The company Pixar has earned its rightful place within the world of Hollywood Cinema, but for several (if not all) people do not know the man behind the success. John Lasseter, even from his college days, always appreciated the art of the animated character and the idea of creating life from it. From his first 2D pencil animated short film Lady and the Lamp (1979 to an anticipated upcoming installment in the world of Woody and Buzz in Toy Story 4 (2018) his artistic talent has shone through. Through the basic humanizing of characters, emotion driven plot, various hidden Easter Eggs at Pixar and Disney alike, bright saturated colors, and Randy Newman music thrown in, a John Lasseter film is equally as unique as his crazy Hawaiian shirts.
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The music man, humanized in emotion, feels sorry for the child and attempts to cheer him up. The emotion driven plot line often appears in Lasseter's films. In his short film Nitemare (1980) a kid is afraid of the dark, and of the creatures his furniture turns when it becomes dark, until the creatures suddenly become afraid of the dark themselves and the child protects them. These emotions conveyed through films associated with John Lasseter, as the ones above, presumably derive from Disney’s “ideal of family entertainment” (Tasker), the former company Lasseter had animated for in the …show more content…
In much of his later animated films, Lasseter has made particular colors stand out from the rest, even during night scenes. In Toy Story (1995), when Buzz and Woody wind up lost and stranded at a brightly lit gas station, the colors pop out against the starkness of the night. The need for these colors to be bright and lively could come from Lasseter’s personal desire to craft a work, artistically and narrative wise, to captivate all ages alike. He once stated, “If any child [has time] to lean over to their daddy and ask, ‘How many letters are in my name?’ during one of my movies, I’ll quit…we make the kind of movies we want to see, we love to laugh, but we also believe in what Walt Disney said, ‘For every laugh, there should be a tear’. I love movies that make me cry, because their tapping into a real emotion in
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The music man, humanized in emotion, feels sorry for the child and attempts to cheer him up. The emotion driven plot line often appears in Lasseter's films. In his short film Nitemare (1980) a kid is afraid of the dark, and of the creatures his furniture turns when it becomes dark, until the creatures suddenly become afraid of the dark themselves and the child protects them. These emotions conveyed through films associated with John Lasseter, as the ones above, presumably derive from Disney’s “ideal of family entertainment” (Tasker), the former company Lasseter had animated for in the …show more content…
In much of his later animated films, Lasseter has made particular colors stand out from the rest, even during night scenes. In Toy Story (1995), when Buzz and Woody wind up lost and stranded at a brightly lit gas station, the colors pop out against the starkness of the night. The need for these colors to be bright and lively could come from Lasseter’s personal desire to craft a work, artistically and narrative wise, to captivate all ages alike. He once stated, “If any child [has time] to lean over to their daddy and ask, ‘How many letters are in my name?’ during one of my movies, I’ll quit…we make the kind of movies we want to see, we love to laugh, but we also believe in what Walt Disney said, ‘For every laugh, there should be a tear’. I love movies that make me cry, because their tapping into a real emotion in