The basis of this movie went from being about a monster who dreams of being top scarer to being about one who is already #1, but soon begins to question his purpose in life near the end.
@@joshuaball5916 well yeah it's only after boo entered his life that he started questioning if being top scarer or scaring as a whole was really worth doing
I think so too! Would be awesome to see a short film of this be produced by Pixar. They could advertise it as Monster’s Inc: The Story You Never Saw...I love how they already incorporated Randy’s music in it too!
I THOUGHT I MADE THIS UP! I found it once, ONCE, on my DVD and could never figure out how I did it and never saw it again. After over ten years of looking through all the features on both the movie DVD and Special Features, I gave up and thought I imagined it. BUT APPARENTLY I JUST WASN'T LOOKING HARD ENOUGH. Excuse me, I will now be banging my head against something.
Omg sameeee!! When I was sm younger I remember watching this on the dvd. Recently I started to remember the og treatment and I tried to find it but I couldn’t find it anywhere until I found this video! Litterally got sm nostalgia watching this!
I remember when Monsters, Inc. first came out on DVD. My sister and I would watch all the bonus content on disc 2 all the time, and we found ourselves repeatedly coming back to this storyboard. The scenes with the landlady spying on the apartment and where Mary is surrounded in the streets still unsettle me to this day
Johnson- Sully(obviously) The boss- Mr. Waternoose Ned- Randall Mary- Boo (In final verison you can see the name "Mary" on Boo's drawings) Landlady- possibly Roz These are my predictions on the characters ended up being in the final version. What do you guys think?
Xander G. They also had a version in storyboard when Sulley becomes Ned/Randall’s assistant, same as Mike. As we all know, this didn’t work out in the end, with Mike becoming Sulley’s assistant and Randall finding an assistant in Fungus and we are given the story we now know and love...
Okay. Majority of this story was terrifying to the younger me but from 5:38-6:05, I was crapping my pants and in tears. The landlady is nightmare fuel!
It definitely would've been a very creepy scene to watch as a kid if this was fully animated instead. The thick shadows and lighting is a very horror-like atmosphere. (Which the majority of the colors has.)
So sometime in 2000 when the film was in development, James P. Sullivan was originally named Johnson as its was revealed in the directors original story and the animation test when he was picking a tie, also he was originally going to be a bit of a slacker like in the deleted scenes, but it would seem a bit greedy for its character. These elements like the child running all over the monster world is mentioned by Mr. Waternoose in the final film and having Boo's original character being a bit older.
Feels a bit weird "Johnson" would be perfectly fine with just up leaving the monster world, never to return. That was probably one of the (many) problems they found with this particular pitch: it ends up just painting the monster world as bad and oppressive, when it should just be an imaginative, quirky take on our world but with monsters
This is very interesting, I only found out recently that the original story was very different because I got this book called "The art of Monsters Inc." where they mention Sullivan went through a lot of changes because the story changed a lot. I wish some of this was included in the book
@@DefaultAvatarWell the point of Bob Parr is that he legally can't do what he is best at. He is at the top, but can't be himself, so it's a whole different trope
@@DefaultAvatarBob was already the best, but he couldn’t be himself due to the laws of his time. Lightning was a rookie when he was introduced, but he had already made a name for himself with his performance during the season.
While I will admit there are some decent ideas in this version, what really would have killed it was the plot point where Johnson/Sully keeps Mary’s/Boo’s repaired door a secret not because he doesn’t want her to leave since they have grown a bond, but rather for his own selfish reasons so he can keep his track record to be the best scarer. Thus eventually leading to her finding out about this and leading to the typical, “main characters argue and separate at the end of the second act before eventually reconciling later cliche”. While it was a decent movie idea to start off with this early draft, I think we can all agree the final version of the movie we ended up with is MUCH better.
