Hey, brother! Ben quick name this pixar character
he's introduced to us as a kind good-natured soul a natural-born leader who has
Everyone's best interest at heart until we find out
He's actually a ruthless dictator bent on controlling everyone around him yes, I am of course talking about none other
Than Woody or I almost was. Ben today
I'm going to tell you about the black Friday reel, and how woody was almost a villain.
*Theme Music*
The Black Friday reel is a name for a test screening of the very first pixar film toy story back in
1993 and I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say this was possibly the most important test screening in the film industry in the last
25 years because it stopped Woody from being a sarcastic jerk who almost
stopped pixar from existing at all. Yeah!
Woody! the poster toy for Pixar the first and greatest hero they ever created!
In fact woody story was almost much more like Lotso's from Toy Story 3
Who is Arguably one of the Cruelest Villains and the entire Pixar universe?
although to be fair woody was always intended to be
a Redeemable character while Lotso was not more on that later
Either way at first what he was not very likable. So what happens in this crazy black Friday
reel well, I'll leave a link down to the description so you can go check it out after you finish watching this video
Which I highly recommend you do because it is really interesting to see it depicts one
iconic scene from toy story
Where woody knocks buzz out of the window now in case you are somehow not familiar with this scene
Here's the setup
Andy and his mom were about to go to pizza planet and his mom tells him he can bring one toy in the movie woody
fearing/knowing he is about to lose this decision tries to remove buzz from Contention by knocking him behind the desk, but
Accidentally knocks him out of the window the other toys
Immediately see what he did and what he starts pleading his case saying no you guys it was an accident
And it was that's important
it was an accident in the black Friday reel both buzz and woody know about the impending choice from Andy and
Buzz walks over to woody extends a handshake and says good luck woody accepts the handshake
But then while they're grasping hands
Intentionally throws Buzz out to the window the toys once again immediately confront Woody who initially denies it but very quickly accepts
responsibility and not responsibilities like oh my God what have I done?
What should we do to correct this responsibility like yeah, I did it and what are you idiots gonna do about it?
I won't ruin the rest of it for you. I just recommend you go check it out
It's really cool to see it because it's not like fully rendered yet
It's just the storyboards, but they still got Tom
Hanks voice in there, so it sounds like they were really intending on going in this direction
Plus he uses one of the greatest insults in any movie ive ever heard
Spring wiener
Just gonna leave It there this single difference the act of woody
accidentally versus
Intentionally throwing buzz out the window changed everything instead of being relatably jealous
Woody comes across as rude and malicious
Audiences left feeling like he got away with it like they were forced to
Eventually side with this guy, they still didn't like very much
so fortunately they shelved that Idea and we ended up with what we got but what I love about Pixar
Is that they knew they had a good idea and they didn't throw her away. They just put it on the shelf
Which is why in Toy Story 3 we got Lotso the really mean version of woody although ironically test audiences for toy Story 3
Thought Lotso was punished too Harshly at the end of his movie thinking
He was redeemable, so when they redid him they made him meaner, okay
So maybe the black Friday reel doesn't seem that important because hey lots of movies have test screenings
And then they go back and change things that's the point but not all movies are Toy Story: Toy Story wasn't just a great film
It was an important film
It was the first ever
Computer animated film when people saw it back in 1995 they had never seen anything like it before
it was a whole new way people could connect with
animated characters that they hadn't been able to before and if they didn't have the black Friday reel screening, Toy Story along with
Pixar altogether might have been canned by Disney and if Toy Story was in the first computer animated film,
I'm sure another studio would have tried this format at some point
But if it wasn't really really good like toy story was it would have been really easy to just
shelf this whole style of animation
Because these movies were not easy to make then to render a single frame of animation for toy story it took 2 to
15 hours that means you could go to sleep and wake up and not even have like that much done
I mean toy story has over a hundred and fourteen
Thousand frames in it it set the bar high which is why today we have movies like Shrek, Wreck-it Ralph
Frozen, Tangled, Big Hero 6, How To Train Your Dragon 2. I love all those movies, but none of them are actually pixar
But all of them are at least remotely descendants from toy story
And it almost didn't happen if it worked for the black Friday reel ben my question for you
And everybody else is what is your favorite computer animated movie of all time let me know down to the towel section below and also
Go check out the black Friday reel and then come back here and let me know what you thought because when I watch it I
was like oh
my gosh that was
Wow, I can't I'm glad it didn't go that way Ben that's all I've got for you today, but I will see you in another life brother
These socks are amazing!
If you want to see some more Super Carlin Brother Disney Pixar videos you can check out our videos from last week
I counted down the top 5
Snubbed Disney princesses of all time and ben made a very compelling
Argument for how andy from toy story is led to Carl from up
Definitely would recommend checking out either of those if you didn't catch them last week, see ya