Sarafian also admits the Calanais Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis had a big impact on Pixar. Yet after visiting Dunnottar Castle, a stunning structure set on jutting cliff-side rocks just south of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, the team decided to imitate its staggering surrounds by making DunBroch an outpost by the sea. Initially, Merida's DunBroch family castle was going to be set against a loch in the Highlands. Some of Scotland's landmarks proved so mesmerising for Pixar's Brave team, they actually ended up altering ideas they originally had for the movie to incorporate what they'd seen on their memorable trip. We worked really hard to bring the magic, beauty and ruggedness of Scotland to life in the film through our production design, sets and environments." "We brought everything back and spread it all out, loaded it into our computers. "We took photographs and video, sketched and wrote stories," says Sarafian.
This helped them capture the spirit of Scotland on film in a fashion that had never been attempted in cinema before.īrave producer Katherine Sarafian admits the team kept journals while staying in Scotland, which proved tremendously useful when they returned to California to begin work on the project. Taking in a breadth of Scottish events, from the iconic Highland games of the Braemar Gathering (that informed much of heroine's Merida's impressive archery skills) to eating haggis on the Royal Mile, Brave's animators fully steeped themselves in the local culture. And something like this, that’s bigger than all of us… You’re already on the same page.Where did Brave's animators visit on their Scottish tours? You’re growing together because you’re learning together. We even all slept out one night, under the stars together. "They were awesome with us, and so patient. "We did a really great boot camp, and some of the hotshots who worked with the real guys were our leaders," Kitsch told me. To get the actors ready to credibly portray such a difficult and technical job, Joseph Kosinski sent them on an extended training trip. "I’ve worked with some pretty intense stuff-but 20- or 30- or 40-foot fires, that’s no joke," says Kitsch. But Kitsch, along with the rest of the Only the Brave cast, got a quick education in the reality of life as a hotshot: everything from "water drops," in which massive tanks of water are dropped on a wildfire with enough pressure to destroy a house, to "burnouts," in which hotshots light controlled fires to interrupt a wildfire’s "fuel supply" and limit the spread.Īnd then, of course, there was the process of shooting a movie in the midst of massive, actual fires.
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