I’d like to share this touching, bitter sweet news today, The OC Register is reporting a tragic story involving a little girl’s last dream and Up.
Colby Curtin is no ordinary girl, she’s got a rare disease taking over her body, vascular cancer to be exact. Ever since she saw the trailer for Pixar’s Up, she’d been excited to see the sky high adventures of Carl and Russell. But as circumstances would have it, she never got to do so in theatres because of scheduling issues and her deteriorating health condition.
Curtin, 10, proclaimed that "she did not want to die until she saw the new Disney•Pixar movie." One of her family members frantically called Pixar (and guessed a name to get through), luckily she found someone who could help! The unnamed Pixarian flew down to her house with a DVD of the movie and a bag full of Up goodies one day later. The family enjoyed the movie (and their last moments with Colby) that day.
After the movie was done, the ailing girl was asked if she enjoyed it. She was in so much pain all she could do was nod "yes." 7 hours later she passed away, but she died with her final wish granted. It’s a beautiful story that I highly encourage you pass along, it shows that Pixar is much more than just an animation studio.
(via The OC Register)
Last modified: June 18, 2009
RIP to the girl.
a shame she couldnt keep her eyes open to see the movie visually
What a sad, but heartwarming news story. It’s so nice to read positive articles rather than sensationalized negative news reports.
And huge kudos to Pixar for not commenting on the story and releasing the staff names. It’s not about them, it’s about the girl.
My heartfelt prayers go out to the family.
My heart goes out to her parents. Kudos to Pixar for getting the film to her.
Wow this is unbelieveble. My heart goes out to her parents aswell. It’s such a tragic thing when I child so young have to die. But she got to experience something beautiful and something that made her happy in her last hours. r.i.p.
My goodness. What a sweet story. I love how Pixar touches people in ways that we don’t even realize from the get-go — in ways that cause some to keep defeat at bay for such circumstances as this.
I had a feeling that such an act of generosity as this would occur at some point (on Pixar’s behalf). Lo and behold, look what happens.
My condolences go out to the young girl’s family, and I applaude that one individual from Pixar who took the time to make one more person smile.
Beautiful story. Thank you for sharing it with us, The OC Register and martini!
Wow, that’s sad. But the point I want to show here is that this is something that can only be acomplished by Pixar. I mean, no one would have wanted to see Monsters vs aliens before thay died. Everyone knows that Pixar is always going to be better than dreamworks. Dreamworks can’t make a movie that will make a dying girl happy that she saw it. Dreamworks just does crude humor filled unimotional films. With Pixar, you know that the characters are real; they have emotions, they are funny without beng a stupid funny, they care for each other. Dreamworks could never accomplish this, which is why Pixar is the most popular animation studio in the world. Go Pixar!
Wow that’s sad. And that is REALLY nice of Pixar to do that. If I was about to die I would wanna see Toy Story 3. That way I would die happy 🙂