How to Draw Merida! Disney Princess. How to be Brave. Brave Merida and Elinor. Merida's Brave Bear Bento Box. Legends are Lessons. Keys to Courage 1. Keys to Courage 2. Potion Making. There are certain requirements that must be met in order to be considered an official Disney Princess, but back in , Pixar broke some of the biggest rules in the Disney Princess book, and it was for the better.
The movie changed the film industry as it was also the first full-length cel-animated movie, and gave Disney its first Academy Award an honorary one, accompanied by seven miniature statuettes.
Pixar had its own Disney Princess in thanks to Brave , which introduced viewers to Merida, the year-old daughter of Queen Elinor and King Fergus. Brave followed Merida on her quest to break the age-old customs about princesses, which in turn caused chaos in the kingdom. Each of the Lords presents his son.
Merida is not pleased with any of them. A brawl breaks out, at which Elinor is disgusted and Merida is displeased. Elinor proclaims that only the firstborn of the great leaders may compete in the games which give Merida an idea of how to get out of the marriage: she declares that she chooses archery for the Highland Games. When the competition begins, Merida sneaks her bow and arrows behind her throne. As the suitors shoot at the targets, she chats with Fergus about each of them until Wee Dingwall wins by accident, striking a bulls-eye.
She sneaks off and appears on the field, declaring she will shoot for her own hand. Ignoring Elinor's protests, she strikes the bulls-eye of the first two suitors' targets.
When she shoots an arrow through the full length of Wee Dingwall's arrow and through the target, she smiles Elinor drags and throws Merida into the tapestry room as they have a heated argument with each other about Merida's actions, with Elinor calling her a child and Merida calling her a beast for trying to ruin her life.
Merida then ultimately snaps and slices the family tapestry between the pictures of herself, declaring she would rather die than be like her mother. Elinor in a fit of rage throws Merida's bow into the fire out of anger. Merida tearfully runs away from the castle as Elinor quickly fishes the bow from the fire, feeling horribly guilty, and she too breaks down.
Merida is weeping as she rides Angus heedlessly through the forest until they come across the Ring of Stones and a trail of will o' the wisps leading them to a woodcarver 's cottage. Noticing a broom that sweeps by itself and a talking crow , Merida discovers that this old woodcarver is actually a witch, and asks for a spell. The witch tells her to get out, threatening her with floating knives, until Merida offers to buy all her carvings with her silver pendant in exchange for a spell that will change her fate.
The witch begrudgingly gives in and conjures up a cursed cake , which she says that she did for a prince who had wanted the strength of ten men and got what he wanted. Merida takes the cake and heads back to DunBroch. She sneaks back into the kitchen to make the cake presentable, as Elinor enters the room, relieved to find her daughter home. Merida gives her the cake on a false peace offering and Elinor eats a piece, then suddenly starts feeling sick.
She escorts Elinor to her chambers and puts her in bed, where Elinor rustles and moves around in uncomfortably until she emerges, now a black bear. Merida is horrified at the spell's effect and with her brothers' help gets Elinor out of the castle. They journey back to the Witch's cottage, but they find her gone. Then they find the witch's cauldron with a ghostly image of the Witch in the potion-controlled automated voice message telling Merida that she has until the second sunrise to break the spell or her mother will remain a bear forever.
The Witch tells Merida the way to do it was to remember the riddle "Fate be changed, look inside, mend the bond torn by pride. The next morning, Elinor brings some berries and water for breakfast. Merida explains that the berries are poisonous nightshade berries, and the water has worms in them.
They go to a creek, where Merida teaches her mother to catch fish, and they both start bonding. Then Elinor heads into the forest, and Merida follows her but is mentally a bear. She nearly attacks Merida until she regains her composure. Merida is confused until they see a trail of will o' the wisps and follow them to the ruins of a castle. She falls through the floor into a throne room and realizes it was the kingdom from the story Elinor was telling her about.
Merida sees a stone with three figures and a split stone with the fourth figure and realizes that the curse had happened before, when the prince sought to change his fate, resulting in his kingdom's downfall and his transformation to Mor'du. Then she sees Mor'du, and he attacks her until she barely escapes with Elinor's help, and they flee back to the Ring of Stones.
Merida realizes that Elinor will become like Mor'du forever and lose her human sentience, and fixates on repairing the tapestry she sundered as the way to "mend the bond torn by pride" in hopes it will break the transformation spell.
That night they sneak back into the castle. Peeking into the Great Hall, they see Fergus and the lords behind barricades, hurling weapons at each other, on the brink of war. That is when Merida realizes that the kingdom will be torn apart if she does not set it right, and she tries to tell Elinor to stop them. But Elinor, in bear form, cannot do any such thing, and it is up to Merida to stop this madness. Elinor, fearful of being seen and attacked, freezes into a stationary position while Merida walks into the room and tells them she was in conference with Elinor.
