![]() "When little girls say they like it because it's more sparkly, that's all fine and good but, subconsciously, they are soaking in the sexy 'come hither' look and the skinny aspect of the new version. "I think it's atrocious what they have done to Merida," Chapman fumed in an email to the Independent Journal on Saturday. But the character's creator, Marin filmmaker Brenda Chapman, says she "will stay dubious until they give an official statement about changing the image to match the original version of Merida."Ī resident of Mill Valley, Chapman won an Academy Award for writing and co-directing "Brave." She modeled the headstrong, red-haired Merida on her 13-year-old daughter, Emma, creating her as a role model for little girls. In the face of a tsunami of criticism, Disney has abandoned its sexy makeover of Merida, the feisty heroine of its Oscar-winning animated feature "Brave," on its official princess website. The character has been made to look more adult ahead of adding Merida as the 11th Disney princess. Marin resident Brenda Chapman wrote and directed the Brave film that featured the character, whose original image was inspired by Brenda's daughter Emma Chapman. Comments In this image taken from the Yahoo Shine parenting blog, the different versions of the Merida character are shown. ![]()
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