It’s one of Pixar’s most exciting scenes, and it was polished right down to the last moment

There are many sequences in which the artists at Pixar studios managed to remove a tear (or several) from the smoked lenses of our 3D glasses. Between Sally’s farewell to Little Owl at the end of Monsters & Co., Coco’s masterful musical conclusion, or the irresistible final moments of Toy Story 3, there is no shortage of examples in this area.

However, while they generally wait for the outcome of their feature films to make us fall in love, Pixar’s animators once managed to tug at our tissues from the very first minutes of their film. This was in July 2009, around the time of the release of Up.

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One of Pixar’s most beautiful scenes

Directed by Pete Docter (one of the founding members of the studio), Pixar’s tenth installment opens with the brilliant meeting of two children, Carl and Ellie, who both dream of travel and adventure and therefore decide to share their lives.

After their marriage, set to Michael Giacchino’s masterful score, during a series that remains among the most memorable in the studio’s history, we discover their life as a couple. Months, years, decades passed before our eyes in a few minutes. Joy, sorrow, happiness and trials.

“Just music and pictures.”

If this scene – which we will let you (re)discover so as not to diminish its effect – is so successful, it is because the studio craftsmen refined it to the last moment and carefully cut it to make it the most delicate of jewels.

“We rewrote this introduction like crazy”– said Pete Doctor into the microphone RingerIt was delivered recently Article from SlashFilm.

“I’d say we had 30 to 40 minutes of material that we slowly whittled away. As a silent film fan, I kept pushing to see how much we could cut, and we found that the less we flew, the more. There was no dialogue. , no sound effects, just music and pictures.

“We made many changes and corrections.

Virtually devoid of any dialogue or sound other than Giacchino’s music, Là-haut’s introduction went through many different versions before arriving at the result we are familiar with:

“We made a lot of changes and adjustments”Pete Docter continues, And it was really hard to decide whether we were making the scene better or ruining it. Some days were very emotional and sometimes we didn’t feel anything: no, we took three shots? what did we do Did you break the scene?'”

Fortunately, thanks to the efforts of all the artists who worked on its development, the opening of their tenth feature film remains very much alive today in the memories of viewers who discovered it in theaters in 2009.

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