The film is completely derived from classic fairy tales and is a typical Disney way. It seems that the new owner has done a good job of "taming" Pixar. Of course, "Brave" does not have the well-known stories of "Snow White" and "Cinderella". The text, however, the princess who likes to dance with swords and guns plus the trouble of transformation caused by witchcraft is really a repertoire of Western fairy tales.
The time and space background of "Brave" is set in the Scottish Highlands of the 10th century. Here, Princess Merida lives in the happy family of Princess Merida. Merida’s mother has been working hard to maintain the decent and dignity of this royal family. Efforts to teach her reckless, vulgar husband and Merida who "do not love red makeup and love arms". Merida loves riding and shooting, but from her mother's point of view, the princess's mission is to marry a prince and aristocrat who is in the right position, and use a lady as her mother. Over time, several suitors came to the high ground, which completely intensified the conflict between Merida and her mother. Merida had no intention of getting married at all. One day, she accidentally strayed into the realm of the witch, and even more accidentally turned the queen mother into a bear. Then, it was the daughter and mother who cracked the witch together. The course of surgery, in the end, of course, the strong family love brought the queen back to human form, Merida's family was reunited again, and Merida's marriage seemed to be postponed indefinitely.
This is really a terrible story logic. Pixar is not wrong to talk about childlike innocence and family affection. The several Pixar masterpieces mentioned in the previous article actually implement the "childlike innocence + family affection" drama concept, except that "Robot Walli" is specious. Love (the love between the two robot protagonists is full of childish innocence) connects the relationship between the main characters, and Pixar's works basically avoid the adult world. "Brave" seems to continue Pixar's creative concept, but the implementation is stumbled: if a few suitors appear, the whole film should be a love story, describing the journey of Merida's true love-I have been looking forward to the mountains and forests. A grassroots suitor appears, and finally gets married with Merida; or simply let the demon bear finally restore the appearance of a handsome prince, and come to a Pixar version of "Beauty and the Beast". Unfortunately, there is no "Brave". After a false shot, the film settles on the adventures of Merida and her mother. To be honest, those action stages are thrilling, but they are not good at showing the relationship between mother and daughter. No substantial effect.
As a result, the mother-daughter is just a small daily trivial conflict, not the evil stepmother and the poor princess. The fundamental contradiction between the two main characters does not exist, which makes the dramatic conflict that drives the story basically to no avail. Secondly, because of the lack of contradiction, the plot of the queen becoming a bear can only be accounted for as a princess. The witch who provides magic only acts as a prop, and does not really involve the relationship between the characters, and that The devil bear who only runs through the long process of Meili’s achievement in the whole film is reduced to a complete background role. Apart from wanting to bite the mother and daughter a few bites, it is impossible to establish a substantial connection with the main characters-all this makes the whole film It looked disorganized.
Merida's marriage was really shelved. What does it mean? Accuse of early marriage and early childbirth? Rebelling against arranged marriages? Obviously, there is a bit of wrong text, and the scene of the marriage proposal and the passage of breaking the magic of the bear cannot be completely unified under the same theme, which makes this 90-minute movie present an unprecedented sense of fracture.
"Brave" is Pixar's first costume film, the first fairy tale film, and also Pixar's first work with women as the core protagonist. However, the female director Brenda Chapman picked up a pick midway and took over Mark. Andrews didn't seem to understand Chapman's creative ideas, making the whole "Brave" seem ordinary.
In the daughter's growth process, the appearance of "kind father and strict mother" is extremely common, but how will the subtle contradictions between daughter and mother show up? Eileen Chang’s "Golden Lock" may be too extreme, so drawing some inspiration from the gothic cartoon "Ghost Mother" should be of great benefit to Pixar.
(Published in the 27th issue of Nandu Weekly on July 16, 2012)
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