#andrew stanton

[novlr]

“The first draft is nothing more than a starting point, so be wrong as fast as you can.” — Andrew Stanton

[disneytva]

Mykal-Michelle Harris (Disney Television Animation's "Ariel", Walt Disney Studios "Oswald The Lucky Rabbit") recently attended the Pixar Hotel at Disneyland where she showcased some concept art for "Blaze" from the Pixar Archives.

"Can’t help it …Blaze is sooooo cute. Little trip. Big feelings. The "Toy Story 5" art display at Pixar Place at Disneyland is amazing. Has me in my feels. Blessed to be part of this franchise! 😘🚀" - Harris

[princesssarisa]

A few days ago, I came across a post in the Toy Story 5 tag complaining about a change between the first three Toy Story movies (a.k.a. the "Andy Trilogy") and the most recent two (a.k.a. the "Bonnie" films, which might become a "Bonnie Trilogy" if they make a Toy Story 6).

That difference is the toys' role in the kids' lives. In the "Andy Trilogy," toys are for playing: they exist to be played with and they love to be played with. That's what it's all about. But in the Bonnie movies, there's much more emphasis on the toys finding ways to secretly help kids outside of play: e.g. Woody helping Bonnie create Forky at school, his ultimate new life with Bo Peep of helping kids and ownerless toys find each other, and the efforts in Toy Story 5 to help Bonnie make friends.

The post complained that the series has seemingly switched from "toys as toys" to "toys as good fairies who secretly help you."

Now, personally, I don't see that change as something worth complaining about. But I do see it as interesting. I had never noticed it before, but now I see that it's true.

Now, maybe this change in focus relates to the changes behind the scenes, since unlike the Andy Trilogy, the fourth and fifth movies were made without John Lasseter. (A change I'm fully in favor of because of the #MeToo issues that led to his departure, but it could have caused some creative inconsistency.) But still, Lasseter did work on the fourth movie's story before he resigned. And more importantly, Andrew Stanton has been a head writer of all five films' screenplays, and has now directed Toy Story 5, after having been one of the main story-builders of the first film back in the '90s. You'd think he would take care to preserve a consistent tone!

Maybe it could also be the influence of Inside Out, which of course came along between Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4. Fans have always noticed the parallels between the toys of Toy Story and the emotions of Inside Out: a group of beings who love and devote their lives to a child without their knowing about it. And the plot of the first Inside Out film has obvious parallels with the original Toy Story (with Joy corresponding to Woody, Sadness to Buzz, and Riley to Andy), while Toy Story 5 parallels Inside Out 2 (Bonnie corresponding to Riley, Jessie to Joy, and Lilypad to Anxiety). Since the emotions in the Inside Out films obviously exist to help their person, maybe subconsciously those movies influenced the Pixar creative team to reimagine the Toy Story toys as helpers rather than only existing for play.

But maybe the difference is better explained by Watsonian reasons (in-universe) than Doylist reasons (behind the scenes).

In the fourth film, Woody's focus on secretly helping Bonnie, and ultimately on helping other kids find abandoned toys, is precisely because Bonnie doesn't play with him anymore. It's all about finding a new purpose as a toy who isn't played with.

As for why the theme of "toys secretly helping Bonnie" continues in the fifth film, I think it reflects the fact that Bonnie has a different personality from Andy and different needs.

Andy was an average, outgoing, popular boy. We see this in the number of friends who come to his birthday party in the original film, and the fact that in the second film he goes off to sleep-away camp without a hint of nervousness. Bonnie, on the other hand, is a shy, "weird" girl, who is scared to start school in the fourth film and then has trouble fitting in with other kids in the fifth. Between this and her wild imagination and creativity, it's easy to headcanon her as being on the autism spectrum. But whether you do or not, it makes sense that she needs a little more support than Andy did, which the toys give her.

If they do make a Toy Story 6, I'll be interested to see whether it continues the theme of "toys as secret helpers" or goes back to "toys exist to be played with." We'll see.

[nihillist-blog]

WALL-E (2008)

[irlarthurpendragon]

my favorite gays in the 80s!

just a reminder that theyre technically canon

[bewitchingomen]

My top three mlm ships with one being gay and the other being bi are:

Will Byers/Mike Wheeler (Byler) from Stranger Things Charlie Spring/Nick Nelson from Heartstopper Justin Bennett/Andrew Stanton from Grange Hill

Each couple is happily married in my headcanon.

[st4-bby]

🥾🌱

[marcmarcmomarc]

Once Upon a Lamp - A Bug’s Life

Voices: Dave Foley (Flik), Andrew Stanton (Hopper), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Atta), Flula Borg (Heimlich)

Archive voices: Hayden Panettiere (Dot), Bonnie Hunt (Rosie), Michael McShane (Tuck & Roll), Brad Garrett (Dim)

Standing on the hoods of the Cars cast.