Finally Watching BRAVE and I HAD NO IDEA it was gonna make me CRY?! *Commentary/Reaction*

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  @MrWaspman · 2 years ago

  Fun fact: Pixar had to make a whole new code just to animate Merida&apos;s curly red locks for this movie and it&apos;s CHANGED the game of animating hair ever since. Sully&apos;s fur in <i>Monsters Inc.</i> was a similar story.

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  @VerchielxKanda · 2 years ago

  Merida fighting her father, who is considered one of the strongest, to protect her mother, is my favorite part of this whole movie.

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  @gooseweasel · 2 years ago

  Fun fact- bows have what&apos;s called &quot;draw weight&quot; which is what determines how much force is needed to pull them back, and it can come in a really wide range. Beginner bows usually have a draw weight of 20-30lbs, while the English longbow, probably the most iconic heavy drawn bows, had a draw weight of 150-180lbs, the strain of which changed the archer&apos;s body to the point where archeologists can tell whether or not someone used it just by their bones.

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  @joshuawells835 · 2 years ago

  For this film, Pixar designed 3 original tartan patterns for Clans DunBroch, Dingwall, and MacGuffin (they also got permission from Clan Mackintosh to use the real tartan of that clan for Clan Macintosh) and then had them registered in the Scottish National Tartan Registry, despite protest from at least one Scottish politician who said that this wasn&apos;t what the registry was for. <br><br>Kevin McKidd voices both Lord MacGuffin and Young MacGuffin. McKidd grew up in Elgin and used a variation of the Doric dialect for Young MacGuffin. Doric is also known as Northeast Scots, Scots being the Scottish dialect of English.

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  @mariaghiglieri78 · 2 years ago

  This movie is packed with Harry Potter Actors:<br>Queen: played by the fantastic Emma Thompson (Trelawney)<br>Merida: Kelly MacDonald (The Grey Lady)<br>The Witch: Julie Walters (Mrs Weasley)<br>Lord Dingwall: Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid)<br>Martin the Door Guard: Patrick Doyle (Composer for Goblet of Fire)

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  @SpecklesTeeV · 2 years ago

  Fun fact: This movie has been rated by archery experts as one of the most accurate representations of archery. In order to shoot, you need to be able to move so Merida ripping the dress to move is definitely correct. The fact that Merida keeps all her shots consistent and she has less influence over the shot definitely serves accurate because Archery is about keeping everything nice and simple and repeat the shot time and time again. The final arrow shot where the arrow goes through another is called a Robinhood. Also on the close up of Merida shooting, you can see her hand relaxes and flows back without any force because that is how you are suppose to get a good shot. If you open your hand, that is not gonna get a good shot. The slow motion is very accurate as well because arrows travel like a wet noodle, not straight.

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  @phoenixdzk · 2 years ago

  Oh this is a classic and you can tell how much love and thought the animators put into her archery skill scenes. Also Touch the sky is a classic song

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  @HarryThomasPictures · 2 years ago

  Most underrated Pixar movie ever, dosen&apos;t deserve all the hate and deserved Best Animated Feature over Wreck It Ralph. It&apos;s about time Pixar told a mother and daughter story and the second sunrise scene hits me in the feels every time😭🐻🌄!

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  @Caderynwolf · 2 years ago

  And yes, we did &quot;used to&quot; have bears in Alba (scotland) here, along with wolves and lynx... There is currently a program of reintroduction, along with trying to &quot;rewilde&quot; parts of the country, as well as trying to stop the decline of the wildcat, red squrrels, and golden eagle populations. The otters and beavers have been doing a lot better though.<br><br>Also, yes, we would literally fight over anything, war over anything, because what-esle is there? However, if there were anyone outside trying to take over we&apos;d drop everything, to go fight the new people and once that&apos;s done we&apos;d pick right up where we left off with each other.

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• SA

  @samuelvincent557 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The Witch&apos;s warning &quot;Mend the bond torn my pride&quot;, I felt had four parts to it, all of which Meirda had to deal with. &nbsp;The obvious ones were the tapestry, and the bond between her and her Mother. &nbsp;But there were two others as well. &nbsp;Her actions tore a rift between the four clans and almost started a war over it, because she shamed them and insulted them by refusing to pick a suiter after they were, invited there by the king for that very reason. &nbsp;And the last one was the rift between the four kingdoms by the prince that became Mor&apos;du. &nbsp;It&apos;s possible that the four clans were, originally, the four kingdoms, and that Mor&apos;du is an ancestor of hers, since their kingdom was so close. &nbsp;So Meirda was releasing Mor&apos;du from his torment.<br><br>Also, that tapestry would have been horrendously, expensive. &nbsp;They were hand made and embroidered. &nbsp;Based on the shine, there was gold and silver thread woven through it, and that would have taken most of a year to make. &nbsp;Tapestries like that were used in castles to cover the cold stone walls and keep rooms warmer, because stone walls just sucked up heat. &nbsp;That rend Meirda made with her sword wouldn&apos;t have been able to be, perfectly, &nbsp;repaired easily, if at all

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  @themangomanjuice · 2 years ago

  Brave is such an underrated movie, I have loved it ever since I first saw it in theaters with my mom and older sister back in 2009 when I was 9.

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  @7rollface · 2 years ago

  I love this film so much. It&apos;s often cited as one of Pixar and even Disney&apos;s worst. Honestly, I think its one of the best from either studio. <br><br>And I could watch just Merida&apos;s hair for hours. Even now it&apos;s amazing.

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