Pixar’s Soul: ‘This film is really gonna heal a lot of things for people’

By Clarisse Loughrey

 

‘We’ve settled in a place of just feeling super grateful that the film is coming out:’ Pixar’s creators reflect on new film ‘Soul’ (Disney Pixar)

 

We try to make films that are intelligent enough for kids, but simple enough for adults,” says Pixar’s Pete Docter, an impish grin plastered across his face.

 

The sentence reads as both whimsical and profound – exactly the kind of tagline you’d imagine was cooked up in the animation studio’s headquarters, in the same rooms where it was decided that toys and cars could talk, rats could cook, and robots could fall in love.

 

It’s also where, in 2017’s Coco, they came to the conclusion that no one truly dies as long as they exist in another’s heart; and, in 2015’s Inside Out, that happiness cannot thrive without sadness.

 

In Pixar’s latest, Soul, directed by Docter, the studio seeks to answer the biggest question of them all: what is the meaning of life?

 

Full Story: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/pixar-soul-disney-plus-pete-docter-b1778102.html

22 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

We try to make films that are intelligent enough for kids, but simple enough for adults,” says Pixar’s Pete Docter, an impish grin plastered across his face.

That's probably accurate from a Hollywood perspective.

22 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

In Pixar’s latest, Soul, directed by Docter, the studio seeks to answer the biggest question of them all: what is the meaning of life?

It depends.

If you are a 99.9% than you are suppose to find meaning through dealing with suffering and austerity.
For the 0.01% you find meaning in life by the predatory harvesting the wealth of the 99.9% and making all their lives living Hell.

27 minutes ago, connda said:

That's probably accurate from a Hollywood perspective.

Indeed. Its an American perspective. Simplistic and easy to absorb.

Just now, Nout said:

Indeed. Its an American perspective. Simplistic and easy to absorb. Certainly not representative of European cinema  but anyway the best cinema moved to TV over a decade ago.

 

 

 

"In Pixar’s latest, Soul, directed by Docter, the studio seeks to answer the biggest question of them all: what is the meaning of life?"

I thought that was done and dusted thanks to "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"... was it "47"?

23 minutes ago, Emdog said:

 

"In Pixar’s latest, Soul, directed by Docter, the studio seeks to answer the biggest question of them all: what is the meaning of life?"

I thought that was done and dusted thanks to "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"... was it "47"?

No, it was 42!

Pixar makes an amazing cartoons, I myself enjoy watching with the kids. I'll look forward to it!