According to this article in The New Yorker, the movie was a racist modern minstrel show, with the “white” soul being dropped into the body of a black man.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/pixars-troubled-soul/amp My own beliefs about the film’s shortcomings notwithstanding, I don’t think the folks at The New Yorker are correct. I think they are way off the mark. But what do I know? On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 10:41 AM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > If you like the intro/outro styling of Batiste on Colbert, meaning you > just want a few seconds of good piano riffing, then sure pick up the > soundtrack. I just felt that if the Pixar movie Cars didn’t feature cars > racing, someone would point out that it was a missed opportunity. So in > Soul, a movie centered on a jazz musician, it feels lacking that we really > don’t hear a jazz song. It wasn’t a bad movie (and I feel as if actresses > whose agents send them out to audition for female jazz artists get > depressed knowing it will inevitably go to Angela Bassett because she nails > it each and every damn time), but it feels like it as either written or > produced by someone who doesn’t actually like jazz. > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 12:30 AM Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> In addition to the jazz music by Jon Batiste, which is the score that's >> heard during the portions of "Soul" that take place on Earth, there is also >> music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, which is the score heard during the >> portions that take place in the "before-life." >> >> It is true that there's no real point where the action stops for a full >> song (so, nothing along the lines of the weepy montage scene set to "When >> She Loved Me" in "Toy Story 2"). >> >> You can look at the track listing for the soundtrack album and see the >> lengths of the various compositions: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_(soundtrack) >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 1, 2021, at 11:39 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So, I guess this raises the question of how many songs a film has to have >> to qualify as a musical; or is it some other criteria, like how integrated >> the songs are into the story telling of the film? Certainly many Pixar >> films have memorable original songs and scores. I have not seen Soul, but I >> think Kevin p’s comment holds even if not technically a musical, that it >> was an opportunity for a couple of fully developed jazz compositions or >> songs and a full jazz score at least as memorable as Toy Story or maybe >> Brave. >> >> On Fri, 1 Jan 2021 at 10:04 PM M-D November <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Not a single Pixar film to date has been a musical (those generally come >>> from Walt Disney Animation Studios, although it’s really two sides of the >>> same coin now). But there were some original jazz compositions and >>> orchestrations by John Batiste. >>> >>> An argument could also be made that, save for the Cars franchise, most >>> of Pixar’s output over the last decade+ haven’t really been “children’s >>> movies”. (In the same sense that the original Looney Tunes shorts weren’t >>> “for children”.) >>> >>> On Friday, January 1, 2021 at 12:44:58 PM UTC-5 Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: >>> >>>> Disney/Pixar has a propensity for including a death in the first act of >>>> their children’s movies that borders on the macabre. Also ironic that a >>>> movie centered in the world of jazz is NOT a musical. But otherwise a good >>>> flick. >>>> >>>> On the Disney+ >>>> -- >>>> Kevin M. 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