Let's get our parts together, get ready and go out on a high note. HANKS: (As Woody) We'll always be there for him. Unidentified Man #7 (Actor): (As character) And he'll play with us then, right? They're fun, right? And some day, if we're lucky, Andy may have kids of his own. HANKS: (As Woody) There you go, the old TV and those guys from the Christmas decorations. Unidentified Man #6 (Actor): (As character) And an old TV. HANKS: (As Woody) The race car track, thank you. TIM ALLEN (Actor): (As Buzz Lightyear) And we'll all be together. He must care about us, or we wouldn't be here. I mean, we've lost friends along the way, Weezie(ph) and Etch(ph) and Bo Peep(ph), yeah, even, even Bo, all good toys who have gone on to new owners.īut through every yard sale, every spring cleaning, Andy held on to us. No one's getting thrown out, okay? We're all still here. HANKS: (As Woody) Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. Unidentified Man #5 (Actor): (As character) Oh, I hate all this uncertainty. Unidentified Man #4 (Actor): (As character) I thought we were going to the attic. Unidentified Man #3 (Actor): (As character) (Unintelligible). JOAN CUSACK (Actor): (As Jessie) We're being abandoned. Unidentified Man #2 (Actor): (As character) How do you know? TOM HANKS (Actor): (As Woody) No, no one's getting thrown away. Unidentified Man #1 (Actor): (As character) We're getting thrown away? Woody, the wood toy sheriff, voices by Tom Hanks, in this scene tries to reassure the toys as the toys begin to panic. The toys are terrified that after years of being played with by Andy, after years of being cared for and loved, after years of being a little toy community, they will be abandoned and tossed on a garbage truck. She gives him three choices: He can store them in the attic, donate them to a daycare center or put them in the trash. His mother tells him that before he goes, he has to deal with his toys. He started there as a film editor on "Toy Story" and went on to co-direct "Toy Story 2" and "Monsters, Inc." Michael Arndt won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for his first film, "Little Miss Sunshine."Īt the beginning of "Toy Story 3," Andy is preparing to leave home for college. Lee Unkrich has been with Pixar since 1994. We're going to talk about making "Toy Story 3" with its director, Lee Unkrich, and screenwriter, Michael Arndt. It's now the highest-grossing animated film of all time. He becomes a walking symbol of toys worst fears, about Andy, about the world and about themselves.įor more information about upcoming classes available online or in our Studio, click here.The animated movie "Toy Story 3" moved a lot of adults to tears. Lotso is more than just an external threat to the toys, he’s a physical manifestation of the danger of giving up on loyalty, and the way the desperate desire for love can twist a character into an evil mockery everything he once represented. In this way, Lotso becomes more than just an antagonist. They too have needs and desires, and in their map of the universe, they see themselves as the hero or as the suffering victim.īy humanizing Lotso, the writers of Toy Story 3 deepen the emotional journey of their main characters, by exploring yet another variation on the theme of loyalty. Whether you’re writing a comedy like Toy Story 3, a drama like The Squid and The Whale or a thriller like Cape Fear, the most dramatic antagonists are usually frighteningly human. Mustache Twirling Villains Don’t Scare Us Even when the good toys risk their own lives to save him, Lotso chooses betrayal over loyalty, and anger over love, abandoning the other toys to death by incineration at the garbage dump. But rather than remaining loyal to his owner or his nature, he has become twisted by his feelings of betrayal, and lost his ability to love and be loved. Just like our protagonists, Lotso believes he has been abandoned by his owner. In this context, one of the things that makes Toy Story 3 so emotionally powerful is the way the question of loyalty, and the desperate desire to be loved, governs not only the actions of the good guys, but also the base desires of Lotso, the evil strawberry-scented Teddy Bear. The Bear: The First Image and the Opening SequenceĪs discussed in Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series, Toy Story 3 does a brilliant job of exploring diverse aspects of the theme of loyalty, through an emotional structure built upon the toys’ shared desire to be loved and played with by their owners, and the gigantic obstacles that stand in their path.The Inner Game of Screenwriting with Christian Lybrook.
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