Meet the real stories that look like Carl Fredricksen’s adventures in ‘Up: High Adventures’
In 2009, Pixar launched its tenth animation: ‘Up: Altas Aventuras’, a work directed by Pete Doctor to narrate the adventures of Carl Fredricksen, a balloon salesman who after watching his old neighborhood gain new air, felt the pressure of having to decide whether to sell the house where he lived happily for decades with his late wife, Ellie, to a large contractor.
Determined not to give up his residence, Carl attaches dozens of balloons around his house, and alongside Russel, a young boy scout and his dog, Dug, he travels through the air in search of the realization of a dream he shared his whole life. with Ellie: living in Paradise Falls, a beautiful place located in the mountains of Venezuela.
Even though the film’s plot seems to be far from reality, there are two stories that make life look like fiction, and vice versa, where a drama with big corporations really took place, and a flying house was actually observed in the sky. Were you curious? RECREIO tells you right away!
An old house in the middle of a concrete jungle
With a question similar to Carl’s, Edith Macefieldan 82-year-old woman also had to decide whether to sell her home, the one she has lived in since childhood in Ballard, Seattle, as the houses around her were all being converted into large buildings during the year 2006.
But just like the character, Macefield she did not give in to pressure, even though the offer for her house reached the amount of one million dollars, meaning that the construction company had to continue the works, isolating the elderly woman’s house amid the large concrete constructions. Look!
It is worth mentioning that, according to information from Aventuras na História, Edith ended up being a victim of pancreatic cancer and died in 2008 at the age of 87, causing his house to pass through several owners since then, even being included in a foreclosure auction in 2015, and running the risk of being demolished in the same year, as a crowdfunding fund was raised to prevent the destruction of the house, which did not reach the required amount, even though the house remains standing to this day, according to the Good Things Guy.
Curiosity: In the launch year of ‘Up: High Adventures‘, the house that belonged to Edith was decorated with balloons, as a way of promoting the film, although, according to the Love Cinema, the animation was written in 2004, years before the real estate drama of the lady.
It is a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s just a little house
Advancing a little in time, and in the territory of stories, here in Brazil, in the year 2018, the Brazilian parachutist athlete Luigi Caniproved that it is possible to make a house travel through the skies only with the help of balloons — and a team that totaled 66 people.
The experiment took place on October 22 in the city of São Pedro, in the interior of São Paulo, where, kennelwith the help of technicians, producers, professionals from different areas and volunteers, flew in a replica of Carl Friedericksen’s house that was built by Gilsom Figueiredoa TV and film special effects professional who also provided the nearly 1,000 heavy-duty latex balloons that were filled with 42 cylinders of helium gas.
The balloons that raised the little house could lift 339 grams of weight each from the ground, so the amount mentioned above was enough to make the little house be seen floating in the blue immensity, since with the weight of kennel and the parachute, she weighed 210 kg, as specified by GQ magazine.
To carry out this project we had two challenges: having adequate equipment for the required engineering and having adequate meteorological conditions, we had all of these. The weather conditions were exceptional, on a full moon night, clear skies, zero wind, total visibility and we managed to land the balloons and the little house at the São Pedro airport as planned” reported Feodor Nenov, the pilot who helped Cani, to GQ magazine.
Source: Recreio
