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It's older, but Brave walks the same line well too, both acknowledging that Merida's desire for freedom is understandable and valid, but that Queen Elinor has a whole hell of a lot of a point too when it comes to duty and responsibility. I was impressed by it when it came out and I'm still surprised it never really got popular.

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Brave is great. Same story, but its much better than Turning Red.

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Agreed. Brave is awesome. I also enjoy the dickens out of Zootopia (Da Chief is my spirit animal (I kid, I kid)).

I think that a sense of duty - this is your job, and you do it, and there is no special sticker for that - is perhaps missing from today's mindset.

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I think the problem with Brave is story structure - the world feels very cramped because we keep returning to the same locations over and over again. We're in the castle, now we're in the forest, now we're back at the castle, now we're back at the forest, now we're back at the castle. And the trailer made it seem like this epic story. So much of that movie is so well made but it's script doesn't do it favors.

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It's a female hero journey, not a male hero. Still epic, different structure.

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