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Which film represented the biggest creative Risk?

Toy Story 1, proving the viability of computer animation.
4 (18.2%)
A Bug's Life, pushing the limits of what TS1 was able to do.
0 (0%)
Toy Story 2, attempting to match the critical success of TS1
0 (0%)
Monsters Inc., handing the Studio's growing reputation to an unproven director
0 (0%)
Finding Nemo, moving to Summer blockbuster season with another unproven director
1 (4.5%)
The Incredibles, similar action-focused animated films weren't succeeding
0 (0%)
Cars, their most fantastical world to date
0 (0%)
Ratatouille, surprisingly adult and the original director fired
0 (0%)
Wall-E, most wordless opening third
9 (40.9%)
Up, emotionally rough and not as easily translatable into marketable toys
2 (9.1%)
Toy Story 3, hold up to the high regard of the prior two films
6 (27.3%)

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Author Topic: The Elite Eleven - Pixar's Biggest Creative Risk  (Read 4157 times)

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Re: The Elite Eleven - Pixar's Biggest Creative Risk
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2015, 04:55:25 AM »
If I had to pitch one of these movies to my CEO, or the board or whatever magical entity of animated happiness rules Pixar (oh that's right, Disney) I think Nemo would have been the hardest. All the others are easily conducive to creating magical alien worlds, if only because of their respective settings and premises. Nemo is essentially a movie about fishes doing very little in the ocean and in an aquarium. Or maybe I'm just saying that because I don't like it.
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Re: The Elite Eleven - Pixar's Biggest Creative Risk
« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2015, 09:20:22 PM »
Toy Story was a creative risk.  The whole reputation and future of computer animation depended on this feature film not only being good to look at, but a story that audiences would appreciate.  If they failed creatively, they would fail the whole industry.
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Re: The Elite Eleven - Pixar's Biggest Creative Risk
« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2015, 08:55:43 PM »
If I had to pitch one of these movies to my CEO, or the board or whatever magical entity of animated happiness rules Pixar (oh that's right, Disney) I think Nemo would have been the hardest. All the others are easily conducive to creating magical alien worlds, if only because of their respective settings and premises. Nemo is essentially a movie about fishes doing very little in the ocean and in an aquarium. Or maybe I'm just saying that because I don't like it.

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Re: The Elite Eleven - Pixar's Biggest Creative Risk
« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2016, 06:24:53 PM »
Went with Up, which I had neck and neck with Wall-E.