I agree. Also, this coming out after releasing Bug's Life just a few years before would have made both feel samey, since they would share a few tropes and similar plot structures
Characters in order: Johnson - Sully Mary - Boo (boo’s real name is actually Mary, you can see it on the Randall drawing) The Boss - Mr. Waternoose Land lady - Ross Ned - Randall Mary’s monster disguise - Mike
I gotta say, I really like the vibe of this version. It sort of has a 50s-esque quality to it and I really like how foreboding and demented the monster world looks. The story still needed a bit of work, though I think a lot of it was there. Admittedly, I was never the biggest fan of Monsters Inc, it's not bad exactly, but I think it's on the lower end of Pixar's solid run from '95 to 2010. It's cool to see this, though, and I'd love for something to be made in this sort of style
Come, now: if Sulley came through your closet he’d probably be wondering why you’re fighting with each other. He’d want the two of you to be getting along and appreciating each other
The first time I saw this I was a young preteen watching the special features on the DVD. I spent nearly the whole night doing it. By the time I got to the section on this, there is like a 15 minute history before they do this bit, I feel asleep for maybe like 5 minutes, when I wake up it's during the middle of this and it freaked me out cause I was so confused. It took me forever to find this little gem again.
I would love to see a 2-D animated special adapt this. Not a bad concept or artwork, I think. Distinct enough from the final product to be worthy of appreciation.
Such memories, I really wish Pixar would do something like this more often, like I would love to listen to what the original treatment of WALL•E was like since I've heard about the whole "Robot Spartacus" "Alien" treatment
The original movie may be obviously better and such... but this is still really, really good! i love this alternate version in it's own ways... it's definitely the perfect kind of story i'd tell to my kids.
On another note, the history behind these two races stems back to caveman times. There were two tribes: the Mans and the Mons. The Mons wanted to make peace with the Mans, but they saw the former as inferior and drove them from the mainland. The Mons found a magical island that gave them the abilities and body parts of whatever they ate on that island. One of them happens upon his own reflection, and he is terrified. This gives him an idea - giving the Mans a taste of their own medicine. As payback for driving out the Mons, the Mans were scared by the Mons every night. The Mons became known as Monsters, and the Mans would be us Humans. How Monsters created their own separate world is unclear.
Ray Sipe I'm talking about the original script before replacing tin toy for buzz and before woody was a cowboy doll. Both characters were supposed to go on a road trip until they found a true home.
Oh you mean the one with the tin toy who gets lost at a rest stop while on vacation with his family and he gets discovered by a junk man and he throws him in the back of his truck and in the truck he befriends a ventriloquist dummy and they end up at a preschool where they’ll never get lost or for gotten (big gasp) (big exhale)
I would love a full 2D animated film version of this. The art's got a sort of gritty feel to it, almost like some sort of artsy/gothic cartoon of some sort (I'd try to think of one to compare it to, but I'm drawing a blank; still, you know what I mean, right?).
When I was about to turn eight, When I first saw this original treatment, as this was the early version, I too just sat there nervous while listening through the whole thing. Like the early production of the Jungle Book, the production of Monsters Inc, with this original treatment was more of a dark and mysterious story with those illustrations.
What I dont like is that it's like a story where the protagonist is unsuccessful where sully is threatened to be fired for not being good at his job Then when something bad happens like this kid comes into the monster world And he is only successful by being dishonest and is caught in the end for his dishonesty The only change I would have wanted is for sully Johnson to still be either the best scarer or at least second best
Agreed. Johnson just isn't very likeable here, especially because he purposely keeps Mary in the monster world just so she can do his scares. Completely selfish.
@@connorbrennan4233 this version is like your typical liars act story with the protagonist telling rubbish or even obvious fibs through his teeth then in the end when the truth is finally revealed there is a lot of consequences plus mopeing for the protagonist
@@connorbrennan4233Well, it's important for heroes to have flaws or make selfish choices. I actually didn't like Sully and one of the reasons is because he lacks flaws.
can anyone find the abandoned concepts where Sully wasn't a scarer, but more of an engineer and Mike was Randell assistant? I had that concept stuff on DVD, but i cant find any footage on youtube! help me please
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This became Tyler Tuskman in monsters at work show. Except he's not good at comedy. Even kept the tusk thing .
I remember seeing concept art that depicted the Monster city as something like Tim Burton’s Gotham City in animated form. I think they were trying to experiment with the city looking dark and foreboding since it’s inhabited by monsters before they decided to go with an unusual approach and have the city look mostly like our world with small tweaks that looks like monster live there.
This feels like a 80s to 90s cartoon feature. Don Bluth´s, Turner, Warner Bros., and Universal´s cartoon films. Not Disney though, because Disney had an better, magical taste.
