Here's the part where I make everyone uncomfortable, but:
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It's a movie about mothers and daughters and failure to communicate or see eye to eye. I thought it was about the daughter of a king who has to go into the woods to fight a big, scary bear all on her own, the kingdom is at stake, etc. And, frankly, I had no idea that "moms and daughters learning to appreciate one another" was what the movie was about from the advertising. It would be the first exposure of the idea to a younger audience who would - at best - get that they don't always want to do what their parents want them to do, but maybe not get that great-teen-rebellion bit quite yet. Merida applies the potion, (MAJOR SPOILER) her mother is turned into a bear, hi-jinks and understanding ensue (END SPOILERS).įrankly, there's so much of the standard-issue "parents and teenage daughters squabbling", I kind of wondered how this movie went over with a broader audience. Merida runs into the woods, meets a witch who brews her up a potion that will change her mother so she'll come to understand Merida. Merida shows them all up in an archery contest, and her mother gets really steamed. She's horrified, they squabble as mothers and daughters do, but the suitors arrive. Then, one day, her mother tells her she's going to meet her suitors, the eldest sons of the three other Clans.
She'd rather be on a horse, shooting arrows, running around in the woods and whatnot.
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She's a bit of a free spirit/ tomboy who isn't interested in the princess etiquette lessons her kindly but focused mother is always pushing on her. The plot: Merida is the eldest child and only daughter of the King of Scotland. Brave is a really solid first stab at dismissing the Disney Princess demure non-player-in-her-own-story problem Disney has had since Snow White stumbled her way into a house full of short miners, and may be a bit on the nose in making sure we know this is not a cute princess movie. Pixar has absolutely lit a fire under Disney Animation proper, and the self-awareness and deconstruction of traditional Princess ideals in Brave (Pixar) and Frozen (Disney proper) should hopefully resonate a bit more than Aurora passing out for a good chunk of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella sitting around thinking positive thoughts and, if not for deus ex machina and a rich guy, she'd be stuck in a life of domestic servitude. It's that kind of attention to character, rotoscoped or otherwise, that tells who the character is, that even the other big gun American animation studios could stand to pay more attention to. You have to be kind of crazy not to appreciate everything about the character animation in Brave, blending Disney cartoonism with the absolutely believable wild strays of Merida's red curls.įurther, a couple of years ago I was at Disneyland with The Dug, my brother-in-law, and we spotted Merida crossing the park, and he said "let me send you a video tonight" and, as it turned out, the actress had perfected Merida's determined walk, something that was very non-Disney Princess-ish in its galumphing purposefulness. I was aware of how far Disney and Pixar have taken animation, and while I wish they'd delve into stylized pictures a bit more ( Big Hero 6 is probably the closest to what I'm talking about in recent memory),* it is pretty amazing what they can do with blending the natural and real with the imaginary.
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