Many films from other studios overlook the importance of the story and simply focus on the spectacle.
It has always been said that the studio’s films are a marriage between technology and story. That concept is where Pixar’s success lies. Just because Merida is a princess and her mother is a queen does not mean they do not face the same problems we do. I was thinking, What’s she going to be like as a teenager?”
“I have this amazing daughter, and she is really strong-willed, and I’m strong-willed,” Chapman says. Brenda Chapman, who pitched the idea for the film, was inspired by her relationship with her own daughter: In the same manner, Brave is shaping up to be about the relationship between Merida and her mother Queen Elinor. While The Incredibles was about a family of superheroes, it was not about the superheroes – it was about the family. toys can talk, superheroes can fly, rats can cook), the setting never overtakes the characters. The great thing about Pixar films is that even though they make take place in extraordinary circumstances and in imaginary worlds (e.g. However, it looks like Brave will give us a stubborn teenage girl who fights with her mom, which is a reality that happens often in the life of teenage girls. The worry was that eventually, at some point in the film, Merida would realize that she actually does need romance in her life. “This is a fairy tale without romance.” That sentence should hold many naysayers at bay. But mostly, like all teenage girls, she fights with her mom. Merida tells her that she isn’t marrying anyone. But Merida doesn’t tell her mom that she’s going to pick her own husband, as princesses sometimes do in films. Her mom, Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson) insists she follow tradition and let the eldest sons of the heads of the kingdom’s clans compete for her hand in marriage. Instead, she rides a horse and shoots a bow and arrow. In the TIME article, there is a key paragraph that states:īrave’s medieval Scottish princess, Merida (voiced by Boardwalk Empire‘s Kelly Macdonald), almost never wears princess clothes. In the last issue of TIME Magazine, there is an in-depth article that brings confirmation to that hope – Brave is set to subvert the princess story by ignoring romance and focusing on the mother-daughter relationship. The last thing the public wanted to see was Pixar do a clichéd character, though, there was hope for a unique take on a princess story given the studio’s reputation for creative and imaginative stories.
Then, when Brave was announced, the news of a lead female character brought yelps of joy, but also a bit of uneasiness since the lead would be a princess. Pixar has taken a lot of heat over the past decade for its lack of female protagonists.
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