Who would knew there’s such big courage hidden in the sweet
looking girl like Princess Merida in the recent most-discussed animation,
Brave? Brave is one of the latest creations of Pixar. Pixar has proved to the
world that animation is no longer Disney’s monopolized field. There’s a number
of Pixar’s film that has been nominated for Best Animated Feature with winnings
such as Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Toy Story and so on. Brave, is definitely one of
the most interesting and expressive animation productions of Pixar that I’ve
ever seen.
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| Kelly Macdonald |
Brave is based on the story of a flamed-haired heroine that
does not want follow her destiny to become only an ordinary princess. Kelly
Macdonald, a Scottish actress voices Princess Merida as a Scottish heroine
brings out essence of the character and I think no one suits Merida better than
Kelly. Unlike any usual fairytale stories for children, Brave stories about the
courage of a princess wanting to become like her father, King Fergus, rather
having a bow as her present than the other usual girly stuff. However, Queen
Elinor, mother of Merida disagrees with her daughter as she thinks Merida
should sit, eat and stand like a perfect princess. There is this scene where
Queen Elinor dresses Merida up as a proper princess for her arranged matchmaking
with the son of one of the clans that wins the archery contest but Merida showed
that she had better skills than any of them, she eagerly wants to prove that
she’ll never lose to any guy.
Brave also talks about the love within a family and
certainly some precious moral values for the guidelines of others. Merida had
always do things in her own liking but she soon found out that nothing is
actually more important than reuniting with her own family members. Merida went
to a witch after Queen Elinor tries to match make her with one of the son of
their neighboring clans and wish the witch to cast a spell that would change
her mother. She never knew that the spell was to change her mother into a bear
and also coincidently causes her three little brothers to take the potion too. She
found out that she had only 2 sunrises before her mother; Queen Elinor will
permanently became a bear.
Merida regrets and blamed herself for the incident but she then
learned how to become a better daughter by protecting and taking care of her
mother.
Regardless that Brave is an animation suitable for
children’s consumption, this movie has also taught us, the adults to appreciate
our families no matter what happened; because nothing in this world will ever
valued that much. And also, as the movie title, be brave to encounter any
obstacles in our life!
Ending my post with the three little cute brothers of Merida, till next time.
