Comments on: Time To Be Brave /2012/02/27/being-brave/ A feminist pop culture adventure Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:07:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 By: Miranda /2012/02/27/being-brave/#comment-2194 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:07:36 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=10015#comment-2194 In reply to Maura McHugh.

Ah, I thought she’d still written the script but was no longer producing/directing. Or was co-directing. I’ve not been clear, to be honest. Hmmm.

]]> By: Maura McHugh /2012/02/27/being-brave/#comment-2193 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:02:58 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=10015#comment-2193 Unfortunately, there’s a bit of a fly in the otherwise wonderful Brave ointment.

Brenda Chapman, the originator of the story, one of the writers and the sole director, was fired off the project by Disney in 2010:

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/25/entertainment/la-et-women-animation-sidebar-20110525

It’s now being directed by Mark Andrews.

Maybe it happened because of ‘creative differences’ but the timing of it was very odd.

]]> By: Russell /2012/02/27/being-brave/#comment-2192 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:22:38 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=10015#comment-2192 In reply to Miranda.

I’ll anthropomorphise you in a minute…

Yes, of course I am excited for Brave. :D

]]> By: Miranda /2012/02/27/being-brave/#comment-2191 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:54:39 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=10015#comment-2191 In reply to Russell.

I think anything can be anthropomorphised – look at the furniture in Beauty and the Beast. Or more generally the rhetorical device of apostrophe (“O, moon!”, etc) has a lot of it going on. It’s a thing humans do, and I think how they gender when they do it is of particular interest (see also: alphabet S for ship post) :)

But anyway, back to the point: are you excited for Brave? Braaaaave!

]]> By: Russell /2012/02/27/being-brave/#comment-2190 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:43:37 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=10015#comment-2190 In reply to Miranda.

I think possibly horses as a race are rather single-minded, and it may do them a disservice to anthropomorphise their characteristics in such a manner. :)

]]> By: Miranda /2012/02/27/being-brave/#comment-2189 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:00:53 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=10015#comment-2189 In reply to Russell.

Interesting.

I like Maximus as he’s a good compliment to Flynn who is a subversion of a bunch of prince/masculinity tropes (“this is the story of how I died”) but I don’t think his determination is especially male or masculine!

AGRIPPINA LIVES ON IN MY MIND <3

ps. Don't forget Dick Turpin had Black Bess and she was a pretty determined hoss ;)

pps. there is even a poem http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Bess :D

]]> By: Russell /2012/02/27/being-brave/#comment-2188 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:28:47 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=10015#comment-2188 Possibly I am a little sexist, but I don’t think Maximus would have worked in quite the same way as a female horse. I can’t imagine a female being as single-minded as Maximus.

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