![]() Meanwhile, the villain of Ratatouille, Chef Skinner, disappears. He crafts a relationship with a small group of humans and finds success. Remy wants to cook, which is something only humans explicitly do. In Ratatouille, we see animals experimenting with their growing personification in small, controlled experiments. Notice I left out A Bug’s Life, but I’ll explain why later. The stage for all-out war in regards to animals is set by Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, and Up, in that order. The events of the following movies set up a power struggle between humans, animals, and machines. There are two progressions: the progression of the animals and the progression of artificial intelligence. Let’s just say that for now, the witch is someone we know from a different movie in the timeline.Ĭenturies later, the animals from Brave that have been experimented on by the witch have interbred, creating a large-scale population of animals slowly gaining personification and intelligence on their own. Don’t get ahead of me, but we’ll come back to Brave. We also learn that this witch inexplicably disappears every time she passes through doors, leading us to believe that she may not even exist. Not only do we see animals behaving like humans, but we also see brooms (inanimate objects) behaving like people in the witch’s shop. We find out that this magic comes from an odd witch seemingly connected to the mysterious will-of-the-wisps. ![]() In Brave, Merida discovers that there is “magic” that can solve her problems but inadvertently turns her mother into a bear. ![]() Obviously, this movie about a Scottish kingdom during the Dark Ages is the earliest time period covered by the Pixar films, but it’s also the only Pixar movie that actually explains why animals in the Pixar universe behave like humans sometimes. Plus, it has more movies included! Enjoy.Īs of this writing in 2013, Brave is the first and last movie in the timeline. It’s also a far more “current” version of the theory compared to the rest of this post. It more thoroughly lays out this theory and its most complex ideas. In fact, I highly suggest you watch this video I made with Screen Junkies/Fandom below. If you would like to experience a shorter version of this theory, check out the visualized Pixar Theory Timeline. The point of this theory is to have fun and exercise your imagination while simultaneously finding interesting connections between these fantastic movies. The trick is not take any of it too seriously. Cars 3, Coco, Incredibles 2, and Toy Story 4 will be included in the upcoming book.This theory covers every feature-length movie made by Pixar Animation Studios since 1995. Another, longer, title is “The Grand Unifying Theory of Pixar Movies.” Since then, I’ve obsessed over this concept, working to complete what I call The Pixar Theory, a working narrative that ties all of the Pixar movies into one cohesive timeline with a main theme. In 2012, I watched a video on that introduced the idea (at least to me) that all of the Pixar movies actually exist within the same universe. But we’re getting several thousand animated years ahead of ourselves.Every Pixar movie is connected. It’s in Brave, set in the Middle Ages, where moviegoers find a character that they first met more than a decade before in a seemingly unrelated film set several millennia in the future, at the far end of the Pixar timeline. The theory begins and ends with Brave, the studio’s 13th feature film and one that falls at the very beginning of the animated universe’s chronology as we know it. The Grand Unified Theory of Pixar is a long tale, spanning centuries, of a struggle for the domination of Earth among humans, animals with humanlike consciousness, and sentient inanimate objects-AI machines. (A longer version of this article originally appeared on Negroni’s personal blog. Negroni has condensed his original theory for Slate. Back in July, Jon Negroni went down an animated wormhole with his Grand Unified Theory of Pixar, an absurdly close reading of the studio’s canon that weaves together each of its 14 feature films to create a world that stretches several thousand years into the future only to eventually loop back upon itself.
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