Pilfering Pixar

Pilfering Pixar

      Ok before I start let me lay down this disclaimer. I love me some Pixar. I love what they do and because I have a young kid I have watched most of their movies over and over and over until I feel like the CIA is trying to tell me something. (Do we even have a CIA still? You would think I would check these things but—OOOOoo Shiny!!) That being said I want to point something out that probably a lot of you didn’t notice. 

 Pixar is making you more literate.

               When Pixar first started making their films they were pretty sly about this fact. It wasn’t really discussed much. As time has gone on they have become more open about it.

Back before children’s movies got popular (you know when we all rode dinosaurs to work and subjugated animals to be our devices) Children read books. Like real books with alliterative similes and paragraphs. (The Fuck you say!) With the dawn of movies, cartoons and such some of the big constants in libraries have faded into the middle ground only to be resurrected by stubborn nerds like me. Then came Pixar.

 Do you know the tale of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson?  Not your generation? Ohhh but you do know this story especially if you watched Frozen.

god damn it.. I am learning.

 Miss out on the velveteen rabbit? Not if you watched Toy story.

He was loved so much is fur.. I mean paint rubbed off.

The country mouse and the City mouse? Yep.. That one was Cars.

Poor Mater..

Hmm… Little girl goes through a magic closet door to a land of beasts and animals who talk… Monsters Inc. Meet the Narnia story.

Minus the walking through Furs because Peta likes to complain.

Shrek Meet the Lord of the Rings,

Frodo and  bilbo.. Meet Shrek and Donkey

 Tangled... yep Rapunzel.(that one is obvious)

Now with extra frying pan

Up? Blend island of lost horizon with wizard of oz.

No cone of shame here.

Epic.. Hello adventures of Tom Thumb and or Thumbelina.

 One of my favorites... Despicable me? I’d bet my bottom dollar that’s based off of Annie. Lets see... Crabby lonely man with an empire of his own is forced to adopt little girls and falls in love with them. Minions instead of employees and yer done.

             Pixar has stayed pretty close to the formula since the beginning and have gotten people to yet again connect with classic literature that was timeless. For that I fucking love them. That they have done it in such a charming way with some new modernizations just makes them all the more awesome in my book.

 Thanks Pixar.