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it's all in the STORY.

9/28/2015

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I was fourteen.

It was 1995.

I was ironing my skirt for school the next day 
(yes. I wore skirts to school. 
I went to a private school. 
yes. it sucked. 
I love you mom & dad!) 

and my dad said to me, 

"Let's go. We're going to go see Toy Story at the movies. I think you'll like it!'

I looked at him the way any fourteen year old girl who has way to many hormones surging though her body and gave him a glare and said, 

"that cartoon movie? it's a kid movie, Dad."

Without flinching he responded, 

"let's go. we're leaving right now."

Like any other respectable fourteen year old girl, I had a deep fear of missing out on something. 

So, naturally I went along for the ride.

As we left the theater, my dad asked,

"what did ya think?'

I said, 

"It was REALLY good!
 I was expecting a cartoonish movie, but it was great!
 I almost cried during one moment of it."

Fast forward fifteen years.

My husband and I took our daughter to her first film in a theater:

Toy Story 3. 

She was three at the time. 

I think I was more excited about the fact that it was a "complete circle."

What meant more to me than anything was the fact we were taking my daughter to a film from the same franchise that meant so much to me 15 years before. 

That my parents took me to the first film and now I was taking my daughter to the third film.

AND she gets to experience it. 

She gets to see and hear the story.

I cried three times.

That's what I love about Pixar.

They excel at storytelling. 

The quality of the 3-D animation is incredible.

But what makes the films by Pixar work is the STORY.

People who watch their movies get emotionally drawn in and taken in by what their films bring to the screen through the writing. 

It reaches people at the core. 

At their heart.

It's all in the story.

Want to read more about Pixar, their "22 ways of Storytelling, and get a free ebook on it?

click on the link below.

http://nofilmschool.com/2013/12/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling-free-ebook

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10/10/2017 04:08:49 am

Toy story movie is one of the successful and greatest movie I've ever seen. It has some points in real life and lessons that will surely teach the children, how to deal with it. In that movie you'll see how far can a friendship get in times of challenge of life. Some things will test you as a person in order for you to grow and learn to become a better one. With that movie also they'll teach you how to be sincere in life, that's why I watched that movie several times, I never get tired of watching it all over again. It's good that you and your child enjoyed the movie. You both are adorable.

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11/12/2018 04:52:44 pm

I have recently learned that there will be a fourth movie in the Toy Story franchise. I am filled with excitement and cannot wait for summer to come. My family and I are all Toy Story lovers, my wife and I both watched the movies even before we were married. Our son is someone who loves them as well. I think that Toy Story 4 will be one of the best family bonding that we will be having next summer.

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Violet
12/30/2018 03:15:37 pm

Thank you so much for these kind words. It means a lot to me. Have a wonderful New Year.

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