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Toy Story 1995
Children's Animation with a running time of 1:21
Voices talents of:
 | Tom Hanks - Woody the Cowboy |
| Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear |
| Don Rickles |
| Jim Varney - Slinky |
| Wallace Shawn |
| John Ratzenberger |
| Annie Potts |
| John Morris |
| Erik von Detten |
| Laurie Metcalf |
| R. Lee Ermey |
| Sarah Freeman |
| Penn Jillette |
| Jack Angel |
| Spencer Aste |
Director: John Lasseter
Plot Synopsis
Toy Story is the first full-length film which was made entirely by computers.
Toy Story is about the secret life of toys and what they do when you're not around.
But these are not just any toys, these toys come to life and like the kid from
Sixth Sense says "They walk around like normal people"
Andy is a little boy with a big imagination and a lot of toys. His favorite is Woody
(voice of Tom Hanks), who is an old-fashioned pull-string cowboy, which "Sounds like
a car ran over it"
Andy just loves to play with Woody. Nothing can separate the two. Until Andy's birthday
comes along. With Woody and the others listening to a radio report from the toy soldiers,
Andy is having a birthday party downstairs and is opening his presents a few days before
his family will be moving out of the house (Where's the Father Figure?). All is thought to
be okay until a new toy lands in Woody's area and causes prblems with Woody "You see
this is my spot" which is the bed.
The new toy is Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen), a super high tech space man who has
a number of cool features. He's State of the art, flashing lights, excellent sound quality
with pre=programmed speeches.
Buzz becomes Andy's new favorite toy and this annoys Woody. He cannot believe how
everyone just suddenly likes this new little figure who thinks he really is a "Space
Ranger" and a member of Star Command(To listen to the file
click on it once and then click open). Woody tried to convince Buzz that he isn't Real
"YOU ARE A TOY!!!"
Taking matters into his own hands, Woody attacks Buzz which ends in Buzz falling out of
the window. (The Music when he falls out of the window is taken from Indiana Jones)
The rest of the toys are angry at Woody and begin to attack him. Hell breaks
loose but Woody survives when Andy takes woody as they are going to Pizza Planet.
The two toys find each other and try to get back to the house. Yet, they run into a
number of obstacles, including Andy's next-door neighbor Sid. Sid loves to destroy toys:
he likes to blow them up, rip them apart, and slice them to pieces. When Buzz and Woody
find themselves stuck in Sid's house, they have to think up of a plan to escape and get
back to Andy before he moves.
Luckily they make It!!!! (Of course they did, or they wouldn't be a second one!!)
Trivia
| The animation crew perfected the walk of the army men by attaching wooden planks to
their feet and strutting around. |
| Sid the toy destroyer was based on an ex Employee of Pixar who would built monstrous
creations from various different parts. |
| Previous Pixar efforts are referenced in the film, most notably in the books on andy's
shelf. (you can see these at the meeting)One is Tin Toy. Tin Toy was Pixar's Academy
Award winning animated short.Other books on the shelf are: Knicknack (Another Pixar short
film), Ant and Bee go on a Vacation, Scooter Run, Feet First, Help the Planet, Pale Cowboy
from Texas, and the Boy Scout Handbook |
| Well, one secret thing is Tim Allen's TV series has a little place in the film. For
those of you who are not familiar with Allen's "Home Improvement", he plays Tim
Taylor, a host of the cable show "Tool Time". In a scene past halfway, when Buzz
and Woody are in Sid's room, they try to push off a toolbox. On the toolbox, there is the
company's name Binford Tools. Binford Tools is the name of the company that runs Tool Time
on Allen's Show. Just a little neat fact. |
| The top of Syd's backpack reads ``Julie Macbarfle has cooties!'', a reference to camera
manager Julie M. McDonald, who lobbied people to put her name in the film. ``Juju's house
of food'' is another reference to her. |
| Rex uses a few of George McFly's lines from Back to the Future (1985): ``I don't like
confrontations''and ``I don't think I could take that kind of rejection. |
| When Andy's Sister is in the car, listen in the background for the song Hakuna
Matata. |
| The
1988 short film Tin Toy won Pixar an Oscar and formed the kernel around
which the first fully computer-animated feature would be based. The original
treatment had the star of the short, nicknamed Tinny, in the cool toy role
that eventually evolved into Buzz Lightyear. After getting left behind at a
road stop, Tinny bonds with an old ventriloquist's dummy. Together, they get
into scrapes and make their way to a preschool - a place where they'll never
become lost or outgrown again. The filmmakers quickly realized that Tinny
wasn't hip enough to be a child's favorite, so they prototyped a spaceman
toy they called Lunar Larry and later Tempus from Morph. His spacesuit was
red in early tests, but eventually the design was refined to gleaming white.
The dummy became a rag doll cowboy named Woody, who in the tests had a real
mean streak. To lure Tom Hanks, the animators put together a sequence with
Woody - in more or less final form - acting out the scene in Turner &
Hooch where Hanks chastises the dog for tearing up his car. When Hanks
watched the clip, he immediately saw himself as the voice of Woody and
signed on. |
| The filmmakers worked on several sequences that were elaborately scripted,
voice acted, and storyboarded and then cut before the digital production
process. Among them were homages to Flash Gordon as well as directors Sergio
Leone, David Lynch, and Steven Spielberg. The first opening sequence
featured a serial sci-fi style Buzz Lightyear TV show that enraptures Andy.
The scene was cut when the crew realized that it would destroy the bond
between Andy and Woody too soon. The next opening sequence they scripted
featured a spaghetti Western-style shootout between Andy and Woody, with
Woody saving a vase that Andy knocks over when the boy isn't looking. This
was cut as well, because it didn't accurately reflect how boys play with
their toys. After Buzz becomes Andy's new favorite toy, Woody originally had
a nightmare where he's discarded by Andy for not glowing in the dark like
Buzz. He's left behind in a garbage can and then attacked by bugs a la
Lynch's Blue Velvet. Big surprise: The scene was judged "too dark"
for kids. Another sequence that was cut featured a Tiger Teething Ring
patterned after Quint in Jaws, who tells Buzz, Woody, and Bo Peep about the
various legends surrounding a rattle that Sid reputedly destroyed. The scene
was never produced, but the Jaws reference still made it in - taking the
form of a toy shark in Andy's room. |
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