It’s a savvy decision since this is, at its center, a story about the oft-thorny thickets of love between a mother and daughter.
More William Tell than William Burroughs (thankfully), she's a teenage, Scottish Highlander version of Errol Flynn's athletic Robin melded to Olivia de Havilland's sassy Marion, and she's Pixar's finest and most fully realized female character to date.īrave also marks the first time Pixar has placed a woman at the helm of a feature film (Brenda Chapman also co-wrote the script). Feisty, borderline bratty, and peerless with a bow and arrow, Merida could give Artemis a run for her drachmas and take down Cupid at 500 paces.
An unruly spillage of radiant coppery coilings that both surrounds and belies her noble bearings, this is surely a 'do to die for. Now, with the release of this 13th feature from Pixar, I seem to have the quivers for her all over again – or rather, her digital, 3-D animated character: the Scottish princess Merida.
I've nurtured a crush on Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald since I first saw her molesting Ewan McGregor's fish-belly white wastrel in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting back when heroin, Elastica, and Irvine Welsh were still cool.
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