Daily Dialogue — June 24, 2010

Buzz: [Woody, scared, walks backwards and he gets startled by Buzz. Buzz keeps talking to his “mission log”] And according to my navi-computer, the… 
 Woody: [whispering] SHUT UP! Just, SHUT UP, you idiot! 
 Buzz: Sheriff, this is no time to panic. 
 Woody: This is a perfect time to panic! I’m lost, Andy is gone, they’re gonna move to their new house in two days, AND IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT! 
 Buzz: Mine? My fault? If you hadn’t pushed me out of the window in the first place… 
 Woody: Oh yeah? Well, if you hadn’t shown up with your stupid little cardboard spaceship and taken away everything that was important to me… 
 Buzz: Don’t talk to me about importance! Because of *you*, the future of this entire universe is in jeopardy! 
 Woody: WHAT? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? 
 Buzz: Right now, poised at the edge of the galaxy, Emperor Zurg has been secretly building a weapon with the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire planet! I alone have information that reveals this weapon’s only weakness. And *you*, my friend, are responsible for delaying my rendezvous with Star Command! 
 Woody: [pauses and looks incredulous] YOU! ARE! A! TOYYYYY! You aren’t the real Buzz Lightyear! You’re — you’re an action figure! 
[holds hand up to eyes indicating something small] 
 Woody: You are a child’s play thing! 
 Buzz: You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity. 
[waves in military fashion] 
 Buzz: Farewell. 
[starts to walk away] 
 Woody: Oh, yeah? Well, good riddance, ya loony!

 — Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), Toy Story (1995), screenplay by Joss Whedon & Andrew Stanton, and Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, story by John Lasseter & Pete Docter and Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft

This week’s Daily Dialogue theme is animated movies.

Trivia: First fully computer-generated full-length feature film. Each frame took 4 to 13 hours (depending on the complexity of the shot) of time on a RenderFarm consisting of 87 2-CPU SparcStation 20’s, 30 4-CPU Sparc-Station 20’s and a SparcServer 1000.