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I found a page with some polite language on the phone in Spanish.
The "¿Bueno?" you see at the beginning is maybe understood by any Spanish speaker, but it seems it's mostly used in Mexico. In other Latin American countries they say "¿Aló?". In Spain they use "¿Dígame?" or ¿Diga?".


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Empower consumers to co-create the advertising content they are exposed to. No more ad noise in our lives. Simply sustainable value added.
For decades we have been inundated by mass marketing content that creates much more annoying noises in our lives than value.
What happens when consumers in the uprising of the mobile Internet era turn traditional marketing around by crowd-sourcing advertising content creation and aggregating consumer demand in near real time?
What would the implications be on our economy?
Would brands discover high-value marketing insight to create growth without pushing unwanted noise in consumers' lives?
What would be the implications of this new form of digital collaboration among consumers and brands on our environment?
Could it lead to a greater societal wealth?
Nov 30 2013: In the past, advertising and communication 1-dimensional nature. But today we are experiencing a major revolution in the advertising industry. With the trend of the media, entertainment increasingly diverse, advertisers must now available anytime, anywhere, 24/7, 365 days, whenever customers need. Advertising doesn't face of customer that is a tool to help create a better world . The most important thing is to create brand engagement with customers. Companies are innovating to find new ways to help customers associated with their brands. However, creativity is not the ultimate goal, but the ultimate goal is to provide a better life ...Nov 28 2013: Arsene, If this conversation ends this week, maybe we should continue through our own blog or something. All in the spirit of the Cluetrain Manifesto (http://www.cluetrain.com/book/95-theses.html).
About a month ago, a former colleague of mine who now works with Gartner as a BI analyst, challenged me and others to write a short story on how societies will be affected by (big) data in 10 to 15 years from now.
Here's what I sent him: http://ikvraagjewat.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/The-Purpose-Era.pdf
I am sure you will recognize a thing or two. I am currently working on a short analysis of developments which will, in my opinion, lead up to a future like this.
One more nice read:
Have a great day,
Jan Willem
Nov 28 2013: Hi Jan Willem,
This conversation ends on Dec 4th, next Wednesday. Let's hope to keep on sharing very constructive content by then, as you just did. We can most definitely explore ways to keep exchanging after this deadline. It's a fascinating subject in my view. When we envision the future implications, it's difficult not to feel a sense of purpose to move thought and actions forward on this.
Thank you for making me aware of the Cluetrain Manifesto. I will definitely read it with a lot of interest since "the human voice is unmistakably genuine" has been a driving principle of my entrepreneurial actions in the startup ideas I have operationalize as well as in my marketing activities at larger companies. Actually, I have done some interesting experiments to tear down the walls of the traditional "corporate voice", and create a direct, real-time conversation among target consumers and what becomes a "connected brand" entity.
The results were very encouraging. I used different information formats: text, image, video, and voice. The engagement metrics were through the roof. The key is to find large enough distribution channels (that can potentially scale on their own through social amplification) to reach an order of magnitude that disrupts traditional unilateral marketing communications.
There is a lot of hope in that perspective. There is a new breed of social startups that have recently gained access to funding to illuminate the social sphere of influence, and the power of organic amplification that comes with it.
Still along those human lines, the E2E movement. E2E for "end to end" consumer experience, fusion of software and people (see: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131114195950-58666-airbnb-redfin-uber-and-the-rise-of-the-e2e-movement?_mSplash=1).
With these trends in motion, I am confident that the consumer collectives are on their way to a promising future. Your article is spot on...
[to be continued]Nov 28 2013: To build on the subject of big data that drives a lot of your thinking in your article, a few days ago, I also published a little something on the subject. It's called "Big data bot on a human diet". If this is of interest to you, it's on my amateur blog at http://vizxxi.blogspot.com, I'd value your thoughts.
Last but not least, it's quite intriguing to me that the last article you mention is about a very recent interview of Nilofer Merchant who wrote in The New How that, "Permission to innovate without asking happens when the strategy is co-owned".
A few years ago, as I was starting on a first co-creation venture, I had the pleasure of exchanging ideas with her on the subject as the community of Wshers we were developing had the purpose to "co-own the strategy" of their target connected brands.
Let's connect the unconnected, let's experience the promises of our fluid society (http://vizxxi.blogspot.com/2012/02/our-fluid-society.html).Nov 27 2013: Excellent idea Arsene, I have had similar thoughts myself. But I think it is more than just advertising, it's about balancing the power between supply and demand in general. Integrating ethical and moral values with economic transactions. I am convinced the future of western societies lies in those kinds of ideas. Especially in a globalizing world.
See also Charles Leadbeater: http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_innovation.html
Nov 27 2013: Hi Jan,
Excellent Talk by Charles Leadbeater. Thank you for sharing!
I think Sophie-Charlotte on this thread should be interested in watching Charles' talk. He answers a question she posed that I had voluntarily not answered yet.
Also, if you are interested, we should talk. You are absolutely right, the broader idea is about open innovation and co-creation (collaborative innovation as Charles puts it). It applies to many industries, not just advertising.
