I like how they had it set up like it was a driving exam or something of that taste. Brilliant.
My favorite part was probably the end, when the little dood crashed the UFO into the ground and then it takes off, and the only peice of land left standing is the little platform with the buy laying in his bed, lol
not my favorite short, but pretty funny. Yeah the aliens do look like the concepts for humans in WALL-E. And I can see the Linguini resemblance too. I totally saw the ship coming down on the house before it happened, but I didn’t anticipate the bed just sitting there. You feel sorry for the little one when there are millions of these buttons and he just guesses wrong.
My guess is the man was sedated or something before they were going to extract him.
So GLAD to know that Lifted’s Director, Gary Rydstrom, is working on the new Toy Story Short (chair director), can’t wait to listen to its audio commentaries during the process of the short film
I think the human in Lifted was an early version of Linguini’s model. Funny story: when I saw this short in theaters with Ratatouille in '07, I didn’t realize the short and film were completely separate and that it was Linguini, and was wondering if his mom died in the story because of the UFO in Lifted.
I say his mother was born French, had an affair with some guy from Kansas behind Gusteau’s back and during her trip home to Paris, she secretly gave birth and raised the kid without Gusteau knowing. After Gusteau’s death, with her death soon following, she hid the child somewhere in the rural Midwest, wrote a secret letter and ran back to her house to die in peace, but not without guilt for her affair. Skinner found the letter years later (in his office) but only read the parts about Linguini inheriting Gusteau’s, forgetting to read the bottom halfs about his brother. Linguini would do the same, thereby ensuring his dead mother got away with it and he never found out. The UFO short was from an alien adult reliving his childhood, entrusted in capturing Linguini’s brother.