Friday, 17 February 2012
R.I.P Pixar
Pixar started life with a humble $5,000,000 in 1986 under Steve Jobs, in un-gamourous territory... Making adverts for the likes of Tropicana. Until Disney saw something in the company and offered $26,000,000 for them to make three computer generated feature films and split profit with Disney, which later became the much loved Toy Story, Bugs Life and Monsters Inc. These were the first computer generated films, and paved the way to films like "Mars Mom"... Pixar's golden path, leads straight to a slaughter house for half baked ideas and money making schemes. Why am I telling you Pixar's humble beginnings, I hear you mumble in un-enthused monotone; Because, this is the story of how the fat cats ruined something beautiful. Pixar created the first perfect saga, the first 5* set of films. Godfather, let down by the third. Alien, tarnished by the sequels. Planet of the Apes, ruined by the conquest. Potter, beginning its life with two "good" films...to later make fantastic films.Toy Story retains its charm over ten years, over three instalments. All of which are made with love, imagination and passion. Disney always had involvement with Pixar, from out set; But in 2006 Disney bought Pixar and made their first real creative contribution with making Cars 2. As a lover of the first, a story of simple, honest life..I ventured to the cinema with the child like glee all the others had instilled in me, and a backpack filled with sweets on an industrial scale. When watching the un-funny joke, the linear storyline and James Bond sub-plot with dialogue more fitting to an awkward KFC advert.. I realised something, I was watching a kids films, not Pixar's usual films suited to any age group. Disney turned films great for kids into films only befitting to that group, and with it...An era ended. Pixar no longer exists, in its wake is something very different. Disney-Pixar, an insult to the late Steve Jobs' creation.
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