You can tell they revisted these initial ideas when writing Monster's University because the character motivation for Mike is the same, down to the ultimatum of being fired/expelled due to not being scary. I like that they did that. MU is still one of the only good Pixar sequels in my opinion.
It's interesting that they made Sully a competent scarer in the eventual movie, making it so he has more to lose, if Johnson had been the main character it would have leaned more into him *wanting* things to change from Scaring to Joking.
I can't say this is better or worse than the finished product. (Since the original is so close to me from my childhood.) But I would just say it's different. It's good in a different way. If the actual movie is like How to Train Your Dragon, then this version is basically like Wreck It Ralph. It's not like other Pixar movies where their original stories were obviously inferior to the finished film, this is one I wouldn't have minded if the original movie didn't exist and we had this one. It still had the same emotional beats, charm and creativity of the actual movie. Also, these character designs would've looked really good in CGI. Granted it's not as bright and colorful and is more dark, green and shadowy looking, it still would've looked cool to see in 2000/2001. And part of me feels kinda bummed we didn't see this slightly edgier version with an older Boo. Many of the original 1997 concept art on The Art of Monsters Ink had some really appealing designs. (Some designed by the guy that did How to Train Your Dragon.)
For some reason, I remember this story seeming more mature and weird as a kid but it really isn't. It actually feels more childish with the cowardly monster teaming up with spunky girl plot. There is a bit of bittersweetness with the ending and I like how oppressive and conformist the Monster World feels.
Out of all the Pixar artworks, Monsters, Inc. has one of the best visual development artworks but that’s how I look at it now. But, back when I was very young, particularly the visual development artwork in the past Disney studios from 1930s to 1990s, I would look at these bonus features and I used to been terrified by how authentic and surreal these drawings looked like. Now, I look at them as an adult and they’re even more better than today’s artwork. I never liked digital artworks today because they aren’t as authentic and as surreal by different set of tools these artists have done to see if it would round up in the final film, but never did. I agree with a few comments that this should’ve been a children’s book featuring all the artwork illustrations of how we look at in the bonus features. Lewis Carroll’s book of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland featured a copy illustration visual development work in 1939 by David Hall, during back when Walt Disney was setting up producing his feature-length version of Alice in Wonderland. Pixar and Disney should put this up as a book with all the visual development artwork as illustrations and other things like that.
They thought turning Mary into a toddler would make her more dependent on Sully. Me personally, I think that was a huge mistake. Turning her into a toddler robs her of character and turns her into little more then a plot device then a character. And it shows an idealized version of kids that just don't exist. Mary here, seems more fleshed out.
Wow that’s a lot of big change for the movie. Johnson is a clumsy and coward monster, who tries to struggle become scary as possible and Mike is just a chill monster and very supportive to his friend, but somehow he is a sterotypical playboy. Later on the new concept. Mike has been replaced by Mary who’s a human young girl disguise herself as monster and moody person, while Johnson still stay the same. Later on the final one. Johnson is now renamed Sully, he is now mature and courage monster, Mike is finally back but he’s no longer sterotypical playboy. And finally we have Mary whos renamed herself as Boo.
I actually think this would have made a better movie. I never did like Sully, I thought he was too cocky in the opening and too goody good for the rest of the movie. Johnson seems more three dimensional. And instead of being edged on into a bad choice like Sully, Johnson willingly makes a bad choice. But we know and understand why he does it. And it shows kids that even good people can make bad or selfish choices. I also like Mary more then Boo. Boo was just a toddler who barely had any self awareness. So there's little character and she only exists for comedy and heart warming scenes. Mary seems more like a character and more like a kid. Kids are not little angels, or nor are they little demons. They are complicated, flawed human beings with all the benefits and drawbacks of being a human. True she becomes a good friend of Johnsnon. But she's also allowed to get angry at him. She also has a bit of a dark side as well. In other, I think these characters were more like real people.
The final version is much better, but if the movie was faithful to this concept it would still be pretty good. Still needs an explanation about why the monsters scare kids and what the factory does, which the final movie had.
The basis of this movie went from being about a monster who dreams of being top scarer to being about one who is already #1, but soon begins to question his purpose in life near the end.
it’s amazing how things change drastically.
Sullivan was questioning himself?
