant, menacing snowman. We'll call him MARSHMALLOW)
(EXT. ICE PALACE — DAY. Marshmallow holds Anna and Kristoff by the scruff of their necks in one hand and Olaf in the other)
ANNA: Stop! Put us down!
Marshmallow: (like a bouncer) Go away.
(Marshmallow tosses Kristoff and Anna down the steps. Anna and Kristoff slide past Sven, who's got his tongue stuck to the ice railing)
Olaf: Heads up!
(Olaf's head smashes into a snowbank nearby)
Olaf: Watch out for my butt!
(Anna and Kristoff duck as the rest of Olaf slams into the snowbank)
(Marshmallow turns to go back into the castle)
(Incensed, Anna tries to march back up the stairs)
Anna: It is not nice to throw people!
(Kristoff grabs her, pulls her back)
Kristoff: Whoa, Whoa, whoa, feisty-pants. Okay, relax. Just calm down! Calm down!
Anna: Okay! All right! I'm okay.
Kristoff: Just let the snowman be.
Anna: I'm calm.
Kristoff: Great.
(Anna backs down...for a moment. Then she grabs a snowball and throws it at Marshmallow)
(The tiny little ball hits Marshmallow's back, not making even the slightest dent. But it's enough to infuriate him. He ROARS. Spikes shoots out of his joints)
Kristoff: Oh. Look, see? Now, you made him mad.
Olaf: I'll distract him. You guys go.
(Kristoff pushes Anna along. Sven runs off in the opposite direction. Olaf's belly and butt fall and follow Sven)
Olaf: No, no! Not you guys!
(Marshmallow goes charging after Anna and Kristoff as Olaf's head falls and lands face down in snow)
Olaf: (MUFFLED) This just got a whole lot harder.
(Anna and Kristoff leap and slide down a steep slope)
KRISTOFF: Look out!
(They tumble to a stop at the bottom just as Marshmallow lands hard right behind them. They're off again...through a maze of conifers that sag under the weight of the snow, Marshmallow hot on their trail)
KRISTOFF: Run! Run!
(Anna grabs a branch of a sagging trees and releases all of the snow)
KRISTOFF: What are you doing?
(The tree snaps upright, knocking Marshmallow back)
Kristoff: (impressed) Ho-ho-ho!
Anna: I got him! (LAUGHS)
(Anna and Kristoff burst out of the conifer forest and almost run right off a cliff. They stop short, toes on the edge)
KRISTOFF: Whoa! Stop!
ANNA: It's a 100-foot drop.
KRISTOFF: It's 200.
(Kristoff ties the rope around Anna and pulls tight)
Anna: Ow!
(He drops to his knees and starts digging a u-shape in the snow with a pick axe)
Anna: What's that for?
Kristoff: I'm digging a snow anchor.
Anna: (not trusting) Okay. What if we fall?
Kristoff: There's 20 feet of fresh powder down there. It'll be like landing on a pillow. Hopefully.
(They hear an angry ROAR coming closer)
Kristoff: Okay, Anna. On three.
ANNA: Okay.
KRISTOFF: One...
Anna: You tell me when. I'm ready to go.
Kristoff: Two...
Anna: (pumped up) I was born ready! Yes!
Kristoff: Calm down.
(A huge tree flies through the air toward them)
ANNA: Tree!
(Anna jumps and pulls Kristoff over the edge with her. They hang upside down over the cliff by the rope. The rope catches their fall)
KRISTOFF: That happened.
(Back on top, Olaf emerges from the woods. He's a complete mess, all his body parts are in the wrong places. He huffs and puffs, struggling to run)
Olaf: Man, am I out of shape.
(He stops. Puts his body back together in the right order)
Olaf: There we go. Hey, Anna! Sven! Where did you guys go? We totally lost Marshmallow back there.
(Marshmallow steps up behind Olaf. Olaf turns to face him)
Olaf: (happily) Hey! We were just talking about you. All good things, all good things.
(Marshmallow roars and approaches Kristoff's snow anchor)
Olaf: No!
(Olaf jumps onto Marshmallow's leg trying to stop him, but not making much of a difference)
Olaf: This is not making much of a difference, is it?
(Marshmallow flicks Olaf off his leg and right over the cliff)
Olaf: Whoa!
(Olaf passes Anna and Kristoff)
Anna: Olaf!
Olaf: Hang in there, guys!
(Marshmallow starts yanking Kristoff and Anna's rope up)
Anna: Wait, what?
KRISTOFF: Hey!
(Kristoff's head hits the cliff)
Kristoff: Ow!
(Kristoff passes out and hangs like a rag doll)
Anna: Kristoff!
(Marshmallow pulls them up. He roars and breaths snow all over them)
Marshmallow: Don't come back!
Anna: (grossed out by his snow breath) We won't.
(Anna whips out a knife and cuts the rope. Kristoff comes to just as they fall. They both SCREAM!)
(SLAM!)
(REVEAL: Anna opens her eyes to find herself buried up to her shoulders in the soft thick snow. She laughs)
Anna: Hey, you were right. Just like a pillow. (CHUCKLES) Olaf!
(She looks up to see Olaf's upper half hanging onto Kristoff's boots, which are sticking out of the snow)
Olaf: (shaking the boots) I can't feel my legs! I can't feel my legs!
(Suddenly, Kristoff's head pops up. He spits out snow)
Kristoff: Those are my legs.
(Olaf's bottom goes running by)
Olaf: (to Kristoff) Ooh! Hey, do me a favor, grab my butt.
(Kristoff grabs Olaf's head and puts it on his body)
Olaf: Oh. That feels better.
(Sven walks up and sniffs Olaf's nose)
Olaf: Hey, Sven!
