Written, Directed and Produced by: Leslie Iwerks
Streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
It's a documentary about the history of Pixar Animation Studios. It's always inspiring to see artists who break new grounds and open new avenues. It explores the struggle behind making the world's first computer animated feature film, Toy Story. The documentary captures the spirit of Pixar so well, their strive for excellence - especially when John Lasseter looks at the rushes of Toy Story 2 and they aren't happy with it, they decide to scrap most of it and make it all again. This doesn't make much sense from a business standpoint, a decision like this could only be taken when one thinks of the purpose of art, in the larger scheme of things. By putting out something substandard, it won't harm anyone - but it will definitely decrease a person's willingness to surrender to films in general, it might be by a small amount - but it matters.
We've heard stories about the Pixar Braintrust where they keep trying several times, till they are happy with the script - a lot of their films now seem perfect, and I think it's their quest for excellence that comes through. There's one line in the film that says that they don't make films for kids or for adults, they make films for that inner child in everyone that the world makes us forget, that the movies can remind us of. Rajamouli's video on their struggles with Eega gave me the same level of inspiration, about how he'll go to any extent and do anything - but not put something substandard. No matter what our worldview is, even if we want to convey to people to be content with what they have - we as artists, shouldn't be.
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