Why is Pixar so succesful?

Pixar animation studio is one of the best computer animation companies in the world. At the beginning Pixar was a computer hardware company and they had poor sales, but in 1991 Pixar did the best gamble in it’s life, Pixar united strenght with Disney, but it was until 1995 that their actions gave fruit with the release of “Toy Story”; after this Pixar released other 10 movies, some being more successful than the first one. But what does Pixar have that makes it’s movies so successful?

The first reason is “teamwork”. When you watch Pixar making off of the movies you can see that the people who work there can work without problems,and have an excellent teamwork . But how is this possible? Pixar different of other animation companies does not change workers but at the same time Pixar searches for new collaborators. This is very helpful when they do movies because the get to know each other an learn how to work with each other, getting the bet results.

The second reason is that they do not lose their way, they follow like a law of first quality before quantity or in this case money. Of course they care about money, because if they do not have it they can no longer make movies. They do not fear mistakes, they prefer re-doing thins when they go wrong instead of continuing a failure project.

The third reason but not last is their original stories. Even if this reason is not always mentioned you can appreciate it on the movies. When you watch Pixar movies moves have like the magic to make you feel like part of the movie, you can feel the emotions and you can empathize with the characters.

As yo can see a company successful is not based on how much money you put on the project it is more than that, it depends more on the people, their believes and their will to work to create ideas that change the animation history. All this things are contained on the pixar workers, and that is why Pixar is one of the most successful animations companies and in my opinion the best one.

Scenes:
There is only one scene because there are no value changes
Beats: 3
1) When Jessie falls down the bed. This is because Emily was happy playing with Jessie she loved her doll, but gradually she stopped playing with her, until she totally forgot about her.
2) When Emily found Jessie again. This is because Jessie was very sad because she though Emily did not love her, but she felt her love when Emily carried her, and was happy again.
3) When Emily left Jessie. This is because Emily broke Jessie’s heart, because Jessie saw she was being abandoned.

Jessie’s character map
1)Mask
She is a tomboy and rude

2)Trouble traits
She is a tomboy

3)Strong traits
She is brave and she is a decisive person.

4)Traits Admired
Woody:he is braver and he can love a lot his owner even when she feels he betrayed him.

5)Dark side
Woody: he is very naive person.

6)Fears
To love again and to be betrayed (like Emily)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px0j1EHF8Y0

“Lola rennt”

"Run Lola Run"  is a movie where you can see that time can change as a result of our actions. Similarly, this movie also show us that time is influenced by our decisions and that these decisions are largely influenced by those things around us, for example, love.

First of all, time is very important because one second can be the line between life and death. Time will never stop and is always there, which is why we have to always think about it and act depending on how much time we are going to spend doing something, even if we do not know how a second a minute or an hour is going to affect our actions. Like in the movie, one minute can be the difference between saving his boyfriend or death.

Secondly our lives move based on our decisions, every decision we make lead us to another possibility and to our future. We will never be able to completely predict the outcome of our decisions, but what it is certain is that our decisions will not only affect us, but will also influence others, and this is where we have to learn how to take them.

Finally we have something that every human in this world has, and that can change entirely the results based on how much of it we have, and that is love.
Love is one of the biggest motivations in that it can break any wall, but if it is not enough it could make the final result a disaster; like in the first two stories, we can see at the final moment of each one that they both doubt of how much they love each other, that is why Lola could not save his boyfriend.

In conclusion we can see that each points support the other points, if we have enough motivation (in this case love) we can have more firm decisions, and we can spend less time. Even if in the three acts she has the same goal that was saving his boyfriend his lack of security lead her to a different future.

Character Map

Movie
(Girl in the first video)

MASK
She is rude, stubborn and a tomboy

FEAR
Changes in her live

TRAITS ADMIRED
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DARK SIDE
To be tied to a way of live

STRONGEST TRAITS
She is a determined person and know what she wants.

TROUBLE TRAITS
Maybe she is rude

“Piano no mori” is a dramatic fantasy movie directed by MADHOUSE and based on the manga by Makoto Isshiki.

Internal Conflict:

Kai Ichinose vs. himself

Shuhei Amamiya vs himself

External Conflict:

Kai Ichinose vs. Shuhei Amamiya

Shuhei Amamiya vs. Kai Ichinose

Exposition:

At the beginning of the movie we met Shuhei Amamiya a rich boy who went to live to a small village. Then we learn that he is the son of a famous pianist and that his goal is to be the greatest pianist in the world.

Inciting Incident:

Shuhei Amamiya meets a boy whose name is Ichinose Kai, at the beginning they didn’t were friends but after the story develops they learn that they both play the piano and they both love it. After that Shuhei amamiya learns that Ichinose Kai despite his origins he plays the piano better than anyone and that makes him very jealous.

Rising Action:

Shuhei Amamiya learns that his school teacher Sousuke Ajino was a famous pianist, so he decides to ask him to be his teacher, but he refused him. Then Shuhei learns that Sousuke Ajine proposed Ichinose Kai to be his exclusive teacher, and prepare him for a competence.

Climax:

The competence starts, and both Shuhei and Kai are in there, but at Kai’s performance he decided to play another music achieving the greatest performance.

