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WEEK 6 (27/10/2013)
DURING THE MOVIE
Who are the most important characters in
the film?
Young princess, Merida
Queen Elinor
King Fergus
Rival clan
Witch
What is the story about?
This movie is about young Princess named
Merida of the clan Dunbroch is given a longbow by her father, King Fergus, for
her birthday, to her mother Queen Elinor's dismay. While practicing, Merida
ventures into the woods to fetch a stray arrow, where she encounters a
will-o'-the-wisp. Soon afterwards, Mor'du, a giant demon-bear, attacks the
family. Merida escapes on horseback with Elinor, while Fergus fights off the
bear at the cost of his left leg. Eleven years later, Merida has become a
free-spirited, headstrong sixteen-year-old with much younger identical triplet
brothers, Hamish, Huburt, and Harris. Elinor informs her that she is to be
betrothed to one of her father's allied clans, against her will. Reminding
Merida of a legend about a prince who had ruined his own kingdom by pride and
refusal to follow his father's wishes, Elinor warns her that failure to consent
to the marriage could harm Dunbroch, but Merida is still dissatisfied with the
arrangement.
Rival clans arrive with their firstborn
sons to compete in the Highland Games for Merida's hand in marriage. Merida,
twisting the rules, announces she is eligible to compete for her own hand as
the first-born of Clan Dunbroch and defeats each of her suitors in an archery
contest, shaming the other clans. Merida and Elinor argue, resulting in Merida
slashing the family tapestry and Elinor scorching Merida's longbow. Merida then
storms out in tears and rides into the forest, where she follows the wisps to
the hut of an elderly witch posing as a wood carver. After some bargaining, the
witch agrees to give Merida an enchanted cake to change her mother's mind.
Merida returns to the castle and gives
Elinor the cake, which magically transforms her into a black bear. Realizing
that she has made matters worse for herself, Merida returns with Elinor, who
still retains most of her human personality, to the witch's cottage but finds
only a message left behind. They learn that unless Merida is able to "mend
the bond torn by pride" before the second sunrise, the spell will become
permanent. The two are led by the wisps to ancient ruins, where they encounter
Mor'du, whom Merida discovers was once the power-mad prince in Elinor's legend,
under a similar transformation spell. Merida vows to her mother that she will
not let her become a wild animal like Mor'du, and theorizes that she can reverse
the spell by repairing the torn tapestry.
At the castle, the clans are on the verge
of war, but Merida interrupts their fighting and states that the children
should be allowed to get married in their own time to whomever they choose. The
clans agree, renewing and strengthening their friendships and breaking
tradition. Merida then sneaks into the tapestry room with Elinor. Elinor, who
is losing control of her human self, attacks Fergus, but suddenly regains her
human consciousness and races out of the castle. Fergus, thinking that the
queen was killed by Mor'du, pursues the bear with the other clans. With the
help of her brothers, who have also eaten the enchanted cake and transformed
into bear cubs, Merida rides after her father while simultaneously sewing up
the tapestry. The clan members and Fergus capture Elinor, but Merida
intervenes, just before Mor'du appears and attacks. A battle ensues, with
Mor'du scattering the clan warriors and almost killing Merida. Elinor
intervenes, using the strength of her bear form to hold off Mor'du long enough
for him to be crushed by a falling menhir, which releases the prince's spirit.
Before departing to the afterlife, he silently thanks Merida for finally
freeing him from himself.
At the second sunrise, Merida realizes the
true meaning of the witch's riddle, and reconciles with her mother. The queen
is transformed back to her human form along with the triplets, and the family
is happily reunited. A few days later, Merida and Elinor are working together
to sew a new tapestry of Merida, and Elinor as a bear, when they are called to
the docks to bid farewell to the other clan lords. They then ride their horses
across Scotland together with a renewed mother-daughter bond
What group of people would like to watch
this film?
In our opinion, we think that the group of people that will like to watch this movie are kids and
teenagers because this movie is about
how a princess try her best to make a big change in her life which will affect
her whole life. Besides that, the movie
is full of suspense thus making the kids and teenagers curious to know what
will happen.
AFTER THE MOVIE
Do you like this movie?
Most of us give high rating, which the
average is 4 star out of 5. This show that all of us like this movie. Because
the story of the movie give us the feel of exciting and, the plot of the story
is a bid unique that some time make us wonder what will happen next.
What rating would you give for this
movie?
4 out of 5 stars
What spoilers would ruin this movie if
you told your readers about it?
For
this movie, we did not found the spoilers that would ruin the movie because,
the film director done a great job on the making of this movie. The movie also
full of a sense of suspense.
What did you learn from this movie?
Mother is the best friend forever.
The teenage girls and mother are might not
get along because as a girl, we think our mother always make a worse decision
even though the worse decision sometimes is the best decision for us. However,
we only realised it when we try it out or maybe we should try to communicate
and listen to our beloved mother what is our opinion about the decision.
We are FAMILY!!!!
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