Why Pixar is successful?

Pixar Animation Studios is an American computer animation created in United States, California. Something great for this company is that they are part of Walt Disney Company. Beginning the animated feature films in 1979 as a graphics group in a computer division of Lucasfilms. Pixar had been working with big companies and that’s why we could say that this company got luck in its existence.

But ¿What makes Pixar successful? It is not because they had been working with technology all the life, or because they made great animations and movies. We should tell that Pixar was founded as the Graphic Group of Lucasfilm, this team began working just like a company of special and visual effects, then Steve Jobs bought the company, creating more animations for just short demonstrations, just like Luxo Jr, just to show off the device’s capabilities. So we know now, that this is not why they are successful, just because they had work with great people like George Lucas or Steve Jobs.

Something that helps Pixar to make them awesome is the love that all the employees have for the art. The dedication and the study of this part, they don’t want to do things just for doing it, they neither want to do things just for great endings, they do things and take a big dedication in every single thing they do in an animation, they take care more about ‘HOW’ they do the things and not the part of ‘WHAT’ to do.

In the movie “The pixar history” we can see that they got the ideas of characters and their stories like 20 years ago, and they just didn’t decide to make them quickly. They started to think more about the plot, the story and how to tell it in a great way. Making a lot of drawings and making demos to know what they could improve or change, even if it takes more than 3 years, they really want to do their animations and movies in the best way.

Dreamworks was the first Enemy of Pixar, everything that Pixar makes Dreamworks too, we could say that they were the ones that dared to make animations like that even everyone knows that they just were a copy in their first animations. Examples like “Bugs” of Pixar, a great movie in a tiny story and Dreamworks made “Antz” the same materials in a low definition. We could say that everyone can be successful, but you should think more of HOW you should do the things, and not just for selling things, Pixar tries to do everything in the best way, they don’t care the time it cost or money, even they stop the production and start over again if they don’t like a tiny thing of the animation, they want to do the things better than themselves, they don’t care about Enemies like dreamworks, they think they are their own enemies and that’s why I think PIXAR is successful, because they want to beat themselves every movie they make.

Run Lola Run

Run Lola run, The essay.

By: Federico Pardo López

1166908

Maybe you can change your opinion, your way of doing something, but you will never have the opportunity to change your destiny. “Run Lola run” (Lola rennt) is a movie that talks about the choices you make in your life and the lives you can affect when you make those decisions. This movie remind me another movie named “The air I breathe” that talks about how your actions can modify the lives of other people and mainly yours.

Lola is the protagonist of this movie and her problem in the story is how to get money without dying or killing her boyfriend in the choices she has to make. She starts to think how to get that money. She starts running to the bank to meet his father and ask him for money. This is the first option she thought, and obviously the first thing she do in every moment, only the actions like accidentally pushing people while she’s running, of the conversation with the father, or how she run downstairs, are the things that can change her destiny.

I realized that she run in different ways. First she started running like crazy, without thinking, just letting her feelings think instead of her, and because of that she gets killed by the police officer. The second is when she startsrunning again, but this time a little scared, she doesn’t know what to do yet, but she only thinks that she doesn’t want to die, she have more attention in everything, and she only thinks the actions that can affect her, that’s why this time his boyfriend got kill by an ambulance. The third one and last, is when she realized that, she has to let destiny do what it wants, she is thinking like: “Ok, I will do what I just have to do.” and not like before: “I’ll make my own destiny, I can control the reactions.” And that’s why the ending happened that should happen since the beginning.

It is a movie that makes you think about your life, just like “The Butterfly Effect”, you have to know that life will do what it has to do; you can’t change things from future and neither the past. But you have the power to live in the present and do what you really want to do. That’s the objective of the Movie, you just have to live and let everything happen, and if you can change something, don’t do it, just try to make it better or fix it.

“Run Lola run” is a great movie because it has good characters, the scene design is a miniplot in a strange way, maybe you are not watching the other lives in a direct way, but when you see the photos that appears suddenly, you can see that Lola can change others life when she makes things to get the money. “Run Lola run” is a original and excellent movie, that when it finishes you think in your life and the lives you can affect, or maybe it just my case.

Character map.

My favorite character in Romeo+Juliet:

Perhaps it is represented many years after the original one, with little changes in the characters and their weapons, but the dialogue in “Romeo + Juliet” (1996) is still the same.

My favorite character is Tybalt because I think he really plays the antagonist character like should be. When I read the book, I imagined Tybalt really different comparing the Tybalt that appears in the movie. The last one is really annoying and you know immediately that he will do anything to get and make troubles.

In “Romeo + Juliet” the first time you see Tybalt, you know that he is the bad guy. The way he walks looks like a really self-confident person, the sound he makes with his shoes means that he want to be seen by other people. You know that he is the bad guy because of his way of looking, his mad/evil eyes, and of course the haircut and his bear help too.