Happy to share some of my real life example as I executed a few years ago on an idea that I had when I was 12-year-old. This idea that TED published actually :)Nov 15 2013: TED friends: I thought I would share this talk for our conversation. It looks very relevant in my opinion.
How could we humanize this "filtering bot"?
Yoka Feng
Nov 11 2013: As a matter of fact, I know one thing is of much debate.What exacly is noise? For example,I like some music very much, but for my mother it's only some noise.We often argue about it. And I think good advertisement should be designed with the combination of audio,visual and physical feelings. Do you mean to mute all the advertisement to make people's consuming habits affected by the new forms of propaganda? It sounds interesting.
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Nov 11 2013: Hi Yoka,
This is an excellent point. We all have our own, personal definition of noise...
Can we imagine new media where we are much less likely to be exposed to what we perceive as noise?
We may not need to block everything from reaching our eyes and ears. Beyond content that we consume for entertainment or knowledge, what if the advertising content became something of high value to us.
What if, every time we form the desire to find a product or service that solves something of meaning in our life, at this point in time, we could be exposed to real time information that would help us acquire this solution, ideally, in the terms of interest to us (price, shape, mode of delivery etc...).
To some extent, search engine were pioneers in that sense, but there is still a lot of noise when conducting web searches, it takes us quite a few attempts and quite some time to get to something, and often times, we do have to compromise, we do not really find what we really need, or want.
A bit off topic, but I'd also like to build on your comment "good advertisement should be designed with the combination of audio, visual and physical feelings".
Do you think that in the future, even through the digital streams of the mobile internet, we will be able to make the "good advertisement" resonate with more of our senses?
I am interested in new forms of electronics, I know for a fact that there already are early prototypes of olfactory sensors for example. There are other experiments on creating texture and shapes.
What would the experience be like if one day, all of our senses could resonate with new forms of personalized advertising content?
Nov 29 2013: Hi,Arsene,
I see your desire on exploring the ideal status of services from all kinds of advertisement now. I think you want to develop a characteristic-oriented electronic advertisement filtering method. That could be effective and convenient for some busy and lazy people. But still if it's too personalized, maybe our personal information and inclination that related to our privacy would be collected and I'm afraid we would have to lose a lot of privacy and safety due to some possible cyber violations. I'm with the idea to develop a humane way of letting people filter advertisement by themselves instead of providing filtered messages based on collecting people's personal information.
Lejan .
Nov 11 2013: How could any product advertising add sustainable value to consumers? This idea is contradictory in itself, as the informational content transferred is neither meant nor expected to deliver much if any useful information about products and services.
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On this topic I actually love to have my add-blockers and pop-up killers installed to be as noiseless as possible on my way through the Internet and to cut off all the 'buy me, buy me, buy me' pseudo-values as I go. This is true value to me as a consumer and when I am going to 'consume' something, any manufacturer is actually the last I would consider to ask about the advantages of their products. How could they not manipulate me in their favor?
And if your idea contains also consumer co-created and shared advertising ban-lists to upgrade each others first line of add-block defense, I would go for this shared value as well and participate right away.
Nov 11 2013: Hi Lejan,
What if us, consumers, could turn around the way we are being advertised.
As opposed to manufacturers pushing to us their "manipulated message", as you put it in your great comment, what if we were the ones to express what we are looking for, and team up with other consumers interested in the same product or services?
Do you think the power of us, consumers, could be strong enough to get manufacturers of products or providers of services to deliver what we want and nothing else - no more noise?Nov 9 2013: That's kind and healthy,nice idea.But I don't count on too much about no annoying noises advertisement environment.as long as there is advertisement we want to have,not everyone feels comfortable to accept them all.So I meant when our products don't need any advertisement anymore,annoying noises of advertisement disappears automatically:)
Nov 11 2013: That's an interesting point. When there is a new product or service of interest to us, wouldn't we want to become aware of it?
As long as what the product or service does is in resonance with something we need or want, would we still perceive the advertising content as noise?
Are there new collaborative interactions, among consumers and brands, to communicate in much more mutually beneficial ways?
Ways where consumers are exposed to products and services they really need or want, and at the same time, ways that avoid the huge waste in marketing spend for brands who are still using poorly targeting media.Nov 6 2013: I love the idea of co-creation, but aside from a small fan base, it seems like a lot to ask of consumers. How to solve for that?
Nov 7 2013: Hi Sophie-Charlotte,
I'll be happy to share quite a few real life experiences on this as well as new ideas. First, let's see if other members of the TED community could share their thoughts on this great point.Nov 27 2013: Hi Sophie-Charlotte,
Jan shared interesting information that partly answers your question.
Specifically, you may want to have a look at this TED Talk by Charles Leadbeater: http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_innovation.html
Cheers!Nov 5 2013: I love the idea! Companies like Trustee are trying to do that in a way. What's your take on their offering?
Nov 5 2013: Hi Sophie-Charlotte,
Thank you for being the first to join this conversation.