The Lords demand to see the queen until Merida silences them all. She tells them of the story of the selfish prince who brought chaos to the land and reminds them that legends are lessons, and they ring with truths. The clans had been enemies until they were threatened by the Northern Invaders and joined forces to defend their lands. When they won the war, the clans made Fergus their king for bringing them together and made an alliance.
Merida then admits that what she had done was selfish and must amend her mistake. She tells them that she and the sons should all be free to follow their hearts and find their own loves. The Lords' sons agree with this and confess to their fathers that they did not want to fight over a girl who does not want any of it. So they all agree, but Merida notices a guard staring at Elinor's frozen pose and distracts everyone by telling them to go to the cellar to celebrate.
When everyone is gone, Elinor is proud of her, and they both head to the tapestry room. As Merida is looking for thread and needles to mend the tapestry, Elinor turns wild again and attacks Merida. When Fergus enters the room she attacks him and cuts Merida's arm. When Elinor snaps out of it, Merida tries to calm her, but her mother flees in horror as Merida tries to tell Fergus that the bear is Elinor, but Fergus refuses to listen. He locks her in the tapestry room for protection and gives the key to the servant Maudie while he and the Lords go after Elinor.
Merida starts crying again and calls out until her brothers show up… but they, too, have been turned into bears for eating of the cursed cake. She tells them to get the key. They release Merida, and all four ride on Angus while Merida frantically sews up the tapestry. They follow a trail of will o' the wisps to where Elinor was captured. Merida fights Fergus to keep him from killing Elinor until he is convinced when the three bear cubs help stop him, and he realizes they are his sons.
A distraught and heartbroken Merida apologizes to her mother for her rebellious actions. Suddenly Mor'du appears and attacks the soldiers and Fergus. Then he attempts to eat Merida until Elinor breaks free from the ropes. She saves Merida just in time and starts fighting Mor'du. After slamming Elinor into one of the stones, he turns to kill Merida, who is holding up a spear against him, until Elinor pulls him back and smashes him against a cracked menhir, which then crushes him to death.
A wisp of something rising from his body reveals the image of the prince, who nods to them as if in acknowledgment and gratitude and then turns into a will o the' wisp himself. As the sun starts to come up, Merida realizes it is the second sunrise; she grabs the tapestry and throws it around Elinor but realizes that nothing is happening, much to her shock and sadness.
Thinking she has failed, she tearfully hugs her mother. Merida sincerely apologizes for everything, admitting it is her fault, and says that she loves her, thereby mending the actual "bond torn by pride"—the bond between them as mother and daughter—moments before the rays of the second sunrise touch them.
She feels a human hand stroke her hair and realizes the spell has been broken and Elinor is human again. Fergus comes and hugs his wife and daughter and kisses Elinor. Another attitude to try on for size. You just wait, Obama is going to mention that his girls loved Brave , and the next thing you know, Gretchen Carlson is talking about the liberal war on traditional marriage via Disney movies. Maybe Rush Limbaugh will finally fall over the edge and call Merida a slut because she dares to eschew marriage.
It would be an apt sequel to the conservative brouhaha over fictional single mother Murphy Brown back in the 90s. So far the film has surpassed box office expectations, particularly in terms of male viewership. There was a fair amount of concern that boys would reject a film of this nature, but the numbers indicate otherwise so far.
It seems silly to suggest that young male media consumers are so constricted by typical gender roles — and so threatened by female protagonists — that they would reject a juggernaut of an animated film altogether. So far this film is a hit among young girls, young boys, and families — the holy trinity of Disney consumers.
And that means ample opportunities for merchandising, cross-branding, and cash flow for all things Brave. As for the existing princess procession? They should be used to new additions by now. Beyond that, they should be grateful. Any attention paid to the Disney Princess franchise is attention paid to individual Princesses. It is worth noting that some of them may have faded from public recognition without their inclusion in the official lineup. One need look only so far as Eilonwy for proof.
Then Toy Story came out and changed the world and no that is not an exaggeration as anyone from my field will know. I have seen them on the precipice of falling into the abbiss and then rescued by, Steve Jobs.
I have so much respect for that man. He believed that they could make their dreams come true and in turn do the same for us. I have been in this field for years and we learn very quick to support those that support us back. Steve Jobs with his connections with Apple supported Pixar during their most tough time and even though Apple is at its hight of economic profit I still support them because the basic principles that hold up our profession live in them.
Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell, Brenda Chapman all spear headed by John Lasseter have given us another great step in a already star spangled history of characters. This time they gave us a princess, the Princess of Dunbrough, Merida. Many have asked wether she should be added to the list of Disney princesses. I say no because she is not Disney, she is a member of the Pixar family. Let this be another stepping stone for this great company to build upon instead of just adding another name to a list.
Fiery and independent, she goes through heartache, heartbreak, struggles and in the end she finds her true place; with her family.
He was brave. Family is important and Pixar has just added an amazing young lass to their family of characters.
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