(Olaf turns to Anna and Kristoff just as Sven goes to bite off his nose -- and misses)
Olaf: He found us. (to Sven, funny voice) Who's my cute little reindeer?
Kristoff: Don't talk to him like that.
(Kristoff goes over to help Anna, who is stuck in the snow)
Kristoff: Here.
(He lifts her out easily)
Anna: (impressed) Whoa!
Kristoff: Are you okay?
Anna: Thank you.
(They meet eyes. Wait. Is that chemistry?)
Anna: How's your head?
(She touches the spot where he banged his head)
Kristoff: (in pain) Ah! Ooh!
(He catches himself. Waves off the pain with a giggle)
Kristoff: (STAMMERING) It's fine. Uh... Uh, I'm good. I've got a thick skull.
Olaf: I don't have a skull. Or bones.
Kristoff: So...
(The awkwardness is killing him)
Kristoff: (shy) Now what?
Anna: (shy) Now what? (CHUCKLES) Now what? (then...panicking) Oh... What am I gonna do? She threw me out. I can't go back to Arendelle with the weather like this. And then there's your ice business.
Kristoff: Hey, hey. Don't worry about my ice business. (noticing something) Worry about your hair!
(She thinks he means it looks bad. She smooths it down)
Anna: What? I just fell off a cliff. You should see your hair.
Kristoff: No, yours is turning white.
(She grabs her braid as a tendril turns white)
Anna: White? It's... What?
Kristoff: It's because she struck you, isn't it?
Anna: Does it look bad?
Kristoff: (thinking) No.
(Olaf's head pops up. he's holding his head up off his body to join the conversation)
Olaf: You hesitated.
Kristoff: No, I didn't. Anna, you need help, okay? Come on.
(He heads towards the sunset. Sven and Olaf follow)
Olaf: Okay! Where are we going?
Kristoff: To see my friends.
Anna: (catching up) The love experts?
Kristoff: Uh-huh. And don't worry, they'll be able to fix this.
Anna: How do you know?
(He looks her over, remembering the moment he saw the trolls heal her as a child)
Kristoff: Because I've seen them do it before.
(As they round the bend, the sun sets and Olaf turns to Sven)
Olaf: I like to consider myself a love expert.
(SVEN GRUNTS)
(INT. ELSA'S PALACE — DAY. Elsa paces, distraught. She talks to herself)
Elsa: (mantra-style) Get it together. Control it. Don't feel. Don't feel. Don't feel. Don't feel!
(She hears ice cracking. Stops. Looks around. She's left a sharp wake of ice spikes behind her on the floor. They grow up the wall, taking over the castle)
(EXT. BLACK MOUNTAINS — NIGHT. The Northern Lights are bright. Olaf stares at them in awe as he rides on Sven's back)
Olaf: Look, Sven, the sky's awake.
(Behind Olaf and Sven, Anna walks with Kristoff. She shivers)
Kristoff: Are you cold?
Anna: A little.
(He reaches like he might put an arm around her, but decides against it. He looks around as if he doesn't know what to do, then gets a thought)
Kristoff: Wait. Come here.
(He takes her hand and pulls her around a bend into a rock-lined pass)
(Steam vents, powered by the volcanic activity, dot the path. He holds her hands over one of them)
Anna: Oooh.... That's nice.
They continue on the path, walking from vent to vent.
Kristoff: (taking a deep breath) So, uh, about my friends. Well... (CHUCKLES) I say "friends"... They're more like family. Anyway, when I was a kid, it was just me and Sven. Until they, you know, kinda took us in.
Anna: (moved) They did?
Kristoff: (nervous ramble) Yeah. I don't want to scare you. They can be a little bit inappropriate and loud. (CHUCKLES) Very loud. They are also stubborn at times, and a little overbearing. And heavy. Really, really heavy. (STAMMERS) But you'll get it. They mean well.
(Anna touches Kristoff's arm, reassuringly)
Anna: Kristoff, they sound wonderful.
(Kristoff smiles, appreciating her sincerity)
Kristoff: Okay then.
(Mustering the courage, Kristoff steps forward and with a wave of the arms announces--)
Kristoff: Meet my family.
(REVEAL: he's surrounded by rocks)
Kristoff: (to the rocks) Hey, guys.
(As Kristoff and Sven move through the rocks, waving and greeting, Olaf and Anna stand frozen, dumbfounded)
Anna: (to herself) They're rocks.
KRISTOFF: You are a sight for sore eyes.
Olaf: (realizing) (WHISPERS) He's crazy.
Kristoff: Rocko's looking sharp, as usual. Clay, whoa... I don't even recognize you. You lost so much weight.
Olaf: (covertly, to Anna) (WHISPERS) I'll distract them while you run. (Loud and slow to a rock) (IN LOUD VOICE) Hi, Sven's family! It's nice to meet you! (quietly to Anna) (WHISPERS) Anna, because I love you, I insist you run. (to the rock) (LOUD NOISE) I understand you're love experts! (to Anna) (WHISPERS) Why aren't you running?
(Anna snaps out of her shock and starts backing away)
Anna: Okay. Um. I'm gonna go.
OLAF: Go.
(Just then, the rocks around her start rolling)
Olaf: No, no, no. Anna, wait.
Anna: (panicking) Kristoff!
(Olaf lights up and chases the rocks)
KRISTOFF: Whoa!
(The rocks surround Kristoff and unfold as trolls)
Bulda: Kristoff's home!
TROLL 1: Kristoff's here!
Trolls: (various) Kristoff! Kristoff's home! It's been too long! Kristoff's home!
(Olaf jumps around all excitedly)
Olaf: (excitedly) Kristoff's home.
(He then stops, confused, and looks to one of the trolls)
Olaf: Wait, "Kristoff"?