Truste seems to have an interesting offering. Specifically, I see they have an ad service that relates more closely to the idea we are discussing here when compared to their other services.
The way they market this service is "better behavorial targeting" and therefore results. This is not something radically changing the way consumers and brands interact to uncover new, sustainable value.
For years, marketers have used behavioral targeting by inferring which future behaviors consumers may have based on past behaviors. The issue here, in my marketing experience, is still the inference.
Regardless of how sophisticated the set of behavioral data may be and how sharp the marketing targeting decisions may be, the mere fact of relying on the past to predict the future introduces a big value gap when compared to real time consumer desire.
There are quite a few behavioral targeting offerings out there, retargeting being one that has seen some momentum lately. They all have their relative effectiveness in terms of meeting the brands' marketing objectives. Nonetheless, at least for what I have seen in various industries, the result metrics could be much improved and so are the related marketing budgets, and to another extent, the impact on our environment.
Exploring how we could unleash consumers' real time consumption desire to better illuminate down funnel decision making dynamics could result in much stronger marketing returns on investment.
All in all, building consumer trust and moving towards greater privacy considerations is clearly the way to go. But I believe both consumers and brands could mutually benefit from new forms of real time digital co-creation.
Could we find other nascent startups venturing in that promising space?Nov 29 2013: That is a great story Arsene! Thanks for sharing. I will try to contact you soon. My Skype handle: jan.willem.ebbinge
Now first I will take a look at the Twitter and Facebook pages you mentioned. Very inspiring!
I will get back with a reaction
Jan WillemNov 28 2013: Thanks Arsene, I have some reading to do.
Still, I am curious about the recent startups you mention about "social sphere of influence, and the power of organic amplification that comes with it.". Can you give some examples?
And didn't you mention an idea that you had? About a vision or a plan you had when you were 12? Enlighten me! :-)
Nov 28 2013: Hi Jan Willem,
As a starting point, I would look at:
> Linqia http://www.linqia.com/
> Traackr http://traackr.com/
I am acquainted with their founders and happy to make a connection. This space is evolving so fast that many months later, I am sure there are a bunch of competitors that I am not even aware of. Could be worth researching.
Regarding the vision I had when I was 12 that took me quite some time to execute on. I can write a novel about it. Actually, I had kept a blog on blogger that depicted our adventure in a detailed way (the blog was part of the influence strategy obviously). Unfortunately, it was on blogger and it's gone apparently.
But, without writing a novel, I can give you the highlights and I am happy to speak on Skype (arsenucciu) if you want more details.
I was 12 years old, on a bus in Cezanne country. It was early in the morning and I was not that happy to be awake this early to go to high school for the first time in Aix-en-Provence, the "big city" nearby my Provence village.
Mornings don't bode well with me :)
Even less, when the music on the bus radio was constantly interrupted with irrelevant ads. They were creating so much unwanted noises in these grumpy mornings, that I thought there had to be a better way for advertisers to reach their target market. I couldn't understand how some sort of return on investment could be possible. They were losing, and I thought we were losing big time as consumers.
Then, same thing on TV. Then, later on, even today, push ads on the web are nonsense most of the time (even retargeting).
Back in 2006, I thought we could disrupt that with mobile. As a wireless engineer who had purposely deviated into marketing early on to try to figure out a way to act on the idea I had had a few decades before on the bus, I thought that we could deliver tailored ads on mobile that would immensely resonate with us, consumers, and unravel the untapped potential of distance in the marketing mix../..Nov 28 2013: ../.. It was pre-iPhone and I thought creating an electronic coupon paltform that would deliver location-based ads had potential.
However, as a blinded, reality distortion animated entrepreneur, I knew that I needed to challenge my intuitions. I embarked on an mba program in Boston suited for entrepreneurs. Studying there, I realized that I didn't want to create a startup that would be tracking too many "big personal data" on consumers. Therefore, I morphed the nascent Mgem concept into WishaDeal. A crowd-sourced deal discovery and consumer demand aggregation app that would create a powershift towards "consumer collectives" as you call them in your article.
Although I was already passionate about the concept of open innovation (I had experienced it early on in my life at my family's business, not too far from your country) and was hoping to create new products from crowd-sourced ideation to market penetration (since by illuminating the demand upfront you tremendously reduce R&D risks), I thought focusing on deal creation for stay-at-home and work-at-home moms could be an interesting start.
Therefore, I started engaging with hashtags #sahm and #wahm on Twitter (respectively stay-at-home-mom and work-at-home-mom). Scaling the following to over 5,000 (Twitter page still there at https://twitter.com/wishadeal). I thought this would be a great way to connect at no cost to mom influencers in the blogging sphere to amplify our value proposition throughout the social networks.
But it was not enough.
Then, I started to engage the same target audience on Facebook (www.facebook.com/NeoWisher) and was using co-creation to not only develop our community site (WishaDeal.com at the time) and develop community leaders. For that, I used real-time collaboration tools and engaged my community leaders to even co-create our own social currency, "the kishes".../....Nov 28 2013: .../... "the kishes".
