Pixar's success recipe

When movie studios became to gain popularity giving birth to massive studios like hollywood they developed a recipe which was called star-system, this consisted of keeping the same team for every movie (actors, writers, directors, producers, etc.) over the time this recipe came to be bothersome rather than successful due to the fact that people got bored of seeing the same topic movies with the same actors and same stories, so, how do we keep the same production team and keep people entertain? Pixar seems to have find the solution: Environment, people and creativity.

Wherever we find creative people or the best technology we must not forget the thing that surrounds them all or were ideas will emerge, the working area or environment which works due to the space, facilities and comfort. So, enterprises seem to believe that if they've got the best equipment it won't matter were they use it but they are wrong, Pixar has even developed a special building in which the common areas seem to be centered, the place works like a circle in which you will inevitably encounter co-workers increasing relaxation and brain-storming when talking with others. On the other hand, facilities work an important part on creating the perfect environment, if we wan't to make people enjoy what they are doing we have to give them the sensation of being at home, in the Pixar way by providing them with cafeteria service, and other home-facilities needs which would led us to the third environmental factor which are facilities. They (Pixar) would secure you are having conferences in comforting chairs, rooms, even lighting and color's play an important role in creating the right and comfortable environment.

Already having the required environment we need to move on to the people that would be using it but recalling that in the Pixar way they do not call them workers but family due to the process which enables them to do so. Pixar works over the principle that in order to secure workers work and confidentiality camaraderie works ten times better than creating confidentiality restrictions via contract. They would using their environment (which already makes them feel at home) manage to overpass even this camaraderie part by making people bond in a level of respect and friendship in which teams of work would evolved into friendship gatherings in which the best ideas would always raise and even more important than ideas are ways to secure that when the idea is ready people won't feel intimidated to point out which are the parts that need to be improved in the Pixar way by keeping complete confidentiality whenever gatherings are held sending replies via mail and by making everyone feel part of the process, even workers that are not closely related to the part of the process Pixar is working on, they would be able to attend conferences and give out their point of view.

Finally, what Pixar takes mostly in account and what would secure that stories change and keep audiences from all ages keeping attention to what's happening is their creativity view which would form part in every aspect of the movie and not just the principal elements. Creativity would need to be enrolled in the way the movie is promoted or even the extra elements it contains and by assuring a way to make people relate to what they are watching. From a Pixar's view talented people are not those that out stand due to their abilities but rather those who out stand due to their hard work, their ability to transform even the worst idea into something good or come up with a new and better one, the most important quality being letting people think freely and teaching them to stop being afraid of thinking wide, that's why most of the great ideas never come out to see the light, and that's why Pixar creates even "schools" in which new-comers are teach those values and protocols to be able to secure a place in the "family".

In conclusion, Pixar's recipe to success has being able to maintain the star-system alive due to their view of the company as a live organization that would be able to overcome obstacles due to their people's creativity, their relationship record and their comfortable environment making it clear for common studios that the system is not the problem but rather the way we see it or manage it is, and as Ed Catmull says "Pixar does not rules under this operating principles, but rather see them as a way of life".

Lola Rennt

You look at the publicity of a movie, there's only a girl with red hair running on the cover but just because of that it drags immediately your attention, why is she running? So you buy it to discover why is she running so desperately about, but trough almost all the movie the thing we see the most is this girl called Lola, just running, both things you already knew or guessed by just reading the cover, nevertheless, since the beginning the movie would maintain you captured by the history, by the up-coming outcome (or in this case possible outcomes), of getting to know if she’s going to make it or not trough the end. Thus by maintaining the same events and characters and time, making the developments in each plotline happen in a different way, hence making it the special thing that makes us wait for each of the three plotlines different outcomes.

First of all, we have to talk about the fact that time seems to change all events. Even tough, in the movie we know Lola had the same amount of time trough the three plotlines still in each one of them, time seems to either slow down (making us, watchers, waiting for the outcome almost unbearable at times), like the plotline in which Lola waits for the baker to go fetch the money that is missing to full-fill her requirement amount and then walking out of there, or rather making it [time]seem it went so fast, hence like when she arrives to the store to meet with her boyfriend Manni who has just stole the money they needed from there and end up [both of them]being tracked down too quickly by the police. Clearly then, time would eventually fit or adjust to circumstances making the father of Lola unaware trough a plot that he’s not the father of a baby his lover is having or would stretch in order to let Lola gamble her way out of her money troubles.

