Facts About “Monster’s Inc.” That You Didn’t Know

“Monster’s Inc”(2001) is technically not a Disney movie, in case some of you Disney geeks ask. It was animated by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Recently releasing the sequel “Monster’s University” in 2013, the movie is a well known family movie still loved worldwide. Here are some secrets you may have not known about the film

1.      Boo was originally designed to be a 6 year old girl.

Boo, the little girl and one of the main characters of the film, is a toddler in the actual film. She can only say basic words and childish blabber. The only actual words she say are “Boo!”(Which is why Sulley calls her that), “Kitty” and “Mike Wazowski”. Of course she also has this adorable humming of the tune “Beauty and the Beast”

"Sand-fly, Sandy cake, Sailing in cake..."

But the truth is that Boo wasn’t originally supposed to be a toddler. The character was supposed to be a 6 year old girl totally capable of talking, but the directors changed their mind, deciding that setting her as a toddler would increase her dependency on Sulley.

Also, Boo’s real name is Mary.(I bet you didn’t know that.)

2.      The ideas for 4 different Pixar movies were made on the same day.

During a lunch meeting in 1994, ideas were made for 4 different movies. These included “Monster’s Inc”, “Finding Nemo”, “A Bug’s Life”, and “Wall-E”. It is pretty surprising that while some of these were produced early, others like Wall-E were produced much later, in 2008.

 

3.      Mike Wazowski was not an original character.

Sorry to break it to you this way Mike

In the original script, Mike was not included. In addition, Sulley was a janitor working at Monster’s Inc, and not a scarer. The producers actually seemed to stick to this original idea and elaborated in the sequel “Monster’s University” where both Mike and Sulley start out as janitors and work their way up.

4.      Sulley has more than 2.3 million hairs on his body.

The exact number is 2,320,413. Ever single strand of hair had to be animated and thus it took a LOT of time to animate the character of Sulley. It apparently took more than 12 hours to animate a single frame of Sulley. WOW. You can check out this video for the original “basic” animation of Sulley. The difference of with and without hair is actually huge. S/O to the producers for their effort.

Hi Sulley!

 5.      Lastly…

HEY IT'S REX!

Monster’s Inc was the last Pixar Movie to include a blooper “behind the scenes” during end credits. This is one of the sad facts. I really liked the bloopers personally. For example, Toy Story would stop in the middle of the end credits to show a “hidden scene” of the “actors” of the movies. It would show another side of the animation and would always be fun to check out. I still haven’t gave up and wait until the end credits of Disney-Pixar movies, hoping for the bloopers. Never showed up again yet, though.

P.S for all you Disney geeks out there:

Frozen Fever(the short sequel of Frozen) was released today!! It's included exclusively in the beginning of the new Cinderella movie. Being the Disney geek I am, I wanted to go see the movie today on its release date but failed to. I'm a failure :(:(:(

I FAIL IN FANGIRLING

 You should go see it too when you get the chance! The trailer was totally awesome, Elsa was still amazingly pretty, Anna amazingly cute, Olaf still with his personal flurry, and Christoff was still the absolute darling he is:) (Although if I had it my way I would have Hans in it. Admit it, he IS a bad guy, but he's waaaaayyyyyy HOT) AND THERE'S A NEW SOUNDTRACK!!! ANYONE EXCITED?

YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS