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Why must you tell THIS story? What’s the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That’s the heart of it. She's right. We've been wasting out l

Why must you tell THIS story? What’s the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That’s the heart of it. She's right. We've been wasting out lives. Aw, To hell with cartoons. I'm going to do what I always dreamed of -- I'm going to write that sitcom about the sassy tropical fish. Seriously, guys. They're well-crafted kids movies with predictably intervaled adult jokes inserted as a sop to the parents. The advice ranges from the sophomoric to the nattily aphoristic, but I can't see much that can be applied in a practical sense. "Make it better" sums it up just as usefully.

vacri 11y ago
There are plenty of deeper adult themes in Pixar movies, not just sops; classifying them as 'kids movies' is a mistake.
olalonde 11y ago
I found this particular point a bit strange as well. We have the same kind of rule in startup land (e.g. "only work on a problem you are truly passionate about") but there are plenty of just fine and successful startups which solve relatively boring/uninspiring problems.
greggman 11y ago
That really spends on the movie. I don't feel like Ratatouille is really a kids movie nor is The Incredibles. I'd even argue Toy Story and Toy Story 2 are pretty adult. I could certainly relate to Woody's feeling scared of the shiny new hire (TS1) or his being lured to probably the wrong job (TS2). Up seems like an adult movie with stuff added for kids vs the opposite. So did Wall.E IMO. Lots of parents found Saving Nemo very close to their hearts (not a parent so not one of my favs). Cars, on the other hand ......
pavlov 11y ago
I'm not a huge fan of Pixar either, they're always so by-the-book -- just like these storytelling rules here. Even Disney in the '60s was taking much larger risks in feature animation. The weird thing about some of Pixar's better movies is that there seems to be a lovely short film at the core, and then it's wrapped into a forgettable Saturday-morning plot to pad out the feature length. Wall-E and Up come to mind as particular examples.

vacri 11y ago

There are plenty of deeper adult themes in Pixar movies, not just sops; classifying them as 'kids movies' is a mistake.

olalonde 11y ago

I found this particular point a bit strange as well. We have the same kind of rule in startup land (e.g. "only work on a problem you are truly passionate about") but there are plenty of just fine and successful startups which solve relatively boring/uninspiring problems.

greggman 11y ago

That really spends on the movie. I don't feel like Ratatouille is really a kids movie nor is The Incredibles. I'd even argue Toy Story and Toy Story 2 are pretty adult. I could certainly relate to Woody's feeling scared of the shiny new hire (TS1) or his being lured to probably the wrong job (TS2). Up seems like an adult movie with stuff added for kids vs the opposite. So did Wall.E IMO. Lots of parents found Saving Nemo very close to their hearts (not a parent so not one of my favs). Cars, on the other hand ......

pavlov 11y ago

I'm not a huge fan of Pixar either, they're always so by-the-book -- just like these storytelling rules here. Even Disney in the '60s was taking much larger risks in feature animation. The weird thing about some of Pixar's better movies is that there seems to be a lovely short film at the core, and then it's wrapped into a forgettable Saturday-morning plot to pad out the feature length. Wall-E and Up come to mind as particular examples.