Angry, 22 throws the badge at him and disappears into the zone. 22 realizes her badge is filled out, yet Joe insists it was because of his traits, and that she has not truly found her spark. As they run through a subway station, Terry traps them both and brings them back to the Great Before. After Joe tells 22 that her experiences were not purposes, 22 refuses and flees to find her spark with Joe tailing behind. Meanwhile, Terry sends him to it by arriving on Earth after he was lost, restoring the count.Īs the day ends, Joe and 22 visit with Moonwind to return Joe to his body. She holds poignant conversations with Connie, Dez, and Libba. In the meantime, 22 settles into Joe's body and enjoys small moments while interacting with Joe's peers. They find Moonwind, who agrees to meet them later at the jazz club to restore Joe to his body. Joe returns to Earth but accidentally carries 22, entering the respective bodies of a therapy cat and Joe himself. They meet Moonwind-a galleon captain-to locate Joe's body on Earth. After Joe fails to find 22 a passion, they visit " the zone", a place that souls can enter when their passions create a euphoric trance, but which can also become a trap for obsessed lost souls. Discovering that Joe is in a coma at a hospital, 22 agrees to let him help find her "spark" to complete her badge and then give it to him so that he can return home. Mistaken for a mentor, Joe is assigned to train a soul named 22, who wants to avoid Earth. Each soul has a badge which grants passage to Earth once it is completely filled out with personality traits. Unwilling to die, he tries to escape but ends up in the " Great Before", where counselors - all named Jerry - prepare unborn souls for life with the help of mentor souls. Joe finds himself as a soul heading into the " Great Beyond". As Joe heads off, his excitement distracts him, and he falls down a manhole into the sewers. Impressed with Joe's piano playing, Dorothea hires him for that night's show. Joe learns Dorothea Williams has an opening in her quartet and auditions at a music club. When he receives an offer for a full-time teaching position, his mother Libba urges him to accept it. In New York City, Joe Gardner dreams of playing jazz professionally. Soul was nominated for three awards at the 93rd Academy Awards season, winning two, and received numerous accolades. Organizations like the National Board of Review and American Film Institute named the film as one of the top 10 films of 2020. Soul received positive reviews for its craftsmanship, story, characters, and musical score.
However, the feature was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Soul being released direct-to-streaming on Disney+ on December 25, 2020, and in theaters in countries without the streaming service. Soul premiered at the London Film Festival on October 11, 2020, and was scheduled to be theatrically released on November 20. It is the first Pixar film to feature a Black lead. Production on Soul lasted for four years, on an approximate $150 million budget. Apart from Batiste's original jazz compositions, musicians Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross also composed the film's score. The film's producers consulted various jazz musicians including Herbie Hancock and Terri Lyne Carrington, and animated its musical sequences using the sessions of musician Jon Batiste as a reference. The film centers on a music teacher, Joe Gardner (Foxx), seeking to reunite his soul and his body after they are separated just before his big break as a jazz musician.ĭocter conceived Soul in January 2016, working from his contemplations on the origins of human personalities and the concept of determinism. It stars the voices of Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House, Alice Braga, Richard Ayoade, Phylicia Rashad, Donnell Rawlings, Questlove, and Angela Bassett. Soul is a 2020 American computer-animated comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Pete Docter, and written by Docter, Mike Jones, and Kemp Powers.
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