Yes the have a formula, but the same thing can be said for Ghibli movies for instance. I feel like you only watch anime and/or intellectual films and probably forgetting that Disney and Pixar had a target audience from the beginning and never strayed from that path. It is and always will be a studios which makes commercial movies for a wide audience. Do those messages and the way Pixar delivers them go deep? No, and they dont have to. What Pixar does so well (besides the wonderful animation) is that a lot of their movies also cater to adults and have a good general message for kids and adults (Way-E concerning pollution, Coco cornerning life and death, Inside Out concerning feelings and emotions, etc). Pixar and Disney cater to kids first and foremost. I certainly don't agree with your arguments, or you're analysing kids movies waaaay too much. Three act structure, villains have to be punished, lessons need to be learnt, blah blah blah. They're too big budget for their own good: they can't take any creative risks with their characters or stories: every film has to stick to tried-and-true formulae for the widest possible appeal. They have so much creative talent behind the visual aspects of the films they make: the animation is gorgeous and innovative, but the narratives are unadventurous and predictable. Well, okay, that's certainly fine in some circumstances, but I can also think of ways in which that could be a damaging message (if society doesn't accept you as it always does to the protagonist in a Pixar movie, does that mean you are truly broken?) Even if we say that message is a sound one, do we really need it spelled out to us in almost every single movie? Aren't there other things to say?ģ) They are slaves to convention and formula.
People must learn to accept you for who you are". Most Pixar movies tell children: "be yourself.
The moral messages they deliver through their films are simple, and generally I tend to agree with them, but they make these messages so obvious that it becomes, again, patronising: even to children. Children thrive on mystery and ambiguity: fiction shouldn't deny them that.Ģ) Their moralising is nauseating. Children are the most imaginative of people, and Pixar (and Disney) love to take fairytale-esque stories, and suck out of them the things that make fairytales magical: the sense of enigma and nuance. It's an approach which denies the viewer the joys of their own imagination and creative engagement, and that's such a shame considering how many children watch Pixar films. Everything has to be spelled out to the viewer absolutely: all ambiguities must be resolved by the end of the narrative and the saccharine message (see point 2) has to be written in great big lights so that even the most unobservant of viewers will be able to get it. They create all their films on the assumption that their audience is unimaginative and uninquisitive and they are absolutely terrified of the idea that the viewer may have to engage with their films more fully. But even though this Pixar favorite spreads plenty of optimism while telling an extraordinary under-rodent story, there are plenty of aspects a young audience might miss - and here are things only adults notice in Ratatouille.1) I would say of Pixar what Ghibli's Miyazaki says of Disney: they talk down to their audience. This magical rat (after all, he can understand humans, is lauded for his smelling abilities, and can cook) not only changes his own life, but he betters the lives of his family and friends, such as Alfredo Linguini and Colette Tatou. Remy is far different from his family, as his four-legged companions eat for sustenance and Remy eats for taste, pleasure, and passion. Even if you get over the fact that rats can't follow their dreams, rodents are a nightmare scenario for restaurant owners. But against all odds, Remy relocates to Paris and becomes a magician in the kitchen, teaching audiences that a great artist can come from anywhere. And yeah, that's an incredibly strange plot. Set in Paris, Ratatouille focuses on a rat named Remy who follows his dreams of becoming a chef. Ratatouille manages to take an odd tale and spread a beautiful message.
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