The Miracle of Ellie "Adventure is out there!!" Disney Pixar UP!

In under 4 minutes Pixar created a brilliant imaginative positive super fun role model for children everywhere. She is proactive, engaged in the world, exploring on her own terms, inviting others to join adventures in her clubhouse with minds wide open.

Ellie is unencumbered by ideological baggage, social conventions, burkas or glass ceilings. She is 1,000 percent: Center of Action. Her mind is alive and she is animated by it.

There is no excuse for our screens not being inundated with such female characters. Ellie should be the norm. Instead, role models for girls -- particularly in children's animation -- are virtually non-existant. That is the result of decisions which can change.

Maybe the concern has been young boys not being interested in films about princesses and fairies. Fine. Ellie is the girl every guy has fallen in love with, some of us over and over and over again. Guys dream Ellies. Dads will take their children to see movies with all sorts of female characters embodying Ellie's fun, proactive, inviting spirit. She is a phenomenon. A precious archetype. She is the embodiment of a philosophy which must be woven into the fabric of culture worldwide -- ultimately the reason some of us believe in the power of Art.

Ellie is a MIRACLE.

It is conceivable Ellie may become the most important character Pixar ever creates. We need more Ellies, less excuses.

(Congratulations to Ronnie del Carmen, Peter Docter, and the story crew for creating such a profoundly important character.)

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[susankeller100]

my name is ellie :}

[Factual Fiction]

you have the best name ever!

[tangycloud]

Can anyone tell me what Ellie says 0:08, when she points up at the hamster in the cage... I've played this again and again, still can't make it out!

My query aside, this is an excellent clip from Up - this part of the film makes me smile whenever I watch it, I love the way Carl looks startled when Ellie takes off her flying helmet to reveal a shock of red hair - gets me every time!

[Factual Fiction]

"enter the weather in the log book...oh there is something down there, I will bring it back for science" : )

[Furingia]

"Ellie is the girl every single guy has fallen in love with, some of us over and over and over again. Guys dream Ellies."

I disagree with that statement. If that was true.....I'd be asked out at LEAST once. I'm a total Ellie. :-/

[Factual Fiction]

your name according to your profile is "Jack"



[ItsTachy]

"It's like America...but South!"

Its impossible not to love Ellie XD

[TheRealCodeBlack]

I love how Pixar was able to create such a lovable character in just two scenes and a montage. They did a good job making her absence felt in the rest of the movie even though we didn't get a lot of time with her.

[Derpy Hooves]

What's south america

[bloodbathbushcraft]

To bad kids aren't like this anymore now they do drugs or talk about sex the only friends i met like this were online on ps2 ps3 ect..

[firegirl660]

"what are you doing!" lol I love that part

[lozlouwales]

And its boring both really

[lozlouwales]

Awsome video

[Hereforthesnacktable]

He doesn't speak when he's young, she dies and doesn't speak when she's old. Figures.

Still a cool character.

[Hawke Powers]

AHGHH PPP

[Punisherfan123]

@Bella Phoenix At least not for a few more minutes. Then it gets senior.

[Prativa Rai]

Aww!! They are CUTE!! ^_^

[Bella Phoenix]

Never gets old