Brenda Chapman quit part way through production citing ‘creative differences’ and the film was placed in the hands of Mark Andrews. Merida (voice by Kelly Macdonald), Pixar’s first female-led protagonistĮven then, Pixar’s attempt to portray an equal opportunities work environment did not work out as planned. They also went to the extent of hiring a female director in Brenda Chapman, as well as putting two women on the script (Chapman and former Disney writer Irene Mecchi) and allowing the film to be produced by another woman (Katharine Sarafian) – this despite the scarcity of women on the principal credits on their other films (the sole exception being Darla K. Pixar duly picked up on this and Brave was the result. A few years ago, someone noticed the fact that none of Pixar’s films had featured a female leading character and asked the reasonable question of when the studio was going to provide a female protagonist. Perhaps more so than any other cinematic genre, it seems that animated films are charged with portraying good role models for children. These have all enjoyed huge box-office success and are loved by audiences and critics alike where it seems that Pixar has rarely put a foot wrong. In the wild, Merida learns that she must heal the rift between her and her mother and stop the pending war between the clans caused by her walking away from her betrothal within two sunrises otherwise her mother’s transformation into a bear will become irreversible.īrave was the thirteenth film from Pixar Animation Studios, following the likes of Toy Story (1995), A Bug’s Life (1998), Monsters, Inc. She is forced to hide her mother as her father starts hunting her, obsessed with tracking and killing bears ever since one bit off his leg. After feeding her mother the cake, Merida is shocked to see her transform into a bear. Merida begs the witch for a spell that will change her mother’s mind and is given a cake. There will-of-the-wisps lead her to the house of a witch. After each of the sons shoot their arrows at their targets with varying lack of competence, Merida steps up and claims the right as the eldest child to compete for her own hand, whereupon she shoots arrows that unerringly hit the dead centre of each target. Asked to choose what sport the aspirants are to engage in to win her, she chooses archery.
She is then informed that other clans are gathering because her pending betrothal has been announced and the eldest sons of the other lords are to compete for her hand. Merida instead prefers to be out seeking adventure and learning the use of the bow her father gave her. She grows up under the constantly disapproving eye of her mother Elinor, who always wants her to behave as a princess should. Merida is a princess, the eldest child of the Scottish lord Fergus.
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