They, like Merida, are being forced by their parents to participate in a courtship ritual in which they have no interest. To that I say, the boys are not the point. There is no love interest. What?! Some people have complained that, in order to make a movie about an empowered girl, the boys are made to look like idiots. How many times must girls see the message that the good girls sit calmly, doing quiet things? Merida makes a racket, and I love her for it.ģ. What a relief it was not to see a character who spends her time just reading, thinking, and daydreaming. There, at the top, she has a moment of pure joy and delight in the natural world around her and the strength of her own body. An early scene shows her riding her horse at breakneck pace, shooting arrows, and climbing a cliff to drink from a waterfall. Merida is no victim. Since there is no evil stepmother or witch to curse or oppress her, we see Merida make a mistake, regret her actions, and fix it.Ģ. But, I wanted to watch something with my daughter that was even more of a departure from the usual dude-rescues-damsel formula.īrave is a radical departure from its predecessors in the princess genre, in the most satisfying way. No, this girl, Merida, was a warrior.ĭisney had already been moving – mostly– in the right direction with its recent movies Princess and the Frog and Tangled. On top of all this, she was an archer! Not a gardener or a reader or a singer. Then, there was a glimpse of a main character with seriously wild red hair. When Pixar released the first teasers for Brave a year ago, I got goosebumps.įirst, there was the title.
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