4/4/2024 0 Comments Toy story 3 incinerator theme![]() Woody could have easily discerned the trouble his friends were in had the other toys recanted their own personal tales – but Pixar opted to include a two-and-a-half minute flashback to give both Woody and the audience Lotso’s backstory, creating – at least for the audience – a sense empathy. When the toys divulge Sunnyside to be a place of despair, Woody asks them “how do you know that?” – but rather than giving them firsthand accounts of their own experiences, they turn to Chuckles the clown to recant Lotso’s sad story: ![]() Its immediate function is to alert Woody to the problems his friends face at Sunnyside since he assumed he left them in good hands. What it does, however, is provide a perspective of how Lotso became the iron-paw ruler of Sunnyside he is today. I say awkward because its function in the story is not very clear considering the outcome. ![]() The problem begins with the awkwardly-conceived revelation of Lotso’s backstory. As discussed in the previous article, that a film such as The Woodsman was able to take an unsympathetic character in Walter – a recently released child molester who’s just served twelve years in prison – and allow for him a measure of forgiveness and redemption begs the question: why couldn’t Pixar do the same for a strawberry-scented teddy bear? My concern stemmed from the film’s misuse of empathy, choosing to take a tone centered on vengeance or “comeuppance” that is perhaps a reflection of our society in general – but hardly the qualities and attributes one might expect from a spectacle like the Toy Story Trilogy that is catered toward children more so than adults. Upon watching it a second time, I had a better understanding why I felt the way I did and putting it into context – a huge summer family film – left me scratching my head as to what the folks at Pixar were actually thinking with some of their story choices. While I enjoyed it, as many others in attendance did, I couldn’t help but feel something was, well… off. No, it was something else – something about the movie that left a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. I remember stepping out into the hot desert heat from the Red Rock Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on the afternoon of Jafter having watched Toy Story 3 – but it wasn’t necessarily the heat that struck me. He drives over to Bonnie's house, and gives away his prized possessions and says goodbye.It must have taken hours to get the cast all lined up for this photo. Back at the house, Andy realizes that the toys do not belong in storage. The toys find their way back to Andy's, while Lots-o gets his karma and get's tied to a grille of a dump truck. The three claw-obsessed alien toys came to their rescue. The toys hold on to each other, when suddenly, a giant claw pulls them out. He is able to climb up, but runs away, leaving the toys to their end. The toys reach for the stop button above, and Lots-o asks them to push him up so he can do it. They find themselves on a garbage incinerator conveyor belt, leading to a fiery pit. ![]() However, the toys end up at the back of a dump truck, with Lots-o in tow and are taken to a dump site. Hearing the trouble his friends might be in, Woody goes back to the daycare and they all make a daring escape. When Woody talks about his old friends at the daycare, the toys are scared and tell him about Lots-o, that he was left behind by his owner and has since become very angry and bitter. Meanwhile, Woody is at Bonnie's home and meets her toys, which she adores. When they go against Lots-o, he imprisons them. Lots-o takes them in for the main purpose of putting them in the younger kids room, where toys get abused, thrown around, and basically break easily. At first, the toys are ecstatic with the idea of being used again by little kids who are eager to play with them, however their hopes are crushed when they are bullied by a sadistic teddy bear Lots-o-Huggin and his posse of toy thugs. Woody wants to leave right away to go back to Andy but gets brought home by a girl, Bonnie. Andy's mom mistakenly drops them off at a daycare center. Woody and the rest of the toys are about to be kept in storage in the attic because Andy is leaving for college. ![]()
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