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Elsa: \\\"You sacrificed yourself for me?\\\"
Anna: \\\"I love you\\\"
Olaf: *gasps* \\\"A true act of love will thaw a frozen heart!\\\"
Olaf\\\'s revelation is right after Anna\\\'s sacrifice is labeled an act of love. This also fits with the explicit definition given earlier, \\\"Love is putting someone else\\\'s needs before your own.\\\" Knowing that\\\'s what Olaf sees love as, what do you think he\\\'s more likely to think of as an ActOfTrueLove: an act of sacrifice such as Anna putting Elsa\\\'s life above her own, or an act of physicality such a a hug?
Multiple Disney-published metatextual sources add weight to this, such as the books \\\'\\\'Anna\\\'s Act of True Love\\\'\\\' and \\\'\\\'Literature/AFrozenHeart\\\'\\\'. [[https://frozen.disney.com/anna The official Disney website also says that Anna is the one who \\\"proved that only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart.\\\"]]
By contrast, there isn\\\'t really a reason to believe that anything Elsa did in the scene would work as an ActOfTrueLove, especially given the movie\\\'s definition of love. After all, that\\\'s what Anna\\\'s whole arc is about. (It\\\'s not \\\"You can\\\'t marry a man you just met,\\\" because Anna \\\'\\\'already knows\\\'\\\' that such a thing is \\\"totally crazy.\\\" It\\\'s becoming wiser about what is and isn\\\'t love, something that even some adults never grasp, which makes it difficult for some viewers to pick up on.) The only reason there seems to be to think it\\\'s Elsa is viewers making the same mistake Anna initially does, which is confuse physicality with love. (Which \\\'\\\'does\\\'\\\' happen in a lot of fairy tale stories, but this particular one goes out of its way not to do that.)
Anna: \\\"I love you\\\"
Olaf: *gasps* \\\"A true act of love will thaw a frozen heart!\\\"
Olaf\\\'s revelation is right after Anna\\\'s sacrifice is labeled an act of love. This also fits with the explicit definition given earlier, \\\"Love is putting someone else\\\'s needs before your own.\\\" Knowing that\\\'s what Olaf sees love as, what do you think he\\\'s more likely to think of as an ActOfTrueLove: an act of sacrifice such as Anna putting Elsa\\\'s life above her own, or an act of physicality such a a hug?
Multiple Disney-published metatextual sources add weight to this, such as the books \\\'\\\'Anna\\\'s Act of True Love\\\'\\\' and \\\'\\\'Literature/AFrozenHeart\\\'\\\'. [[https://frozen.disney.com/anna The official Disney website also says that Anna is the one who \\\"proved that only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart.\\\"]]
By contrast, there isn\\\'t really a reason to believe that anything Elsa did in the scene would work as an ActOfTrueLove, especially given the movie\\\'s definition of love. After all, that\\\'s what Anna\\\'s whole arc is about. (It\\\'s not \\\"You can\\\'t marry a man you just met,\\\" because Anna \\\'\\\'already knows\\\'\\\' that such a thing is \\\"totally crazy.\\\" It\\\'s becoming wiser about what is and isn\\\'t love, something that even some adults never grasp, which makes it difficult for some viewers to pick up on.) The only reason there seems to be to think it\\\'s Elsa is viewers making the same mistake Anna initially does, which is confuse physicality with love. (Which \\\'\\\'does\\\'\\\' happen in a lot of fairy tale stories, but this particular one goes out of its way not to do that.)
