When the Brave Becomes Not So Brave
Pixar’s movie Brave has both been widely loved and criticized. Brave reveals the story of an independent princess and her family consisting of her three troublesome brothers, a reserved mother, and a barbaric father. Some find Brave a heroic story of a teenage girl that defies not only her father, but her entire community to save someone very special. Other people see it as a boring and not-so-fabulous movie about a girl changing her mother into a bear out of pure selfishness. After analyzing numerous reviews of this movie, including one from the San Francisco Chronicle, by Mick LaSalle, as well as one from USA Today, by Claudia Puig, I am convinced that the first opinion may be the better analysis of the movie on the basis of the characterization of Merida and the family relationships expressed in the movie.
While Pixar can be applauded for breaking the “goody-goody” image that most princesses have, they may have gone about that in the wrong way. Merida comes across extremely fiery, and may even sound bratty at times. I believe the movie was also mislabeled because Merida isn’t as brave as we are lead to …show more content…
Puig moves on to explain that this new princess brimming with self-confidence and spunk is the new princess, and all of the other princesses fail to compete. While I do not believe that Merida should be the new role model for girls, as she turns her mother into a bear, I believe that Puig has a point. Merida proves herself to be far different from any other Pixar princess. She has enormous amounts of athletic ability, defies her mother, and does not want to get married or even be near a man for that matter. Puig does a good job explaining her point as to why Merida is so different and new for Pixar as she states many points and characteristics of the clearly-odd
Pixar’s movie Brave has both been widely loved and criticized. Brave reveals the story of an independent princess and her family consisting of her three troublesome brothers, a reserved mother, and a barbaric father. Some find Brave a heroic story of a teenage girl that defies not only her father, but her entire community to save someone very special. Other people see it as a boring and not-so-fabulous movie about a girl changing her mother into a bear out of pure selfishness. After analyzing numerous reviews of this movie, including one from the San Francisco Chronicle, by Mick LaSalle, as well as one from USA Today, by Claudia Puig, I am convinced that the first opinion may be the better analysis of the movie on the basis of the characterization of Merida and the family relationships expressed in the movie.
While Pixar can be applauded for breaking the “goody-goody” image that most princesses have, they may have gone about that in the wrong way. Merida comes across extremely fiery, and may even sound bratty at times. I believe the movie was also mislabeled because Merida isn’t as brave as we are lead to …show more content…
Puig moves on to explain that this new princess brimming with self-confidence and spunk is the new princess, and all of the other princesses fail to compete. While I do not believe that Merida should be the new role model for girls, as she turns her mother into a bear, I believe that Puig has a point. Merida proves herself to be far different from any other Pixar princess. She has enormous amounts of athletic ability, defies her mother, and does not want to get married or even be near a man for that matter. Puig does a good job explaining her point as to why Merida is so different and new for Pixar as she states many points and characteristics of the clearly-odd