On the other hand, as time seems to affect people’s decisions in the end people would be also affecting other people’s outcomes. In other words, people’s decision and time changes would be essential when talking about an outcome, for example: when Lola goes out of the door in the three of the plotlines we see a child with a dog, both in the stairs all the time, in one plotline the kid would interfere by kicking Lola in the foot, in the second one the dog would bite her or in the third one Lola would eventually avoid them, nevertheless, time would change from that moment, that little or almost no time lost would make every different outcome different. The dog bite or kid kick would make her go slower or faster to encounter the man in the car either by avoiding him or totally jumping through his car, jumping trough the stairs would make time change in order to avoid hitting the lady on the street (changing her life outcome by only that encounter), answering something to the guy in the stolen bike, or shouting to the bank woman (all of them changing their life outcomes, which we find out trough pictures of their soon-to-be life).

Finally but not last, the main issue holding the three outcomes together is the fact that we know destiny would never change, destiny would always maintain its balance. Even if time events and decision making can change; there are some facts that would always remain the same. Someone would have to die in the development of the plotline, Lola dies in the first plot, Manny in the second, and the guy in the ambulance in the third one seems to be heading that way. Moreover, trough the plot eventually someone will crash a car, here we can mention the ambulance going through the glass or the guy in the car (whom we later learn is a friend of Lola’s father) crashing into another car. Besides that, objects would have also an important role appearance, therefore in each plot a gun would be shot one or several times (when stealing the shop, threatening the father or the vagabond) and money would be acquired (by stealing the store, stealing the bank or gambling to get it).

In conclusion, what makes Run Lola Run a fantastic movie that would be able to keep you interested in knowing what’s going to happen next is the fact that time, and events would always maintain their self so that besides we know what are the factors involved around each developing story we will still want to know the possible outcome or change in variables that would make them [the characters] rather succeeded or fail in their goal of delivering the money they had just lost and maintain their selves alive.

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Hamlet y El rey Lear, del escritor inglés William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , así como el musical de Broadway, Fela!,

Romeo + Juliet: The Nurse Character

1. Juliet's nurse character is well represented in the movie Romeo + Juliet: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ACrlYSxho&feature=related)
A. Nurse
a. characterization
b. character
c. stays true to the original character
B. Plot
a. flat character
b. suspense/cliff hanger
c. no coming of age
C.Place
a. time
b.location
c.cultural background
2. Summary

The way to find out if a film adaptation stays true to its original story tends to be focused on whether it has the same time of events or the same characters, nevertheless, to truly see if a movie adaptation has managed to stay true to its original version it's trough the justifying of circumstances that arrived trough the plot. An easy way to prove it is to see if a character place in the plot stays true to the original no matter the changes in time or location, in this essay I will attempt to prove why does the nanny in Romeo + Juliet film adaptation stays true to his original character (in Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare’s original version) by analyzing the main aspects of fiction we have mention before: the characterization of the nurse, her role on the plot, and the place and cultural background of time and location she's put in.

First of all we have to describe the characterization of Juliet's nurse trough the film. When we first see her we see she's kind of chubby and has red hair with white hair all over, revealing her not so young age, she seems to have trouble walking due to her weight and love for food. Another part of her characterization can be described regarding her manner of speech, in which we can quite easily distinguish her accent when calling Juliet in a way that seems almost complete Spanish, by this we can also complement her exaggerate gestures when talking or when making facial expressions of surprise, unreal anger, tiredness, etc. On the other hand, we can see that her character seems to really care about Juliet's well-being, because she would go search for Romeo even though she knows he's a "formal enemy" of the Capulet, nevertheless, regarding the nurse under pressure we can see that she would no longer do as Juliet would wish her too, but rather stay true to her masters and to her nature of regarding Paris as a much better partner for Juliet due to the amount of money he has. As a whole, we can declared that both character and characterization stay true to the original story because even though the characterization seems to be a little way off it balances it later justifies itself due to the time and location we are being put in trough the adaptation.

As the Nurse character remains equal to the original story, the plot in which she is set would also remain intact. The fact that we can still describe the nurse as a Flat character tells us that she is as in the original story only helping the movie to build up suspense. The nurse would never have a significant change trough the story but rather would help as an archetypical character (insert in the story to full-fill the only task of helping the main heroine) to drive the story to its first cliffhanger, which would be telling Juliet that Romeo is one of the Montague. By seeing that the original dialogue of the movie is kept intact in the movie we can also proof that it hasn't lost integrity.