Kishes are like bitcoins in a way, except that their value in the beginning was purely inspirational, aligned with the vision. The ambitious idea to disrupt traditional HR was to quantify every value added behavior in the community (creation of new deals, sharing, all facets of value creation actually) and empower remote talents, distributed anywhere in the world (mostly U.S. actually, because I had planted a social seed in the U.S., a few in Canada too by the way) to engage in these behavior on our open platform.
This way, from this co-creation platform, we could see emerge the leaders and give them the reins of the startup. We had even managed to have community leaders take on key social responsibilities like leading facebook engagement as an example. I just made them administrator of our facebook page.
We used a game dynamics to design an environment of relentless creativity, although we could only reward the early wishers with the inspirational "kishes" of our vision.
As demand aggregation shaped up, we were contacting the "targeted brands" to negotiate a business deal. Note that the deal could be a premium deal because we would request something unique. Something that we wishers wished to pay a premium for because it filled an unmet need in our lives.
Well, that's already a novel, if you want to know more, we can speak :)Nov 27 2013: Hi Arsene,
we should definitely talk!
Curious about your example, and I have a thing or two to share as well.
Not much time right now, but let's keep in touch
Jan Willem
Nov 27 2013: Sure!
Let's connect on LinkedIn to coordinate a talk.
I am at http://www.linkedin.com/in/mobilegem
I'll be sharing on this conversation too before it ends next week.


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Explore Jango Fett's apartment, and you'll find some Legos to put together.
The Official Star Wars Lego web site provides a few images.
One review explains more about the scene in Jango Fett's apartment on Kamino.
Find some bricks scattered on the floor of Jango Fett's house, and you can rearrange them to form a portrait of the bounty hunter himself – then fiddle with them again to show a picture of a clone trooper. Nice touches like this alone make the game worth playing.
Still, it's virtually a must-play just for the fun of seeing little Lego characters miming out the best bits of the films. There's something about seeing Jango Fett run away on little stubby legs that Jedi Knight and KOTOR 2 just can't match.
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Brave is a 2012 American 3D CGI computer-animated adventure fantasy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It was written by Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell, Brenda Chapman and Irene Mecchi, and directed by Andrews and Chapman and co-directed by Purcell. It is Pixar's 13th animated feature film. The film's voice cast features Kelly Macdonald, Julie Walters, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson and Robbie Coltrane. To make the most complex visuals possible, Pixar completely rewrote their animation system for the first time in 25 years. It is the first film to use the Dolby Atmos sound format. This was the 10th film to not use an sequel or prequel since Up.
In the film, set in the Scottish Highlands during the Medieval period, a skilled archer named Merida defies an age-old custom, causing chaos in her kingdom and angering her mother, Elinor. After consulting a witch for help, Merida accidentally curses her mother and is forced to undo the spell herself before it is too late. Brave premiered on June 10, 2012, at the Seattle International Film Festival, and was released in North America on June 22, 2012, to both positive reviews and box office success.
Brave received mostly positive reviews, the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film. The film (controversially) won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film up against other Disney animated films such as Wreck-It Ralph and Frankenweenie.
Preceding the film is a short film entitled La Luna, directed by Enrico Casarosa.
The movie takes place in 10th century Scotland. Princess Merida is an incredibly skilled archer living in the Scottish kingdom of DunBroch with her mother Queen Elinor, and her father King Fergus. On Merida's sixth birthday, King Fergus gives Merida a shortbow and arrow as a birthday present. After retrieving an arrow accidentally fired into the woods, where Merida sees some Will o' the Wisps, Merida's family is attacked by an ancient bear, Mor'du. Elinor and Merida flee, while Fergus and his men stay behind to battle the bear. The story cuts to around ten years later, when we learn that Fergus lost his left leg during the battle with Mor'du and has vowed to find Mor'du again and avenge his leg.
Ten years later, despite Elinor's intention of having sixteen-year old Merida become a proper, royal, ladylike princess, Merida is determined to seek freedom and live her own life. One day, the Lords Macintosh, MacGuffin and Dingwall arrive to present their sons for Merida's betrothal. After an argument, all three armies get into a brawl, which Elinor stops. She states that the challenge which the first-born of each clan would compete in would be decided by the fair maiden. Merida, hearing this, believes that the idea of the contestants being first-born is a loophole, so Merida chooses archery. The first two contestants lack skill, and Lord Dingwall's son wins by fortunate mishap. Merida then steps forward with her bow and claims that she represents her clan as first-born and will be shooting to claim herself. Despite Elinor's objections, she shoots all three bull's-eyes, even splitting Dingwall's son's arrow, supposedly winning the contest.