@@joshuaball5916 well yeah it's only after boo entered his life that he started questioning if being top scarer or scaring as a whole was really worth doing
@@kingdedede5570and he realized how terrified he made all the children he scared when he saw the fear in Boo’s eyes.
I actually like that idea better. I didn't like Sully in the opening. Too cocky.
I still think the final product is a better story, but this is still a decent concept.
it's interesting to see the similarities.
I think so too! Would be awesome to see a short film of this be produced by Pixar. They could advertise it as Monster’s Inc: The Story You Never Saw...I love how they already incorporated Randy’s music in it too!
The part with the land lady reminded me of the Jurassic park raptors
I THOUGHT I MADE THIS UP! I found it once, ONCE, on my DVD and could never figure out how I did it and never saw it again. After over ten years of looking through all the features on both the movie DVD and Special Features, I gave up and thought I imagined it. BUT APPARENTLY I JUST WASN'T LOOKING HARD ENOUGH. Excuse me, I will now be banging my head against something.
Omg sameeee!! When I was sm younger I remember watching this on the dvd. Recently I started to remember the og treatment and I tried to find it but I couldn’t find it anywhere until I found this video! Litterally got sm nostalgia watching this!
You all are adorable, you know that?
It’s in the Bonus DVD in the Human World (the door vault) in the door called “Story”
@@cameronholladay3605 Thank you. I might literally cry. I swore I checked everywhere. I knew it was a door but I thought I clicked them all.
BrooklynMcupkiller no problem! Hopefully, it works for you. Some really awesome features on that disc!!
I remember when Monsters, Inc. first came out on DVD. My sister and I would watch all the bonus content on disc 2 all the time, and we found ourselves repeatedly coming back to this storyboard.
The scenes with the landlady spying on the apartment and where Mary is surrounded in the streets still unsettle me to this day
As a kid, these illustrations and the narration always scared the crap outta me
geez me too
Same same
Is that Pete Doctor himself narrating this story
@@noahmizen7001 yeah
How did this scare you
As a kid, the artwork where Johnson realizes he’s in Mary’s room scared me so badly. The music, the facial expression, everything
For me, it was 5:52. Definitely a suspenseful scene and definitely would've been a very effective sequence to watch if this version was made.
Why hasn't this been turn into a children's book
That would be cool AF
Becauseit turned into a movie
Johnson- Sully(obviously)
The boss- Mr. Waternoose
Ned- Randall
Mary- Boo (In final verison you can see the name "Mary" on Boo's drawings)
Landlady- possibly Roz
These are my predictions on the characters ended up being in the final version. What do you guys think?
Makes sense
I guess Mike came into the story later in production
@@xanderg.1070 good point
Xander G. They also had a version in storyboard when Sulley becomes Ned/Randall’s assistant, same as Mike. As we all know, this didn’t work out in the end, with Mike becoming Sulley’s assistant and Randall finding an assistant in Fungus and we are given the story we now know and love...
monsters inc in early scenes from 1999
Okay. Majority of this story was terrifying to the younger me but from 5:38-6:05, I was crapping my pants and in tears. The landlady is nightmare fuel!
It definitely would've been a very creepy scene to watch as a kid if this was fully animated instead. The thick shadows and lighting is a very horror-like atmosphere. (Which the majority of the colors has.)
Interesting Tidbit: Mary is Boo’s actual name. If you watch carefully, you see her name on one of her drawings.
So sometime in 2000 when the film was in development, James P. Sullivan was originally named Johnson as its was revealed in the directors original story and the animation test when he was picking a tie, also he was originally going to be a bit of a slacker like in the deleted scenes, but it would seem a bit greedy for its character. These elements like the child running all over the monster world is mentioned by Mr. Waternoose in the final film and having Boo's original character being a bit older.
Production of Monsters, Inc actually commenced in May 1999. Peter Docter came up with the idea of the film in 1994!
@@lucylocket4740 The art of Monsters Inc has many concept art for this version with Johnson and Mary and many of them were dated back in 1997.
Feels a bit weird "Johnson" would be perfectly fine with just up leaving the monster world, never to return. That was probably one of the (many) problems they found with this particular pitch: it ends up just painting the monster world as bad and oppressive, when it should just be an imaginative, quirky take on our world but with monsters
To be fair, Johnson would have been sent to prison, let alone executed for harboring a human kid in the monster world. That’s the last thing he wants.