(Anna watches, shocked and confused)
(The trolls all want Kristoff's attention. One troll yanks him down with a boulder's strength)
Troll 1: Ah, let me look at you.
(Another troll tries to pull off his clothes)
Troll 2: Take off your clothes, I wash them.
Kristoff: (holding up his pants) No! No, I'm going to keep my clothes on, thank you. Look, it's great to see you all, but where's Grand Pabbie?
TROLL KID: He's napping. But, look, I grew a mushroom.
Troll Scout Kid: And I earned my fire crystal.
Kidney Stone Troll: I passed a kidney stone.
Pick Me Up Troll: Kristoff, pick me up.
(The kid troll jumps up on Kristoff's arm. Kristoff sinks under the weight of him)
(Anna still stares, confused, then realizes...)
Anna: Trolls? They're trolls.
(Silence. All troll eyes turn to Anna. Blink. Blink)
Bulda: He's brought a girl!
Trolls: (CHEERING) A girl!
(Suddenly Anna is surrounded by trolls)
TROLL 2: Is that a real girl?
TROLL 3: She's like a little cupcake.
(They body-surf/roll Anna over to Kristoff. She falls into his arms)
Anna: What's going on?
Kristoff: I've learned to just roll with it.
(Bulda climbs on top of her husband, Cliff, to get a good look at Anna. She studies her like she's a piece of cattle)
Bulda: Let me see. Bright eyes. Working nose. Strong teeth. Yes, yes. She'll do nicely for our Kristoff.
Anna: Wait, wait, wait. Oh, um, no.
Kristoff: You've got the wrong idea. That's not why I brought her here.
Anna: Right. We're not... I'm not...
(Anna laughs, uncomfortable, not knowing what to say)
Bulda: (to Anna) What's the issue, dear? Why are you holding back from such a man?
(Bulda SINGS)
("Fixer-Upper")
Is it the clumpy way he walks?
Trolls: (various) Or the grumpy way he talks?
Or the pear-shaped, square-shaped weirdness of his feet?
KRISTOFF: Hey!
Trolls: (various) And though we know he washes well
He always ends up sorta smelly.
But you'll never meet a fella who's as sensitive and sweet.
Trolls (chorus): So he's a bit of a fixer upper,
So he's got a fews flaws-
TROLL 1: His peculiar brain, dear.
TROLL 2: His thing for the reindeer
Trolls (CHORUS): That outside a few of nature's laws.
So he's a bit of a fixer upper,
But this we're certain of-
You can fix this fixer upper up
With a little bit of love.
Kristoff: Can we just stop talking about this? We've got a real, actual problem here.
Bulda: I'll say. (To Anna) So, tell me, dear...
Is it the way that he runs scared?
Trolls (various): Or that he's socially impaired?
Kid Troll: Or that he only likes to tinkles in the woods?
Trolls: (various) Are you holding back your fondness
Due to his unmanly blondness?
Or the way he covers up that he's the honest goods?
Trolls (chorus): He's just a bit of a fixer upper-
He's got a couple of bugs.
Kristoff: No, I don't.
Trolls: His isolation
Is confirmation
Of his desperation for healing hugs.
So he's a bit of a fixer upper,
But we know what to do.
The way to fix up this fixer upper
Is to fix him up with you.
(The girl trolls sweep Anna away. The boys take Kristoff)
Kristoff: (to the male trolls) Enough! She is engaged to someone else, okay?
(TROLLS beat. Blink. Blink. The boy trolls turn, huddle...)
Trolls: (various) So she's a bit of a fixer upper,
That's a minor thing.
This quote "engagement"
Is a flex arrangement.
Kid Troll: And by the way, I don't see no ring.
Trolls: (various) So she's a bit of a fixer upper,
Her brain's a bit betwixt.
Get the fiancé
Out of the way
And the whole thing will be fixed!
Girl Trolls: We aren't saying you can change him
Trolls: (various) 'Cause people don't really change.
We're only saying that love's a force
That's powerful and strange.
People make bad choices
If they're mad or scared or stressed.
But throw a little love their way
(Throw a little love their way)
And you'll bring out their best!
True love brings out the best!
(Kristoff looks over at Anna. She actually looks shockingly beautiful dressed in moss, lit by shimmering crystals)
All Trolls: Everyone's a bit of a fixer upper,
That's what it's all about
Father, sister, brother
We need each other
To raise up up and round us out
(By this time, Kristoff and Anna are being ushered into a pit by the sheer force of numbers)
Trolls: Everyone's a bit of a fixer upper,
But when push comes to shove-
Olaf: The only fixer upper fixer that can fix a fixer upper is
True
True
True
True
Love
(During this last bit, Anna and Kristoff are looking at each other differently. Hmmm. Maybe those trolls are right? Sparks! Chemistry!)
Troll Priest: Do you, Anna, take Kristoff to be your trollfully wedded...
Anna: Wait, what?
Troll Priest: You're getting married.
Trolls: Love!
(Just then, Anna collapses. Kristoff catches her. She's shivering something fierce)
Kristoff: Anna?
(He pulls off her cape and hat)
Kristoff: She's as cold as ice.
(Just then, Grand Pabbie pushes his way through the crowd. Trolls clear the way for Grand Pabbie. He stops at the edge of the pit)
Grand Pabbie: There's strange magic here!
Kristoff: Grand Pabbie!
Grand Pabbie: Come, come. Bring her here to me.
(Kristoff helps Anna over. Pabbie looks into her weak eyes)
Grand Pabbie: Anna, your life is in danger. There is ice in your heart put there by your sister. If not removed, to solid ice will you freeze, forever.
Anna: What? No.
Kristoff: But you can remove it, right?
