It’s hard because when I was working on the film, we were all aware once Disney bought Pixar, this was a big possibility, so we had designed her dress-up dress that Merida would like, as opposed to the one her mom picked and she hated. Disney is Disney, and I’ve been rather disillusioned with a lot of their choices over the years. Sadly, I wasn’t surprised, I was just incredibly disappointed. I was kind of shocked, I couldn’t believe it. A drawing is fine-just draw Merida, don’t draw this older, sexed-up character. I’d like to get a statement from there somewhere, that they are definitely changing it back to the original Merida. I’m appreciative that they took it off, but I just want to hear from them.
But they didn’t do that across the board, so I’m still disappointed. You know, I’m encourage by seeing that, but I also know that it’s still out there all over the rest of the world, so I don’t know if they just did that to just appease us all and try to quiet us down. How do you feel now that the Disney site has reverted to Merida’s original look? It’s taken me a little by surprise, I have to be honest.
The Daily Beast: Thank you so much for calling.īrenda Chapman: Thank you so much for the interest. The heroine’s creator, Brenda Chapman, talks to Caroline Linton about what happened to the character modeled after her own daughter-and why it sends a bad message to girls. The new look caused such an uproar that it led to a petition with thousands of signatures to restore Merida’s original look-and Disney listened, sheepishly pulling the new Merida from its website. The new Merida had a slimmer waistline, beachy waves instead of untamed curls, and worst of all, no trademark bow and arrow.
So fans were baffled this week when Disney decided to give her a sexy makeover after adding her to their line of princess dolls. She has frizzy hair she beats off potential suitors with her archery skills and (spoiler alert) she rides off on a horse without a prince in the end.
DISNEY BRAVE MERIDA SOFTWARE
Alas, to ensure that no one else can achieve “the Merida”-a welcome alternative to “the Jennifer Aniston”-Pixar says it has no plans to license any components of the new software outside the company.Merida, the heroine of Pixar’s Brave, isn’t your typical Disney princess (no offense, Sleeping Beauty). According to T he Wall Street Journal, Pixar had a new software program engineered just so that the Scottish heroine’s hair could “react more realistically to the character’s movements and surroundings.” As if that weren’t impressive enough, the computer-animated-film studio created her glossy, flame-colored ringlets from “1,500 individually sculpted curves, distinct points in a three-dimensional space, that are programmed to bounce and interact in relation to one another via a new software system.” The result is one of the most eye-catching manes in Hollywood, which is unfortunate for Merida, considering that she can’t cash in on any hair-product endorsement deals (possibly with Rebekah Brooks providing the “before” to Merida’s hair-care routine “after”).
Just because Princess Merida is a computer-animated character doesn’t mean that her hair didn’t require its own pricey upkeep during the making of Brave.
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