This is very interesting, I only found out recently that the original story was very different because I got this book called "The art of Monsters Inc." where they mention Sullivan went through a lot of changes because the story changed a lot. I wish some of this was included in the book
It is interesting, there aren't a lot of Disney movies where the protagonist starts the movie as the top-ranked whatever they do.
Well, there are a few. Woody, Sully, Bob Parr (maybe), Lighting McQueen, Joy (sort of), Mei Linn (i think as a top student)
@@DefaultAvatar I think it's cheating to include a movie that didn't exist when I wrote my comment.
@@DefaultAvatarWell the point of Bob Parr is that he legally can't do what he is best at. He is at the top, but can't be himself, so it's a whole different trope
@@DefaultAvatarBob was already the best, but he couldn’t be himself due to the laws of his time.
Lightning was a rookie when he was introduced, but he had already made a name for himself with his performance during the season.
While I will admit there are some decent ideas in this version, what really would have killed it was the plot point where Johnson/Sully keeps Mary’s/Boo’s repaired door a secret not because he doesn’t want her to leave since they have grown a bond, but rather for his own selfish reasons so he can keep his track record to be the best scarer.
Thus eventually leading to her finding out about this and leading to the typical, “main characters argue and separate at the end of the second act before eventually reconciling later cliche”.
While it was a decent movie idea to start off with this early draft, I think we can all agree the final version of the movie we ended up with is MUCH better.
I agree. Also, this coming out after releasing Bug's Life just a few years before would have made both feel samey, since they would share a few tropes and similar plot structures
Well, I thought Sully was too goody good. He didn't have any notable flaws. This one, is an understandable flaw.
@@godzillavkkNobody agrees with you loser
@@godzillavkkHe's a monster, not a flawless paragon of virtue
@@azure-aeon-dragaeon Tell that to the Pure Good wiki. Plus, it feels artificial.
As you can see the story didn't have Mike in it.
SesameFan it sorta did cause "boo" outfit looked a little like mike
And the finalized version looked like a buddy comedy film
...Or So Help Me!
@@jaydan1337 im sorry for you
This was before mike was created
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if DreamWorks took a spin on this :D
Feels like an illumination studio movie to be honest.
Marys monster outfit definetly makes you think of Mike. This honestly is a decent story in its own right even if the final product is still better.
Finally, thanks i was searching this.
José David Catemac Same here I been searching forever
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Shockwave impression : I as well this story seems illogical
Definitely one of the most intriguing original treatments Pixar has ever made, along with "Yellow Car" (Cars) and "Bugs" (A Bug's Life)
American Car (Cars) is taken place in with the Number 57 (Original Lightning McQueen)
Bugs (A Bug’s Life) is taken place in with Red (Original Flik)
This scared me as a kid
How
That’s what monsters do they scare kids
Skunk Man it’s just eerie. The illustrations, the music, how it’s just still drawings with a moving camera and sound effects.
Same. It's why I decided to rewtach it all these years later. Nowhere near as bad as I remember, but still eerie at times.
Characters in order:
Johnson - Sully
Mary - Boo (boo’s real name is actually Mary, you can see it on the Randall drawing)
The Boss - Mr. Waternoose
Land lady - Ross
Ned - Randall
Mary’s monster disguise - Mike
I like this besides the ending. The ending is more like a tv episode ending not a movie ending
The ending felt a little like what happened with Randall
The Illustration, sounds, and the narrator gives me the creeps. But it's still great!
The illustrations definitely look like a kid's book you'd once read in Elementary school and are somewhat spooked yet intrigued by.
I gotta say, I really like the vibe of this version. It sort of has a 50s-esque quality to it and I really like how foreboding and demented the monster world looks. The story still needed a bit of work, though I think a lot of it was there. Admittedly, I was never the biggest fan of Monsters Inc, it's not bad exactly, but I think it's on the lower end of Pixar's solid run from '95 to 2010. It's cool to see this, though, and I'd love for something to be made in this sort of style
I like the idea of the monster world being outright oppressive and Johnson needing to escape it
I've been looking for this since i lost the movie when i was a kid, loved this narrative story😍
This sounds like a good pilot to a cartoon show
The monster in africa was honestly terrifying
I’d be horrified if I saw that thing in my room lol
Its not a monster..... *Its Satan*
I don’t really find it that creepy, but I’ll be terrified if I saw it irl 😅
Happy 20th Anniversary, Monsters, Inc.!
