SproutBlog has posted a full report of the Bolt/Up Panel at the 2008 San Diego Comic Con today. What we learn?
- Up looks like a Pixar-meets-Miyazaki art film version of About Schmidt.
- (Potential Spoiler, Highlight to read) Okay, so Carl had always promised his wife that he’d take her to see these mountains, but she died before they could go. Carl’s about to get taken to a nursing home, when he unleashes a mass of helium-filled balloons into the sky, and his house takes off with Carl inside, bound for Venezuela. Carl charts a course south, then settles into his easy chair. As the house floats along serently at 10,000 feet, there’s a knock on the front door. Carl has a stowaway. A young, chubby boy scout.
- Up is very sweet and melancholy at times.
Also, they have skinned more elevators throughout the Gaslamp district with the Up environment, just like this one.
I’m guessing that I’m a bit older than many of the regular visitors here and know I’m older than the site’s brain trust.
That said, the initial blurb I read at AICN a few months ago about “Up” left me in tears. For me, that’s a bit more difficult to accomplish with simple words than a full-fledged movie where, as Joe Ranft would say, “everybody’s on board” to make the strongest .emotional connection through lighting, performance, music, etc.
“Up” has the potential to pack quite a wallop — especially among adults who know how life and its responsibilities can get in the way of the aspirations you had in your teens, 20s and 30s.
I suspect that “Up” will be quite a bit like Pixar’s “Wall-E” in the sense that it will have plently of adventure and comic moments to appeal to children, but its real significance will be in inducing some reflection by adult viewers.
“Pixar-meets-Miyazaki”
…..Can’t….. Compute…. Awesome of that….
I can tell you right now… the right-wing media and blowhard pundits are going to start attacking “Up” when it comes out (just as they did with “Wall-E”). Why? Because of the country Carl chooses to fly off to. * Sigh *…