The first clip begins with Merida (voice of Kelly MacDonald) riding on her horse through the woods practicing archery. Without her steed ever slowing down, she pulls back her bow string and fires off a series of arrows, hitting targets she’s hung from the trees square in the middle. As she’s about to shoot at the final target, her horse stops dead and she is vaulted forward on to the ground. Upset with the horse, she picks up some mud and hurls it, to which the horse responds by blowing snot in her face. She walks towards the horse and kisses it on the nose. Suddenly things get dark and in the distance, among some giant rocks, the silhouette of a giant bear can be seen.
In the second piece of footage shown, the sons of three lords – Lord MacIntosh (Craig Ferguson), Lord Dingwell (Robbie Coltrane) and Lord MacGuffin (Kevin McKidd) – are vying for Merida’s hand in marriage – despite the fact that she doesn’t want to marry any of them. King Fergus (Billy Connolly) sets it up so the winner of a competition gets to marry Merida, and the princess chooses archery as the game. The first archer, the young MacGuffin (also voiced by McKidd), fires his arrow and misses the target, which Merida mocks him for. Next, Lord MacIntosh’s son is up and makes a pretty good shot, but it doesn’t hit the bulls-eye. Disappointed with his failure, he begins to have an epic tantrum. Last is Lord Dingwell’s son who seems slightly mentally challenged. At first unable to even get an arrow out of his quiver, he first has trouble getting it onto the string and then can’t get the tip to line up with the bow. After all of this trouble he finally fires and hits the target directly in the middle. Lord Dingwell begins to loudly celebrate and actually moons the other fathers.
Like a flash, Merida then appears on the archery field, taking off her hood and letting her red hair fly. She announces that she will be competing for her own hand. Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson) stands up and tells Merida to stop but she doesn’t listen. Running from target to target she fires two straight bulls-eyes. Finally she reaches the third. The Queen still shouting, everything moves into slow-motion as Merida lets the last arrow fly. The arrow wavers due to the force of the string propelling it forward and Merida’s arrow flies into the target, splitting Dingwell’s arrow in two.
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–Brave is next year’s Pixar film, set in Scotland and featuring a princess who has to choose one of three idiotic suitors for political reasons. She rides a horse, she shoots a bow, and she ends up meeting a witch who casts a spell … they showed clips from this as well, and brought out Kelly Macdonald and Kevin McKidd, who voice characters in the movie. It’s an action-adventure fantasy thing from Pixar, so it ought to be good.
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In the second piece of footage shown, the sons of three lords – Lord MacIntosh (Craig Ferguson), Lord Dingwell (Robbie Coltrane) and Lord MacGuffin (Kevin McKidd) – are vying for Merida’s hand in marriage – despite the fact that she doesn’t want to marry any of them. King Fergus (Billy Connolly) sets it up so the winner of a competition gets to marry Merida, and the princess chooses archery as the game. The first archer, the young MacGuffin (also voiced by McKidd), fires his arrow and misses the target, which Merida mocks him for. Next, Lord MacIntosh’s son is up and makes a pretty good shot, but it doesn’t hit the bulls-eye. Disappointed with his failure, he begins to have an epic tantrum. Last is Lord Dingwell’s son who seems slightly mentally challenged. At first unable to even get an arrow out of his quiver, he first has trouble getting it onto the string and then can’t get the tip to line up with the bow. After all of this trouble he finally fires and hits the target directly in the middle. Lord Dingwell begins to loudly celebrate and actually moons the other fathers.
Like a flash, Merida then appears on the archery field, taking off her hood and letting her red hair fly. She announces that she will be competing for her own hand. Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson) stands up and tells Merida to stop but she doesn’t listen. Running from target to target she fires two straight bulls-eyes. Finally she reaches the third. The Queen still shouting, everything moves into slow-motion as Merida lets the last arrow fly. The arrow wavers due to the force of the string propelling it forward and Merida’s arrow flies into the target, splitting Dingwell’s arrow in two.
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–Brave is next year’s Pixar film, set in Scotland and featuring a princess who has to choose one of three idiotic suitors for political reasons. She rides a horse, she shoots a bow, and she ends up meeting a witch who casts a spell … they showed clips from this as well, and brought out Kelly Macdonald and Kevin McKidd, who voice characters in the movie. It’s an action-adventure fantasy thing from Pixar, so it ought to be good.
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