This video will always be my favorite. The editing, the vibes, the music! I love it!
I feel sorry for Mary being scared all the time by her brothers my little brother always scared me when we where kids
Come, now: if Sulley came through your closet he’d probably be wondering why you’re fighting with each other. He’d want the two of you to be getting along and appreciating each other
After loosing my monsters inc dvd i thought id never see this concept clip ever again! Im so glad its been uploaded.
You're welcome :)
The first time I saw this I was a young preteen watching the special features on the DVD. I spent nearly the whole night doing it. By the time I got to the section on this, there is like a 15 minute history before they do this bit, I feel asleep for maybe like 5 minutes, when I wake up it's during the middle of this and it freaked me out cause I was so confused. It took me forever to find this little gem again.
11:18 awww I know Mary is super sad
But I think that picture is kinda cute
I would love to see a 2-D animated special adapt this. Not a bad concept or artwork, I think. Distinct enough from the final product to be worthy of appreciation.
Wow it’s like an inspiration from a book like this one cause this bonus feature is like a story book made by someone!
Wow, I love the original, and I’m kinda disappointed that we wouldn’t get to see this animated, but I’m still happy we get to see this.
Those monster scaring concepts are used in the First Day video.
Such memories, I really wish Pixar would do something like this more often, like I would love to listen to what the original treatment of WALL•E was like since I've heard about the whole "Robot Spartacus" "Alien" treatment
The original movie may be obviously better and such... but this is still really, really good! i love this alternate version in it's own ways... it's definitely the perfect kind of story i'd tell to my kids.
On another note, the history behind these two races stems back to caveman times. There were two tribes: the Mans and the Mons. The Mons wanted to make peace with the Mans, but they saw the former as inferior and drove them from the mainland. The Mons found a magical island that gave them the abilities and body parts of whatever they ate on that island. One of them happens upon his own reflection, and he is terrified. This gives him an idea - giving the Mans a taste of their own medicine. As payback for driving out the Mons, the Mans were scared by the Mons every night. The Mons became known as Monsters, and the Mans would be us Humans. How Monsters created their own separate world is unclear.
I wonder why pixar never made one for the original treatment for Toy Story. They made one for A Bug's Life.
Couldn't be unwatchable like the emoji movie or teen titans go
You mean the Black Friday Reel
Ray Sipe I'm talking about the original script before replacing tin toy for buzz and before woody was a cowboy doll. Both characters were supposed to go on a road trip until they found a true home.
Oh you mean the one with the tin toy who gets lost at a rest stop while on vacation with his family and he gets discovered by a junk man and he throws him in the back of his truck and in the truck he befriends a ventriloquist dummy and they end up at a preschool where they’ll never get lost or for gotten (big gasp) (big exhale)
Or the one where Buzz was known as Tempus from Morph?
I would love a full 2D animated film version of this. The art's got a sort of gritty feel to it, almost like some sort of artsy/gothic cartoon of some sort (I'd try to think of one to compare it to, but I'm drawing a blank; still, you know what I mean, right?).
JESUS THIS IS NOSTALGIA
I do of course love the Monsters Inc we got, but this is pretty good too.
DUUUUUDE I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS WHEN I WAS A KID OMG
2:46 One girl and ten boys that's similar to one boy and ten girls in the animated TV series The Loud House
I love this story
Me too! I am so mad Pixar did not do it this way!
This one feels more like a made for TV movie
Was anyone else give a Ralph and Vanoplope vibe ?
When I was about to turn eight, When I first saw this original treatment, as this was the early version, I too just sat there nervous while listening through the whole thing. Like the early production of the Jungle Book, the production of Monsters Inc, with this original treatment was more of a dark and mysterious story with those illustrations.
Can we have this scrapped made into a movie please!
YEAH!! I am so mad that Pixar did not make the movie like this!!
0:32 omg that is the ice age baby!
What I dont like is that it's like a story where the protagonist is unsuccessful where sully is threatened to be fired for not being good at his job
Then when something bad happens like this kid comes into the monster world
And he is only successful by being dishonest and is caught in the end for his dishonesty
The only change I would have wanted is for sully Johnson to still be either the best scarer or at least second best
Agreed. Johnson just isn't very likeable here, especially because he purposely keeps Mary in the monster world just so she can do his scares. Completely selfish.
