Why is Pixar so successful?

“Every animator is a toy nut” is a quote that narrows down quite perfectly what Pixar’s work code is, Pixar appreciates uniqueness and applauds talent. Pixar has always been a leading animation company, along the years it has created movies and short films that entertain both children and adults. But all Pixar’s success is due to the fact that they believe that getting people and their talent together rather than good ideas are the key for creating something exceptional. 

First of all, Pixar embraces and nurtures talent. Pixar is a company that firmly believes  that smart, energetic, and talented people are far of more importance for the creative process than good ideas. Pixar is a company that grows the idea of respect for one another in each of its staff members. This idea is reflected in the fact that everyone here must feel free to communicate with anyone.It manages to bring up the best of people in every circumstance. They all make use of their best qualities and abilities in every project, for this to be true Pixar has assured that each of its members feels safe when bringing  new ideas into the table.  

In the second place, Pixar establishes team work as the corner stone of their work structure. Creativity is rarely a process made by one, one person is merely a piece of the puzzle when it comes to the development of an idea. The “high concept” is the first step you take when coming up with a whole movie, the process involves several more people. Not mattering what their level is, people support one another.Their dynamic is quite impressive, new talents are able to look up at masters of the art, and work side by side with them. They bring the three musketeers saying back to life, all for one and one for all. They are all interested in handing in the best final work they can, so they all invest a lot of effort in helping one another and pushing themselves in order to get the best of each other.

Lastly, how Pixar managed to merge such different disciplines like art and technology  to get a unique final result is quite enlightening. Pixar is always at the state of the art technology. They are not selfish when it comes to disclosing information about their research, because they are interested in keeping the connection with the academic community alive. Pixar understands that this connection is key in order to keep the road of innovation alive, because it reinforces the idea that people are quite more important than ideas. Getting people form different disciplines to work together and appreciate each other’s contributions to the field is of great importance. Pixar nurtures these relationships, because it understands how valuable these mixtures are. 

Pixar is a group of talented smart people that gather around to speak up their minds and unleash the untamed imagination each of them possesses. Pixar’s trust in its members  talent and its work dynamic are responsible for its unique track record. Pixar’s great variety of disciplines provides the studio with a unique force of workers that  surrender fantastic and brilliant creations as a result of the unison they all work in. Pixar is a trend making overflowing with talent studio we all should look up to. 

Stop time

“Time waits for no man and it certainly will not wait for me” is a saying that we all take as a fact, but this fundamental truth is tore apart in Run Lola Run, because we can observe how they play with time in order for Lola to be in time at the end. At a certain point in life we all get to wonder what would have happened if we had gotten a minute earlier or a minute later, would everything stay the same? Or would everything change? This movie proves that one action depends on the one before; in this case our three runs depend on how Lola faces the dog when she is storming down the stairs.

Time waits for no one and after one action happens, all its consequences start developing and there is no way of stopping them. When Lola decides to grab the gun, the path things took changed and all of its events led Lola to her dead. Every act is part of a small chain or series of events. We can see Lola’s encounter with the dog as an unremarkable event, but it is the one responsible for how things turn out, even the smallest event of all is a link between actions and its consequences. We can either see life’s decisions as fate or chaos, in the movie we get to see how fate works because things always happen for a reason.

The decisions taken at a specific moment in time have great repercussions on how things turn out. In the second run we can observe how Lola bumps into a woman and the woman’s fate completely changes, in this case it turned out for the better she gets to win the lottery. In Run Lola Run the moment that changes everything is Lola’s confrontation with the dog in the stairs.  When one thing changes the answer is never the same. There was an ambulance and some guys carrying a piece of glass, not mattering what both of them had a specific task to fulfill, Lola encounters them in each one of the runs, but the outcome was never the same, due to Lola’s timing.

Drive is necessary in life in order to get things done. In Lola’s life motivation was love, her reason for doing everything was Manni, saving him was her reason in each of the runs. No mattering what she needed to do in order to help him, she would do it without hesitation. There is always a downside to every situation. In Lola’s case was the fact that her motorcycle got stolen, this unleashes a chain of unfortunate consequences.

Run Lola Run is a movie that totally depends on its managements of time. Decisions and its timing unleash a series of events that are responsible for the facts that make up fate. One event is responsible for the next one and so on. Run Lola Run illustrates down to perfection this anti-chaotic structure of consequences. We can perfectly observe how facing the dog changes Lola’s fate either for better or for worse (making her be early or late).