Grand Pabbie: I cannot. I'm sorry, Kristoff. If it was her head, that would be easy. But only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart.
Anna: An act of true love?
Bulda: (googley, to her hubby) A true love's kiss, perhaps?
(A bunch of trolls give each other kisses)
(Anna shivers again, collapsing into Kristoff's arms. More of her hair turns white)
TROLL 1: Something's wrong.
TROLL 2: Are you all right?
Kristoff: Anna, we've got to get you back to Hans.
Anna: (still weak) Hans.
Kristoff: Pull us out, Sven.
(Kristoff grabs Sven's antlers. Sven pulls them out)
(Kristoff helps Anna onto Sven and hops up behind her)
Kristoff: Olaf, come on!
(Sven takes off. Olaf grabs Sven's tail, rides with them)
Olaf: I'm coming! Let's go kiss Hans! Who is this Hans?
(EXT. ELSA'S PALACE — DAWN. Hans and the men tread cautiously towards the castle)
Hans: We are here to find Princess Anna. Be on guard, but no harm is to come to the Queen. Do you understand?
SOLDIER 1: Yes, your Grace.
(The Duke's thugs exchange a look. Suddenly, a mass of snow rises from the ground behind Hans. It's Marshmallow, Elsa's snow guard. He slams a fish inches from Hans. Hans deftly dodges out of the way. All of the guards take up arms against Marshmallow, who quickly knocks them over)
(Marshmallow throws down a guard and his horse, who topple over Hans. Marshmallow raises his foot to stomp on Hans, but Hans barrel-rolls himself to safety. He sees his sword, leaps, and grabs it)
(Just then, Elsa peeks out the front doors)
(The Duke's two thugs see her)
Duke's Thug: The Queen.
(The thugs charge up the stairs)
(INT. ELSA'S PALACE — DAY. They guards bursts through the ice doors)
DUKE'S THUG 2: Go, go! Come on!
(Elsa flees to the top floor of her palace. The guards pursue)
DUKE'S THUG 2: There!
DUKE'S THUG 1: Up there!
(They trap her on the top floor, raise their crossbows)
DUKE'S THUG 2: We got her.
Elsa: (scared) No. Please.
(One of the thugs shoots an arrow right at Elsa. At the last moment she creates an ice wall. It stops the arrow, inches from her face)
DUKE'S THUG 2: Go around. Toss it.
(The thugs reposition to take another shot)
Elsa: Stay away!
DUKE'S THUG 1: Look out!
DUKE'S THUG 2: Fire! Fire!
(Elsa shoots ice at the thugs. They duck out of the way and continue the attack)
Thug: Get her!
(BACK OUTSIDE: Hans is nearly crushed by Marshmallow. He rolls away. Jumps to his feet. And with agile might, he slices Marshmallow's leg off with his sword. Marshmallow stumbles back, off balance. And falls of over the cliff, but not before striking Hans. Hans goes over the edge)
(REVEAL: Hans clings to the ice steps)
SOLDIER: Grab his arm.
(His men help him up and they rush into the ice palace)
(INT. ICE PALACE — DAY. Elsa is surrounded. It's do or die)
DUKE'S THUG 2: Aim...
(In two swift moves, Elsa traps one thug in a cage of spikes that threaten his neck. The other she pushes back with a wall of ice...up against the balcony doors...which BURST and CRACK)
(OUT ONTO THE BALCONY... The balcony doors shatter. The thug is pushed to the edge. He's inches away from falling to his death)
(BACK INSIDE: Hans and his men run in. See the destruction and the thugs near death)
SOLDIER 1: This way, this way!
SOLDIER 2: Whoa!
Hans: Queen Elsa! Don't be the monster they fear you are.
(Elsa snaps out of her rage. She sees the men, frightened, moments from death. She stops. Elsa looks to Hans, overwhelmed, frightened)
(The wall retreats from the thug on the balcony. The ice spikes lower from the second thug's neck. he takes advantage and aims his crossbow at Elsa's back)
(Seeing it. Hans runs and pushes the crossbow up just as the arrow releases. The arrow hits the ice chandelier, hanging directly above Elsa)
(The chandelier comes CRASHING DOWN)
(Elsa dives out of the way but she falls in the blast)
(All we see is ice smashing like glass, and all we hear is the sound of it shattering as it rings out)
(Elsa's face as her eyes flutter open)
(She sits up. She's surrounded by stone)
(INT. ARENDELLE, DUNGEON — DAY. Elsa looks to the nearby window. Tries to rush to it. She's pulled taut by giant shackles that fit like iron gloves. She's chained to the wall)
(Elsa strains to looks out a window...)
(INSET WINDOW: Arendelle is outside, frozen solid and getting further buried under the ice and snow that is falling)
Elsa: No. What have I done?
(Hans enters. He hangs a torch by the door)
Elsa: Why did you bring me here?
Hans: I couldn't just let them kill you.
Elsa: But I'm a danger to Arendelle. Get Anna.
Hans: Anna has not returned.
(Elsa looks to the storm with worry)
Hans: If you would just stop the winter. Bring back summer, please.
(Elsa meets his eyes, desperate)
Elsa: Don't you see? I can't.
(Hans sees the sincerity in her eyes)
Elsa: You have to tell them to let me go.
(Hans walks to the door. He takes the torch)
Hans: I will do what I can.
(He opens the door and leaves)
(Elsa, distraught, hears cracking. She looks down as her shackles begin to freeze over. The storm outside picks up)
(EXT. THE FJORDS — DAY. Sven charges down the mountain with Kristoff and Anna on his back. Olaf slides along beside them, penguin-style)
(Anna shivers in Kristoff's arms. She's weakening. Kristoff takes off his hat and puts it on her head)
Kristoff: Just hang in there. (to Sven) Come on, buddy, faster!
