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⌈ Secret Post #2245 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Oscars

[sugar_spun]

Well, alright, since you asked:

Here's a girl that, upon stumbling upon the first known witch in her entire life, immediately thinks that she can be used to "change her destiny" (I'm gonna use the pretty term here, since Pixar just sort of ignored the whole mind rape thing), with no thought to the consequences or danger of her actions. She even gets information that the witch's customers have been unhappy with their, er, orders. Does this pass into Merida's mind that what was done was a bad idea? Nope.

Here's a girl that, when her father is charging through a castle getting ready to kill her mother all Merida can do is say how it isn't her fault, it's all that witch's! (Speaking of which, it also disturbed me the triplets needed to be bribed to rescue their mother's life.)

I might be remembering it incorrectly or something, but I think Merida ever apologizes meaningful or is shown to be sorry for her actions throughout the entire movie, up until her mom has 'died'. For instance, when Merida discovers what happened with Mordu and friends. That would be a good time to realize the gravity of her actions.

The scene with the tapestry and bow is bad on both characters, but at least Elinor is immediately shocked and upset by what she did (which she should be, it was very terribly of her), Merida is the aggressor first. Why does she rip that tapestry? Well, because it will piss off her mom and make her upset. At least Elinor had the excuse of Merida having just used said bow to potentially start a war.

And there's potentially starting a war. Sometimes I snark about it, but at least in most rebellious princess movies, the princess wants to marry for love but has to get married because of 'the law', like in Aladdin. So I'll ignore any other facets because the movie doesn't care for them to exist. Jasmine I can forgive for not wanting to get married because the reasons in her movie are presented as obtuse and dated. The writers in Brave, however, gave a very specific reason: keeping the peace and preventing war. So Merida brazenly defying all of the clans in front of them? Yeah...starting a war here.

And then there's tiny things, like how she complains about everything she doesn't want to do, how she gives the triplets a bunch of sweets because why the hell not, etc.

Are all of these things normal for a teenager? Yes. But as I said, teenagers aren't exactly likable. I don't really like Merida. I wanted to--I went into Brave hoping it would blow me away. But I ended up disliking her so much, partially out of disappointment with what Pixar decided they wanted to do with the movie. Upon rewatches, I didn't really dislike her as much.

Anyway, about Elinor, the whole scene with Merida teaching her to fish was obviously Elinor realizing her daughter really loved being wild and free. She's a bear, she can't exactly speak to the effect. You're just meant to gather it, and it was pretty obvious.