This is just hilarious:
Oil isn’t the only worthwhile commodity in Kuwait … one woman claims it’s also the home to the idea for “Frozen” … and she claims Disney stole it from her. Muneefa Abdullah claims she came up with the idea that true love conquers evil, a central theme in “Frozen.”
Abdullah has filed a lawsuit against Disney, claiming she wrote a book called “New Fairy Tales” which contained the short story, “The Snow Princess.” Abdullah says her story involves a princess who possesses magical ice powers that give her the ability to turn people and objects into ice … which just so happens to be the plot to “Frozen.” Abdullah fires off a number of similarities, including:
– A kingdom made of ice and surrounded by mountains
– A sibling in search and rescue of the sibling possessing the magical ice powers
– A journey up the mountain, snowy guards guarding an icy castle on the mountaintop
– The idea that only love is capable of defeating evilAbdullah wants a barrel of money.
Check out the article on TMZ [Here]
Thanks Mona
24 replies on “Yay! Kuwait made it on TMZ!”
this is awesome ha!
So Kuwait finally caught the attention of the most dubious, moronic, constantly berated media outlet of the United States.
I guess congratulations are in order.
*sarcasm*
hey why you hating on tmz? Accept it for what it is.
I do accept it for what it is. Harvey Levin, its very hot creator, shares my views. He always calls TMZ “stupid” and “highly unethical”. 😉
I was just expressing my complete lack of surprise that Kuwait ended up on TMZ.
Only Kuwait didn’t end up on TMZ. It’s about someone from Kuwait for the first time.
do you wanna build a snowman?
Only if you have a wasta
Last I heard it is forbidden to build snowmen in Saudi, so I guess Kuwait will follow suit.
You’re an idiot.
Piss off.
Quite the idiot.
https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/12/us-odd-saudi-snow-idUSKBN0KL15N20150112
I guess they haven’t heard of Hans Christian Andersen 😛
Do you want to build a sand man. That all we have around here.
Thanks Ahmed. Now I will have Metallica in my head all day.
wouldn’t be the first time a Kuwaiti has taken the credit for work done by someone. I so badly want to list out violated intellectual properties here but i wont.
Pls enlighten us.
I for some reason wasn’t too stands by this lady. Agreed, the US gives us the best entertainment. But where are stories coming from? It’s from outsiders. If all that she claims is listed in her works there may be some credence to the allegations. Guilty until proven otherwise!
Reading the comments on TMZ saddens me. People are so ignorant it shows how many people know nothing about Kuwait or arab countries in general. The Slumdog Millionaire reference…. Americans may have earned their stupidity sterotype on this one.
I called her nuts until I searched her name on Amazon. Indeed she has a story published in 2007 containing a story entitled The Snow Princes. However, even that may not be original work of Munifa her self because Frozen itself was based on a 19th century story.
oh and I just found the lawsuit… the Kuwaiti writer is accusing someone called Jennifer Lee (the writer of Frozen) for plagiarizing her work. Apparently Jennifer was working for the publisher that Munifa used to publish her stories.
https://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/28803868/detroit-federal-court-lawsuit-vs-disney-claims-frozen-was-ripped-off
Did you read her book ?
No , did you read hans anderson ?
Yes
Did you see the film ?
Yes
Dont judge me based on disney say
Judge me based on your brain the two works are completly diffrent and the work on the screen was not of hans anderson
Frozen was inspired by The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen
are you talking about the work that disney could not develop for seventy years !
let me see they based the film on witch story
Of the seven stories in the book ?
Read the book and watch the film they are not
The same
For someone who has published a book, you have terrible spelling and grammar skills.