(They arrive at the walls of Arendelle. Olaf slides past them, out of control)
Olaf: I'll meet you guys at the castle!
KRISTOFF: Stay out of sight, Olaf!
OLAF: I will!
(He disappears into the village streets)
Olaf: Hello!
(TOWNSWOMAN SCREAMS) Ah! It's alive!
(EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD — DAY. Guards see Kristoff and Anna approaching)
Guard: It's Princess Anna!
(Sven skids to a stop outside the gates. Kristoff slides off, holding Anna, and carries her to the gate)
Kristoff: I've got you.
(Anna looks up at him, gratefully)
Anna: Are you gonna be okay?
Kristoff: (touched, reassuring) Don't worry about me.
(Just then the castle gates open. Gerda, Kai, and a handmaid rush to help Anna)
GERDA: Anna! Oh, you had us worried sick.
Kai: My Lady. You are freezing.
Kristoff: Get her warm. And find Prince Hans, immediately.
Kai: We will. Thank you.
(Anna is swept away from Kristoff and into the palace grounds)
Kristoff: Make sure she's safe!
GERDA: You poor girl, you're freezing. Let's get you inside.
(Kristoff is shut out as the castle gates close on him)
(Kristoff stands there with Sven for a beat, staring with the closed gates)
(Finally, he sighs, turns and walks off. Sven reluctantly follows)
(INT. LIBRARY — DAY. Hans stands with the dignitaries and guards)
Hans: I'm going back out to look for Princess Anna.
French Dignitary: You cannot risk going out there again.
Hans: If anything happens to her--
Spanish Dignitary: If anything happens to the Princess, you are all Arendelle has left.
(Hans hesitates, realizing how much this kingdom has come to depend on him. Is he really all they have left?)
(Just then the door opens and Gerda and Kai bring in Anna)
KAI: He's in here. Prince Hans.
Hans: Anna.
(Hans rushes to Anna. She falls into his arms)
Hans: You're so cold.
Anna: (weak, but desperate) Hans, you have to kiss me.
Hans: What?
Anna: Now. Here we go.
(She tries to kiss him, but is too weak to pull herself up in his arms)
Gerda: We'll give you two some privacy.
(Everyone shuffles out, leaving Hans and Anna alone)
Hans: What happened out there?
Anna: Elsa struck me with her powers.
Hans: You said she'd never hurt you.
Anna: I was wrong.
(Anna crumbles, weak)
Hans: Anna.
(Hans carries her to a couch, sets her down)
Anna: (shivering more) She froze my heart and only an act of true love can save me.
Hans: (understanding) A true love's kiss.
(He takes her chin in his hand and gives her a tender smile. He leans in slowly...gently...)
(Then he stops)
Hans: Oh, Anna. If only there was someone out there who loved you.
Anna: What?
(Hans gets up, leaving her there)
Anna: You said you did.
(He goes to the window and shuts the curtains)
Hans: As thirteenth in line in my own kingdom, I didn't stand a chance. I knew I'd have to marry into the throne somewhere--
Anna: What are you talking about?
Hans: (putting out the candles) As heir, Elsa was preferable, of course. But no one was getting anywhere with her. But you...
Anna: Hans?
Hans: You were so desperate for love you were willing to marry me, just like that.
(Hans crosses the room, grabs a pitcher of water from a table and goes to the fireplace)
Hans: I figured, after we married, I'd have to stage a little accident for Elsa.
(Hans pours the water on the fireplace, putting out the fire. Anna tries to stop him. She falls to the floor, weak)
Anna: Hans. No, stop.
Hans: But then she doomed herself, and you were dumb enough to go after her.
Anna: Please.
Hans: (CHUCKLES) All that's left now is to kill Elsa and bring back summer.
(Hans approaches Anna)
Anna: You're no match for Elsa.
(He bends down, takes her chin in his hand again, this time not so gently)
Hans: No, you're no match for Elsa. I, on the other hand, am the hero who is going to save Arendelle from destruction.
(She wrenches her face out of his hands)
Anna: (anger) You won't get away with this.
(Hans rises and crosses to the door)
Hans: Oh, I already have.
(Hans leaves and shuts her in, locking the door. Anna struggles to the door, yanks on the locked handle)
Anna: (hoarse and weak) Please, somebody help.
(The rest of her hair turns white and she crumbles to the floor)
(INT. COUNCIL CHAMBER — DAY. The Duke looks out the window at the growing snowstorm. He rubs his arms and shivers)
DUKE: It's getting colder by the minute. If we don't do something soon, we'll all freeze to death.
(Hans comes in, putting on his most distraught face)
Spanish Dignitary: Prince Hans.
Hans: Princess Anna is... Dead.
Various Dignitaries: What...? No.... Mon dieu.
(Hans stumbles, weak with grief. The men help him to a chair)
Duke: What happened to her?
Hans: She was killed by Queen Elsa.
Duke: Her own sister.
Hans: (really putting it on) At least we got to say our marriage vows before she died in my arms.
(He bows his head in a brilliant display of teary grief)
Duke: There can be no doubt now. Queen Elsa is a monster, and we are all in grave danger.
Spanish Dignitary: Prince Hans, Arendelle looks to you.
(Hans nods; he knows what he's being asked to do, and he'll do it with the perfect amount of authority and gravitas)
Hans: With a heavy heart, I charge Queen Elsa of Arendelle with treason. And sentence her to death.
(INT. ELSA'S DUNGEON — DAY. The cell ices over. Elsa looks out at the storm that is devastating Arendelle, then hears the guards approaching)
GUARD 1: Hurry up!
GUARD 2: She's dangerous.
