Talk:Hans/@comment-24354694-20140622134900/@comment-25041621-20140626075426

I have no doubt that Aurora and Philipp are truly in love. I did not ask that you explain their love - I used it as an example precisely because it is clear that that has a spark of something there. But you did not explain how we know there is no spark between Anna and Hans. Ok, it didn't take him by surprise the way it was with Philipp, he knew he was gonna meet up with Elsa or Anna, but my theory is that he fell in love with Anna unexpectedly.

I know people say the Hans' grin when he falls under the boat is a vicious mean grin, but for me it's just awkward and escited, he looks like someone who just fell in love. When I watched Love is an Open Door, I was convinced that both of them are really and truly in love, everything about them said it: their movements, their voices, their glances. It sounds to me like they wrote and animated the song before they decided that Hans was gonna be the villain.

The fact that Hans still leaves Anna dying in the room just makes his role more TRAGIC. I know your views on that we shouldn't fell bad for him just coz of his miserable past - of course, it was still his own free choice that made him evil - but we clearly see, at that point in the movie, that he is desperately clinging to a plan that is gradually failing. He had intended to come to Arandelle, seduce Elsa, marry her (either kill her or not) and become king - The End. Meanwhile, He can't reach Elsa, she turns out to be a monster, he falls in love with Anna by mistake, everyone is almost dead but not dead enough, and he needs to act quickly if he still wants to succeed in any way. Nothing excuses his crimes, but you can see his desperation as he goes along, and that is what meks him so lokable with so many of the commentators here: we completely identify with this poor guy, who just gets more and more entangled in his own schemes as time goes on, making him less and less popular and understandable with most of his environment and audience.