After watching an animated movie, I feel hot eyes, simply find a high-scoring wash of eyes, click on "Brave Legend", it is indeed worth watching, the film won the 70th Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, the 85th Academy Awards Best Animated Feature Award.
Nowadays, the style of animated films is very beautiful, and the final victory depends on the story structure and values.
The reason why the previous film is hot is that the structure is single, and the role of the screenwriter's gold finger is too obvious: forcing love, the ensuing conflict is weak, cannot withstand scrutiny, and even violates common sense.
Let's talk about this beautiful "Brave Legend".
The story elements are related to the "parent-child relationship", "stereotype" and "self-growth", the protagonist is not locked in one person, but the princess and the queen, the two mirror each other, which is the setting of the double heroine.
Excerpt from a synopsis:
Set in the mysterious Scottish Highlands of the 10th century AD, Tales of Brave revolves around a beautiful and brave princess, Merida, the daughter of King Fergus and Queen Elinor, who has a brave and kind character and skilled bow and arrow skills, and in order to fight for her right to true love, she openly challenges the ancient and sacred customs between the three restless lords.
In order to fight for the right to independently obtain true love, Melida broke free from the shackles of arranged marriages and asked the witch in the forest for help, but the witch cast a spell with a special meaning. The ensuing situation forced Melida to use all kinds of tricks, including her triplet brothers to help her lift the spell and find the true meaning of courage.
In order to save her homeland and return life to beauty, the cursed Melida will write her own "brave legend", understanding the true meaning of love and the brave ambition of ancient legends.
If you have not seen this film, from the synopsis of the story, you can probably only see the story of how Princess Merida challenged the traditional discipline to maintain her personal will.
In this way, it is really mediocre, but in fact, it is far from it.
The plot at the beginning of "Legend of Bravery" is that the queen always teaches the prince to behave gracefully and decently, but unfortunately the princess does not love red clothes and loves to be armed, and is proficient in archery on horseback. She was really tired of her mother's pickiness and teaching, and the relationship between the two was very tense. Later, he meets a witch in the grove and asks for a magic cake in the hope of changing his mother's opinion that princesses don't have to be elegant and decent, and that they don't have to follow the marriage tradition of parents. The princess wants to change the status quo and leads her mother to eat the cake.
The main conflict has emerged! After eating the magic cake, the mother turned into a strong black bear. The princess blamed herself, so she secretly took her mother out of the city to find the witch for an antidote.
The second twist is the disappearance of the witch, and the princess gets two important messages from her message: mending the broken bond; and after sunrise the next day, if the queen has not yet become a human, she will become a real black bear.
Isn't this setting like a game break?
Next up is the princess pass. First of all, we have to understand what the broken bond is. She remembered that she had once taken a knife to split the family portrait tapestry in half, and hurried back to sew it up.
On the way back to the castle, to fill her hunger, she taught her mother to catch fish with her bare hands and grill it. The well-bred, elegant queen naturally refused, and later had to catch fish for a full stomach. This small detail shows that the Queen has embarked on a journey of change.
On the way, they are attacked by ferocious animals, and their mother, who has become a black bear, fights to protect the princess. Mother's love is full of radiance, and this radiance brings infinite energy. The mother is no longer a little girl with no chicken power, and even if she is, she is willing to sacrifice herself to save her son.
After returning to the castle, they are discovered by the bear-hating king and a group of generals, and they are encircled. The princess is locked in a room and grounded, and the queen has to flee for her life in order to save her life, which is the third major twist in the story and the climax of the conflict.
The father did not believe that the bear was his beloved wife, and that the queen would not be shot by a group of generals.
The princess was grounded, when the tapestry could be repaired, and seeing that the time of sunrise the next day was getting closer and closer, in case the magic took effect, would the queen completely turn into a black bear without humanity.
The queen rushed out of the siege and ran toward the forest. The princess went out of the city with a repaired family portrait embroidery, and quickly rushed to the forest to find her mother.
With the sun shining brightly the next day, she draped the repaired brocade over her mother, who was tied up, but did not recover her body, and the princess was full of remorse, and she hugged her mother who was dying on the ground and wept bitterly. She realized how much trouble her parents had caused by rebellion, and what a headache she was! The mother is about to become a real bear, and she weeps of sorrow and say goodbye: "I love you" - the black bear recovers in an instant - the mother returns safely.
The queen did not blame the princess, and after this difficulty, she let them know how to respect each other in the name of love, rather than forcibly imposing their own thoughts on each other.
More difficult than love is to understand, seeking common ground while reserving differences is one of the rules of good intimate relationship co-construction. Love is not arbitrary, it is not morally kidnapped in the name of "love."
Since experiencing the moment of isolation and bravery, the queen has become open-minded and brave, and she has stepped out of the traditional discipline, no longer the traditional woman who used to stand behind her husband, and is more and more considerate of the princess who does not want to fall into the stereotypes. The princess, on the other hand, learns of her mother's love for her from a mutation.
Tales of Brave doesn't teach viewers how to mend intimacy in a didactic way. The so-called bond is nothing more than understanding, respect, and the eternal and deep love of both parties for each other.
When the eyes of the world are blinded, tired of the nagging of relatives, hating to be disciplined, the relationship becomes more and more tense, and even the rupture cannot be repaired. Opportunities for détente are often lost before permanent regret is born.
It is always necessary to wait until the pain is deep in the heart to understand that nagging is also a kind of love.
There is only one root of love, but there are thousands of forms of expression, and in what form to express love, so as to obtain a harmonious and positive parent-child relationship, perhaps the thinking brought to us by "Legend of Bravery".