Brave

 

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Brave is an animation and comedy movie directed and written by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman in 2010. Merida is a Scottish tomboy princess who make her own path in life. She defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. In a remote Scottish kingdom, young princess Merida (Kelly Macdonald) is a headstrong tomboy who prefers pounding through the mist-shrouded forest on her giant Clydesdale and nothing arrows into targets than being ladylike. However, princess Merida’s life has to be depends on her both parents which are King Fergus (Billy Connolly) as her Father and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson) as her Mother. She has to marry a lad from one of the three barely friendly clans which she refuses to do so. After Merida shows up all three of them at a contest to win her hand, the Princess and the Queen’s daughter-mother relationship explodes into open warfare

 

 



Princess Merida sees a blue-o-the-wisps 

I personally think that this movie standout among the rest of the animation movie because of the spell and legend haunted setting. During the night when Princess Merida has to meet all of the three clans, she ran away after an argument between the Queen Elinor and her. As she is riding on Clydesdale, she sees a blue will-o-the-wisps. It leads her to a cottage of a witch (Julie Walters) who offers her a spell to change her fate and her Mother, Queen Elinor. That’s when everything changes, Queen Elinor turns into a giant bear after consuming a slide of cake that Princess Merida brought back from the witch’s cottage. I personally like the part where they use zooming skills to chase Princess Merida when she runs away from home with her Clydesdale, it is amazing and it catches my attention the whole time. The climax of this movie takes place when Kind Fergus discovers that there's a giant bear in the 

When Queen Elinor turns into a giant bear

tapestry room. Queen Elinor who is losing control of her human self, attacks King Fergus. King Fergus thinks that the Queen was killed by Mor'du. With the help of her three brothers which have also eaten the enchanted cake and transformed into bear cubs, Princess Merida quickly sews up the tapestry and rides to her Father. The part is the best out of all and the excitement takes place. As Mor'du appears and attacks, Princess Merida fights off Mor'du and saves Queen Elinor. The touching part of the movie comes in when Princess Merida realizes that's the second sunrise and she suddenly realizes the true meaning of the witch's riddle and reconciles with her Mother, Queen Elinor. The Queen is then transformed back to human beings and the family is happily reunited. Just right before the ending, when the excitement comes in, slowly it turns into touching scenes where they reunited. Even though I am not into animation movie, but I think this is a great movie to watch because it makes me think of the importance of family especially in the scene where Princess Merida teaches her Mother, Queen Elinor to catch a fish by the river after she turned into a giant bear.

 

Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa

Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa tells the story of the title character, and how he came into his own kingdom, the Kingdom of Langkasuka. It started out with an anecdote, between the Chinese and the Romans went through India straight to Siam, Kedah, Langkasuka and then to Geruoda Island. It is told in the story form by one of his descendants.

Stephen Rahman Hughes

It is so far quite an enjoyable movie to watch but not really my type though. The movie feels more like a mixture of “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Lord of the Rings”. But there are some tiny minute details of the movie that bothered me and brought the movie down a couple of pegs.

Stephen Rahman Hughes has the most on-screen role. He is nice looking and he has nice physique. The only thing that I dislike is his Malay delivery was quite bad, and he spoke Malay all the time. But he is my favourite actor in this movie though. I would rate Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa 6 out of 10.