Music Videos|April 14, 2014 07:06 EDT
'Frozen' Movie 'Let It Go' Songwriters Reveal that Disney is Open to Anything Other than God in Films
"Frozen" songwriter Robert Lopez and his actress/songwriter wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez revealed in a recent interview that the company is open to anything except for talking about God in films.
"It's funny. One of the only places you have to draw the line at Disney is with religious things, the word God," said Anderson-Lopez to NPR's Fresh Air radio show.
Lopez echoes his wife's viewpoints on Disney's policy on God.
"There was even a - well, you can say it in Disney but you can't put it in the movie," said Lopez to NPR's Fresh Air radio show.
The couple both received the Academy Award for Best Original Song thanks to the hit song "Let It Go." The song was made famous by Idina Menzel's vocal performance in the film. In addition, Demi Lovato's rendition of the popular Disney was also critically acclaimed.
"Disney is not this sanitized place that you might imagine it to be. I mean, they hired Ashman and Menken after they did "Little Shop of Horrors," which was sort of the Avenue Q of its day. It was very campy and very kind of...a little off color and racy. And I don't think Disney has any problem with employing people who have, you know, done off-color stuff in the past," said Lopez to NPR's Fresh Air.
The married couple also explained what made come up with the idea for their Oscar winning song "Let It Go."
"We got very emo," said Anderson-Lopez to NPR's Fresh Air's host Terry Gross in the interview. "You know, we had been listening - we decided we didn't want this song to be a traditional Disney princess song. So we were listening to singer-songwriters like Amy Mann and Tori Amos and Sara Bareilles. And we just wanted to approach this song in a different way."
The film won two Academy Awards at this year's Oscars on March 2, 2014. "Frozen" Co-Director Chris Buck, Co-Director Jennifer Lee, and Producer Peter Del Vecho received the Oscar award for Best Animated Feature. Surprisingly, that was the first time a Disney movie won the prestigious Best Animated Feature category. "Frozen" made over 1.072 billion dollars in the box office.
