Pixar

Today, Pixar is one of the most famous animated studios in the world, with all the new ways of doing animation that has changed the industry. Every time it releases a film we know it will be a blockbuster. It all started with an idea of doing something for a living, not only because of the money, but because it was something people actually enjoyed doing. The idea was to draw cartoons. However, ideas can evolve and fuse with other people's dreams. That’s what happened between Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs and John Lasseter. And no one can deny that the way Pixar works is excellent.

Pixar is not about the great ideas, it is about having a great team. Many people think that great ideas are better than great people but that is not true. If you have a great idea and you give it to a mediocre team, they will screw up the idea, but if you have a mediocre idea and give it to a great team, they will make the idea great. Pixar perfectly knows perfectly this so they make their best effort to gather some of the most talented people in the industry.

Pixar also knows that the environment where their employees are must be almost perfect. The thing that keeps Pixar’s films fresh and interesting is their creative process and the way they care about their employees giving them a total creative freedom and taking in consideration the opinion of everyone without being afraid of expressing their ideas.It introduces to their team the idea that their office is like a canvas. And it’s fun. Pixar uses all its elements to keep their employees in a good environment so that they make their best effort in a job that they love and maximizing their creativity. 

Every story is amazing and every character that Pixar creates has a unique personality adopting human emotions. The stories and characters go beyond the typical stories and archetypes. They search in a world of obvious and expected things for the hidden stories and explore it to its tiniest details. This makes that people get really involved with Pixar’s films, their stories traps us, we become part of the story, we feel sympathy for the characters, we grow with them and we get to know them as if they were part of our family.

Pixar has started a revolution in film making, not only because of the 3D computer-based animation but also the feelings and passion every employee puts in each one of their movies. Nowadays there are many animation studios but the thing that makes Pixar worth billions of dollars is that creative process that keeps in consideration the ideas and dreams of everyone and even though every film Pixar does needs a computer, the product ends up being a very human movie.

Run Lola Run

"It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world" this single quote from the chaos theory tells us a lot from the theme of the movie Run Lola Run, a german movie from 1998 starring Franka Potente. This movie is anything to what we are used to about plot lines, in the beginning we have a lot of existential questions that won't be answered through the movie, but they will be developed somehow with the three different plots with the same objective. The changes in the plots are driven by the time, it doesn't matter if it is only a second of difference, defining it the dog at the stairs.


In the movie Lola has to help his boyfriend Manni to get 100,000 DM that he lost in the subway in order to not getting killed by the gangster who owns the money. The first time that she is in her mission, while going through the stairs the dog scares her so this makes her arrive early to his father and the mistress and also to the people and situations she encountered in the way, but she arrives late to Manni and takes the decision of help him assault the supermarket, this gets her killed, fail. 


But hey, she has the opportunity that none of us will ever have, a second chance, she can go back to the beginning and try it again like in a videogame. So there she goes, but now in the stairs the little brat makes her fall in the stairs so this makes her lose time. This little event makes that everything changes with the people and situations she encounters, it totally changes the future of the people, she gets the money but Manni gets killed. And yeah, by now you should figure that she will get another chance where she learned from her past experiences, and now becoming a very decided person, she isn't afraid of the dog, she will scare it, have luck in the casino, Manni will find the homeless guy and they will have the money on time fullfilling the objective.


The dog represents that time is not constant, a little change may trigger a different outcome, even miliseconds have a big influence in the future. This subject is the main study of many sciences like quantum, physics and that is because time has been the eternal enemy of the human being. How many times have we desired to go back in time to change something specific like an error, something that we could have done better. Well, Lola has that power and not does she only changes her life, but she changes everyones life she touches, giving them a horrible future or a good one.


Run Lola Run portrays the way we are slaves of the time and its unpredictable effects and changes, in the movie being the dog the main change. There is no way we can escape from it and we all wish to have second chances like Lola, that is why we like videogames so much, but the truth is that in real life we have to face the fact that we are doomed to walk always forward, not backward and that we can only turn our head hoping that what we have done was the correct thing.