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The Treatment

Lee Unkrich: Toy Story 3

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2010

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Lee Unkrich (A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo) has been part of Toy Story from the very start. An editor of the first film, co-director on the second and director of the third, he shares what it's like to work on three classics.

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

0:14.6

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

0:19.6

Toy Story reignited a tradition of animation

0:21.7

that appealed to both kids and adults.

0:24.2

And Lee Unkrich has been part of that tradition

0:25.6

from the very start.

0:27.0

He was an editor in the first films,

0:28.5

a co-editor and co-director on the second

0:30.2

and director of the third,

0:31.7

and he joins me here for the home video release

0:33.5

of Toy Story 3.

0:34.9

Lee, thanks so much for being here. Sure. It's great to be here talking to you, Alice.

0:38.7

Oh, it's great to have you.

0:39.6

Because one of the things that I wanted to ask you about, that fascinates me about all

0:44.2

three of these films at some point, they deal with kinds of anxieties, the anxiety of

0:48.9

abandonment.

0:50.6

Yeah, they do very, very much, along with a lot of other things. I mean, I think they've really been kind of parables of parenthood almost.

0:58.0

And along the way, we have dealt with issues of abandonment and loss and change.

1:03.7

And, you know, I don't know that we were thinking about all of those things on the very first film.

1:09.7

And we always knew that the first film was kind of a

1:11.9

parable of sibling rivalry and the idea of the, you know, a child being kind of the center

1:17.5

of his parents' attention, having to deal with a new kid coming along and dealing with all

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