[Multi-picture] The important plot prototype of this film: Northerner and the dam

Camryn 2021-11-23 08:01:14

Since the Great Fire Wall walled the wiki, domestic audiences may not be able to easily obtain information about the prototype of the important plot of the film. Here I have compiled it and summarized it for the reference of viewers and those interested in this film.

First of all, the original Northuldran in the film is not an Indian, not an Indian, not an Indian , and the important things are repeated three times. The prototype of the Northerners is the Sami people who are widely distributed in the northern three countries of Norway, Sweden, and Finland .

In Scandinavian Germanic writing, the Sami are also called Lapps, and their area of ​​residence is called Lapland.

Lapland range. The Sami people call their place of residence "Sapmi" (Sapmi)

The original book of Andersen's "The Snow Queen" wrote:

"Where did the Snow Queen travel? Do you know?" "She probably went to Lapland, because there is snow and ice all year."

But then, Andersen wrote "Lapland Women and Finnish Women":

"Oh, you poor things!" said the Lapland woman, "you have to run a long way! You have to run more than three hundred Danish miles to reach Finnmark, because the Snow Queen is in the countryside there. Vacation. She sets off blue fireworks every night. I will write a few words on a dried cod, because I don’t have paper, you can take it to an old Finnish woman-she will tell you more information."

Here, Andersen and the translator Ren Rongrong both made a small mistake. As Norway is also the northernmost county of the European continent (Finnmark Fylke) , the people living there are not Finns, but still Sami. Because Finns and Sami people are related in language- Finns call themselves "Suomi" (Suomi) , which is very similar to the Sami people, and both belong to the Uralic family of Finnish-Ugric languages. ——In ancient times, the customs of life were also indistinguishable from each other. At that time, the Scandinavian Germans could not distinguish the difference between the two, so they collectively referred to the inaccessible northern border area as Finnmark .

Finnmark in the administrative divisions of Norway

The landscape of Persanger (meaning "waterfall fjord") in Finnmark is very similar to the Northland in the movie

The dam in the north is located in Norway and the northernmost county of Finnmark in Europe, in a place called Alta .

Alta's position in Finnmark

The magic of Alta is that as early as 4000 BC in the prehistoric era, there were nomadic groups—probably the ancestors of the Sami people—painted on rocks (Rock Carvings at Alta, don’t Confused with the rock paintings of the Altamira caves in Spain), and was selected as the United Nations World Cultural Heritage for its rich content and exquisite depiction.

The Altaelva runs through the entire territory of Alta from south to north, and the dam is located on the Alta River.

Alta, r.

Sami village on the river

Alta River Dam

Location of the Alta River Dam in Finnmark

The Alta Dam problem was indeed the most important issue in Norway at that time during its construction from the 1970s to the 1980s. The construction of the Alta dam and hydropower station will flood Maze (also known as Masi), an important village of the Sami people. It will also be a critical period for the Sami people to revive their traditions and reconstruct their cultural identity in the three Nordic countries. Sami's fierce protest.

The last indigenous people in Europe: the Sami people in the Arctic Circle. A series of photographs show the winter life of the Sami people in Maze Village.

At the height of the conflict, Sami representatives went to camp in front of the Norwegian Parliament to protest on hunger strike. Thousands of demonstrators went to the construction site of the dam to stop construction. To drive away the demonstrators, the Norwegian government mobilized one-tenth of the country’s police .

Although the dam was finally completed, the Norwegian government also made a corresponding compromise: the final height of the dam was lower than the designed height, and the Sami villages on the upper reaches of the Alta River were preserved. At the same time, the Sami people relied on the protest movement to further strengthen their cultural identity, and won the Sami cultural autonomy across the Nordic region as a whole.

The Sami Council (Sami Council) covered in snow, located on the border of Norway and Finland in Finnmark

Finally, talk about the four elements . The four elements obviously do not belong to the shaman/animistic beliefs of the Sami people (or other Taiga taiga nomads of the Uralic ethnic group), but are one of the components of the ancient beliefs inherited from the classical civilizations of Asia and Europe . To wind water and fire the four elements of faith in ancient Babylon , ancient Persia , the ancient Aryan Indian religious system are reflected, and to think of the origin of all things ancient Greek philosopher sum up perfect; while ancient Chinese Five Elements Five Elements Concept can also be regarded as its variant.

As for the glacier island where Ahtohallan is a good answer. The original work of Andersen's "The Snow Queen" mentioned:

"(Lapland) There is ice and snow, there is magnificent and splendid!" said the reindeer. "There, people can jump freely in the shining valley! There, the Snow Queen sets up her summer tent, but the palace where she often lives It's on an island called Spitsbergen near the North Pole."

Including Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen) , including Svalbard (Svalbard) , it is the world from the North Pole nearest land. It is conceivable that after taming the violent water element in the Norwegian raging sea like a myth, Elsa must be crowned as the goddess of ice and snow in such a very northern place:

The glaciers of Spitsbergen

Therefore, in the future, Elsa will obviously have a more important mission than Anna. If Anna needs to inherit a kingdom, Elsa will have to shoulder the important task of preventing climate warming in the northern hemisphere, hahaha...

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Extended Reading

Frozen II quotes

  • [first lines]

    Agnarr: Anna. Elsa.

    Iduna: Bedtime soon.

    Young Anna: Uh-oh! The princess is trapped in the snow goblin's evil spell. Quick, Elsa, make a prince! A fancy one!

    [Elsa makes a prince figure]

    Young Anna: Oh no! The prince is trapped too! Who cares about danger when there's love?

    [She makes the figures kiss]

    Young Elsa: Ugh, Anna, bleugh! Kissing won't save the forest. The lost fairies cry out.

    [imitates elephant trumpet]

    Young Elsa: What sound does a giraffe make?

    Young Anna: I don't know.

    Young Elsa: Never mind. They wake the fairy queen who breaks spell and saves everyone!

    Young Anna: And they all get married!

  • Anna: [During Elsa's turn at Charades] This is going to be a cinch. Two sisters, one mind!

    Elsa: [Taking the clue from Sven] Thank you.

    Anna: Okay! Here we go! You got this, Elsa.

    Elsa: [Elsa gestures weakly, unsure of herself]

    Anna: Anytime... Just do it with your body!

    Elsa: [Elsa flails weakly towards the floor]

    Anna: Uh... Nothing!