The Movie "Up"

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Up, Up, and Away Anyone is always up for a little adventure in their life and in the movie “UP!” by Pete Docter, we see a great deal of it. The movie is about a man, Carl Frederickson, who as a young boy looked up to explorer Charles Muntz. Carl learns that his idol Muntz has been accused of faking the skeleton of a giant bird he had claimed to have discovered in Paradise Falls, Venezuela, South America, and in turn organization fires him. He then vows to return to Paradise Falls to capture the bird alive, and he will not return until he does. One day, Carl stumbles upon an energetic and somewhat crazy tomboy named Ellie, who is also a Muntz fan. She tells Carl about her desire to move her "clubhouse" which just happens to be an abandoned house in the neighborhood, to a cliff overlooking Paradise Falls, making him promise to help her. Carl and Ellie eventually get married and grow old together in the restored house, Carl working as a toy balloon vendor, and Ellie a zookeeper. When they are told by a doctor that they are unable to have children together, they repeatedly pool their savings for a trip to Paradise Falls, but end up spending it on other important things. An elderly Carl finally arranges for the trip, but Ellie suddenly becomes ill and dies, leaving him alone. Carl promises himself that he will hold up his deal with Ellie, and take the house to Paradise Falls. During the film we see great deals of sociological concepts including symbolic interactions, functionalism, and conflict theory. One of the sociological concepts of the movie is symbolic interaction. It plays a big part in the movie because almost everything is a symbol of something important to Carl. From the time Ellie dies the house and all that’s in it is the most important. Carl is always talking to the house like it is his wife throughout the movie, and even calls it “Ellie”. They had
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