@@connorbrennan4233 this version is like your typical liars act story with the protagonist telling rubbish or even obvious fibs through his teeth then in the end when the truth is finally revealed there is a lot of consequences plus mopeing for the protagonist
That's something I didn't like about Sully in the opening. Far too cocky.
@@connorbrennan4233Well, it's important for heroes to have flaws or make selfish choices. I actually didn't like Sully and one of the reasons is because he lacks flaws.
@@godzillavkk He's blind to how his scaring affects the children. His unintentional scaring of Boo opens his eyes to reality.
This would make the story kind of more bad because no mike wazouski= no mike wazouski memes
can anyone find the abandoned concepts where Sully wasn't a scarer, but more of an engineer and Mike was Randell assistant? I had that concept stuff on DVD, but i cant find any footage on youtube! help me please
This became Tyler Tuskman in monsters at work show. Except he's not good at comedy. Even kept the tusk thing .
So Johnson is sulley and Mary is boo and the boss is waternoose and ned is Randall and security is the CDA
Mary has a lot of Mike's traits
2:00 WE’VE GOT A 2319
It seems like the original concept had a lot more horror elements that got toned down.
I remember seeing concept art that depicted the Monster city as something like Tim Burton’s Gotham City in animated form. I think they were trying to experiment with the city looking dark and foreboding since it’s inhabited by monsters before they decided to go with an unusual approach and have the city look mostly like our world with small tweaks that looks like monster live there.
11:38 Does anyone else know that the helicopters here have eyes themselves and the light is coming out of them
This feels like a 80s to 90s cartoon feature.
Don Bluth´s, Turner, Warner Bros., and Universal´s cartoon films.
Not Disney though, because Disney had an better, magical taste.
You can tell they revisted these initial ideas when writing Monster's University because the character motivation for Mike is the same, down to the ultimatum of being fired/expelled due to not being scary. I like that they did that. MU is still one of the only good Pixar sequels in my opinion.
actually, MU is a prequel
It's interesting that they made Sully a competent scarer in the eventual movie, making it so he has more to lose, if Johnson had been the main character it would have leaned more into him *wanting* things to change from Scaring to Joking.
That was a problem I had with the first movie. Making him a competent and the best scarer actually made me dislike him because of how cocky he was.
This rules big time even though Pete Docter narrates this story pretty good.
I can't say this is better or worse than the finished product. (Since the original is so close to me from my childhood.) But I would just say it's different. It's good in a different way. If the actual movie is like How to Train Your Dragon, then this version is basically like Wreck It Ralph. It's not like other Pixar movies where their original stories were obviously inferior to the finished film, this is one I wouldn't have minded if the original movie didn't exist and we had this one. It still had the same emotional beats, charm and creativity of the actual movie. Also, these character designs would've looked really good in CGI. Granted it's not as bright and colorful and is more dark, green and shadowy looking, it still would've looked cool to see in 2000/2001. And part of me feels kinda bummed we didn't see this slightly edgier version with an older Boo. Many of the original 1997 concept art on The Art of Monsters Ink had some really appealing designs. (Some designed by the guy that did How to Train Your Dragon.)
For some reason, I remember this story seeming more mature and weird as a kid but it really isn't. It actually feels more childish with the cowardly monster teaming up with spunky girl plot. There is a bit of bittersweetness with the ending and I like how oppressive and conformist the Monster World feels.
Is that Pete doctor himself narrating this story
Yes, take a look at the description.
Out of all the Pixar artworks, Monsters, Inc. has one of the best visual development artworks but that’s how I look at it now. But, back when I was very young, particularly the visual development artwork in the past Disney studios from 1930s to 1990s, I would look at these bonus features and I used to been terrified by how authentic and surreal these drawings looked like. Now, I look at them as an adult and they’re even more better than today’s artwork. I never liked digital artworks today because they aren’t as authentic and as surreal by different set of tools these artists have done to see if it would round up in the final film, but never did. I agree with a few comments that this should’ve been a children’s book featuring all the artwork illustrations of how we look at in the bonus features. Lewis Carroll’s book of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland featured a copy illustration visual development work in 1939 by David Hall, during back when Walt Disney was setting up producing his feature-length version of Alice in Wonderland. Pixar and Disney should put this up as a book with all the visual development artwork as illustrations and other things like that.
