“I took it upon myself to sample a different type of scotch every night.” That lent itself to the family-meal sequence,” says Kratter, chuckling. “Every night we would either eat in an old inn or go to a local pub to see that convivial atmosphere of eating around a big common table. “We thought we were going to have the king and queen’s castle on the shores of a loch, but Dunnottar was so beautiful, set on a lone cliff, that we changed the location of the castle in the film.” “It was rustic and ruined and beautiful,” attests shading art director Tia Kratter.
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“She is an adventurer carving her own path, so we wanted a look that was wild and untamed.” They found it during the course of two research trips to Scotland, particularly in an area known as the Dark Mile - which Pilcher describes as “a dark forest full of moss and rock and boulders” - and a castle called Dunnottar, set on a cliff. “Merida is an independent spirit, a child of nature,” says Chapman. Looking for the right setting for her original tale, initially titled The Bear and the Bow, she began working with production designer Steve Pilcher seven years ago. STORY: Pixar’s ‘Brave’ Feminist Bet: Does a Princess Need a Prince Charming? (Analysis) So I decided to try to create my own story.” “I’d find some with a mother, but she would disappear for no apparent reason, and a prince would show up to save the day. “I went through many fairy tales looking for a mother-and-daughter story, and I just didn’t find one,” says Chapman. My daughter was about four at the time and just questioning me at every turn.”Īdditionally, Chapman wanted to concentrate on the relationship between mother and daughter because mothers often are absent or replaced by evil stepmothers in traditional fairy tales. “I wanted to do a story that had a female protagonist. “My daughter was the heart and soul of the piece,” she says.
The film’s story was conceived by Brenda Chapman, the project’s first director, as a “love letter” to her feisty daughter.
A lot of the lines of Merida were right out of my daughter’s mouth.” “I have a daughter and three sons, just like King Fergus and Queen Elinor. “I pulled a lot of experience from my own family,” says Andrews. PHOTOS: From ‘Toy Story’ to ‘Brave’: Your Essential Guide to Pixar’s Movies Brave strikes out into new territory for Pixar Animation Studios because it’s centered on the company’s first female protagonist - a Scottish princess named Merida - whose story is built around her relationship with her mother, Queen Elinor, that has become fractured and eventually is mended.
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