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Super Carlin Brothers

Pixar Theory - Does Woody Have A Soul?

Super Carlin Brothers

J and Ben Carlin

News, Entertainment News, Tv & Film

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Today J dives into the world of Pixar to discuss whether or not Woody from Toy Story has a Soul!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey brother!

0:01.0

Question for you, Ben.

0:02.0

When a soul jumps to Earth in the Pixar universe, does it have to land in a human body?

0:11.0

Well, obviously not.

0:12.3

I mean, we literally see the former soul of Mr. Mittens

0:15.5

on the conveyor belt after Joe lands in his body.

0:18.1

Not to mention that within the world of Pixar there are plenty of other kinds of characters that obviously have souls like rats or dogs or monsters or

0:30.4

Forgot the fourth one. Fish.

0:33.0

Fish.

0:34.0

But it's not like really hard to argue that those characters have souls because they're all organic beings.

0:40.0

But on the other hand, Pixar is also full of inorganic characters that seem to have plenty of personality and life as well like Wally.

0:50.0

Now if you've watched our Who Does 22 Become video, then you know that we think Wally definitely has a soul,

0:58.0

but I would also put an asterisk next to that saying that he is unique among the machines in this regard.

1:04.8

He is the only one able to break through his internal programming and experience

1:09.6

genuine life-giving human emotions.

1:13.0

See within the Pixar verse it is human memory that gives stuff life.

1:17.2

This is why on the entire planet it just so happens that the one little plant that's growing happens to be near Wally.

1:25.0

That said though, there are a group of semi-sentient beings

1:29.0

within the Pixar universe that to me seem to have a big old question mark above their head in terms

1:34.8

of whether or not they have souls and that is the toys. So today we're gonna to figure out, do toys have souls?

1:45.0

Hey brother, brother!

1:50.0

Do the toys Hey brother.

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