Disney is famously known for having the most creative writers in the world and putting hidden meanings and symbols, also known as Easter Eggs, from other Disney and Pixar stories into their films. They will place objects from one movie into the background of the other, they will show a hidden small glimpse of a Pixar character where it obviously doesn't belong in a Disney movie, or vice-versa, and there are even a ton of conspiracy theories around a lot of the films being unknowingly connected. The latest theory has Disney fans pretty mind blown as it connects three major Disney movies, "Frozen," "Tarzan," and even "The Little Mermaid," into one giant story line.
In the hit movie "Frozen," Anna and Elsa's parents are seen disappearing on a ship during a really big storm, leading fans to believe they had passed away. Some fans, though, couldn't get past this, and needed more than just that scene to confirm that they had died. Last year, during a Reddit AMA, the co-director of "Frozen," Chris Buck, revealed that they didn't actually die on the boat, but actually during a leopard attack. But how could a leopard have possibly made its way onto their ship? That's when things got really interesting.
Buck went on to explain that the king and queen, Elsa and Anna's parents, actually washed up on the shore of a jungle with their newborn "baby boy." They built a tree house, where the family happily lived, until the eventually got "eaten by a leopard," leaving their son alone in the jungle. To those who aren't huge Disney fans, or have never seen "Tarzan," this may just seem like an odd storyline for their parents fate, but the baby boy is an extremely important factor because that baby boy is Tarzan himself. As you may remember, the movie "Tarzan" begins with a horrifying scene just like this one.
Now, one long and confusing year later, Buck has finally given us a little more on his theory. While at the special screening of the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Collections this past Sunday, he explained himself in more detail, finally.
"When you're working on a feature, you have a lot of time to think about stuff because it takes four years to make one," Buck told MTV News. "I think Jen [Lee] and I were walking to a meeting, and I just started telling her the entire story. 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."
He then went on to explain how they wind up in a jungle, build their tree house home only to eventually get killed by a leopard, leaving their son to be raised by gorillas. "So in my little head, Anna and Elsa's brother is Tarzan," he continued to say. "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."
Believe what you want to believe with this unofficial connection, but within the animator's heart, this is what happened, and it's all pretty mind-blowing.
"I say, whatever people what to believe, go for it," Buck said. "If you want to tie them all together, then do it. That's the spirit of Disney."
As if this wasn't enough to make Disney fans go crazy, more people believe "Frozen" is also connected to "The Little Mermaid." Remember when Ariel found a shipwreck to explore at the bottom of the ocean? Well, people believe Anna and Elsa's parents were on their way to Rapunzel's wedding in Germany (aka "Tangled," but that's a whole other theory) when their ship sank somewhere in between Norway and Germany, which a Tumblr user and Buzzfeed have pointed out would be around Denmark, and that is exactly where Ariel found this sunken ship and it's pretty much almost too much to handle.
