5 Reasons Why Pixar Is Amazing

3. Because Each Film Contains Boundless Curiosity And A Sense Of Discovery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R85G08on1sM €œComputer, define Dancing.€ This gets into the same territory as Pixar€™s sense of empathy, but it can€™t be stressed enough. Beginning with the basic concept of each film, Pixar is constantly poking at the world, playing with perspective, and rearranging the world to try and discover something new. Each film does this, starting out with a €œWhat If?€ or that sets up the film and allows Pixar to approach each new corner of the world with a sense of awe. What if you followed the monsters back into the closet? What if superheroes had kids? What if your toys came to life when you left the room? By taking this approach, it allows the films to have a child-like, not childish, viewpoint. A childish view would be frantic, unfocused, driven around things being bright and shiny and fast and probably farting. The child-like view of Pixar though, is built around the sense of possibility, the sense of wonder, the sense of everything being new and open. Even when the films are centered around adult characters, the arc of the film is designed to take them away from what they know, and to challenge them with new experiences, whether those experiences involve lost continents, armies of jellyfish or punching a robot in the face. It€™d be easy to lump Pixar€™s narratives all together, to label them as nothing more than that lazy Hero€™s Journey BS. But what Pixar does, does better than almost anyone, is root that journey into a sincere, well-observed character every time out. By being specific about who it is going on this journey, by finding the nuance and emotional reality, it actually allows the audience to give themselves over to the world even more than they would. Because we experience these locations and events with characters we love and understand, it makes it that much easier to be swept along, and to experience each dazzling new sight as if for the first time. Even if it€™s something we€™ve seen a hundred times before and have long since forgotten to be special. Even if it€™s just two people in love, sharing a dance.