Comments on: Disappointed with the way Pixar’s storytelling is going http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/disappointed-with-the-way-pixars-storytelling-is-going/ Random musings from the radical feminist Christian antiracist left - some having to do with Ubuntu Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:53:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: NCLI http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/disappointed-with-the-way-pixars-storytelling-is-going/comment-page-1/#comment-9361 NCLI Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:41:43 +0000 http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/?p=2167#comment-9361 SPOILERS: I disagree. Sure, he moves the house, but in the end, he has to sacrifice it in order to save the kid. The internal conflict is his fight against his longing to go back to his old life, and his struggle to accept that he is old, that his wife is gone, and that he will have to give up his childhood dream to save the kid. Sure, the house does end up back on the cliff, but he doesn't know that when he sacrifices it. SPOILERS: I disagree. Sure, he moves the house, but in the end, he has to sacrifice it in order to save the kid. The internal conflict is his fight against his longing to go back to his old life, and his struggle to accept that he is old, that his wife is gone, and that he will have to give up his childhood dream to save the kid.

Sure, the house does end up back on the cliff, but he doesn’t know that when he sacrifices it.

]]> By: ubuntucat http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/disappointed-with-the-way-pixars-storytelling-is-going/comment-page-1/#comment-9356 ubuntucat Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:15:11 +0000 http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/?p=2167#comment-9356 <b>Spoiler Warning</b>: In <i>Up</i>, Carl has the choice to help out the kid or complete his goal of moving the house to a particular spot. If it was a truly compelling internal struggle, he would make that choice and live with the consequences. The way they set up the plot, he first achieves one goal (move the house) then achieves the second goal (help the kid). So he really has his cake and eats it too. That isn't an internal conflict. If you can make everyone happy, there is no conflict. If you can choose both choices, the choice isn't tough. Spoiler Warning: In Up, Carl has the choice to help out the kid or complete his goal of moving the house to a particular spot. If it was a truly compelling internal struggle, he would make that choice and live with the consequences. The way they set up the plot, he first achieves one goal (move the house) then achieves the second goal (help the kid).

So he really has his cake and eats it too. That isn’t an internal conflict. If you can make everyone happy, there is no conflict. If you can choose both choices, the choice isn’t tough.

]]> By: NCLI http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/disappointed-with-the-way-pixars-storytelling-is-going/comment-page-1/#comment-9344 NCLI Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:21:48 +0000 http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/?p=2167#comment-9344 Are you talking about Up and Toy Story 3? While I can't comment on Toy Story 3(Not released here 'till August...), I thought that Up had some of the most interesting internal conflicts I'd seen in a western movie for quite some time. I know you don't want to give away the plot, but I'd really like to hear why you found it lagging? Are you talking about Up and Toy Story 3?

While I can’t comment on Toy Story 3(Not released here ’till August…), I thought that Up had some of the most interesting internal conflicts I’d seen in a western movie for quite some time.

I know you don’t want to give away the plot, but I’d really like to hear why you found it lagging?

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