What if I told you
that all Pixar movies are connected?
That all the characters in those movies actually live in the same universe
only in different times. How is that possible?
Keep watching and find out.
Our story starts with the movie Brave back in the old days of Scotland.
In the movie, Merida discovers some kind of magic which
accidentally transforms her mother into a bear. That mysterious magic power comes
from the witch in the forest.
This will be the first time we see animals act like humans
But who is that witch in the forest?
We see her disappearing trough doors and we know she has magical powers
but who is she really?
Well, actually she played a big role in one other film on our list
but we'll get to that later.
During the centuries that followed Brave,
the animals and objects who were experimented on by the witch
have slowly evolved
creating a power struggle between humans, animals and machines.
The conflict between humans and animals is depicted across:
Ratatouille, Finding Nemo and UP
In Ratatouille, the animals are starting to experiment with their
growing intelligence in small environments.
In the movie, Remy tries to invade a human-only territory:
cooking.
He then befriends a group of humans but makes one enemy:
Chef Skinner
What happened to Skinner after discovering the intelligent minds
that outperformed human beings?
It's possible that the word of that discovery has reached the years of
Charles Muntz, the villain in UP.
Which then led him to develop technology that could harness
the thoughts of animals.
After Muntz his demise, the dogs are free but we don't really know
what happened to them.
But one thing's for sure. Now that people know the potential of animals.
They start crossing the line and the hatred between the two grows
Thus begins the Industrial Revolution hinted at in UP.
In the beginning of UP, Carl is forced to sell his house to a corporation
in charge expanding the city.
Think about it.
What corporation is responsible for pollution and technology overreach?
'Buy n Large' is the massive corporation that runs pretty much everything in WALL-E.
In 'The History of BNL', an ad in the movie, we're told that being BNL
has even taken over world governments.
AD: 'Over two million wholly-owned subsidiaries, governmental bodies and health care centers.
Buy n Large has become the world leader in every conceivable field
including world leadership!'
In Finding Nemo,
we're told a story about saving a fish from the bad human beings.
An entire population of sea creatures is harnessed for that cause.
Humans continue to antagonize the increasingly networked and intelligent
animals. But this is as far as we go with the animal kingdom for now.
Let's back up for a bit.
We mentioned before that a struggle arises between
humans, animals and machines.
So when did the machine's artificial intelligence start?
In the Incredibles,
Syndrome tries to kill all the superheroes due to a grudge between him and Mr. Incredible
'I am your biggest fan...' 'But....'
But it's not actually him who was doing the killing.
Syndrome is using the Omnidroid,
an AI killing machine that can learn and adapt during combat.
Eventually the robot turns on its creator and tries killing innocent people randomly.
Why would an AI robot do that?
Do machines have an inherent hatred towards humans?
Why? We know that animals hate humans because
they're destroying the environment and experimenting on them.
But what do machines have against them?
In Toy Story, humans use and discard toys that clearly have feelings.
At birth the toys are happy
but as things progress, they get fed up with people.
They rise up against Sid in the first one.
Jessie resents her owner for abandoning her in the second one.
And in the third one, Lotso ... Well he just hates all people.
'She replaced us! Come on ...'
Toys are not happy with the status quo.
Giving a reason for why machines and objects want to take over.
At this point in time,
the superheroes are almost extinct and mankind is vulnerable.
Despite that,
we don't see machines rise up against humans.
Not in a straightforward way anyway.
Their using BNL, a faceless corporation, to dominate the world starting
after the Omnidroid defeated most superheroes.
It's made clear that these sentient objects rely on humans for everything
fulfillment, energy,... they need them. So machines decide to control humans
instead of taking over them.
That way they can use them for their needs.
This leads to the Industrial Revolution which eventually leads to worldwide
pollution. When the animals rise up against humans to stop the pollution,
humans will get help from the machines
and we already know who's going to win that war ...
At a certain point, planet earth becomes unsuitable
for living for both animals and humans
which forces people to move to space as a last attempt to save the human race.
In space, the machines have made humans dependent on them for everything
because that's how they were treated as toys. That's all they know.
Meanwhile on earth, machines are the only beings left to populate the planet.
They follow human behavior and tradition as seen in Cars.
Because that's what they learned from humans.
There are no people or animals left on the planet
but they're influence is still prominent. Which brings us back to WALL-E.
Why is WALL-E the only machine left on earth?
We know that the movie starts
hundreds of years after humans have left the planet.
It's WALL-E fascination with human culture
and a friendship with a living being,
the cockroach, that kept him going.
That's what made him special and sent him on a journey to liberate the humans.
He remembers the time when humans and machines lived side by side happily.
When humans go back to earth, they bring with them
the single last plant that survived.
At the credits of the film, we see the plant and it grows to be a huge tree
that surprisingly resembles the main tree in "A Bug's Life.
The reason we don't see any humans in 'A Bug's Life'
is that there's not many of them left.
We know that some insects survived after the humans left the planet.
So it was easier for them to repopulate again once humans came back.
So what's next?
Humans, machines and animals start repopulating the planet in harmony
to the point that a new species is born: monsters
The monster's universe is actually earth in the very far future.
Where did the monsters come from?
Maybe mutations of animals after hundreds years on a diseased planet.
They sure do look like mutated animals.
They're smart; they have cities and even universities.
The monsters however have an energy crisis
because, like the machines, they need humans for their energy.
But they're living in the future world where humans are all gone.
The doors they use to visit humans for their screams
are not doors to parallel dimensions.
They're going back in time. They're visiting the time
when humans were most prominent and harvesting them for energy.
This would have been the end if it wasn't for Boo,
the little girl in 'Monsters Inc.'.
Boo slipped into the futuristic world of the monsters
and found a friend there.
After going back to her world,
she kept trying to find a way to see Sulley again
and became a witch.
Yes,
Boo is the witch from Brave.
She figured out how to travel through time
and goes back to, what she thinks, is the source of it.
The 'Will O' the Wisps', the magic that started this whole thing.
She tries using that magic to create a door that will bring her back to Sulley.
That's why the doors in her hut keep leaving to the different places.
These are doors that she created in the same way the monsters did.
They transport through time
and that is why Merida couldn't find the witch later on
So boo keeps traveling through doors looking for Sulley.
But does she ever find him? We'd like to believe she does.
And their love for each other is what binds all the Pixar movies together.
The love of different people from different ages and even different species,
finding ways to live together in peace...
And that is 'The Pixar Theory'...
Subtitles by Thibault Molleman