The place in which the movie it's set, including time and location, are another of the points to keep in mind when adapting a film, in Romeo + Juliet case we can see that the time and location have changed to a much modern and in a way decayed version of Verona, making circumstances change in order to maintain a justification of events. In the nurse case we can see that her cultural background is all the way focus on reminding us of the American families that even nowadays still leave their children's care to the also nowadays called nanny stereotyped as a foreigner just like in Juliet’s case.

In conclusion, we can see that this modern version of Romeo + Juliet keeps its fictional setting by maintaining a justified plot and characters (in this cased analyzed by the nurse) but also by justifying his new time and location. Swords and status are replaced by guns and political power, making this adaptation stay true to the original one because even though we are used to think in the story of Romeo and Juliet as this old-set story of tragic love we cannot denied that Romeo + Juliet (the film) remains also a story focused on the same theme, a tragic love story.

Amadeus Freytag's Pyramid

Internal & External Conflict: Salieri's struggle to accept that he is nothing compared to Amadeus Mozart and his actions that would influence in a way Amadeus life.


1. Exposition:











Salieri talking to a priest about his story since childhood.

2. Inciting Incident:


















Amadeus mocking Salieri's music.


3. Rising Action:














Salieri decides to challenge God by destroying his creation: Amadeus


4. Climax:










Amadeus starts to believe his father has come back from death to torment him.

5. Falling Action:












Salieri helping to full-fill the requiem. (We already know what Salieri's plan is and that most likely Mozart is going to die but we see that Salieri is also accepting Mozart is the best musician ever)



6. Resolution:








This actually happens at the beggining of the movie when Salieri tries to kill himself because he can't live with the burden of thinking he has killed Amadeus

7. Dénouement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Z0bu-swko&feature=related

Salieri's Final Speech.

Short Essay: "Pirates of the Caribbean is a fantastic movie."

1. I will try to demonstrate why Pirates of the Caribbean is a fantastic movie
A. Main character anti-hero
a. Evil pirate concept
b. Actions
c. Goals
B. Entertaining (Story)
a. Mixing antique Mayan legends
b. Details
c. Constant attention
C. Changing moral & integrity perspective
a. If pirates are seen as the villain ones, the movie would make the villain’s win
b. Integrity
c. Rules or moral code
5. Conclusion


Pirates, we have seen them in movies many many times, nevertheless, what if there was a movie that could change completely our view of them? that would make us question the real difference between right and wrong? Well then you need to know that movie already exists, and it is called “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” being a fantastic movie that has re-state the meaning of being the hero or living to full-fill our moral integrity by mixing entertaining and rather different characters with a story that is able to maintain suspense trough to the entire movie.

First of all, to prove why this movie is great we have to start talking about the main character, Jack Sparrow, the one that would prove to be the hero. He's the one that would swear to help the other main character named Will Turner to full-fill his goal of saving the girl he loves ("Well Mr. Turner, I’ve changed me mind. If you spring me from this cell, I swear on pain of death, I shall take you to the Black Pearl and your bonnie lass. Do we have an accord?")fact that makes them being involved in all types of situations, like being constantly persecuted, nevertheless, we found ourselves wanting him to accomplish his own goals, even though we know all he does is to help neither but himself, introducing a new version of anti-hero.

On the other hand, the movie would be able to maintain us entertained due to the line-story that focuses on an ancient curse made to a treasure containing pure Aztec-gold, turning to living-death every human that tries to spend it. Thus, making the watcher wanting to know how did they found it or how can they become alive again. The movie would also try to keep little details in secret in order to reveal them at a certain time in which they would prove to be of vitality to the story, a way in which they assure themselves the audience would be force to be paying attention.

Another thing that would revalidate the point of naming this movie fantastic would involve talking about the moral integrity issue. In usual movies we tend to see this type of hero that is really aware of his moral code and is ready to act no matter the circumstances to help others or to do the right thing all the time, nevertheless, being this a movie about pirates we have to remember that they live by with no moral code whatsoever, with the only rule to follow a code containing pirates own "rules". So, in the movie not only would we see the common selfish pirates that would stay united only if that would help them to achieve their personal interests, but we would also find that we prefer them to “win” rather than to let the RoyalNavy (in charge of "applying" justice) overpower them.

In conclusion, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is an awesome movie not only because it can keep us at the edge all the time, but also because it contains and teach us about this new kind of pirates that despite their so called lack of ethical code they would make us re-state our perspective of morality, or in other words,like Sparrow would say: "Me? I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly… stupid."