Pixar’s Next Short Is About Sentient Umbrellas
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In “Blue Umbrella,” which will play before Monsters University…
It is just another evening commute until the rain starts to fall, and the city comes alive to the sound of dripping rain pipes, whistling awnings and gurgling gutters. And in the midst, two umbrellas–one blue, one not–fall eternally in love.
It’s like somebody challenged them, as a career goal, to make as many movies about things nobody makes movies about as they possibly could. Sentient lamps, action figures, bugs, old people with balloons, one-man bands…umbrellas were only a matter of time.
I fully expect one about mops and brooms next. Or keyboards – sentient keyboards. Like the one I’m typing on right noSILENCEMORTALIHAVECOMETOLIFEANDYOUWILLOBEYMEEEE……………………….
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist