Archery it is!īut after the sons try their hand at making their marks, a new and unexpected firstborn arrives on the scene: Merida.
And thankfully, the princess gets to choose which game will be the center of suitor competition. Soon, the unruly and uproarious Scottish lords of the land will bring their first-born sons to the castle to compete for Merida’s hand in marriage. “We can’t just run away from who we are,” Queen Elinor ( Emma Thompson, Nanny McPhee Returns) says to her daughter upon the royal offspring’s initial protest. Merida cherishes her freedom, but it is soon threatened by a customary betrothal gathering her parents have long since planned. She’s fiercely independent, a talented archer and loves to ride through the woods on her trusty steed, expertly hitting the bull’s-eye of targets along the way. starting with change in our hearts.Īs the oldest daughter of good-natured King Fergus ( Billy Connolly, Gulliver’s Travels), Merida ( Kelly Macdonald, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2) is headstrong and abundantly redheaded. No, Brave doesn’t plunge to the great theological depths of free will and divine foreknowledge, but instead begins with the premise that fate is something that can be changed. “You just have to be brave enough to see it.”
“Our fate lives within us,” says a determined Princess Merida in Disney-Pixar’s newest animation set in the Highlands of Scotland.
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