Pixar's Brave - Scene

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Homage to the old Robin Hood movies. The detail in the arrow's flex in her last shot is very nice.

[Wiregeek]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo!
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Sweno]

ooOOOOoo is right.

(also, looks like some wonderful character design)
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[Bob Schroeck]

Whoa. Gotta show that to Peggy tonight. It certainly looks like they used slow-motion footage of real archery for reference.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Rev Dark]

Someone spent a lot of time at the range.
The screw ups shown by the other archers are by the numbers - arrow drift, losing the rest, improper release, the works.
The technique they show her using is damn near perfect; draw, fixed draw-point under the ear; relaxed release, no plucking the string, nicely done.
And yes, arrows do just that when released.  Watch about 2 minutes in.  At 2:30 there is an amazing shot and some nice slow motion on the arrow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcNY2t0h-HE
My dvd of the Adventures of Robin Hood has some footage of Howard Hill - who is for my money the greatest archer of the last century.  Amazing stuff.  Simple longbow shooting with no special gear at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbCGoqk3 ... re=related

[classicdrogn]

Niiiiiice... and I can't help but like the attitude, too. Clearly the sort of princess who has not only escaped on her own but already has the dragon cowering away from a rolled-up proclamation by the time Dashing Shinysmile arrives.

- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

[Logan Darklighter]

Verra nice... 

I'm not any kind of expert at weapons or archery. Far from it. So I can't speak with the kind of authority that Rev does. But I've watched a few episodes of Mythbusters that featured slow-mo captures of arrows in flight. And damn if this doesn't look dead-on perfect, including the oscillation in-flight. 

EDIT:  Also - love the heroine, even from just this short clip. This is going to be a FUN movie. ^_^

[Bob Schroeck]

To expand on my earlier post -- I'm an (out of practice) archer, who shot for Princeton's (not quite official) archery team (it was a "club" and not considered part of the sports program) back in the day, and in the SCA for some years after that. And Rev is absolutely right. There is much reality there.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Star Ranger4]

Although what I liked best in the clip was the symbolic shredding of her bonds along with the too tight seams of her dress.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

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The Japanese trailer is up and it shows even more of the story.