Summary
Elvis hosts writer-director Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc, Toy Story, Wall-e) to talk about his latest film, Up, the first Pixar movie to be projected in 3-D as well as being the first ever animated feature film to be screened as the opening night film at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Elvis Mitchell. Welcome to the treatment. You can also hear this show at KCRW.com. |
| 0:18.7 | I think it's probably safe to say that Pete Doctor is a part of Pixar's DNA. |
| 0:22.5 | He was a writer on Toy Story and Toy Story 2 and Wally and Monsters Inc., which he's also directed. |
| 0:28.0 | And as a director, he's back to the drawing board or whatever they call it at Pixar for his new film Up. |
| 0:32.7 | Pete, thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:34.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:35.2 | I guess this is a point. |
| 0:36.4 | The show asks you to tell the audience what the |
| 0:37.7 | movie's about. Yeah, basically, it's about this guy, Carl Fredrickson, who's 78-year-old |
| 0:42.9 | retired balloon salesman. And when his house is threatened, he ties thousands of balloons to his roof |
| 0:49.0 | and floats it off to South America to make good on this promise that he and his wife had made |
| 0:54.1 | as kids |
| 0:55.3 | to go visit these fantastic place and see things no one had ever seen before. Unfortunately, |
| 1:01.6 | he ends up taking along this neighborhood kid who's named Russell, who has every single |
| 1:06.5 | achievement badge. He's a wilderness explorer. The only one he's missing is his assisting the |
| 1:12.0 | elderly badge, and that's why he's been pestering Carl. And so now the two of them are stuck |
| 1:16.5 | together on this fantastic journey down to South America, where they see wild, weird creatures |
| 1:21.7 | and have adventures. One of the things that struck me about the film early on, it reminded me a |
| 1:26.6 | lot of a Miyazaki film. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, I think Haya Miyazaki, of course, directed Totoro and spirited away, a whole slew of really fantastic films. |
| 1:36.1 | Miyazaki is, of course, a huge influence on all of us at Pixar. |
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