Why is up so sad

In quick succession, the two grow up, fall in love, get married and build a home together. Up is a film about getting old, about regret and about realising that life is messy and out of control, as much as you might try to make it otherwise. Which is exactly what Carl does. Other Disney movies prefer to use the idea of single-parents being widowed. Docter and other crew members also took their research to the field by posing as musicians in an old folks' home.

They played jazz tunes to elderly people and at the same time managed to observe them enough in order to create the grouchy old demeanour crucial to Carl's character. The IMDB website reveals that the Married Life sequence brought the crew to tears before it had even materialised in animation form.

Imagine their reactions once the movie was finally completed! Taking their sources from the internet, the filmmakers apparently ordered a bunch of random home movies made by strangers and watched their lives progress onscreen for inspiration. A favourite theory within the Pixar fandom community fleshes out the idea of Carl's travels with his balloons as his journey towards the afterlife. As if the movie storyline itself wasn't sad enough already!

For obvious reasons, Dug quickly became a fan favorite. The talking dog's famous line, "I have just met you, and I love you" was quoted from a child that co-director Bob Peterson met during his time as a camp counsellor in the s. As if the Married Life sequence wasn't heart-wrenching enough already, mentalfloss.

This would've portrayed how in sync they were with each other and rendered Carl's isolation in old age even more heartbreaking, but the producers eventually opted for a lack of dialogue in the sequence. If you didn't make the connection, the setting of the abandoned house at the beginning of the movie where Carl and Ellie first meet also becomes their eventual lifelong home.

At their wedding, he leans in for the kiss, and she jumps on him. Her massive family goes wild with applause; his smaller family politely claps. When Carl accidentally leaves a handprint on their new mailbox, she laughs and adds her handprint next to it.

And when they climb a hill for a picnic, Ellie joyfully races ahead while Carl plods along behind. And suddenly, for the first time in the movie, Ellie stops moving: sitting quietly alone in the yard, drained of all the energy that was so apparent.

Of course, life gets in the way, as a series of minor crises drain the fund that would take them to Paradise Falls.