One of my favorite
movies is UP by Pixar. I remember looking around the movie theater and
watching the adults cry and the kids laugh. It reached nearly everyone. The marriage montage at the beginning is already
a classic sequence. The crafting of the
story must have come easy, right?
Wrong.
Read these comments on
the creation of UP from Ed Catmull, Pixar Animation Studios
President in a recent speech:
"The first version
of UP took place on a castle floating in the sky, and there was a king
in the castle who had two sons; the sons didn't like each other. And the people
in the castle were at war with the people on the ground, and...the two sons
happened to fall overboard and ended up wandering around in enemy territory. And
in this wandering around they came across a large bird.
"This version of
the movie didn't work; all that was left was the bird the word 'up.'
[Creativity] is a path that is filled with false turns and errors, and the
errors are a necessary part of the process."
As I like to say, trust
the process. And of course...
...Keep writing and keep
living!
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