Last year, at the apex of the hype over Disney's Frozen, the director of the film, Chris Buck, rocked Disney fandom with a possible theory: that the movie that launched 1,000 "Let It Go" YouTube covers could be linked to another member of the Disney vault, Tarzan.
According to Buck, Elsa and Anna's parents, who in the movie appear to be lost at sea, make it out of the storm alive — with a newly-born baby in tow, who turns out to be the titular character for the movie Tarzan, as well as Anna and Elsa's long-lost brother.
While the director doesn't necessarily view his fandom-version of connect-the-dots, he definitely considers it to be a fun pastime; Buck clarified the full-fleshed theory in an interview with MTV on August 9 at a Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts Collection screening:
"I said, 'Of course Anna and Elsa's parents didn't die.' Yes, there was a shipwreck, but they were at sea a little bit longer than we think they were because the mother was pregnant, and she gave birth on the boat, to a little boy. They get shipwrecked, and somehow they really washed way far away from the Scandinavian waters, and they end up in the jungle. They end up building a tree house and a leopard kills them, so their baby boy is raised by gorillas. So in my little head, Anna and Elsa's brother is Tarzan — but on the other side of that island are surfing penguins, to tie in a non-Disney movie, Surf's Up. That's my fun little world."
As for whether all of Disney canon is somehow interconnected?
"I say, whatever people want to believe, go for it," Buck also told MTV. "If you want to tie them all together, then do it. That's the spirit of Disney."
In the spirit of this, just for funsies, I'm going to add one more connection to the mix: The Swiss Family Robinson, anyone?
Via Huffington Post
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