.With $915 million dollars and counting, Disney Feature Animation regains it’s crown. And while catchy songs, charming vocal performances and a lush color palette contribute to the film’s success, it is the story at the heart of it all that keeps them coming back for more.This isn’t to say that there aren’t story “issues.” Competing personal points-of-view (i.e., who is the Main Character?) and a weak Overall Story Throughline that starts and stops as it sputters along (if it’s so cold, why don’t you guys just go inside?) illustrate but a few of the problematic areas. But yet, the film succeeds in spite of these missteps because of the solid emotional core at the center. The relationship between Anna and Elsa conjures up circumstances unheard of in modern film, let alone an animated one. Like it’s massive Winter-blockbuster sister Titanic, Frozen will continue to live on because of the emotional argument carried out within this key throughline.Understanding how this argument works becomes essential for those wishing to repeat Frozen’s monstrous success. TheDramatica theory of story refers to the structure of an argument as a storyform. As a model of the mind’s problem-solving process, Dramatica sees a complete story as an analogy to what goes on in our own minds. Combining seventy-five story points, this assemblage of thematic material provides the “message” or meaning of the narrative. The closer a story mimics these processes the less chance for story “holes” and the more it will feel complete. The fact that Frozen hits many of these points within the same storyform explains why Audiences have taken it to heart: the film reflects the kind of arguments people make to themselves everyday.