Guard: Move quickly and with resolve.
GUARD 3: Careful.
(Elsa pulls at her shackles. They crack)
Guard: It won't open!
GUARD 1: It's frozen shut.
GUARD 2: Put your back into it!
GUARD 4: Come on! Push!
(Just as the door busts open, the weight of the ice crumbles the walls. The men duck out of the way)
(Hans pushes his way into the room...sees...)
(The back wall is blown open. Broken shackles rest on the floor. Elsa is gone)
(EXT. MOUNTAIN SLOPE — DAY. Kristoff heads into the mountains. Sven lags behind, not wanting to follow. He looks back at the kingdom, then shakes his head. Enough)
(He runs past Kristoff. Stops and turns to face him. He snorts and grunts)
Kristoff: What is it, buddy?
(Sven nudges Kristoff with his antlers)
Kristoff: Hey, watch it. What's wrong with you?
(Sven snorts with more conviction, moos, brays)
Kristoff: (avoiding) I don't understand you when you talk like that.
(Kristoff tries to walk on ahead, but Sven uses his antlers to lift Kristoff off the ground)
Kristoff: Ah! Stop it! Put me down!
(Sven drops him hard then "yells" at him once more)
Kristoff: No, Sven! We're not going back!
(Sven shakes his head, angrily)
Kristoff: She's with her true love.
(Sven makes an "of-course-she-isn't" face. Kristoff gets it; he's made his point)
(Just then the wind picks up. Kristoff looks back at the kingdom. Sees a violent winter storm swirling over the castle. Sharp ice claws its way up the castle, encasing it)
Kristoff: Anna.
(Without hesitating, he dashes back down the mountain. Sven runs after him, catches up. Kristoff grabs Sven's harness and jumps onto his back)
(INT. LIBRARY — NIGHT. Anna shivers by the door. She looks up to see ice overtaking the ceiling)
(The door handle suddenly jiggles. Stops. Jiggles again)
Anna: (barely a whisper) Help.
(CLICK. The door swings open. We see a carrot in the lock and hear a giggle of victory. Olaf takes the carrot, puts it back on his face. Then he sees Anna lying there)
Olaf: Anna. Oh no.
(He runs to the fireplace. Throws in some fresh wood, including one of his own arms, which he quickly rescues, before striking a match and relighting the fire)
Anna: Olaf? Olaf. Get away from there.
Olaf: Whoa! So this is heat. (considering) I love it.
(He reaches a twig finger toward the flames. It catches on fire)
Olaf: Ooh! But don't touch it!
(He shakes the flame out, as he rushes over to help Anna to the fire)
Olaf: So, where's Hans? What happened to your kiss?
Anna: I was wrong about him. It wasn't true love.
Olaf: (confused innocence) Huh. But we ran all the way here?
Anna: Please Olaf, you can't stay here. You'll melt.
Olaf: I am not leaving here until we find some other act of true love to save you.
(He sits down behind her, stubbornly. Leans his back against hers and thinks)
Olaf: Do you happen to have any ideas?
Anna: I don't even know what love is.
Olaf: (confident) That's okay, I do.
(Olaf hops back up and puts a soothing hand on her shoulder)
Olaf: Love is... Putting someone else's needs before yours, like, you know, how Kristoff brought you back here to Hans and left you forever.
Anna: (GASPS) Kristoff loves me?
Olaf: Wow, you really don't know anything about love, do you?
(His face starts to melt)
Anna: Olaf, you're melting.
Olaf: (sweet and reassuring) Some people are worth melting for.
(But then...his face REALLY melts. He panics, pushes the snow back in place)
Olaf: Just maybe not right this second.
(Suddenly, the window blows open, cold wind sweeps in)
Olaf: Don’t worry, I've got it!
(Olaf flitters to the window. He pulls one panel of it shut but struggles with the second panel)
Olaf: (determined) We're going to get through... (distracted) Oh, wait. Hang on. I'm getting something.
(He breaks an icicle off the window, uses it as a telescope and sees...)
(Kristoff and Sven running back down the mountain)
Olaf: It's Kristoff and Sven! They're coming back this way.
Anna: They... They are?
Olaf: Wow, he's really moving fast. I guess I was wrong. I guess Kristoff doesn't love you enough to leave you behind.
(Anna tries to get to her feet)
Anna: Help me up, Olaf. Please.
(He hurries over, tumbling over the couch, knocking over the chess set and water jugs)
Olaf: No, no, no, no, no. You need to stay by the fire and keep warm.
Anna: I need to get to Kristoff.
Olaf: (clueless) Why? (realizing) Oh, oh, oh, I know why.
(He hops around in an excited display of hope)
Olaf: There's your act of true love, right there, riding across the fjords like a valiant, pungent reindeer king! Come on!
(The walls crack under the ice pressure)
OLAF: Look out!
(They rush out the room just as the ceiling collapses)
(INT. CASTLE HALLWAY — DAY. Anna and Olaf struggle down the hall. Ice spikes grow and block their path)
Olaf: We're trapped.
(Anna looks around desperately for a way out)
(EXT. FJORD — DAY. Elsa runs, but is nearly blinded by the snow and wind)
(EXT. CASTLE — DAY. Anna and Olaf bust open a window. The storm is so strong it sweeps the window panes away)
Olaf: Slide, Anna.
(It's a long, snowy way down. But what choice do they have? They slide down the iced-covered building)
(Anna arrives at the bottom, weak but uninjured. Olaf gathers snow along the way. He arrives at the bottom as a giant snowball)
Olaf: We made it!
(He shakes off the extra snow as Anna struggles to her feet)
(EXT. FJORD — DAY. Kristoff and Sven bound off the mountain and sprint across the frozen fjord waters and right into the heart of the storm. Its white-out wind pushes them back. But they fight through)
Kristoff: Come on, buddy, faster.
