10 Great Movies Almost Ruined By Meddling Hollywood Executives

10. "Make It More Cynical" - Toy Story (1995)

url-21Toy Story is arguably the best and most beloved digitally animated film of all-time, and that's partly because it's a feel good story about learning to take your place in the world and overcoming feel-bad emotions like jealously. It's also about the power of friendship. But that's not how it was always meant to go, according to those loveable guys over at Pixar: Disney CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg had an entirely different vision. Yes, back in its important development stages, Katzenberg saw Toy Story as far meaner, more insulting animated fare. He originally pushed to make Woody (who's already kind of a jerk at points anyway) into a fully certified douchebag - he was supposed to spend the entire movie making everybody feel like crap, whilst the overall tone in general was set to be kind of "cynical." Luckily things changed when Roy Disney, who attended a screening to see what Pixar had come up with, said it was the worst thing he'd ever seen. As a result, Katzenberg backed off and let Pixar take Toy Story in the right direction. The results, of course, were marvelous, but for a minute there, Toy Story was almost a mean-spirited and depressing slice of animated nastiness - for all the family to enjoy!
 
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