Merida and Elinor have a falling out, with Elinor claiming Merida will still have to choose a suitor. Merida slashes the family tapestry in anger and Elinor throws Merida's bow into the fireplace. Merida runs away on her horse in tears as Elinor quickly retrieves the bow from the fire in regret. Merida again comes across Will O' the Wisps, small blue fairies that are said to lead you to your fate. Merida follows a trail of them to an old hut, where she finds a witch who claims she is nothing but a humble woodcarver because her last customers had some objections to her spells. The witch says she won't help Merida unless she buys a wood carving; in response, Merida buys the lot, trading for a necklace, but says she wants a spell that will change her fate as well. Merida asks for a spell that would change her mother, which she assumes will change her fate. The witch conjures a tart for Merida to give to her mother. On Merida's way out, the witch thinks she forgot to tell Merida something about the spell, but she and her cottage disappear when Merida turns around to ask what the witch was saying.
Back in DunBroch, Fergus is entertaining the lords, while Merida finds Elinor who was worried. After a brief conversation, Merida presents the tart to her mother, who takes a bite and immediately feels sick. Merida takes Elinor up to her room, where she rolls off her bed and Merida discovers that her mother has transformed into a bear. Fergus, downstairs in the hall, smells a bear, and he leads the lords upstairs. Merida and Elinor, with the help of her the young princes Harris, Hubert and Hamish, manage to escape the castle without Fergus finding them, and she and her mother retreat into the forest back to the witches cottage. The witch isn't present, but there is a cauldron where the witch appears and has left a cryptic message for Merida. She tells Merida that by the second sunrise the spell would be permanent unless Merida can repair a bond. Merida and her mother exit the cottage and find shelter for the night, wondering how they'll be able to fix the curse.
In the morning, Elinor has set out a breakfast of some found berries, which turn out to be poisonous, and some dirty water. Merida finds a river and takes the time to teach her mother how to catch fish. The two bond, seeing different sides of each other. While in the forest, Elinor suddenly acts as if she's about to attack Merida, but soon recovers as Merida remarks that her mother is turning into a true bear. They then come across some wisps and are lead to the ruins of an old castle. Merida falls down a pit into an old throne room which she realizes is the palace of the four brothers from Elinor's story. She finds an old stone engraved with the four brothers, but finds a part with a brother had been cut off, as when Merida had cut the tapestry of her own family earlier. She realizes that the curse has happened before, and that the brother who'd gone on his own path is now Mor'du. Then Merida is attacked by Mor'du who lives in the ruins, but with the help of her mother she escapes.
Merida realizes Elinor will become just like Mor'du, like a real bear, if they don't break the spell. They travel back to DunBroch to sew the family tapestry back together, thinking that will break the spell. To get Elinor upstairs without being seen, Merida distracts her father and the lords who are fighting and thinking of starting war on each other. From the back fo the room, unseen, Bear Elinor uses makeshift sign language to help Merida give a speech that brings the kingdoms back together, in which she states that her mother had rewritten the ways of the kingdoms, that both she and the sons could marry whoever they wanted. Everyone rejoices and travels outside, leaving Merida and Elinor to make it up to the tapestry room. While trying to sew the tapestry, Fergus goes into his room and finds Elinor's ripped clothes and broken bed when she'd turned into a bear. Fergus, believing Elinor has been murdered, bursts into the tapestry room to tell Merida the news and finds Merida and Bear Elinor. Elinor assumes the disposition of a bear and fights with Fergus.
Merida tries to convince Fergus that the bear is his wife, Elinor, but Fergus says Merida is talking nonsense and locks her in the tapestry room to protect her. Fergus then sets off with the lords to capture Elinor, while Merida is stuck in the tapestry room. Then she finds that her younger brothers have also been turned into bear cubs from taking bites of the tart. Merida asks them to retrieve the key from their nursemaid Maudie, who has the key . The three retrieve the key and free their sister.
All four ride on Angus while Merida sews the tapestry. They follow wisps to where Fergus has captured Elinor and tied her up. Fergus attempts to slay the bear, but Merida defends Elinor by fighting off Fergus, who still doesn't believe Merida. Then Mor'du encounters Merida, and fights off Fergus and all the other soldiers who attempt to kill him. He then lunges for Merida but is fought off by Elinor who breaks free of the ropes. Mor'du and Elinor duel each other until Elinor smashes Mor'du into a rock, but wounds Elinor in the process. Mor'du gets up and is about to attack Merida when a standing stone falls on top of him and he dies. Merida sees a wisp emerge from Mor'du's body; it apparates as the brother that had become the bear before fading away.
Then Merida rushes over to Elinor, and puts the sewn tapestry on top of the bear. When the sun rises and Elinor doesn't turn back into human form, Merida throws herself around Elinor and reconciles, apologizing for what she had done and telling her mother that she loves her. When the sun rises, Merida finds that Elinor is back in human form, and they both hug. The clans settle their arguments and they go their separate ways. Meanwhile, Merida and Elinor ride out on their horses around Scotland, making their mother-daughter bond even stronger.
In the post-credits scene, the witch's crow and magic broom deliver the wood carvings to the castle, asking a stunned guard to sign the delivery note.
Voice cast
- Kelly Macdonald as Princess Merida, a princess who wants to break with tradition regarding marriage.
- Peigi Barker as Young Merida
- Julie Walters as The Witch, a crafty woodcarver.
- Emma Thompson as Queen Elinor, Merida's mother.
