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Monsters, Inc. (2001)
In Pixar's-Disney's (their fourth collaboration) CGI
animated comedy, an imaginative tale about a Monster World's 'Scare
Factory':
- the intriguing plot premise for the film - the city
of Monstropolis (the company Monsters, Inc. - powered by Scream
Heat fueled by the collective screams of human children), where
monster "Scarer" employees were hired to emerge from
childrens' closet doors at night and scare the young tots - but
they were themselves scared of children, thinking they were toxic
- the two delightful characters who were both employed
by Monsters, Inc - a major scream refinery in the Monster world:
(1) a giant, furry blue monster James P. "Sulley" Sullivan
(voice of John Goodman) and (2) his wise-cracking assistant - one-eyed,
short-statured green cyclops Mike Wazowski (voice of Billy Crystal)
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James P. "Sulley" Sullivan
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Mike Wazowski
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- the restaurant named Harryhausen's (in tribute to
the famed stop-motion animator of monsters)
"We Scare Because We Care"
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Menu with Name
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Restaurant Sign
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- the two evil characters: the company's CEO/chairman,
Henry J. Waternoose (voice of James Coburn) - an arthropodic monster
with a crab-like lower body, and his ally Randall Boggs, a scary,
purple chameleon-like lizard monster with eight-legs
- their evil plot was to eliminate "scarers"
by using a Scream-Extractor Machine (to suck up oxygen from children)
- Randall's intention was to kidnap and then strap captured 2 year-old
human toddler Mary (Mary Gibbs), nicknamed
"Boo" to the mechanism, but he mistakenly kidnapped Mike
Randall Demonstrating the Scream-Extractor Machine
on Mike Wazowski
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- the amazing sequence of the wild roller-coaster
chase involving hundreds of closet doors on an endless conveyor
line, when Randall pursued both Mike and "Sulley" (who
were attempting to save her), to try to recapture Mary
- the sad goodbye scene when Mike and Sulley had to
say goodbye to Mary/"Boo" when she was permanently returned
to the human world through her bedroom closet door (and the door
was shredded)
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Mike Saying Goodbye to "Boo"
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Sulley Saying Goodbye to "Boo"
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Splinter Remnant of "Boo's" Shredded
Door Kept by Sulley
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- after Mike's rebuilding and reactivation of the
door to Mary's bedroom by assembling the numerous pieces of her
shredded door (and a key piece had been kept by Sulley), the final
poignant shot in which "Sulley" (now appointed as the
CEO on Monsters, Inc.) peeked through Mary's bedroom door, entered
and reacted joyfully to seeing her again
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Henry J. Waternoose
Randall Boggs
Young Mary/"Boo"
Sulley Scared of Mary/"Boo"
Wild Chase Involving Closet Doors on Conveyor Line -
Mike and Sulley Protect "Boo"
"Boo" Saved
Ending: Sulley Slowly Entering into "Boo's" Reassembled
Bedroom Door
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