Brave

naught. [Merida mutters to herself] Fergus: Leave her be! Princess or not, learning to fight is essential.
 * [first lines; young princess Merida plays hide-and-seek with her mother]
 * Elinor: Where are you? Come out! Come out! Come on out! I'm coming to get you! [young Merida laughs as she hides under the table] Where are you, you little rascal? I'm coming to get you! [Elinor looks under the table but Merida quickly moves to hide somewhere else] Hmm. Where is my little Birthday girl, hm? I'm going to gobble her up when I find her! [Merida comes up behind Elinor and goes to run away but Elinor catches her] I'm going to eat you! [she pretends to eat Merida and they both laugh] [as Elinor and young Merida play, Fergus places his bow on the table] Ach! Fergus, no weapons on the table! [Merida runs towards the table]
 * Young Merida: Can I shoot an arrow? [she picks up the large bow from the table] Can I? Can I? Can I? Can I? Please, can I? [she falls and laughs as the bow is too big for her]
 * Fergus: Not with that. Why not use you very own? [he presents her with a small bow] [as Fergus teaches young Merida how to shoot with her bow, Merida misses the target] Now, there's a good girl. listen. Draw all the way back now to your cheek. That's right, keep both eyes open, and...boost. [Merida shoots and misses the target again]
 * Young Merida: I missed it.
 * Elinor: Go and fetch it, then. [as Merida runs off to fetch the bow, Elinor turns to Fergus] A bow, Fergus? She's a lady! [Fergus pinches Elinor's behind playfully and laughs] [as Merida seeks her missed arrow in the forest and finds it, something feels strange she turns and sees a floating blue light]
 * Young Merida: A Will O' the Wisp. [Merida runs towards it and tries to catch the wisp but it flies away] They are real. [Merida then sees a line of wisps and goes after them excitedly, Elinor calls out to her]
 * Elinor: Merida! Come on, sweetheart, we're leaving now... [Merida runs back towards her parents]
 * Young Merida: I saw a wisp! I saw a wisp!
 * Elinor: A wisp? You know, some say that Will O' the Wisps lead you to your fate.
 * Fergus: Oh, aye! Or an arrow! Come on, let's be off. Before we see a dancing charging bubu or a giant... [Fergus walks off and Elinor picks up Merida]
 * Elinor: Your father doesn't believe in magic.
 * Young Merida: Well he should, cause it's true. [suddenly huge black bear comes behind Elinor and Merida, making Merida scream with terror]
 * Fergus: Mor'du! Elinor, hide! [Elinor and Merida run off, one of Fergus' men passes a spear to him, Fergus charges towards Mor'du but he snaps off Fergus' spear, then we see Elinor and Merida escape on horseback, then Fergus holds up his sword at Mor'du and shouts] Come on, you! [suddenly Mor'du lunges forward and the screen goes blank]
 * Merida: [voice over] Some say our destiny is tied to the land, as much a part of us as we are of it. Others say fate is woven together like a cloth, so that one's destiny intertwines with many others. It's the one thing we search for, or fight to change. Some never find it. But there are some who are led. The story of how my father lost his leg to the demon bear, Mor'du, became legend. I became a sister to three new brothers, the princes. Hamish, Hubert and Harris. Wee devils more like. They get away with murder! I can never get away with anything! [we see Merida, now a teenager talking about her life, as the doors to the palace open we see Merida bitting into an apple and Elinor looking disappointed] I'm the princess. I'm the example. [Merida quickly discards the apple and wipes her mouth with the back of her hand and starts walking towards her parents] I've got duties, responsibilities, expectations. My whole life is planned out, until the day I become, well, my mother. She's in charge of every single day of my life. [we see Merida reciting a traditional English song in a monotone voice and looking bored]
 * Merida: A Robyn, jolly Robyn, and thou shalt knowe of myn.
 * Elinor: Project! [Merida projects her voice louder]
 * Merida: And thou shalt knowe of myn...
 * Elinor: Pronounciate! You must be understood from anywhere in the room, or it's all for
 * Merida: This is all for naught.
 * Elinor: I heard that! From the top. [we see Elinor teaching Merida geography] A princess must be knowledgeable about her kingdom. [she takes away the paper that Merida is writing on and holds it up] She doesn't make doodle! [we see Elinor teaching Merida how to play the lyre which sounds out of tune] That's a C, dear. [then we see Merida holding a bird with Fergus standing beside her, as Merida tries to feed the bird it flies off and attacks Fergus, Merida starts laughing as Fergus tries to fend off the bird] A princess does not chortle! [then we see Merida trying to stuff a big bite of chicken in her mouth at the dinner table] Doesn't stuff her gob! [then we see Elinor opening the curtains in Merida's room to wake Merida] Rises early... [then in the kitchen] Is compassionate... [then at the King's throne] Patient! [at the dining hall] Cautious! [in Merida's room] Clean! [then we see Elinor with Fergus walking passed Merida] And above all, a princess strives for...well, perfection! [we see Merida waking up, geting dressed, taking her bow and arrows, running downstairs to her horse, Angus, and riding off]
 * Merida: [voice over] But every once in a while, there's a day when I don't have to be a princess. No lessons, no expectations. A day where anything can happen. A day when I can change my fate. [we see Merida as she riding into the forest, shooting her arrows at different targets, then sitting near the cliff's edge and carves on her bow, then see climbs a rock and when she reaches the top she drinks from the waterfall nearby and the screams and jumps up and down in excitement] [as Merida finally returns to the castle, she jumps off Angus] I'm starving. You're hungry too, I guess. [Merida pats Angus and he strikes her with his tail] Poof! [then Merida enters the kitchen and is greeted by the kitchen staff, Merida then sneakes some food from the table and enters the dining hall, she goes and hears her father reciting his tale of his fight with Mor'du]
 * Fergus: From nowhere, the biggest bear you've ever seen! Its hide littered with the weapons of fallen warriors. Its face scarred with one dead eye. I threw my sword and...
 * Merida: Whoosh! One swipe, his sword shattered, then, chomp! Dad's leg was clean off! Down that monster's throat it went.
 * Fergus: Awwwwww! That's my favorite part!
 * Merida: Mor'du has never been seen since. And he's roaming the wild, awaiting his chance for revenge.
 * Fergus: Let him return, I'll finish what I gobbled in the first place. [Merida places her bow on the table]
 * Elinor: Merida, a princess does not place her weapons on the table.
 * Merida: Mom! It's just my bow.
 * Elinor: A princess should not have weaponry in my opinion.