- Billy Connolly as King Fergus, Merida's father.
- Kevin McKidd as Lord MacGuffin/Lord's son Young MacGuffin.
- Craig Ferguson as Lord Macintosh
- Robbie Coltrane as Lord Dingwall
- Steven Cree as Young Macintosh
- Callum O'Neill as Wee Dingwall
- Sally Kinghorn and Eilidh Fraser as Maudie
- Steve Purcell as The Crow
- Patrick Doyle as Martin
- John Ratzenberger as Gordon
Non-Speaking Characters
- Clarence Nash as Mor'du, the film's main antagonist.
- Angus
- The Triplets (Harris, Hubert and Hamish)
- Huge Warrior
- The Three Brothers
- The Ancient King
- Will O' the Wisps (or Wisps for short)
Brave was first announced under the title of The Bear and the Bow. Other titles that had been considered include, among others The Bear King and his Daughter, Brave and the Bow and Bravehair. The film, Pixar's first fairy tale, is a combination of Brenda Chapman's love of stories by Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, as well as a reflection on raising her daughter.
The film departs from the traditional fairy tale storyline, neglecting the romance that has been associated with these stories. It focuses on the relationship between Merida and her mother Queen Elinor, which was inspired by Chapman's own relationship with her daughter.
Chapman was supposed to be the film's sole director and Pixar's first female director. It was later reported that Pixar had replaced Chapman with Mark Andrews. Both Andrews and Chapman are both credited as the movie's directors. Following his involvement as director, Andrews cleared away many magic elements to focus on the core story. Chapman later stated that her vision "came through in the film" and that she remains "very proud of the movie."
The film was initially set for release on June 15, 2012 but was later changed to June 22, 2012.
Although the production of the film started in 2008, Brenda Chapman had already begun work years earlier. As early as in 2006, several members of the crew made a research trip in Scotland. They made two trips to Scotland for the film, visiting the Eilean Donan and Dunnottar Castles, as well as the Callanish Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis, which inspired the circle of standing stones that appears in the film.
To reproduce the lush and texture look of the landscapes of the Highlands, Pixar animators and designers created around 350 custom brushes in Photoshop, so that they could layer different designs, patterns and shapes in layers to achieve a realistic and individual look to the environments.
Animators were introduced to the weapons used in the film in order to understand their working: some went into archery classes, while Andrews taught sword fighting to animators.
Originally, Reese Witherspoon was scheduled to voice Merida, but later she was unable to work on the film due to scheduling issues and was replaced by Kelly Macdonald as a result.
Celtic and Pictish design and patterns have been integrated as decoration throughout the film—on Merida's bow, on clothing, on walls—and added to natural elements like snowflakes, moss, and tree branches.
The original idea had 80% of the scenes taking place in the snow. In the final movie however, very few snow scenes remain.
Brave is rated PG by the MPAA for some scary action and rude humor, making it the third Pixar film to receive this rating, the first being The Incredibles, the second being Up and the fourth being Inside Out.
The film was initially set for release on June 15, 2012, but was later changed to June 22, 2012. On April 3, 2012, Pixar screened the first 30 minutes of the movie, and it received a positive reaction by its screeners. It had its Australian premiere on June 11, 2012, at the Sydney Film Festival, and had its domestic premiere on June 18, 2012, at the new Dolby Theatre in Hollywood as part of the Los Angeles Film Festival, its European premiere was at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicilly on June 23, 2012 and its British premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on June 30, 2012.
In the United States and Canada, Brave is the first feature-length film to use the Dolby Atmos sound format. Almost half of the 14 theaters set up to show the film in Atmos are in California (Burbank, Century City, Fremont, Hollywood, San Francisco and Sherman Oaks), with the others located in seven states (Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Kansas City, Missouri, Paramus, New Jersey, Las Vegas, Nevada, Chicago, West Plano, Texas, Vancouver, Washington) and in Toronto, Ontario. It was released in other theaters with Dolby Surround 7.1. In total, it was released in 4,164 theaters, a record-high for Pixar, which was previously held by Cars 2 (4,115 theaters). 2,790 of the theaters will include 3D shows.
Critical response
Brave has received mostly positive reviews from film critics,. On April 3, 2012, Pixar screened the first 30 minutes of the movie, and it received a positive reaction by the test audience.
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 78% of critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 6.9/10 based on 226 reviews. One consensus statement reads, "Brave offers young audiences and fairy tale fans a rousing, funny fantasy adventure with a distaff twist and surprising depth." Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 69 based on 37 reviews, or "Generally favorable."
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and wrote, "The good news is that the kids will probably love it, and the bad news is that parents will be disappointed if they're hoping for another Pixar groundbreaker." He said that the film had an uplifting message about improving communication between mothers and daughters.
Peter Debruge of Variety gave a positive review of the film, remarking that the film "offers a tougher, more self-reliant heroine for an era in which princes aren't so charming, set in a sumptuously detailed Scottish environment where her spirit blazes bright as her fiery red hair." Debruge also said that "Adding a female director [Brenda Chapman] to its creative boys' club, the studio has fashioned a resonant tribute to mother-daughter relationships that packs a level of poignancy on par with such beloved male-bonding classics as Finding Nemo."