(Anna and Olaf reach the shore of the fjords)
Anna: Kristoff!
(The wind lifts Olaf off into the storm up and pulls him apart. He goes swirling)
Olaf: Keep going!
(Anna struggles on)
Anna: Kristoff!
(Kristoff rides Sven past cracking, frozen ships. Sven struggles over the uneven surface)
Kristoff: Come on! Come on!
(Suddenly, a mangled ship, risen by ice, capsizes over them. They give it all they've got as debris falls all around them and the mast shatters. They make it past just as the entire ship slams down and cracks the thick ice beneath their feet)
(The ice opens up. Sven bravely jumps over a gap. But it's too wide. He bucks Kristoff to safety, but lands in the freezing water and disappears below)
Kristoff: Sven? Sven!
(At first there's nothing but the wind and the tumbling icy water. But suddenly, Sven surfaces and claws his way to a floating ice chunk. He calls out, signalling for Kristoff to go on)
Kristoff: Good boy.
(Anna moves blindly across the fjord. Anna's hands frost over an icy blue. She stumbles on, determined. But she's running out of time)
(She clutches her chest. The color in her eyes fades, the inevitable is coming)
(Kristoff, lost in the white-out, doesn't know which way to turn. But then he hears a faint--)
Anna: (WEAKLY) Kristoff.
Kristoff: Anna? Anna!
(Elsa struggles through her own storm, but the fear is consuming her. A dark shadow approaches. It's Hans)
Hans: Elsa! You can't run from this!
(Elsa backs away from him)
Elsa: Just take care of my sister.
Hans: Your sister? She returned from the mountain weak and cold. She said you froze her heart.
Elsa: What? No.
Hans: I tried to save her, but it was too late. Her skin was ice. Her hair turned white...
(Elsa's face sinks as she realizes what she has done)
Hans: Your sister is dead. Because of you.
(Elsa drops to her knees, emotionally broken. And with that, the swirling storm suddenly stops. The snow freezes mid-air, hangs suspended, trapped in grief)
(Citizens and dignitaries rush to the wall's edge and look out to see...)
(Anna, barely able to move but now able to see across the fjords to...)
Anna: (a whisper) Kristoff.
Kristoff: Anna.
(Anna pushes on towards Kristoff. He runs top speed towards her. There's still a lot of fjord to cross, but Kristoff is giving it all he's got. He's going to make it)
(But then, Anna hears the sound of a sword being drawn from its scabbard. She turns and sees Hans, behind Elsa, as he raises his sword over his head)
Anna: Elsa.
(Anna looks back at Kristoff as he runs for her. She gives him a longing look, but then turns away from him and then...)
(Using all of her remaining strength, as Hans brings his sword down, Anna throws herself in front of Elsa)
Anna: No!
(In that instant, Anna freezes to solid ice. The sword hits her instead of Elsa. CLANK!! The sword shatters completely. VWOOSH!!! The force of it sends Hans flying back and knocks him out)
Elsa: Anna!
(Elsa rushes to Anna and touches her sister's frozen face)
Elsa: Oh, Anna! No, no! Please, no.
(Elsa hugs Anna and cries)
(Olaf walks up and sees Anna, frozen)
Olaf: (confused, sad) Anna?
(Kristoff watches in shocked despair. Sven steps up to his side)
(Citizens and dignitaries on the castle walls bow their heads)
(All of Arendelle is joined in somber silence)
(But then, Anna warms. She begins to thaw)
(Olaf looks up and gasps. Kristoff and Sven notice, light up)
(Anna bends her arm and embraces Elsa)
Elsa: Wha-? Anna?
(Anna opens her eyes. She smiles at Elsa, relieved)
Anna: Oh, Elsa.
(They embrace)
Elsa: You sacrificed yourself for me?
Anna: (weak) I love you.
(Olaf realizes what's happened. He's so excited about it, he lifts his head right off his body and exclaims--)
Olaf: (GASPS) An act of true love will thaw a frozen heart.
Elsa: (processing) Love will thaw. (realizing) Love. Of course.
(Elsa looks at Anna with confidence)
Anna: Elsa?
Elsa: Love.
(Elsa lifts her arms, and the ground shakes and cracks. The ice and snow breaks away and rises high into the air)
(Beneath their feet the bow of a ship thaws)
(The entire fjord melts and other boats right themselves)
(The villagers come out to see the warmth returning)
(In one final wave, Elsa draws all of the snow into a giant snowflake in the sky, then waves it away, leaving only a warm summer day)
Anna: I knew you could do it.
Olaf: (melting, good-naturedly) Hands down, this is the best day of my life. And, quite possibly, the last.
Elsa: Oh, Olaf! Hang on, little guy.
(Elsa waves her hand and surrounds Olaf with a swirl of cold air. He refreezes. Above his head she leaves a little, perpetually-snowing storm cloud. Olaf loves it)
Olaf: Hey, my own personal flurry.
(Kristoff sees Hans trying to get to his feet. He marches toward him, prepared for a fight. But Anna puts up a hand and stops him)
Anna: Uh. Uh. Uh.
(She'll handle this. She goes over to Hans)
Hans: (confused) Anna? But she froze your heart.
Anna: The only frozen heart around here is yours.
(She turns away from him, proud of her words. But not yet satisfied, she turns back and punches him right in the face)
Hans: Ah! Whoa, whoa, whoa!
(He falls overboard)
(Elsa comes over to Anna and hugs her. Over her shoulder, Kristoff meets Anna's eyes. She smiles brighter, happy)
(EXT. ARENDELLE — DAY. It's a beautiful summer day. The mighty ships have been repaired and are sailing away)
SAILOR: Setting course, sir.
