Monsters, Inc.
Oct. 10th, 2011 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericadawn16Now I love the Toy Story films. The first time I was ever so homesick that I cried was when I was watching the first one in college.
However, I would probably have to admit that Monsters, Inc is my true favorite. It works on so many levels. First of all, you have one of the cutest characters ever created...Boo. Then, you have some really great buddy comedy writing where neither male comes off stupid, just naive at times.
Then, there's this whole other level about looking into alternative fuels and how we have to make sure that the gas companies don't hold us back from that.
However, what I really want to talk about tonight is how Monsters, Inc helped me and others when it first came out. Think of it sort of like my Ten Years Later post.
Hollywood is never that good in that autumn and in 2001, it was absolutely abysmal. We had Zoolander and...that was basically it. Despite the return of Saturday Night Live and regular tv and Zoolander...the country still felt off, like we were going through the motions.
Then, there was Monsters, Inc.
It was Disney...or at least Pixar via Disney and lighthearted...comedy with Billy Crystal and John Goodman. On top of that, it was preceded by the trailer for Attack of the Clones, what's more American than Star Wars, right?
However, it was more than that. The film made fun of everything we were having to go through. Sully and Mike were having to make sacrifices, like not having to use the car for going to work just as we had donated blood or tried to be more observant or put up with more time at the airport. Then, there was the fact that Boo was made into a sort of terrorist who would ruin their whole way of life. Her very appearance also bought out a special squad, just like the false bomb and anthrax threats. The special squad had all these annoying rules and regulations that irritated everyone.
It was everything that was new and scary and different to our lives and we were able to LAUGH at it even if it was on an unconscious level where we didn't realize we weren't just laughing at a cute story. Without knowing it, we were finally able to laugh at the aftermath of this horrible, horrible thing.
I think this was incredibly important and allowed us to move on, it was to other escapism like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings but still...it broke the ice.
However, I would probably have to admit that Monsters, Inc is my true favorite. It works on so many levels. First of all, you have one of the cutest characters ever created...Boo. Then, you have some really great buddy comedy writing where neither male comes off stupid, just naive at times.
Then, there's this whole other level about looking into alternative fuels and how we have to make sure that the gas companies don't hold us back from that.
However, what I really want to talk about tonight is how Monsters, Inc helped me and others when it first came out. Think of it sort of like my Ten Years Later post.
Hollywood is never that good in that autumn and in 2001, it was absolutely abysmal. We had Zoolander and...that was basically it. Despite the return of Saturday Night Live and regular tv and Zoolander...the country still felt off, like we were going through the motions.
Then, there was Monsters, Inc.
It was Disney...or at least Pixar via Disney and lighthearted...comedy with Billy Crystal and John Goodman. On top of that, it was preceded by the trailer for Attack of the Clones, what's more American than Star Wars, right?
However, it was more than that. The film made fun of everything we were having to go through. Sully and Mike were having to make sacrifices, like not having to use the car for going to work just as we had donated blood or tried to be more observant or put up with more time at the airport. Then, there was the fact that Boo was made into a sort of terrorist who would ruin their whole way of life. Her very appearance also bought out a special squad, just like the false bomb and anthrax threats. The special squad had all these annoying rules and regulations that irritated everyone.
It was everything that was new and scary and different to our lives and we were able to LAUGH at it even if it was on an unconscious level where we didn't realize we weren't just laughing at a cute story. Without knowing it, we were finally able to laugh at the aftermath of this horrible, horrible thing.
I think this was incredibly important and allowed us to move on, it was to other escapism like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings but still...it broke the ice.
