Personally, I think Mark says something quite profound in his write-up that really struck a chord for me when he said, “Everyone struggles with the tension between being shaped by your surroundings and wanting to reshape them”. The struggle in Brave is that Queen Elinor tries to find the right balance between guiding her child and letting her find her own way. Mark mirrors Brenda’s comments by mentioning that the heart of the story is something that everyone can relate to because it’s about a relationship between a parent and a child. Mark Andrews also does a brief write-up in the foreword and mentioned that he was a huge fan of the movie before he ever started working on the picture (from Brenda’s early work). Finally, she also mentioned that there was no room for a prince to come save the day in the script. She noted that while creating the story, she thought of her Scottish heritage (although she said she’s a mutt – ha) and mentions that Scotland is truly like a woman, “we may look soft, but we’re made of much tougher stuff underneath”. She recounts the story of her own young daughter and their struggles – I’m sure this helped her in her ability to craft Brave‘s story and underpinnings. I would also continue on in his explanation and say that this version also gives us great insight into the overall process of the building and tearing down of making a Pixar film.īrenda Chapman first talks about connecting to the story of Brave because it’s about the struggle between a Mother and a Daughter. He also talks about (and I agree totally) the importance of the “art of” books and how they show an in-depth look at the characters and their design. He mentions the difficulty of the moss, jutting rocks, the bears – the list goes on and on, but he’s really highlighting that they are using a medium (computers) that wants things to look perfect, but moss and jutting rocks can’t really look too perfect or they won’t look right. John Lasseter takes the reigns of writing the preface and discusses how far the technology has come to allow them to be able to make a film like Brave.
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