![]() ![]() The rest of the story involves trying to undo the spell. To that end she seeks out a witch and, without explaining her circumstances, asks for a magic spell that will change her mother, and indeed the mother does change-into, of all things, a bear. When three boats of caricatured and clearly unsuitable suitors arrives–apparently all the women are beautiful and all the men are goonish oafs–Merida becomes desperate to change her mother’s mind about the betrothal. ![]() ![]() Merida’s quarrels with her mother come to a head when she’s told that she is expected to marry one of the sons of neighboring clans, to cement their allegiances and maintain an uneasy truce. (Perhaps Merida would gain some perspective if she lived among the commoners who spent their days in menial, backbreaking labor and their nights sleeping six to a room on thin straw mats-but Brave has other lessons she’s to learn.) Merida complains a lot about how hard it is to be a princess, resenting the expectations and obligations that come with the position including dressing and acting a certain way. (Between The Hunger Games and Brave, this is a good year for female archery.) She’s a wild-maned young warrior princess named Merida (Kelly Macdonald) whose massive father the king of Scotland (Billy Connolly) has a pathological hatred of bears since one of them bit his leg off years ago, and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson) spends her days trying to keep her headstrong daughter from archery, rock climbing, and other tomboyish activities. ![]() I had high hopes for Brave it’s Pixar Studios’ first film focused on a female character. Directed by Mark Andrews and Starring Emma Thompson, Kelly Macdonald, and Billy Connolly ![]()
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