[pitbulllady]

I just remembered this: a few years back, I read a blog by one of the Pixar writers that the original plotline for Monsters, Inc. was supposed to have been centered around the concept that the three main monsters-Sulley, Mike and Randall-were all Imaginary Friends of a now-adult guy who was working as an ad executive. His life as an adult was boring and uninteresting, and he was suffering from a bad case of writer's block that was threatening his career. To make things worse, his mother was in poor health and having to go live in a nursing facility, but before leaving what had been his childhood home, she cleaned out the attic, and sent him all the old things that had been his, including a box of toys. The toys included three toy monster action figures, which triggered the guy's memory. As a child, he'd imagine that the three monsters would come to life, and the four of them would have all sorts of adventures. As it turned out, this actually DID happen, and once again, the three start appearing to the guy, reminding him of their old adventures, which helps him regain his self-confidence and come up with new material, but causes some interesting moments because he's the only person who can see them, so everyone else thinks he's gone off the deep end. The folks at Pixar decided not to go with the "monster action figures become Imaginary Friends" scenario, and decided that having an adult as the main human character would lack appeal to children, so they changed the monsters to real monsters, in another dimension, and decided to change the human to a child-first a boy, then a nasty little girl(reminiscent of the little red-haired brat that wanted to adopt Bloo and name him "Tiffany" in the Foster's pilot), and finally, to a little girl toddler, and they thought it would be more interesting if the human came into the Monster World instead of the other way around.

pitbulllady