{"id":21052,"date":"2025-01-30T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=21052"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:01:46","slug":"who-did-it-better-frozen-or-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2025\/01\/30\/who-did-it-better-frozen-or-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Did It Better: Frozen? or Break?\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

As we all know, every story that is created is just another version of a once classic story.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We all watch TV shows that come from a cliche plot, or we read books that have the same overused trope. You know what I mean.\u00a0 If you have ever watched one Hallmark movie, then you have seen them all.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Well in this case, these two movies I\u2019m talking about have the same plot, but the way they were executed, MAJORLY DIFFERENT. Well maybe except for the ending. But most movies have the same type of surviving character, so that was a given.\u00a0 But besides that, there were extreme differences that left me viewing each movie as if it was a readaptation of an original.\u00a0 But the new version is better!\u00a0 In my opinion.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>
<\/span>This post will have spoilers, so if you think you may want to watch these movies one day, here\u2019s the warning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

FROZEN\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

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I honestly feel like I\u2019ve talked about this movie before. Just in case I didn\u2019t though, here\u2019s a summary.\u00a0 Frozen is a horror movie about survival, not a distressed sister.\u00a0 In this Frozen, there\u2019s a man who takes his girlfriend and his best friend to a ski resort.\u00a0 At that ski resort they cause some problems on their final night after convincing a ski operator to let them go down a cliff one more time before it closes (they did this in bad weather by the way, who\u2019s fault? let me be quiet) and the first operator leaves and tells the second operator that there is only one group left.\u00a0 Which is wrong, because there was a family before the friends got on, meaning there were only TWO groups left! Two I tell you!\u00a0 With that misinformation, the second operator shuts down the ski lift, because it\u2019s the final ride of the week. Yep, you heard me.\u00a0 It\u2019s the weekend now, which means the ski resort will be closed over the weekend. Now the three friends must survive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With that out of the way, this is the part where I start contrasting the two movies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

THE CHARACTERS\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

In Frozen we have characters who are somewhat flat. They majorly stayed the same throughout.\u00a0 If they did have their big development, it would probably be seen in just the last five minutes of the movie. There were just three of them, and spoiler, one of them died in the first ten minutes of the movie.\u00a0 And yes, it was the boyfriend.\u00a0 And yes, he started as the mediator and died as the mediator. \u00a0 So, then we\u2019re left with the best friend and the girlfriend.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t like any of those two honestly.\u00a0 You know when movies usually give you someone who you want to live, I didn\u2019t get nothing out of those two.\u00a0 The best friend was really just being a jerk and wishing half the time that the girlfriend died instead.\u00a0 And the girl, she was just complaining about a good share of the movie. \u00a0 Also, they didn\u2019t give me high stakes.\u00a0 Whenever they were to talk about their lives, I was just thinking; is that a good enough reason for you to want to live though.\u00a0 I know how that sounds, but we all know that in a story there should be some kind of goal.\u00a0 A reason for them to truly want to escape outside of the fact that they just don\u2019t want to die.\u00a0 The best friend was just scared of death and the girl just really missed her cat.\u00a0 I mean, not saying that those aren\u2019t valid reasons, but will those things really motivate you to just survive?\u00a0 So, to me, the characters in Frozen didn\u2019t have much depth to them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

THE SETTING\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The setting was a single chairlift in the middle of an abandoned ski resort.\u00a0 It\u2019s freezing and it\u2019s slowly getting dark. That kind of setting should make you feel suffocated in a way.\u00a0 It should keep your breath hitched throughout. For Frozen, I do remember keeping my hands clenched in a fist.\u00a0 I think the setting was neat.\u00a0 It also did seem as if it could be a likely scenario in real life.\u00a0 So, the setting did add a lot to the story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

