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Film Theory: The Cars in The Cars Movie AREN'T CARS!

Jun 02, 2021
In the preview for the upcoming Pixar

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, Cars 3, we see Lightning Mcqueen flipped through the air on the race track. PEWPEW EXPLOSIONS Sparks fly, Smoke comes out of the car, It's not looking good for Ol' Lighting... But there's good news. He just saved 15% or more on his car insurance by switching to Geico. *honk* *Intro* HELLO, INTERNET Welcome to Film Theory The show where crazy ideas backed by detailed research ALWAYS GET THE CHECKED FLAG! Now, as many of you loyal theorists know, I love me some Pixar. Even if I have a weird way of showing it... and by weird way of showing it I mean ruining your childhood memories of beloved characters.
film theory the cars in the cars movie aren t cars
Look, I wasn't the one who decided that everyone on Wall-E is cannibals, I just pointed it out, okay? Don't kill the messenger... and then liquefy his body and drink it as spooky food in the future. But fear not those of you who wish to keep your childhood intact because today's Pixar

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won't have a deep, dark twist... Or will it? No, it's not... probably *gasp* Instead, today we're simply going to consider the world of automobiles, a world that looks like our own, except there are no people and all the machines run on their own. To catch you up, the first Cars

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told the story of a hotshot young race car named Lightning McQueen who has a shot at winning the championship, but then abandons it because he realizes how important other people are. in their uh... other

cars

. ?
film theory the cars in the cars movie aren t cars

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In his life they really are The sequel was the next obvious place to take that concept. a complicated spy thriller about car espionage, a conspiracy

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about alternative fuel sources because..... WHY NOT?!?!?!? In Cars 3, it looks like it's going to be a comeback story, we have a trailer showing lightning in a catastrophic accident and if this series follows the trajectory of the Rocky series, the third installment would be about our heroes fighting back. to the top and hey, if we're really lucky we'll get fourth place, where McQueen races against a Russian muscle car and solves communism.
film theory the cars in the cars movie aren t cars
Sure, you laugh at that because it sounds ridiculous, but I bet you weren't expecting the spy thriller plot. To summarize, the universe of automobiles has always been strange and filled with many questions about the logistics of the world, filled only with sentient moving automobiles, but one question that none of us have stopped to answer is this...

cars

in Cars... really cars, I mean, sure that's the title of the movie and they look and act like cars, but who knows, maybe it's more fake news from the mainstream media. I mean, they have eyes and tongues and there are If there are no drivers, then let's be honest, how does a society of living cars come to exist? clearly they are on earth... but there are no humans so what happened?
film theory the cars in the cars movie aren t cars
What... are... these... creatures? I'm 100% sure, I figured it out and spoiler alert (pun be damned). They are not cars. What started as a simple stupid question dropped me down the rabbit hole of this strange car-themed universe and the answer I found will change everything. You thought you knew about Mater and the gang and the details I find here raise some really interesting revelations about that infamous Pixar theory, a theory you've all wanted me to cover for quite some time. SO THEORISTS start your search engine because it's time to take The omnidirectional theory of this car from 0 to 60 in about 15 minutes now to start, it's probably worth taking a second to familiarize you with that Pixar theory, a theory that, As far as I know, it started with online movie blogger Jon Negroni, whose goal is to tie all of Pixar's

