Resumen de A construção do o(O)utro através da Diferença no cinema de animação: o exemplo daPixar
Ratatui (2007), Up (2009), Toy Story (1995, 1999, 2010), Monsters Inc (2001) show us, in order, a French rat whowants to be a famous chef, a lonely and bitter old man in conflict with a young boy, a secret world of toys acting alikeand differently from their giant owners that become adults and the work of monsters educating children.All these stories/narratives, as well as their images, belong to the animation films, and are built up for, mainly, aparticular public: children. On the other side, the cast puts in relation the otherness of the established relations: ratsand humans, elders and youngsters, toys and children, or monsters and children.But this otherness tends to, while exhibiting the Difference between the characters, at the same time, to annihilateit. Why? Or does that really happens? Is it a simple way to discuss otherness and difference though the constructionof an Ethic? Or it reflects the real nature of the media, the cinema?While reflecting on the concepts of other/Other and Difference, is my purpose analyze the apparent conflictualrelationship between the principal characters of these animation films from Pixar, as well as trying to answer thequestions above.