THE DEATHS<\/span><\/h3>\n

These are survival movies, which means that the way the characters don\u2019t survive is greatly scrutinized.\u00a0 Their deaths could be symbolism.\u00a0 Their deaths could tell stories, their deaths could be red herring or call backs. In Frozen, their deaths were very graphic and gruesome.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a huge spoiler coming up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, earlier in the movie, the friends were discussing what they feel would be the worst ways to die.\u00a0 Yeah, yeah, I know.\u00a0 And the boyfriend\u2019s answer was being eaten alive. This, of course, comes back to bite him.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 In an attempt to escape and get help, the boyfriend jumps off the chair.\u00a0 Note: The chair is about 40 feet above ground. So, when he falls, he breaks his legs.\u00a0 The audience literally sees his bones poking out.\u00a0 Then while he\u2019s just accepting his fate, some wolves close in on him.\u00a0 Then he\u2019s eaten.\u00a0 Yeah, that\u2019s how that went.\u00a0 Then after that, the other deaths are calmer.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t much importance in the other deaths.\u00a0 To me, it just seemed like the movie needed some characters to die, so they were just written off.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

THE SURVIVOR\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Both movies had the same survivor.\u00a0 It\u2019s just one of them didn\u2019t fight as hard as the other did.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this movie, the survivor closed the movie so easily and so quickly.\u00a0 The whole time I was just thinking, \u201cIf it was so simple, why couldn\u2019t the characters just do this in the beginning?\u201d\u00a0 It made no sense; it didn\u2019t seem impossible to live.\u00a0 Why did they set it up as if it was?\u00a0 When the survivor did the bare minimum to live.\u00a0 Then the movie had one of those open-ended endings.<\/span><\/p>\n

I just shook my head in disappointment.<\/span><\/p>\n

BREAK\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

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I\u2019m going to go ahead and say it, but I think <\/span>Break <\/span><\/i>was better.\u00a0 This may have nothing to do with it, but it was a Russian movie. Anyway, Break follows the story of five people, two women, three men who originally want to celebrate New Years Eve on top of a mountain, but instead it turns into a fight for their life after they get stuck in a gondola lift. To start off, I loved the fact that we got a couple again, but this time, they split up.\u00a0 Yep, one of the friends gains some common sense (the inciting incident was the same as Frozen) and decides not to go up the mountain.\u00a0 It was refreshing, because now I\u2019m wondering, oh what\u2019s his role if he\u2019s not stuck? Then and there I know it\u2019s going to be good, because we have someone on the ground.\u00a0 Also, Break did seem a bit extreme, but the behavior seemed a little more realistic to me.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

THE CHARACTERS\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The characters are flat in here also, but at least this time their individual personalities are more diverse.\u00a0 Only talking about three of the characters, we have an influencer (the girlfriend), the jerk (the villain basically) and the golden boy (the sad boyfriend) that all played their roles well.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The characters actually stuck to me, I genuinely felt bad for some of them. \u00a0 Also, the stakes! The stakes were so high.\u00a0 I won\u2019t go over all of them, but a huge one was that the girlfriend was pregnant and one of the men was going to propose!\u00a0 They had something to go back to.\u00a0 How they felt conflicted about some of these things were relatable. \u00a0 I understood them.\u00a0 I really didn\u2019t want to like them because they did that to themselves, but I really wanted to see them live.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

THE SETTING\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The setting was so isolated.\u00a0 It was that one lift 11,000 feet above ground! Even though it had more resources for the characters to work with, it was scarce and easily damaged because it was an old lift.\u00a0 There wasn\u2019t anywhere for any of them to go.\u00a0 Then it didn\u2019t help that there was an icy waterfall under them.\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 This whole set made me feel the chill, especially since it cut to the scenes where the one with the sense was driving in his warm cozy car.\u00a0 The setting was full on body shivers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

THE DEATHS<\/span><\/h3>\n

Won\u2019t go into detail, but all the deaths had a purpose. They all had a cause and effect that kept amping the stakes.\u00a0 Every loss had a contribution.\u00a0 But I do want to note, unlike the sacrifices from Frozen, this movie had deaths that were a result from fighting based on human flaws.\u00a0 If you would watch it, you would know what I mean.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

THE SURVIVOR\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

This survivor stood on business. That\u2019s all I have to say.\u00a0 They did what they needed to do, all while keeping their morals.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But yea, go checkout Break.\u00a0 I think a lot of you would love it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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