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If you had a chance to change your fate, would you?
— Brave
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It poses the film's question straight to the audience: what would you do if you could rewrite your own life? In the story, Merida's answer is reckless, because she tries to change her fate by changing her mother, and the film's closing narration says that fate lives within us instead. As a standalone line it is used for new-start and rebellion posts, but it is promotional framing rather than something a character says on screen.
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In context
Spoilers for BraveShow the scene
This exact sentence does not appear in the film's transcript, so it reads as promotional or tagline wording built on Brave's central idea; Wikiquote lists the film's tagline as 'Change your fate.' In the film, Merida, a Scottish princess in a 10th-century Highlands kingdom, wants out of the marriage her mother Queen Elinor is arranging. She follows will-o'-the-wisps to a witch's cottage, buys every carving plus one spell, and asks for it to 'change my mom', hoping that will change her fate. The spell turns Elinor into a bear, and the rest of the film is Merida undoing it.
Sources (2)
- Brave script (Springfield! Springfield!)Opening narration; witch's cottage scene; closing narrationReference checked
- Wikiquote: Brave (2012 film)IntroductionReference checked
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