Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Pixar`s Car Shouldn`t Work But it Does:
I grew up on the border of car culture. I can identify almost every car made before the year 1957. My father restored antique cars professionally, owned a garage and a 1921 Maxwell for most of my life and was the crew chief for a Corvette racing team in the early 60`s. I understand the love affair that Americans have with cars. But I also remember Jerry Van Dyke in My Mother the Car and Martin Milner in Route 66 and I understand a little bite about story and this one shouldn`t work, couldn't work, but does.
The concept for Pixar`s mega-hit Cars as a strainded and awkward blending of Route 66 and My Mother the Car really should never ever in amillion years work which may be the reason this 2 week $117,055,283 home run is so impressive a feat of master storytelling.
John Lasseter tackling this bazaar awkward humanized car culture movie is like the African barefoot runner who won the Olympic marathon with a broken foot, completely unbelievable! It is an amazing feat of storytelling. And a real love letter to Route 66 and the car culture of times past. There is no way it should have worked but it does, completely. And that shows just how good the guys and gals in Emeryville are. Go see it. ¶ 10:36 AM
I grew up on the border of car culture. I can identify almost every car made before the year 1957. My father restored antique cars professionally, owned a garage and a 1921 Maxwell for most of my life and was the crew chief for a Corvette racing team in the early 60`s. I understand the love affair that Americans have with cars. But I also remember Jerry Van Dyke in My Mother the Car and Martin Milner in Route 66 and I understand a little bite about story and this one shouldn`t work, couldn't work, but does.
The concept for Pixar`s mega-hit Cars as a strainded and awkward blending of Route 66 and My Mother the Car really should never ever in amillion years work which may be the reason this 2 week $117,055,283 home run is so impressive a feat of master storytelling.
John Lasseter tackling this bazaar awkward humanized car culture movie is like the African barefoot runner who won the Olympic marathon with a broken foot, completely unbelievable! It is an amazing feat of storytelling. And a real love letter to Route 66 and the car culture of times past. There is no way it should have worked but it does, completely. And that shows just how good the guys and gals in Emeryville are. Go see it. ¶ 10:36 AM
