![]() Leo and I would go on a construction lift and it would drop us off at the top, and then the lift would go away so that it wasn’t seen during filming. For the ‘King of the World’ scene, there was a separate piece of set-a tall tower-piece that just had the front of the ship. “When we shot this scene, it was cold and windy and awful down in Rosarito Beach. Everything here-the Randy Newman needle drop, the adolescent delight-was a choice that would come to define a generation (and then some) of children and parents worldwide. ![]() It’s fascinating to watch this opening scene now, knowing what Pixar would become. So began the transformation of mainstream American animation, which, on the shoulders of Pixar, shifted dramatically toward computers and the rich, clever storytelling that has become as synonymous with Pixar as photocopies are to Xerox. All of this-what would come to be identified as the Pixar trademark-springs to life, fully formed, in the opening moments of the company’s 1995 debut film, Toy Story, as a boy named Andy plays cowboys with his delightfully mismatched toys: a cowpoke named Woody, Mr. It’s all been there from the very beginning: the consummate genre cleverness, the animation with its affectedly rounded edges and warm tones, and the emotional appeals to not only kids but their nostalgic parents, who wish they were kids.
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