Saturday, May 30, 2009

The Pixar way of making movies.

The best I can tell Pixar makes its movies backwards from how every other movie creator does. Pixar seems to start with the morals they want to push and then they create a plot around those morals. And I have to give them mad props, because it's not easy to stand for.. well.. ANYTHING in this day in age, even more so as a movie company.

I have for a long time believed that the content of a movie does not matter nearly as much as the morals and world view that the movie is pushing. And even then as long as you know what you believe and why you believe it, it shouldn't matter. I mean I'm not going to like it or most likely watch it again if I can't bet behind the moral or world view it is pushing, but I'm not going to be jacked up for life by watching a movie that didn't agree with the christian world view.

Take Disney... no really, take it out back and put it down. The morals seem to be very last sec. and tacked on. And then most of the time those morals and world view sucks hard core. Christian parents seem to have no problem letting their kids watch all of them tho because it's "clean" and is warm and fuzzy. I would rather let my kids watch a movie full of sin (when they were in their teens) but pushed self sacrifice/selflessness then let my kids watch the little mermaid, EVER.

Toy Story 1:
You may have to get over the fact that you are not a super hero, but you have the power to over come evil.

A bugs life:
Do not be oppressed. Be a free thinker and work together to over power the man.

Toy Story 2:
It is better to love and loss then never love at all.

Monsters, Inc.:
HEY USA, stop being inhuman monsters to get the resources that you need. (Oil/Power) And the people's lifes who we mess up to get what we need, are not super evil monsters who will kill us, they are people just like us who have the same rights we do. (Even ending with torchering to get what we need.)

Finding Nemo:
You can't control everything, and can't stop bad things from happening, but live your life to it's fullest anyways.

The Incredibles:
"When everyone becomes super, no one will be." The idea that everyone is special regardless of how bland they really are and how the idea stops us from celebrating the truly special people.

Cars:
Slow down and enjoy life.

Ratatouille:
Be recklessly creative.

WALL-E:
Mass consumerism will consume us and bring us to a zombie like state of a meaningless life. Return to a simpler way of life where you work for your self and others, instead of being served to death.

UP:
The real adventure is in the seemingly ordinary things in life spent with your loved ones.


The only thing that matters to Pixar is coming up with the moral they want to push, after that the plot could be about almost anything. And they are darn clever at it as well. Early teaser trailers for WALL-E would make you think the movie was about robots. No, the movie was about the moral, they just happened to use robots and super lazy humans to push the real plot. As long as they keep on making movies backwards like this they will keep on being super great. When they start caring more about retarded marketing or just trying to follow formulas like most other movie companies do then they will stop being so awesome.

Pixar is like a mix of old school Disney (back when they were worth anything), mixed with Studio Ghibli all in breath taking eye candy CG.

Take Care Guys, And God Bless you.

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