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| Hey, THAT'S NOT FROZEN! |
Watching Fozen with my daughters, and my wife starts pointing out how the movie is peppered with references to other movies. "How Stephen King," I said. She gave me that stare -- the one that says, "everything in the world is not Stephen King."
Other than the Dark Tower, Talisman and The Shining, King generally does not write sequels. Instead, he allows individual stand alone novels to reference and tie in to other stories. Thus Gerald's Game is connected to Dolores Claiborne. Stories weave in and out of Castle Rock, Derry and other places in the Stephen King landscape. A serial killer might be mentioned in one story that is important to another
This gives the entire Stephen King landscape a texture of its own. The casual reader is welcomed into the world, because unlike fantasy novels, it's not book number 18 and you have to have read all 17 others. However, for those constant readers who have read the other books, they are treated to delightful little nods that make them feel "in the know."
So in Frozen you can spot the bust from the haunted mansion, Eugene and Rapunzel, a hidden stuffed Mickey on the shelf, a candy mountain from Wreck-It-Ralph, a painting on the castle wall from Tangled, a Brother Bear statue in the shop and more.
Now what's interesting is that Disney has had years to work this together. Lots of artist, an entire company. Stephen King is one artist.
King once said the scariest movie he ever saw was Bambi. (Check this out, Stephen King discusses being Walt Disney's "evil twin" dailymotion.com)
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