I’ve already raved on and on about how good… no good isn’t the right word… PERFECT the new Pixar movie “UP” is, but I’m going to gush just a little bit more since I saw it the other night for the second time and it just got better. It is… a perfect movie. No weaknesses, no flaws. It’s touching, beautiful, exciting, charming, endearing and outright HILARIOUS all at the same time. It is the best picture of the year, and if another one comes out in the next few months that’s BETTER than “UP”, then this will be one hell of a movie year.
At any rate… the good folks over at MTV came across this little bit of interesting information. Apparently there was another subplot in UP that was supposed to be a part of the film that they decided to cut out:
When MTV News visited the Pixar headquarters in Emeryville, CA recently we couldn’t help but notice that there were early sketches on the walls of Carl (Ed Asner) — the 78 year old man who flies his house to South America in “Up.” In these pictures we saw, he was constantly holding a giant egg. It wasn’t his breakfast either, but instead the spawn of his rare, hunted bird friend Kevin.
“That was early on,” director Pete Docter explained of a subplot that focused on a fountain of youth. “We had the bird give birth to this egg, and Carl then felt like he needed to take this baby — it needed tending to, and needed to get home.” “[Carl needed to] get away from these awful dogs and things,” he said of the character’s unseen adventures protecting the egg.
Sounds interesting… but ultimately I’m glad they took it out of the film. It’s already full and adding another “symbolic” subplot would have been unnecessary in my opinion.
Damn… now I want to go watch it again.