The clothes of Tybalt are violent colors, red shirt and black suit. This means that this character is well defined; he doesn’t contradict his personality with his actions. So that’s why I said before that I think this character was well modified for his new representation, and not like Mercutio that looks gay and fool.

The conclusion of my essay is that it is not maybe my favorite movie, the characters are not well defined and if they are, they have a lot of changes and maybe are not like the originals. Tybalt has his changes too, but I think those changes made him a better character and a really trouble maker and not just the guy that is killed by Romeo.

Triangle (You have to click on the picture)

The Butterfly Effect

Butterfly Effect is a great movie.

By: Federico Pardo López

1166908

The butterfly effect is the metaphor of the chaos theory. The theory is explained with a great example that also appears in the movie: “It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.” It means that everything you do even little actions can change in a relevant way your life or maybe others.

“The butterfly effect” is a movie directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. This Drama and psychological thriller tells the story of a guy named Evan who has the power to travel to the past and change the things to try to fix his future but also their friend’s lives. “The butterfly effect” has great actors in screen; Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart. You must know that the effects of this movie are simple, this is not an action or lasers movie, this is a movie for persons with brains who like to think.

It had been said that all persons have many dimensions in their lives. What does it mean? Maybe you know about the past, the present and the future, but they are you parts of the time. These branches of time have more levels or dimensions in each one. To explain it in a better way there’s an example: Maybe you are crossing the street. In the first dimension you passed without problems, in the second you were hit by a car…and in the third one (but not the last) you did not crossed the street.

The objective of the movie is not to tell you which decision in your life is correct and which not. It tries to tell you that everything you do maybe can kill a person and it is not really your fault, it tries to demonstrate you in a graphic way that your life is not a random game. All decisions you have to make in your life require time because as I told you before it is really significant for your future.

My conclusion for the butterfly effect is that it’s a movie that you have to watch it twice because it has a lot of metaphors and psychological meanings that maybe you could not understand the first time. It is not a movie for the lazy brains. I consider it my favorite movie because it makes me think after I watched it, and every time I do it, I think the stars in the films couldn’t be better, because I really think they did a great job and make this movie, a movie that you must see.

The Butterfly Effect

Why “The butterfly effect” is a great movie.
By: Federico Pardo López 1166908

‘The butterfly effect’, released in 2004 and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber is a great drama/thriller movie and not just because it have two fantastic actors in screen; Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart. The butterfly effect is a movie that tells the story of a guy named Evan, who had a normal childhood and normal life, but not a normal destiny including his friends.

The story began when you can notice that Evan is in love with Kayleigh, a friend of his. They are really in love since they were kids, but Kayleigh’s brother Tommy wants them apart because he is a really jealous brother, and sometimes he has a mad and violent mind. Evan’s last friend is Lenny, a shy and manipulable person who is the noblest friend he would have in this movie. This is Evan’s gang.

One day, when those guys were teenagers, they decided to play with dynamite and explode something just for fun, of course this was Tommy’s plan. They put that dynamite in a tiny ‘house’ mailbox, but Evan suddenly appears in some seconds in the future. He just skipped the part when the dynamite exploded, but they were carrying Tommy who was in shocked because of something Evan couldn’t remember. This could appear like something insignificant, just like a tiny memory problem, but this memory is the beginning of all the problems that Evan will live. Because of this dynamite accident, Evan’s Mother took him to another place and tries to make their lives better.

Seven years later, when Evan was in Collage, you can see that he is studying psychology and he is the smartest of his class. Evan is a responsible and decisive person. For his memory problems, he have been told by the doctor that he has to write diaries to remember everything, so since he was a child he has wrote in his diaries every single day. When he got 7 years without forgetting things, he celebrated with some friends, including his date. Evan and his date went to his Collage room to have some privacy, accidentally the girl found one of Evan’s diaries when he was a kid, she asked him to read something, Evan accepted, when he was reading the first page he found, his room started to shake and in a mystery and strange way he appeared in the memory he was reading, but he noticed that it was not only a memory, he was living again that moment, the moment he and his friends were teenagers and were exploding the tiny ‘house’ mailbox, he accidentally burned himself with the cigarette he was smoking, then he appeared again in the future, in his room with his date, he saw the scar in his stomach. A new scar that was not there before.

He was really confused and he started to read a lot of his memories and see that he has the power to go back to the past and live it again. He visit his childhood street to see Amy, they just fought and one day before, Amy killed herself. So this is when Evan makes to himself the question the movie is based: “If I can make scars, do I have the power to heal them? What about Kayleigh’s scars?” Evan has a fantastic power but it could be also a course, he wanted to relive his past and fix his friends lives, but he just learn that he can modify their destinies, but not their lives and their decisions. This is a reflexive and many lives story, I think this is a great movie and not just for their effects, the way the story is written is amazing, and maybe it’s necessary watch it twice to understand it in a 100% way.