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s not only into the same universe, but also create a coherent timeline of events where one movie leads to the next, lead to the next one, suck that Marvel, here's everyone thinking you started the whole huge connected cinematic universe. , but Pixar has been doing it since 1995 in a theoretical sense, so it's no wonder you don't have an Oscar yet and yet win an Academy Award, Suicide Squad does uhhh..... ..now, I'm not going to dive.
At the heart of that theory today is one that we'll probably piece together on our own, over the course of multiple future Pixar episodes, but to get a sense of this and start thinking about it, let's take the example of Buy n Large, most casual Pixar viewers. known as the corporation that runs everything on wall-e "WORLD LEADERSHIP" we have no one but them to thank for the cannibal cupcake in a mug but for the really astute viewers you can watch the companies rise to power along many other pixar. movies in Toy Story 3, you can see their logo on Buzz's batteries when we get to UP, Buy n Large is now involved in the construction business with their logo on the equipment in front of Carl's house and it's not just the equipment , BNL is also buying all the houses in carl's neighborhood Guy: My boss would be happy if I took these places off your hand and uhh... but you double your last offer, what do you say to that? *leaf blower motor* and get this: it's even spreading to the car franchise now.
If you examine the Cars 3 extended trailer frame by frame, you'll see the logo appear in the stadium. It is the first time Buy-N-Large appears anywhere in the Cars

