As a result of a recent knee injury followed by reconstructive ACL surgery, I have been laying around watching movies as I recover. I have been visited by my best friends and relatives, and as of this moment, my best friend, my Mom, my brother and I are having a Pixar movie marathon. With Wall-E, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo under our belts, we are settling in for the second half of the day with Toy Story, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, and A Bug's Life.
It is amazing the depth of the art industry today. To have come from drawings on cave walls, it is truly a novelty. While I sit here and watch the free forms flitting across the television screen, beautiful, brightly-colored fish swimming through an animated ocean or rusty, dilapidated machines slowly saving the planet or ferocious, intimidating monsters releasing the screams of little children, I can't help but think of all the work that was put into the making of the film. These movies are not just millions of drawings slapped together to create the illusion of movement. I mean, sure that is a huge part of them, but the art behind it, to me is the manipulation of these drawings to conform to what appeals to the viewer's feelings. I mean anyone can put a few people up on the screen, make them fall in love and that is that. But with these Pixar movies, they stray from the normal human figure and think like machines.. or monsters.. or fish. Then, they take those thoughts and weave them into drawings, which eventually get put set to motion, and finally, to music and words. Sometimes, as in Wall-E, they don't even have words. That, to me, is a fantastic art--one that is somewhat taken for granted in today's world. But then again, most things are.
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