They were obedient, cheerful, conventional, overwhelmingly domestic and are dependent on other characters to move the plot forward for them, and the handsome Prince Charming to come and guarantee the happily ever after. The first three Disney princesses – Cinderella, Snow White and Aurora – were highly antiquated archetypes of women. Merida, it seemed to me, wasn’t a unique creation outside of Disney so much as she seemed to be a very logical progression of Disney princesses and a broad amalgamation of their tropes since the Disney Renaissance, the period beginning in 1989 with The Little Mermaid that saw a reinvigoration of their animation features.Ĭertainly if you compare Merida to the Golden Era trifecta of princesses, she is leaps and bounds more evolved.
I never really felt comfortable with this claim. (I’ll be honest, it doesn’t really look that different to me… sorry…) Quite the opposite, Merida, voiced by Kelly Macdonald, revolts against kissing princes.As you can see, Disney’s redesign uhh… she uhhhhh… she… has bigger eyes. Indeed, Merida's story is markedly different than those of, for example, Ariel ("The Little Mermaid"), Cinderella and even Disney's first African American princess Tiana ("The Princess and the Frog") - who all needed to seal their future happiness with a kiss by a current or soon-to-be prince. It's completely different from a Disney princess."
"There's a grand tradition of Disney princesses," says "Brave" producer Katherine Sarafian, adding, " is a Pixar hero. And that's very different," he adds of the archer and sword-wielding red-headed heroine who revels in adventuring through the forest atop her enormous Clydesdale, Angus. "She's on a quest to find out who she is. She's not on a quest for 'happily ever after,'" the film's director Mark Andrews tells Yahoo! Movies. Pixar's first film with a female lead protagonist also marks a first for Disney: Merida is first to enter the famed Disney princess ecosystem who doesn't seek romantic love to complete her story and find true happiness. We knew Princess Merida could hold her own at target practice, but now we also know she can hold her own at the box office as " Brave" debuted at No.
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