1. The filmmakers of Brave wanted to change the Cinderella Castle logo that shows at the beginning of every Disney movie into Castle DunBroch. They also considered adding a bagpipe to the Pixar logo.

2. The animators had to personally learn the choreography for the film's fight scenes. They practiced with each other until they became experts in how people move during fights.

3. Filmmakers decided to show Merida mucking Angus' stall herself, rather than having a stable hand do it for her. This was because they wanted to challenge audiences' expectations of what a "princess" should be.

4. Young MacGuffin's seemingly incomprehensible muttering is actually an authentic Scottish dialect called Doric. The voice actor was given his lines in plain English, and called his mother before recording so she could help translate them into Doric.

5. Instead of an archery contest to win Merida's hand, the script originally called for a haggis-tossing competition.

6. In the scene depicting Merida and Elinor's big fight, Emma Thompson (who voiced Elinor) shocked the directors by working herself into an intense motherly rage. She even ad-libbed the line, "There'll be fire and sword if it's not set right."

7. The movie originally depicted Elinor's transformation into a bear on-screen. The directors scrapped that shot because when Elinor started sprouting hair, they feared audiences might think she was turning into Fergus.

8. The script originally called for the triplets to distract Fergus using the shadow of a bear puppet being projected on the wall. They changed it because they thought a chicken on a stick would be funnier.

9. The scene where young Merida and Elinor were singing a lullaby was nearly cut due to the difficulty of animating Merida as a toddler. They eventually succeeded by scaling down the animation of teenage Merida and then making her features more youthful.

10. Early versions of the movie called for most of the movie to take place in the snow, due to the witch's spell affecting the whole land of DunBroch. Filmmakers scrapped this idea because they wanted to showcase the colours of the beautiful Scottish landscape. You can spot some of the deleted snowy shots in the film's trailer.

11. Filmmakers recorded children whispering to create the distinct sound of the Will O' the Wisps. They wanted something that sounded both cute and mysterious.

12. The script originally called for Queen Elinor to turn back and forth from a human to a bear during her fight with Mor'du.

13. When Mor'du dies, his soul becomes a Will O' the Wisp. The directors thought he should redeem himself by leading others towards their fate and away from the evil that consumed him during his lifetime.

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