Call me unoriginal, but you have no idea how much this short film means to me. My eyes lit up just like Geri's in the picture above when our IDMA professor played the Pixar creation. As a child, this was always one of my favorite things to watch, yet I didn't even understand what it was about. Why was Geri getting up so much during the game? Where did the other man, looking exactly like him, come from? He was so mean! I found out watching it a couple years later that is was simply just an old man playing a game by himself because he was lonely. As discussed in class, this little movie was a major contribution on human animation modeling. Company founder Andrew Stanton stated, "Be wrong as fast as you can."Based on their past shorts and films before, this picture truly shows what Stanton was talking about. Because they experimented with other subjects before humans, they learned with failure then kicked butt afterward. We can relate with Geri in the film as well because don't lie, you have played a game by yourself and enjoyed it.
This film is significant to me for the reasons of wanting to be like him when I am older. Not necessarily playing chess by myself in the autumn season, but being an old guy with a sense of childlike wonders.
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