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series. *scream* Did you see it? Here, let me slow it down. Not yet? Here, let's go frame by frame. Welcome to my life. I live my life one quarter frame at a time. The reason I wanted to start talking about this today is because I have some issues with the Pixar theory timeline and the first major batch revolves around Cars. The theory goes that a super-intelligent AI, first created by Syndrome in his quest to kill all the superheroes in The Incredibles, forms BNL to take control of the planet.
Along the way, intelligent animals like those we saw in Finding Nemo and Ratatouille rise up against humans, a war ensues, animals die, and AI acting through Buy N Large sends humans into space, thus starting WALL- And leaving the planet alone to the AI. The AI ​​begins a life of freedom on its newly conquered planet taking the form of sentient cars, planes, ships, and cranes, because seriously, think about the best way to get around. That's why you don't see humans or animals in any of the car movies, and yet you see the remnants of human society like the Eiffel Tower, Route 66, and things like that.
Oh friend, do you have all that? Being apart and reconstructing this entire theory in detail will be like the equivalent of FNAF on this channel. Well, there's no time like the present, Carpe that Diem, let's start today. So this whole Pixar theory is an interesting explanation, but there are a lot of assumptions. Assumptions that, when you really stop to look at the deeper evidence, simply don't work. And the first set of assumptions I want to address today has to do with the nature of cars. You see, according to the theory as it exists, the cars would basically be smart, driverless cars controlled by Syndrome's super-advanced artificial intelligence.
They would be cars, machines with computers, controlled by an AI, but they are not. Cars are actually organic creatures, living creatures with a body like a tough exoskeleton, but containing some kind of internal organs, a soft, squishy interior like the center of a tootsie roll pop. *screech* You could almost equate them to the terrible monster truck movie that no one bothered to see. By the way, it is worth mentioning that it cost 125 million dollars to manufacture and only recovered 60 million. It almost makes you feel bad for them. Almost. Anyway, getting back to good car movies, we know that cars are based on a lot of different evidence scattered throughout the different features of the car.
First, they breathe oxygen. At the beginning of Cars 2, we see super spy Finn McMissile don an underwater respirator to swim out of sight of the crime syndicate. Later in that same movie, we see many scenes of cars eating and drinking. On the plane to Japan we see snacks scattered on the floor, things like chips and sushi, and again at the party, more sushi at the bar. And, of course, the famous pistachio ice cream. "How about that pistachio ice cream?" A scene that tells us that Mater knows what pastachos are, what ice cream is, and she has tried and enjoyed it.
And sure, we see them drinking varieties of oil and gas, presumably to fuel their engines, but why would they need to ingest food products, if they weren't organic in some way? Even some of the spin-off cartoons support the idea that cars are organic creatures. In the first Tales from Radiator Springs short, we see Lightning McQueen hiccup. Hiccups are caused by irritation of the diaphragm, a dome-shaped muscle in the lower chest. When he does things like eat and drink too quickly, the diaphragm is disturbed and causes it to drop sharply. Suddenly, you suck air into your throat, your vocal cords close abruptly, and you hiccup.
All this evidence, from the first breath underwater to eating and hiccups, implies that under the hood of the car, both literally and figuratively, they have internal organs such as lungs, stomachs and diaphragms, in addition to their car engines. . But perhaps the greatest confirmation comes from the animators themselves. In most interviews, the Pixar team tends to be dismissive of biological issues related to cars. "Sorry, we have to turn off the video here." But a report published on the official Disney Pixar channel titled Pixar Studio Stories gave us all the confirmation we needed. "You can't open your doors because that's where your brain is." They have brains.
A giant, pink, pulsating brain, hidden behind the windows of that car. It's just... Disturbing! Try to get that out of your head next time you watch a Cars movie! BRING THE BRAIN BLEACH PLEASE! Therefore, it would seem that cars are real living beings, and not just highly advanced driverless cars. And before you complain about how stupid it all sounds, there is an actual evolutionary chain present throughout these movies. About 50 minutes and 10 seconds into Cars 2, as if watching almost an hour of a kids movie about cars in Japan, smashing a fake green fuel ring into a huge James Bond riff wasn't weird enough, we see birds . .
Except they're not birds. They are actually miniplanes. Do you think it was just because the Pixar team didn't take their meds for what seems like the entirety of this movie? Well, think again, because another of the Tales from Radiator Springs animated shorts actually features the VW Beetle... Beetles! Small cars with insect wings that make up the insect population of this disturbing universe. Thus proving that the Pixar team doesn't take their meds literally all the time. Or something else. Now this is an important detail, because it shows us that in this universe these car-like creatures not only become airplanes when they fly like birds, but they can grow organic wings like those of a dragonfly.
And all this without even mentioning the fact that there are alien species similar to cars, as we see in Maters Tall Tales, UFO edition. Which we know is true since Mater shows that she can fly at the end of the episode. As a final detail, it is interesting to note that rubber tires are not part of these automotive creatures. In several parts of the series, but most notably in the cartoon train scene, we see the characters moving without their tires. They are the equivalent of car shoes, which go on the feet, or in this case, tires.
Suffice it to say that, alien or not, these are living creatures with internal organs protected by a car-like exoskeleton, and with multiple distinct animal species that have evolved over time from literally boats, planes and cranes to insects. and bird-like animals. In short, when all of this evidence is analyzed, there is only one possible conclusion. That the cars in Cars aren't cars at all, but are much more likely to be a highly evolved form of insect. It sounds ridiculous, but think about it. Just as an insect has a hard exoskeleton made of chitin, the creatures in the car-verse have developed a stronger exoskeleton made of various metals.
Neither cars nor insects appear to have an internal skeleton, so in both creatures the muscles appear to be directly attached to the exoskeleton. An insect's exoskeleton is not a single surface, but rather consists of multiple articulated plates, so when an insect moves a muscle, it causes the connected exoskeleton plate pieces to move as well. It is the same style of movement that we see in cars. Multiple hard plates or shells that move when internal muscles also move. But most important of all in the evidence that solidifies this is that, as we saw in the VW Beetle example, some species of cars can have wings that are not made of metal.
However, depending on the appearance andthe behavior of those wings, they are made of chitin, like the wings of a dragonfly. The same substance that forms the exoskeleton of an insect. Those chitin-based wings are a remnant of the automobile's evolutionary ancestors. The cars in Cars are not cars. They are insects! And that adds some really interesting things to the Pixar theory. First, it removes Cars' attachment to the human era; that kind of evolution will take a long time, so move him away from the WALL-Es, Nemos, and Incredibles of the world and into the future. But surprisingly, we have a movie in the Pixar lineup that follows super-intelligent insects and their quest for survival, insects that have already discovered ways to dominate machines.
Insects that live in a world where there are remains of human society, but no humans are present. Yes, what I propose is that Cars is not so much its own entity, but rather a life of bugs 2, 3 and soon 4. The natural progression of insects evolving and taking over planet Earth. And with that we have the first pieces of the puzzle in place as we all begin to build our own film theorist-approved Pixar mega theory. But for now, remember, it's just a theory, a film theory! Aaaand cut! Are you as excited as I am? This is my first toe into the Pixar theory pool and we're already getting some big reveals.
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