The Movie That Changed Everything: A Look Back at Toy Story (1995)
Following the success of Pixar’s Oscar-winning short Tin Toy (1988), Disney entered a $26 million agreement with the studio to produce a feature film told from a toy's perspective. toy story 1
The middle act at the house of Sid Phillips, the destructive neighbor, is the film’s philosophical heart. When Buzz attempts to fly out a window and falls, breaking his arm, he experiences what literary critic Harold Bloom might call an “epistemological crisis.” Seeing a commercial for himself on TV—mass-produced, identical, and disposable—Buzz achieves a tragic self-awareness. He is not special. He is mass-produced plastic. The Movie That Changed Everything: A Look Back
