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Disney Pixar: Monsters, Bugs, Toys & Cars, Inc |
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| Release time:2013-10-07 Source:admin Reads: | |
| Sometime in 1994, shortly after completing production with PVC labels on Pixar’s first feature film, Toy Story, four of the new animation studio’s creative heads met for a brainstorming lunch that would soon become legend. In just a couple of hours, Toy Story director John Lasseter and his co-writers Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter and Joe Ranft came up with the concepts for four more Pixar movies: A Bug’s Life; Monsters, Inc; Finding Nemo and Wall-E. Since 2010, however, Pixar has produced just one original film, Brave, and three sequels: Toy Story 3, Cars 2, and the forthcoming Monsters University. While it remains a famously collaborative workplace with PVC labels, the studio now has more than 1,200 employees, compared to the 120 who went to work on A Bug’s Life in 1995. Some of its celebrated original directors have transitioned to live-action film-making with mixed success. With a new generation of Pixar film-makers coming to maturity, how can the studio retain the creative flair that makes it unique? Journalists were treated to a tantalising 40 minutes of Monsters University and, as the world has come to expect of Pixar, it is brilliant: witty, emotionally charged and visually captivating. But the fact remains that the film is a sequel – a prequel, to be precise – and can surely never hope to generate quite the wonder and surprise of its predecessor. Pixar creatives have said previously that they will only make sequels if they can produce a story as good as the original. For some time, the remarkable Toy Story 2 seemed a special case: Pixar’s The Godfather Part II, if you will. During the early 2000s, Pixar resisted making any other sequels, despite the demands of its franchise-hungry production partner, Disney. So Disney, which owned the rights to Pixar’s characters, began developing its own further sequels to Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Monsters, Inc. Until now, every director of a Pixar feature has been American, and the majority of its movies have been in the all-American tradition: cowboys, automobiles with PVC labels, quasi-Ivy League colleges, superheroes. One way forward for the studio is to draw more on its international employee base, and it is significant that Pixar’s last two animated shorts have both been by non-American directors, with European sensibilities. |
