Up?

I saw this picture which seems to be a poster for an upcoming Disney and Pixar animated movie collaboration. (**I think it'll be in Cinemas here in Kuwait by next week)

I literally beamed. 

A picture is worth a thousand words, and there is nothing complicated nor artistically complex about the poster to call it amazing-  for what's so special about a picture of a  house being hoisted into the sky with balloons? 

One would presume that they should have gone all creative in it, and add a couple of characters or something to make it stand out more, I on the other hand completely disagree.

I find it amazing and extremely striking. 

I believe this little scene catches a dream and illustrates it into a huge motion picture- that little child's dream that we still carry with us wherever, the wish to fly, and go wherever one wants be it to float out of whatever stressful situation/boring place we are in, and just pull a complete "Dorothy", somehow finding ourselves nowhere near "Kansas."

Something that everyone can relate you.

The movie is allegedly a comedy adventure that a 78-year old Balloon Salesman called  Carl Fredricksen takes to fulfill a lifelong dream of adventure. He ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to South America, only to find that he has a nightmare stowed away on his trip- an 8 year old kid explorer in the making called Russel.

Here are a couple of snaps of the movie: 

It's supposed to be one of the funniest films Pixar and Disney have ever made together.

As Pete Docter-the Director and Writer of Up- states "We came up with this image of a floating house held aloft by balloons, and it just seemed to capture what we were after in terms of escaping the world. We quickly realized that the world is really about relationships  and thats what Carl comes to discover."

Who said cartoons didn't have hidden morals? 

No matter what adventure you take, wherever you escape to, no matter how far you float, you are bound to come back. 

For in the end, nothing is like family and the relationship one builds with the people around him/her in the place they call "home."

What? 

You thought the "Red Ruby Slippers" were only a fashion stint Dorothy attempted in Oz?

Even the "Wizard" went back home eventually. 

xx

Baroque

Ps. "مقامره"s are always fun.  

Photo Credits: Disney's official Up Website