Is 'Monsters University' Pixar Continued to Be Brilliant or Lost in Creativity? The game between talent and acquired effort

Garland 2022-04-23 07:01:23

Although "Monsters University" was released in China a lot later than North America, which reduced the desire to watch it to a certain extent, I still regard it as the most important animated film of the year. "The inexplicable inflated comments on the Internet, and the top popular and cute animation "Despicable Me 2" is not listed in the Universal Pictures industry for review, "Monsters University" seems to have become the most anticipated animation this year, plus Pixar's reputation, go to one. There seems to be no reason to go to the cinema.

Pixar has been controversial in recent years. On the one hand, due to the frequent release of excellent animated films independently produced by DreamWorks or Disney, on the other hand, the real Pixar has become less and less powerful. Including "Monster Electric Company" is also controversial.


Is Pixar Regressing? No, you see, "Monsters University" uses the traditional story structure of "diaosi counterattack" to make up an unconventional plot trend. After various dropouts and expulsions, the protagonists did not return to the Scare Academy as they wished. , the "ruthless" dean did not open up, and finally the big-eyed monster and the hairy monster "started from the grassroots" and "counterattacked" successfully! This kind of plot can't help but make people "like"! Inspirational and realistic enough, full of positive energy. In addition, various cute points and details echoing the previous work can also be seen carefully crafted.


Is Pixar Regressing? Not without. In my opinion, there are no surprises, and I even feel that the plot of the movie does not have a big climax, there is no motivation to recommend others to watch it, there is no style of the annual masterpiece, and it does not have the super strong reputation like Wall-E back then.


Regarding what the film wants to express, many people have mentioned the "difficult" or even "unsolvable" problem of talent and acquired effort. I thought that the Zhihu website mentioned "students with good academic performance have good learning experience", and the top answer was the gap in "IQ". Indeed, those students with the best grades did not necessarily pay more than The efforts of others have achieved far better results than others, and some people have put in far better efforts than others, but have never been able to achieve good results. "Monsters University" gives a good answer. Maybe, you don't need to make unnecessary efforts for something that is difficult to achieve. You may be able to find your true talent and play a light and heat that is different from others. Be a good "coach" like a big-eyed monster.

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Monsters University quotes

  • [as the Oozmas are watching the Scare Floor at Monsters Inc. in order for Mike to show them what it takes to be Scarers, they soon get caught by the Security Guards with their flashlights]

    Security Guard: Hey, what are you doing up there?

    Art: [Panicking] I can't go back to jail!

  • Mike Wazowski: [Before the First Scare Games Challenge starts] Squishy. We're not gonna lose, because we have everything we need to win right here.

    [points to his chest]

    Squishy: [smiling] Heart.

    Mike Wazowski: No, me! I'm gonna win the race for us.