Conversely, Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter said that the film "diminishes into a rather wee thing as it chugs along, with climactic drama that is both too conveniently wrapped up and hinges on magical elements that are somewhat confusing to boot."
The film score to Brave was composed by Patrick Doyle. To bring some of Scotland's native flavor to the music, Doyle used native Scottish instruments such as bagpipes, a solo fiddle, Celtic harps, flutes and the bodhrán, with an electronically treated dulcimer and cimbalom to give it a more contemporary feel. "I employed many classic Scottish dance rhythms such as reels, jigs, and strathspeys, which not only serve the action but keep it authentic," said Doyle. Doyle had also written a drinking song for King Fergus and was traveling back and forth to Scotland for research. The composer has also been recording "unaccompanied Gaelic psalm singing." In addition to Patrick Doyle's music, the film features three original songs. "Touch the Sky" (music by Alex Mandel, lyrics by Mark Andrews & Mandel) and "Into the Open Air" (music and lyrics by Alex Mandel) are both performed by Julie Fowlis. Mumford & Sons contributed the song "Learn Me Right" with Birdy to the film soundtrack.
Box office
As of January 17, 2013, the film had earned $237,283,207 in North America, and $298,100,000 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $535,379,132. Worldwide, it is the 21st highest-grossing animated film and the 91st highest-grossing film. It is also the seventh highest-grossing Pixar film, the third highest-grossing 2012 animated film in worldwide gross (behind Ice Age: Continental Drift and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted), and the eighth highest-grossing film of 2012.
In North America, pre-release tracking suggested the film would open between $55 million to $65 million in North America, which is slightly below average for a Pixar film. Trackers suggested that the film might not appeal to the male demographic, whereas the female protagonist was expected to draw females of all ages, and 3D was expected to boost earnings.
It opened on June 22, 2012, with $24.6 million. It finished its opening weekend with $66.3 million at the upper end of the numbers analysts predicted. This was the fourth-largest opening weekend in June and the fifth-largest for a Pixar film. Despite pre-release tracking indications, the audience was estimated to be 43% male and 57% female. In North America, it is the eighth highest-grossing Pixar film, the highest-grossing 2012 animated film, and the eighth highest-grossing film of 2012.
Outside North America, the film earned $14.0 million from 10 markets on its opening weekend, finishing in third place behind Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted and Snow White and the Huntsman. Overall, its largest openings occurred in France and the Maghreb region ($6.50 million), Mexico ($5.53 million), and Russia and the CIS ($5.37 million). In total earnings, its highest-grossing countries were the UK, Ireland and Malta ($34.9 million), France and the Maghreb region ($26.8 million), and Mexico ($21.6 million).
Home Media
- Main article: Brave (video)
Brave was released on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD, and digital download on November 13, 2012. It will be accompanied with La Luna and a new short film, The Legend of Mor'du. Exploring the history of antagonist Mor'du, the direct-to-video short will give fans the chance to delve deeper into the legend behind Mor'du, as told by the eccentric witch who transformed him.
Video game
A video game based on the film was published by Disney Interactive Studios on June 19, 2012, for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC and Nintendo DS. A mobile video game Temple Run: Brave, a Brave variation of Temple Run, was released on June 14, 2012, for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android. Also, Merida was a playable character in the game Disney INFINITY 2.0.
|85th Academy Awards
|Best Animated Feature
|Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
|Alliance of Women Film Journalists
|Best Animated Female
|Merida - Kelly Macdonald
|American Cinema Editors
|Best Edited Animated Feature Film
|Nicolas C. Smith, A.C.E.
|Annie Awards
|Best Animated Feature
|Animated Effects Feature Production
|Bill Watral, Chris Chapman, Dave Hale, Keith Klohn, Michael K. O'Brien
|Character Animation Feature Production
|Dan Nguyen
|Jaime Landes
|Travis Hathaway
|Music in an Animated Feature Production
|Patrick Doyle, Mark Andrews, Alex Mandel
|Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
|Steve Pilcher
|Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
|Kelly Macdonald as Merida
|Writing in an Animated Feature Production
|Brenda Chapman, Irene Mecchi, Mark Andrews and Steve Purcell
|Editorial in an Animated Feature Production
|Nicholas A. Smith, ACE, Robert Graham Jones, ACE, David Suther
|BAFTA Awards
|Best Animated Film
|Chicago Film Critics Association
|Best Animated Feature
|Cinema Audio Society
|Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures Animated
|Critics' Choice Awards
|Best Animated Feature
|Best Song
|Mumford & Sons and Birdy for Learn Me Right
|Golden Globe Awards
|Best Animated Feature Film
|Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
|Grammy Awards
|Best Song Written for Visual Media
|Mumford & Sons and Birdy for the song Learn Me Right
|Houston Film Critics Society
|Best Animated Film
|Best Original Song
|Learn Me Right
|Touch the Sky
|Online Film Critics Society
|Best Animated Feature
|Phoenix Film Critics Society
|Best Animated Film
|Producers Guild of America
|Animated Theatrical Motion Picture
|Katherine Sarafian
|San Diego Film Critics Society
|Best Animated Film
|Satellite Awards
|Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media
|Original Song
|Learn Me Right – Birdy and Mumford & Sons
|St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association
|Best Animated Film
|Toronto Film Critics Association
|Best Animated Feature
|Visual Effects Society
|Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
|Mark Andrews, Steve May, Katherine Sarafian, Bill Wise
|Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
|Travis Hathaway, Olivier Soares, Peter Sumanaseni, Brian Tindall
|Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
|Tim Best, Steve Pilcher, Inigo Quilez, Andy Whittock
|Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
|Chris Chapman, Dave Hale, Michael K. O'Brien, Bill Watral
|Washington DC Area Film Critics Association
|Best Animated Feature
|Women Film Critics Circle
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Possible Sequel
Scottish publication The Scotsman asked director Mark Andrews on the notion of a sequel. Andrews said, "I don't know if there will be another one. We never make a film at Pixar to have a sequel. It is always nice when you do and we kind of have a philosophy that if we find the right story then we will."
