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Tim Jones<\/a>, one of the bloggers at JimmyAkin.org, notes that there are several striking parallels between Toy Story 3<\/a><\/i> and The Brave Little Toaster<\/i>, a children\u2019s story<\/a> that was first published in 1980 and then became an animated film<\/a> in 1987.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most interesting thing about Jones\u2019s observation is that Pixar chief John Lasseter, who personally directed the first two Toy Storys<\/a><\/i> (1995-1999), actually pitched a computer-animated version of The Brave Little Toaster<\/i> to the powers-that-be at Disney when he was an animator there in the early 1980s \u2014 and he was promptly fired for his efforts. Lasseter himself describes the experience in the following clip from The Pixar Story<\/i> (2007), starting at the 1:38 mark:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=15bgiWBdjlU<\/a>\n

Of course, as Jim Hill<\/a> noted a few years ago, if Lasseter hadn\u2019t been fired, he might have missed his chance to join Pixar in its early days, and he might not have gotten around to revolutionizing the industry so thoroughly that Disney ended up buying Pixar outright and putting Lasseter in charge of its animation division. (Add to this the Oscar that Lasseter won for 1988\u2019s Tin Toy<\/a><\/i>, and the nominations he got for a few other computer-animated films, and his story brings to mind a great line<\/a> from Francis Ford Coppola to the effect that \u201cthe things you\u2019re fired for when young are often the same things you\u2019re given awards for later in life.\u201d)<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s striking that Toy Story 3<\/i> \u2014 the first Pixar film that was conceived<\/a> after<\/i> the company\u2019s merger with Disney<\/a> \u2014 might be an homage of sorts to the story that caused the original rift between Lasseter and Disney nearly 30 years ago. The animator and the studio have come full circle, as it were.<\/p>\n

Of course, this also raises, once again, the question of whether Pixar movies, despite their reputation for originality, tend to recycle the plots of other movies<\/a>, especially those produced in the 1980s and early 1990s.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"