(On one of the ships, Hans is thrown into a brig)
French Dignitary: (to Kai) I will return this scoundrel to his country. We shall see what his 12 big brothers think of his behavior.
Kai: Arendelle thanks you, milord.
(Down on the dock, Arendelle guards lead the Duke and his two thugs to their ship)
Duke: This is unacceptable. I am a victim of fear. I've been traumatized. (bad acting) Ah! My neck hurts. Is there a doctor I could see? (STAMMERS) No? And I demand to see the Queen!
(Kai steps down from the gangplank to the dock)
Kai: I have a message from the Queen. (reading a scroll) Arendelle will henceforth and forever no longer do business of any sort with Weaseltown.
Duke: Weselton. It's Weselton!
SOLDIER: Let's go.
(The guards usher him and his thugs onto their ship)
(EXT. VILLAGE SQUARE — DAY. Anna runs through the crowd, pulling a blindfolded Kristoff along behind her. She's so excited she can't stand it)
Anna: Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on!
(She runs him right into a pole)
Kristoff: Pole.
Anna: Oops. Sorry.
(EXT. ARENDELLE DOCKS — DAY. Anna skips to the perfect spot and stops)
Anna: (stopping) Okay. Okay. Here we are.
(She takes off the blindfold. Kristoff opens his eyes. Before him sits the most beautiful, suped-up sled. Sven poses in front of it -- Vanna White-style)
ANNA: I owe you a sled.
Kristoff: (blown away) Are you serious?
Anna: Yes. And it's the latest model.
Kristoff: No. I can't accept this...
Anna: You have to. No returns. No exchanges. Queen's orders. She's named you the official Arendelle Ice Master and Deliverer.
(Sven shows off the Ice-Master-and-Deliverer medal like he's king of the bucks)
Kristoff: What? That's not a thing. But he can't help but admire her enthusiasm.
Anna: Sure it is. And it even has a cup holder. Do you like it?
Kristoff: Like it?
(He sweeps her up high overhead and spins her around)
Kristoff: I love it! I could kiss you!
(He drops her, suddenly embarrassed)
Kristoff: I could. I mean I'd like to. I'd... may I? We me....I mean, may we? Wait, what?
(She gives him a quick kiss on the cheek)
Anna: We may.
(He smiles and goes for it. It's a true love's kiss, alright)
(We move past them to find Olaf enjoying the summer)
(With his snow cloud safely overhead, he's free to smell the flowers, which he does. Then sneezes his carrot nose off)
(Sven catches it between his teeth. Olaf gasps as Sven sucks the whole carrot into his mouth. It's gone)
(Olaf's face sinks in sadness. But not to fear, Sven spits the carrot back out and jams it into Olaf's face where it belongs. It's completely covered in reindeer spit, but Olaf doesn't seem to mind. He hugs Sven happily)
(EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD — DAY. The gates to the castle are wide open. In the courtyard, stands Elsa)
Elsa: Are you ready?
(Villagers cheer. Elsa stops and creates an ice rink)
KID: Ice!
(The people, skates at the ready, hope onto it and twirl about. Elsa then freezes the fountain in a beautiful design and adds some snow flurries for atmosphere)
WOMAN: Ooh! Whoo-hoo...
(Anna comes slipping in. Elsa catches her)
Anna: I like the open gates.
Elsa: We are never closing them again.
(Elsa then waves her hand and magical ice skates (literally made of ice) form on Anna's boots)
Anna: What? Oh, Elsa, they're beautiful, but you know I don't skate.
(Elsa grabs Anna's hands and pulls her along on the ice. Anna slips and slides, but laughs in delight)
(Sven goes slipping past. Kristoff runs after him)
KRISTOFF: Look out. Reindeer coming through!
(Olaf skates and helps Elsa coach Anna)
OLAF: That's it. Glide and pivot and glide and pivot.
ELSA: Go.
(We pull away slowly, into the sky. We arrive at a bird's-eye view to see that where the castle had crumbled has been repaired with a ice)
(All is right in Arendelle)
(THE END)

CAST
Kristen Bell – Anna
Idina Menzel – Elsa
Jonathan Groff – Kristoff
Josh Gad – Olaf
Santino Fontana – Hans
Alan Tudyk – Duke
Ciarán Hinds – Grand Pabbie
Chris Williams – Oaken
Steve Anderson – Kai
Maia Wilson – Bulda
Edie McClurg – Gerda
Robert Pine – Bishop
Maurice LaMarche – King
Livvy Stubenrauch – Young Anna
Eva Bella – Young Elsa
Spencer Lacey Ganus – Teen Elsa
Jesse Corti – Spanish Dignitary
Jeffrey Marcus – German Dignitary
Tucker Gilmore – Irish Dignitary
ADDITIONAL VOICES: Ava Acres, Stephen Apostolina, Annaleigh Ashford, Kirk Baily, Jenica Bergere, David Boat, Paul Briggs, Tyree Brown, Woody Buck, June Christopher, Lewis Cleale, Wendy Cutler, Terri Douglas, Eddie Frierson, Jean Gilpin, Jackie Gonneau, Nicholas Guest, Bridget Hoffman, Nick Jameson, Daniel Kaz, John Lavelle, Jennifer Lee, Patricia Lentz, Annie Lopez, Katie Lowes, Mona Marshall, Dara McGarry, Scott Menville, Adam Overett, Paul Pape, Courtney Peldon, Jennifer Perry, Raymond S. Persi, Jean-Michel Richaud, Lynwood Robinson, Carter Sand, Jadon Sand, Katie Silverman, Pepper Sweeney, Fred Tatasciore