Falling Action:

Kai is disqualified of the competence because he didn’t obey the rules, but Shuhei passed to the next stage.

Resolution:

Shuhei returned to his town, but he promised  Kai he would be the better pianist in the world and that he would produce a better sound than him.

Piano no Mori, my favorite movie

Many people think that playing piano is so easy that anyone can do it, but that is a big mistake. There is a huge difference  between only playing notes and actually creating music. That is something we can appreciate in the movie Piano no Mori: The perfect world of Kai by Makoto Isshiki, but what does make this movie so special that makes this movie my favorite one?

This movie is about two boys, one is Amamiya Shuhei, a rich boy whose only objective is to be the best pianist in the world and the other one is Ichinose Kai a poor boy whose only objective is to live an easy live without worries. At first this movie seems so normal that it can be seen as boring, but as the movie continues you can see one important and amazing thing and that is, how an instrument is able to tide together  two boys that are so different not only with respect to their social status but also personality wise.

As the history develops we start to ask ourselves how it is possible that a poor boy(Ichinose Kai) without any knowledge of instruments can play so beautiful, even better than a boy(Amamiya Shuhei) whose life has been devoted to music.In this part Amamiya Shuhei learns, and we also learn that no matter how much we study if we don’t love what we are doing, understand what we are doing and we are trying to communicate and of course if we don’t understan what the music is, we won’t be able to create beautiful music.

Lastly,  I love how this movie manage to tide together the emotions of the characters toward the music, the music, and the backgrounds around the history.There was a part in the movie where Ichinose Kai was playing the Sonata kv310 by Mozart and then he was thinking about the forest where he found the piano and where he started playing it an loving it.

 

Piano no Mori  as I write before, tell us about music, piano, this wonderful movie teaches us that music is a friend that let us express ourselves, and also let us understand thinks that many times words can’t. It also teaches us that many times we can’t gain things if we don’t put our effort in it.

James Dean

James Dean was an American film actor who became one of the most important cinematographic icons of the XX century.

He was born on February 8, 1931 in Marion Indiana. At the age of 9 years, his mother died so he was sent to live to a farm in Fairmount.When he was in high school he moved to New York to study drama and acting in UCLA university.

During the early 50’s he started doing small roles on T.V. commercials and he participated on plays such as “See the Jaguars” and “The Inmoralist”. He started participating on films such as “Fixed Bayonets”(1951) by Sam Fuller, “Sailor beware”(1951),”Has Anybody Seen my Gal?” and “Trouble along the way”(1953) by Michael Curtiz.

Thanks to the early works he attracted the attention of the director Elia Kazan who decided to give him the main role of the film “East of Eden” which got him several nominations and awards, including an Oscar nomination.

The same year he participated on the film “Rebeld without a cause” as the main actor.  He became so popular with only 2 movies that Warner decided to give him a role on the film “Gigant” which also gave him a nomination to the Oscar.

But his glory didn’t last enough, because he died in a car accident.

3 years ago when I was still 15 years old I had a very normal and boring live. Back then my day started with me going to school just to later go back home and do some random things, and then going to sleep. This was my daily routing during all 5 days of my work week. Of course sometimes I hung out with my friends, we did a lot of things to entertain ourselves and it was ok. I was certainly enjoying my life so I didn't think about anything complicated. Then on one summer break I went to Europe with my family, which turned out to be a whole new experience for me. On the third day of our trip we went to visit the Eiffel tower. It would be an understatement to say it was a most exciting adventure. We went all the way up, from where I could see the whole city. At first I was so dazzled with the panorama in front of my eyes that I could barely think, however for some reason when I was watching the city I started thinking about how insignificant we were, one person in any part of the world could die and almost anyone would care or even notice. After that I started paying more attention to the people around me and the actions they did, and the more I payed attention the more confused I felt. When we returned to Mexico I was so confused about my existence I started thinking life was trash and that we humans didn’t have any meaning in life. I don’t know how much time went by with me thinking like that, but one day when I was just passing the day I observed the picture of Saturn devouring his son from Goya, and then I starteda thinking about how many people spends a lot of time and money going to Spain just to see and admire Goya’s work, then after that I started thinking that I wanted to be famous just to have a meaning in my life. At that time I wanted to study architecture so I though, “in the future I will construct an amazing building and many people will know my name, and my life is really going to have a meaning.” Some time passed and I decided to change my career and study Computational systems but the plan was still the same, to make something great and to make people remember my name forever. But then one day at school I realized something, if anything happens and I can’t make something awesome then this plan would be a failure, and then looking around seeing a lot of stupid people wasting their life make me realize that people doesn’t need famous artist right now, what the world needed the most was a change of mentality. What I realized that day was that I didn’t need to be famous to be remembered, well  I didn’t even needed to be remembered to have a meaning in my life what I decided that day it was that I wanted to have the chance to make the people look at my work and efforts rather than my name to make people feel what I felt  at that moment and the most important thing  that I wanted, was to know that somehow my work changed something, even if it was only one person, for that would mean that my work wasn’t meaningless. Time did a lot of turns in my life and nowadays I’m studying “LAD” Digital Animation, because I fell that images or animations can express what we fell better than words.

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