Brave: Pixar Improves Disney’s Fantasy Princess
The Disney/Pixar partnership has always been willing to take some risks. Let’s face it, these are the people who turned a lost fish, talking cars, and Ed Asner in a floating house into deeply rich character-driven stories about the human condition. It’s really a wonder if there’s anything they can’t do well!
But one thing that they have avoided, until now, is even trying to dip their toes into the genre that Disney has mastered: the fairy tale.
From my perspective, with Brave they’ve blown pretty much every Disney fairy-tale-themed film out of the water. I won’t get much into the plotline, because Pixar’s done a really good job of not spoiling it too much. (I had a guess about what was going to happen, based largely on the Subway restaurant promotional campaign materials, and that guess was pretty much on the mark.)
But, even with no idea what happens in the film, there are a lot of things that the film is about which I can discuss…