- This is the first Pixar movie to have a female protagonist, and it is Pixar's first fairy tale, the second will be Inside Out.
- Brave is set in the kingdom of DunBroch, during the 10th century.
- Brave is the first Pixar movie in which the villain has no dialogue.
- Mark Andrews confirmed that the Pizza Planet truck, as well as Pixar's other traditional Easter eggs will appear in Brave: "All the typical things, those little insider jokes are all in the movie." It was reported that Tia Kratter, art director of the film, has hinted during her presentation at the D23 Expo that the truck would be in the Witch's house.
- On Fridays, the animators had to wear kilts as part of their work routine.
- During the Brave Press Event (held April 3-5, 2012), it was stated that 111,394 storyboards were created for the film, compared to 80,000 for Cars 2 and 92,854 for Toy Story 3.
- There are more than 100 unique hair/facial hair combinations used in Brave for human characters and animals. Each variant can appear in any of nine different colors, creating more than 900 hairstyle/color variants.
- Brave's logo include a stylised representation of Merida in the "B" and of Queen Elinor in the "E."
- The end credits of the movie include a special tribute to Steve Jobs, who died on October 5, 2011 of pancreatic cancer.
- John Ratzenberger, having appeared in every Pixar film to date, was the only all-American voice actor in Brave; all other voice actors were British or Scottish.
- Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters (the respective voices for Lord Dingwall and the Witch) both appeared in the Harry Potter film series as Rubeus Hagrid and Molly Weasley, respectively, while Kelly Macdonald played the Gray Lady, and Emma Thompson portrayed Professor Trelawney.
- Brave is the third Pixar film in which any of its songs (in the body of the film) are sung by characters; Merida and her mother sing "Noble Maiden Fair", and King Fergus and other men sing "Song of Mor'du", the first being Toy Story 2 (in which a Woody puppet sings "You've Got a Friend in Me" on a television, and later, so does Wheezy with Barbie dolls in the background), and the second being Monsters, Inc. when, at one time, Mike and Sully sing part of "Put that Thing Back where It Came from (Or So Help Me)."
- The tapestry of Merida, Elinor, and Fergus is seen in car version in Cars 2.
- Brave is the first Pixar movie to have one of it's characters to be part of the Disney Princess line-up.
- Brave is the second PG-rated Disney Princess film, after Tangled and Frozen.
- Brave is the first Disney Princess film to not have its theme song in English.
External Links
- Brave on Disney.com
Media: Brave | The Legend of Mor'du | Soundtrack | Video Game | Little Golden Book | Ultimate Sticker Book | The Essential Guide | Temple Run: Brave | Songs and Story: Brave | The Art of Brave | Disney INFINITY | Disney INFINITY: 2.0 Edition | Once Upon a Time
Characters: Merida | King Fergus | Queen Elinor | Harris, Hubert and Hamish | Angus | Lord MacGuffin | Lord Macintosh | Lord Dingwall | Mor'du | Maudie | Young MacGuffin | Young Macintosh | Wee Dingwall | The Witch | The Crow | Will O' the Wisps | Martin | Gordon | The Ancient King | The Three Brothers | Clan DunBroch | Clan MacGuffin
Locations: Scotland | DunBroch | Castle DunBroch | Witch's Cottage
Songs: Touch the Sky | Into the Open Air | Learn Me Right | Song of Mor'du | Noble Maiden Fair (A Mhaighdean Bhan Uasal)
Objects: Merida's Bow | Ring of Stones
Media: Hidden Worlds
Characters: Chrona | Sez | Olive | Ember | Rusty | Nib | Blott | The Inklings
Locations: Inkspire | Olive's Island | Chrona's House
Worlds: Beauty and the Beast | Tangled | Aladdin | The Little Mermaid | Brave | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Peter Pan | Frozen


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