Co-writer/director Pete Docter explains the importance behind Carl and Ellie's heartbreaking Up opening montage and surprising audiences with it.
Over a decade after its emotional debut, Pete Docter is explaining the importance behind Carl and Ellie's heartbreaking Up opening sequence. The 2009 Pixar movie centered on an elderly widower traveling to South America with his house propelled by helium balloons with a hithchiking Wilderness Explorer in tow.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY While speaking with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss his upcoming Winsor McCay Award, Pixar CCO Pete Docter reflected on the legacy of Up. In looking specifically at Carl and Ellie's heartbreaking opening montage, the director explained its importance to the film upon its release, and the challenges it raised for the studio's follow-ups.
When we push past that, it’s always fun to surprise [audiences]. I would love to continue to push against those walls, in ways hopefully that are still tapping into things that the audience resonates with. It’s easy to do something different just for different’s sake. It’s really hard to do something different that still connects with people — so they want to see it, but they haven’t seen it before. That’s the hard part.
Carl and Ellie's heartbreaking Up opening continued this Pixar trend. Beginning with their childhood meeting, the sequence progresses to their falling in love and marrying as adults, Ellie suffering a miscarriage, their plans to save up for a trip to Paradise Falls being impeded by life emergencies, and she eventually falls ill and dies.
While some of Pixar's follow-ups have scored similar acclaim to Up, namely Toy Story 3 the year after, few have lived up to the same emotional heights of Carl and Ellie's heartbreaking opening. However, with the latter franchise set to come back with Toy Story 5 and the similarly emotional Inside Out 2 currently in production, it will be interesting to see if they can finally top the Oscar-winning sequence.
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