Andy and his friends will of course forget their last favorite toy because there will always be a new one that everyone buys (along with the matching sheet set, as we see in the first Toy Story movie). One of the striking aspects of the Toy Story movies-their visual aesthetic, ironic humor, and childhood nostalgia-is that Disney purchased the rights to represent branded toys, which means that the films jettison the craftsman’s uniqueness and the playroom’s timelessness. In the real world, there seems to be a failure of imagination when it comes to what happens next to the toys that we treasure.
These fates belie the luminous fantasy sequences that begin each movie, the alternative world of childhood play. In a consumer culture that tells us that pieces of plastic are our friends, as the theme song “You’ve Got A Friend in Me” underscores, how do we justify their constant replacement? In the first Toy Story movie, Woody fears replacement by Buzz Lightyear or destruction by a vicious neighbor in the second, he faces being broken by his owner or consigned to a museum shelf and in the third, donation or the trash heap loom large. This scene highlights a theme central to all three Toy Story movies: anxiety about waste. In this scene, Woody fears becoming a part of our culture’s detritus: “I am a lost toy!” Woody laments, recognizing that, if unclaimed, he might become just another piece of garbage. With this play on Sunoco, Pixar reminds us of fossil fuels, our cars running off of dinosaur bones.
Don't Make a Scene: Dr, Strangelove, Or: How I Lea.One of the best sight gags in Toy Story comes when Sheriff Woody and Buzz Lightyear are stranded at a “Dinoco” gas station, its brand logo a silhouette of a brontosaurus. Movies Viewed at the White House: the Kennedy's. Movies Viewed at the White House: the Reagan's. Buzz Lightyear ( Tim Allen) and Woody ( Tom Hanks) help Lotso ( Ned Beatty) get to the all-important "Stop" switch, but the duplicitous bear, leaves them.to their Fate. Now, back together, they have banded together to help the crusty teddy bear Lotso escape a shredder at the dump, but they find themselves on another conveyor leading to an incinerator. The Set-Up: Altercations and alliances have conspired to separate and pull the toys together during their temporary banishment to the Sunnyside Daycare facility. Another example of how the studio excels, pushes the envelope, and break expectations-if never (really) hearts. If they're going out, they will give each other their last measure of comfort, and the last shot here is a collection of tableaux that reminds one of the clustered gatherings in a Renaissance painting-a Pixar version of Brueghel. *Īnd the only solution-the ONLY solution-is to face it together. There is no way out, just an inexorable slide to nothingness in a fiery pit that would have Satan reaching for the sunscreen. They've been busted up, individually and as a group, becoming repaired one way or another. So many elements combine to make this scene memorable-the potential finality of it, and the eventual realization by Our Hero Toys that "this is it," no matter how much collaboration they can muster, how much plastic brio can be displayed, the Inevitable can not be prevented. It's all pictures and expressions.Īnd it's in a freaking KID's movie. And does so-which I particularly love-with almost no dialogue. It crashes through the Five Stages of Grief in a very brief period of time. Or E.T. It has the poignancy of doom of the final looks exchanged between Bonnie and Clyde. Well, this one is really scary.īut man, is it brutal. All the "what-if's." And, I was thinking on the eve of my surgery, what's a scary scene to put up here. If it works, I'll have great sight.for the first time in decades. The surgery will replace the lenses in my eyes, first the right one, then the left. I started doing that at the age of six, and I've always done it. When I first got glasses, I started putting the change in my pockets in specific ways-quarters in the little pocket, pennies in a different pocket from dimes and nickels (which I could tell the difference between in size, and the different feel of the edges). My eyesight has been worsening ever-increasingly since I was a kid. 
And it ties in with my love of movies and appreciating them.
Very hopeful.īut, the consequences of it not going well has been on my mind. And I'm going to go through a surgical procedure to fix it. Really scary, and that I've worried about most of my life. I'm about to go through something that is scary. The Story: More than most scenes from most movies in the last few years, this one stayed with me the longest, and still affects me to this day.
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