Pete Doctrery Kemp Powers, director of the film
revealed the alternate endings of the story; even that Joe was not going to be the protagonist
A few days ago, the streaming platform Disney + released Soul , the new Pixar studio film that has won the praise of critics and the public , being one of the best recommendations to enjoy this end of the year.
Soul tells the story of Joe Gardner , a New York high school music teacher who loves jazz and who, no matter what time goes by, has a dream of becoming a professional jazz player.
However, when he gets a great opportunity to do so, he falls into a sewer and dies , or something like that. And it is that his soul resists going to the “Great After” and escapes to “The Great Before”, a place where souls are prepared to find their life purposes before reaching Earth.
It is there where he meets 22 , a young, somewhat nihilistic and rebellious spirit that even the best teachers have not managed to educate. Joe ends up becoming a mentor , helping 22 achieve his earthly life, while he is sent back into his body, giving him a second chance to live to the fullest.
But in the original script by Pete Doctrery Kemp Powers , the protagonist’s fate ended in a much more depressing way . This was confessed by the director in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
Pete revealed that, initially, Joe was not going to have a second chance at life.
There was a lot of back-and-forth debate, but I think the more we watched him live his life and think about his mother, Libba, and all of those factors, it felt like the right ending: that he was able to enjoy his life the way that he wanted it because he had learned so much throughout the film
Joe becomes a mentor of 22, a rebellious soul who is not interested in going to earth (Photo: EFE)
To this, Kemp Powers added that the chosen ending generated “ more debate than any other element in the film .”
He basically ends up as a mentor in the ‘You Seminar’. He stayed in the Further Back and ended up being the best mentor of all time, introducing new ideas to the seminar. It revolutionized it a bit. It was very pretty and a lot of fun, and it pissed off some people. But you know, you only learn if you try. It didn’t work, but it was a very fun exploration process
He explained that as the film was made, they changed their minds because, if there are several scenes where the protagonist sees his life and realizes that “I did not live this correctly,” it did not seem appropriate not to give it a chance.
You can’t teach this guy to enjoy his life and then steal that from him
Pete Docter and Kemp Powers, director of ‘Soul’, pointed out that the film is very special and will connect with people, especially in times of pandemic (Photo: File)
In fact, there were at least three possible scenarios for the ending: Joe does stay dead ; the chosen one: Joe gets a second chance; and we can see Joe’s life a year later .
Therefore, the final shot of the film shows Joe’s soul returning to his body, taking a deep breath and starting a new life.
On the other hand, he indicated that before starting production, the idea was that 22 would be the protagonist , not Joe, and it would be a little soul that did not want to be born.
In the original version, in English, the animated film has some recognizable voices for the older ones. Who plays Joe, the musician and protagonist of the film, is Jamie Foxx (the actor who gave life to Ray Charles in Ray, among many other works), while the voice for 22 , the soul that the jazzman must help, is Tina Fey (the comedian known primarily for her work on Satuday Night Live ).
To give credibility and greater veracity to everything related to the chosen musical genre, the production received contributions from important jazz musicians and African-American culture such as the renowned pianist Herbie Hancock and Questlove — drummer of The Roots , who also has a role in the movie-. In addition, it was decided that Kemp Powers, the film’s screenwriter, would also participate as a director, thus becoming the first black director of a Pixar film .
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