


Bravehair was one, a la Braveheart, but we always called it Brave in short and finally we got around to having to have a title and we just went with Brave as it sums up the heart of the movie in one go.” "We had these shorter titles for production and they were going around and around with Brave and the Bow or The Bear King and his Daughter. For Incredibles it was Hero and Ratatouille it was just Rat.

On the working title, The Bear and the Bow : Here are some selected soundbites from Andrews' discussion, in which alternate titles ( Bravehair anyone?), Britney Spears and red hair all get a mention. Pixar's Scotland is one that many of her residents will recognise, stuffed full of mountain ranges, waterfalls, standing stones and lush green landscapes, though the animators have taken some Braveheart -esque liberties with the film's period setting, as co-director Mark Andrews explained in his post-screening Q&A. Her family are keen to see her married off to the son of another clan chief, but Merida would rather ride her horse, climb rocks and become an expert archer, all of which annoys her mother, Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson) and leads to Merida taking off into the countryside to encounter.well that would be telling. Originally called The Bear and the Bow, the film follows Merida as she struggles to find her own identity. ReelScotland attended a veritable clan gathering of journalists in London last month to watch the footage which introduced the teenage princess, Merida, and her world of pomp, ceremony and giant bears, the latter seen in flashback as King Fergus (Billy Connolly) recalls an encounter that changed his life. On the evidence of the first thirty minutes of Disney-Pixar's upcoming animated epic, Brave, only the presence of an Irn Bru van and some Tunnocks teacakes could make it look any more Scottish.
