As noted in my last blog. Since we are banned from theaters, I am looking back at films with big anniversaries. So I come to:
25 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes 25 years ago this year came ..........
TOY STORY
Directed by John Lasseter
Written by John Lasseter and Pete Doctor
Toy story broke ground with this movie in a bunch of ways:
1-Hello John Lasseter!! Hello PIXAR. PIXAR had shorts including the lamp and ball before this film but here was a full length story.....speaking of story...
2-Yes a story. PIXAR did what many small (at the time) computer animated studios did not do yet. There were silly animated shorts out there showing what you could do with computer animation, but there was not a group out there willing to take the time to do not just a full 80 minute film but deliver a wonderful screenplay to go with it.
3-Disney took a chance here. Remember PIXAR was kind of a part of Disney. They were all in all a contracted company, with large Disney financial backing. It took years for eventually Disney Animation Studios to swallow up PIXAR or PIXAR swallowing up Disney Animation Studios. depending how you look at it. No matter how you look at it Toy Story was a game changer.
What is amazing to see, if you go back and look at Toy Story again, how, for lack of a better phrase, generic it was computer animation wise. Toy Story is very herky jerky in its motions. It is almost fun to go back and watch how far computer animation has come.
This is not putting down Toy Story. Toy Story gave us a story for kids (How jealousy ...Woody with Buzz ...can hurt the people around you) (Do not be a Sid). Plus a story for adults they get the nostalgia of Mr Potato Head; Slinky Dog; Army men!! The film worked across generations.
Well that is enough of my opinions...lets get to....
FUN AND NOT SO FUN FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Toy Story is the first animated film to ever get an Oscar Nomination for best screenplay.
-Lets not forget this is the first animated film scored by Randy Newman
-Billy Crystal was asked to be the voice of Buzz. He turned it down. He regretted it so much he called John Lasseter and apologized. John put him in Monsters Inc. .,and the rest is history Mike Wazowski!!
-Early scripts had Barbie as a big part in the film. However Mattel did not want Barbie in the film because they wanted young girls to use their imagination with Barbie and not get told how she speaks and how she moves. The character was reworked as Bo-Peep. Of course after the success of the film, Barbie was in Toy Story 2.
-Note the name of the toolbox Woody is stuck in. Binford. Yes Tool Time from Home Improvement Tim Allen's show.
-Gi Joe was suppose to be blown up by Sid but Hasbro wanted no parts of GI Joe being blown up so it was changed to Combat Carl.
-Tim Allen said they originally wanted Jim Carrey to be Buzz and Paul Newman as Woody. The budget was not high enough so in stepped Hanks and Allen. Lasseter said Hanks was always the first choice. He never said publicly who the first choice of Buzz was lol.
-John Ratzenberger was Hamm and from that point has been a voice in every PIXAR film.
-The highest grossing film of 1995
- The film required 800,000 machine hours and 114,240 animation frames
Well here are some great quotes:
-Way to go Idaho
-You are a sad strange man and you have my pity
-To infinity and beyond
-I am not really from Mattel, I am from a smaller company purchased by Mattel in a leveraged buyout.
-Tuesday nights plastic erosion meeting, I think, was a big success.
Well any way.........TOY STORY 25 years later, go back and take a look in appreciation of the film that started it all!!!
From the shadow as always thanks for your time.
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