The Cultural Work Of Pixar

How Marxist theory is presented in Disney/Pixar films, with a focus on Toy Story 3 and Wall-E.

Do you ever look at someone and wonder, "What is going on inside their head?" This is the first question asked in animated film, Inside Out, and its director Pete Docter’s mind after noticing his daughter’s personality changing as she grew up. Using his daughter as inspiration, Pete Docter pitched the idea to Pixar studios where it was picked up immediately for production in 2009. He consulted with numerous child psychologists to create the movie about 11 year old girl, Riley Anderson, moving from Minnesota to San Francisco and her personified emotions to guide her through. Because Pixar’s movies are family friendly, the film’s crew cleverly used color and creative mise en scene to tell the elaborate story between Riley’s mind, the world around her, and other character’s personality traits.

Pixar’s Inside Out is an interesting take on how our emotions work as well as how our brains operate. The story starts off with a narration by Joy, voiced by Amy Poehler, explaining how her job works, and how she and the other emotions came to be inside the mind of young Riley Anderson. The emotions watch and guide Riley by influencing how she reacts to different daily situations. The only thing the emotions are not prepared for however, is an unexpected move from Minnesota to San Francisco (Inside Out). This hilarious take at how our brains work allows Inside Out to create an entertaining and engaging movie using character interaction and its deeper emotional and psychological meanings.

Sadness, Joy, Fear, Disgust and Anger. Five emotions felt by human beings on a regular basis. These five emotions are personified as characters in the movie “Inside Out”. The movie Inside Out is about an 11-year-old girl named Riley who is living a happy life until she moves with her family to San Francisco (Rivera, Docter, del Carmen, 2015). Cognitive, social and linguistic development are all essential parts that contribute to the development of a growing child, such as Riley. The movie displays these types of development in terms of memories, emotions, attention, humor and many other aspects. The purpose of this paper will be to explain why the movie Inside Out (2015) is appropriate for children ages 6 to 12 years of age in terms of their cognitive, social and linguistic development.

Zootopia, a movie recently released, was a children’s movie which raised an immense amount of controversy. Indeed, that movie held a personal impact on me. Zootopia deals with current world issues such as racism and drugs in a cute and funny perspective. For example, this movie reflects racism in an unseen way. Although the setting of Zootopia was a place where all different living

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After reading this article about the How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity by Ed Catmull 2008, I describe the method use as very intelligent and innovated to be successful because at the end of the day Pixar believe that they problem is finding good people—it was finding good ideas to create good project and continue been the best one in the market. I remember working a homeless shelter the Director had a vision of hirer young case manager because they come with new and good ideas to continue providing excellent services to client in turns of helping them obtain their permanent housing and stabilize their living situation and provide better future to their children. The Director implement her vision and mission with young case manager ideas

Much of what the child perceives is based on knowledge and personal experiences they have had before. From a young age ideas of good and evil are conveyed to children along with ideas of good and bad. As custom for millennia books and movies follow the story of good conquering evil. This idea gives hope to the human race and is therefore used thousands of times throughout history. However, when watching Disney and Pixar movies children are actually able to see when evil

Pixar Animation Studios as we know today, was started as in 1984 when John Lasseter, chief creative officer of both Pixar

These events were really important to me because I have always wanted to go under Disneyland, see John Lasseter, and my cat just meant so much to me. Going to see the Disneyland kitchens made me want to become a chef even more. Having my cat Haley put to sleep made me extremely sad and made me worried about getting a new cat that could be similar to her. The D23 Expo was awesome and seeing John Lasseter made me like him even more. He was funny and showed everyone why he is fit for the job as the chief executive officer of Pixar. Now going to Disneyland has made me understand what really is happening behind the magic of the Disney restaurants. It makes me appreciate the parks more than I did before. Haley dying made me realize what I had when

“Come on kids, gather around the fireplace and let me tell you a story about a young girl who fell in love.” How many times have you heard this phrase being uttered? Well, most probably never since it has become quite common for stories to be heard or watched through animated pictures, movies, or even electronic blogs. Yet, the broad concept of a young girl falling in love is not one far from today’s reality. Used as entertainment, warning tales, or even business stories, storytelling has been around for as long as man was able to speak. People thrive on entertaining themselves and stories are a very flexible addition to any person’s life, whether orally, through movies, or even through art like dancing or singing. Storytelling and

It was Monday morning, November 5, 2001. Steve Jobs, CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, had just finished reviewing the opening weekend box office receipts for Monsters, Inc., the latest theatrical release produced by the partnership between Pixar and Disney. He sat back and pondered the future of his company and its relationship with Disney.

The decrease in competition is another motive for Disney. Because both are different entity, the competition in the market becomes high. Especially, Disney cannot compete in term of producing the animations that attract customers as much as Pixar. Pixar is the large player in the industry. It is possible of collaboration between Pixar and another big studio. And that will be expensive if Pixar had fallen into other’s hands. Therefore, merging with Pixar will gain benefits to Disney greatly. (Disney Pixar)

Euro Disney with its partner the Group Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs have announced plans to open a sustainable resort concept in in Seineet-Marne, France. With a focus on conservation and renewable energy, one of the clean energy highlights of the resort will be its geothermal heating system. 78 degree celsius water sourced below the earth's surface will heat the entire facility and produce no greenhouse gas emissions. Targets which the companies will use to reduce the resorts ecological footprint: Zero carbon Local and sustainable food Zero waste products Sustainable transportation Sustainable water Local and sustainable materials Local partnerships and fair trade

Had I watched this Inside Out at different points over the semester, I would have been able to find different flaws each time. This movie is supposed to be about Riley, but it turns out to be centered around the journey that Joy and Sadness must take in order to return to headquarters, more specifically, it validates sadness as an emotion. Sadness spent her first eleven years with Riley being told to stay back and not to screw anything up, in reality, sadness is often frowned upon, because for some people, they are the opposite of Riley’s character. This movie shows that the happiest of children can go through life changing struggles and embrace their other emotions. You cannot appreciate being happy unless you have known being sad, this movie brings attention to the necessity of a balance in life.