Re:That famous Pixar lunch of 1994 (2014)
by ramraj07 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @02:57PM
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Yeah this lunch discussion is akin to a bunch of kids deciding during recess what they want to become - one a doctor and another an astronaut. If a bunch of kids do actually succeed in all their careers then what went right is the schools methods not the creative process in that lunch break.
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But it's not really just that, is it?
If you have a bunch of kids with completely unconventional career ideas that no one would try... and then they all manage to strike it big doing these strange things... then you've got something special. Sure, part of it is in the capabilities and post-meeting culture of those kids... and part of it is to have strange but actually achievable ideas from the beginning.
I note that they're not completely crazy ideas. They know the limitations of their (new) medium, and are trying to find the ideas that are barely viable, and thus groundbreaking, at the edges.