This story would make a great expansion into the Monsters Inc universe.
What a cool story
This is actually kinda better than the final movie!
No kidding......I wish Pixar would have done it this way! I would have liked it much better!
@@danarichman1170Me too.
@@thejuiceisloose7 Neither do you, tiny.
So Johnson’s first appearance evolved into the beginning of the movie, if you know what I mean.
0:48 1:10 2:20 11:13 11:14 13:39
Date: Friday December 30, 2022 (1;30.00 PM)
Location: Couch Chair, Office, Floor 1
Johnson’s design in this video actually inspired one of my Emotester drawings on deviantart.
James p Johnson sullivan
So did Mary end up becoming Boo AND Mike in fine final product?
They thought turning Mary into a toddler would make her more dependent on Sully. Me personally, I think that was a huge mistake. Turning her into a toddler robs her of character and turns her into little more then a plot device then a character. And it shows an idealized version of kids that just don't exist. Mary here, seems more fleshed out.
That ending is sweet though
That's a good story nice good story telling i❤ story time a bedtime is the best night ever
That voiceover is the director Pete Docter.
Where's Mary's parents?
5:53 God that image is terrifying! I don't understand how this is creepier now than when I was a child.
It definitely would’ve been a scary scene if it was fully animated in 2000.
I like how the movie could’ve ended with a monster living the rest of his days in the human world.
This is actually basically Soul
Same director too.
Amm... Wreck it Ralph?
But with monsters…
0:25 "oh......"
Wow that’s a lot of big change for the movie. Johnson is a clumsy and coward monster, who tries to struggle become scary as possible and Mike is just a chill monster and very supportive to his friend, but somehow he is a sterotypical playboy.
Later on the new concept. Mike has been replaced by Mary who’s a human young girl disguise herself as monster and moody person, while Johnson still stay the same.
Later on the final one. Johnson is now renamed Sully, he is now mature and courage monster, Mike is finally back but he’s no longer sterotypical playboy. And finally we have Mary whos renamed herself as Boo.
I actually think this would have made a better movie. I never did like Sully, I thought he was too cocky in the opening and too goody good for the rest of the movie. Johnson seems more three dimensional. And instead of being edged on into a bad choice like Sully, Johnson willingly makes a bad choice. But we know and understand why he does it. And it shows kids that even good people can make bad or selfish choices. I also like Mary more then Boo. Boo was just a toddler who barely had any self awareness. So there's little character and she only exists for comedy and heart warming scenes. Mary seems more like a character and more like a kid. Kids are not little angels, or nor are they little demons. They are complicated, flawed human beings with all the benefits and drawbacks of being a human. True she becomes a good friend of Johnsnon. But she's also allowed to get angry at him. She also has a bit of a dark side as well.
In other, I think these characters were more like real people.
Is there one for other pixar films
If you seen transformers you'd know what I was talking about
Wouldnt mind if this became a side story
Edit: 5:55 was kinda creepy
IKR, creepy as hell
Well there monsters so of course there gonna be creepy, but yes that scared tf out of me
Its weird how the kid was originally mike ._.
Mike didn't even exist back then. Terrible idea, good thing they changed it
Same music of the final flim randy newman
Looks awfully like flapjack.
Nice job 👏👍👌😀🙌😄
Aw, that was wonderful
I know! I wish Pixar would have done it this way!! DAMN IT!!!
13:10 So sully remains in the human world forever
Unless he's going to the other house and goes back into the monster world when it's about to be opened by an another monster.
@@tonyleppanen6773 how will he know when to do it or what if there is no kid in that house
@@tonyleppanen6773 I mean, he's kind of a wanted criminal in his home world, so it's probably not the smartest idea to return.
@@alvarer1 I dunno
@@IkeFanBoy64 maybe he goes back under a second identity or wait out until they stop hunting him down
I didn't get this when I was a kid
Would have hit different without mike
The final version is much better, but if the movie was faithful to this concept it would still be pretty good.
Still needs an explanation about why the monsters scare kids and what the factory does, which the final movie had.
Maybe they could have a moral about how fear is a necessary emotion.