Docter was hoping that Pixar could produce a film that would put a post-modern spin on Harvey (1950). Until the monsters on these pages suddenly spring to life, stepping out into the real world and begin harassing the poor guy. As the computer programmer opens up this book, some loose pages flutter to the floor of his cubicle at work. The monsters that our hero used to dream up back when he was six or seven. "And what are these drawings of?" you ask. Among the objects in this box is a book of a drawings that the computer programmer made when he was a kid. All seems lost until the guy's mother (who's in the process of turning his old bedroom into a guest room) sends the computer programmer a box full of his childhood belongings. He's at a dead end, spiritually and emotionally. The guy's career and love life were going nowhere. The hero of the film was supposed to be a computer programmer who is leading this incredibly humdrum life. For almost a year, this is the story idea that Pete Docter seriously tried to turn into a workable screenplay. The story was originally built around a 32-year-old computer programmer whose life becomes incredibly complicated once his childhood fears and phobias suddenly become real. In the film's official Epic! Graphic Novelisation, he specially refers to his paperwork as his "Scare Reports", lending weight to the idea that they're individualised records of what occurred with each door. ![]() Presumably before it was for "Daily Scream Energy". We learn in Mike's Monstrous Adventure that the yellow (Goldenrod) form is for "Daily Laugh Energy". Since Mike has several of them stored on his desk wall, I think we can assume that they need to be returned to Roz each time a scare is conducted. Those are issued by Roz's office (along with a puce coloured "MI Scare Report"). Additionally, we see Mike using a stamped door card to call the various doors. There would also be a count of the amount of scream produced by each door to allow for forward planning. ![]() Leave the puce." Since the only consumables that Mike and Sully use are the doors and the scream containers, it can be reasonably assumed that the paperwork relates to the number of doors requested and the number of scream containers filled, returned unused or damaged. Mike's paperwork as he says to Sully "The pink copies go to Accounting, the fuchshia ones go to Purchasing, and the goldenrod ones go to Roz. Coincidentally, Disney would acquire Lucasfilm (the production company behind the Star Wars franchise, among others) for $4.5 billion in 2012, a year before the release of prequel Monsters University (2013). Like, maybe, right next door." At the end of the trailer, it is Mike's turn to act out a part, with a very bored looking Sulley guessing it is Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) within seconds, much to Mike's dismay. Sulley gives up and walks off-screen as Mike finally guesses "Harry Potter" and the cut away to title cards noting that "Monsters Inc." is "Now showing at a theater near you. Eventually Sulley puts on round spectacles, sticks a paper lightning bolt to his forehead and sits on a broom with an owl on his arm, to which Mike ecstatically guesses The Sound of Music (1965). Mike and Sulley play a game of charades in their apartment, with Sulley acting out "Harry Potter." Mike has difficulty solving the puzzle, some of his guesses being Dirty Harry (1971), "Harry Flowerpot", "Harry Palmer" (a James Bond-esque spy played by Michael Caine in a series of films beginning with The Ipcress File (1965)) and "When Hairy Met Sulley," (a reference to Billy Crystal's starring role in When Harry Met Sally. to show before Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001). Disney/Pixar prepared a special trailer for Monsters Inc.
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