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Pixar Films: Pixar Feature Films, Toy Story, Wall-E, Up, Ratatouille, Cars, the Incredibles, a Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo, Monster
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-11.
ISBN 9781155960128
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pixar Feature Films, Toy Story, Wall-E, Up, Ratatouille, Cars, the Incredibles, a Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., John Carter of Mars, Toy Story 3, 1906, List of Pixar Films, Cars 2, the Bear and the Bow. Excerpt: 1906 1906 is an upcoming disaster film directed by Brad Bird and based on events just prior to and during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film examines corruption within the then government of San Francisco , as well as the policemen who worked to defeat these criminal activities.Based on the best-selling novel 1906 by James Dalessandro , the film will mark the first time director Brad Bird and Pixar have forayed into live-action film. It will be the second live-action film released that Pixar was involved with, following the Disney · Pixar production, John Carter of Mars .Plot 1906 follows a young investigative reporter and a young cop trying to uncover rampant political corruption in 1906 San Francisco . The city is one of the most beautiful in the world, but underneath the veneer there is mob rule , shanghaiing of sailors, and even trafficking in Chinese slave girls.Annalisa Passarelli, the Evening Bulletin's music critic, is secretly helping Byron Fallon, the chief of detectives, gather dirt on ficitional character Adam Rolf. Rolf runs a corrupt political syndicate and secretly spreads his influence via his proxy, mayor Eugene Schmitz , an actual historical figure. Schmitz employs an army of goons on the waterfront led by the unsavory character, James "Shanghai" Kelly , also a real person. Byron is killed right as he is about to arrest the mayor. So Byron's son, Hunter, a former student, teams up with Annalisa and the Brotherhood, a group of honest cops, to bring down Rolf. Before they can incriminate Rolf, the San Francisco Earthquak
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