Silence In Pixar Films

From Opening Scene of 'Up'Silence within Pixar Films

Through looking at some texts gathered through research of my word 'Silence' a particular subject was the aspect of silence within film, in particular the example of Pixar was a particular topic that kept cropping up within texts, as the silence used in Pixar is more of an emptiness in order for the viewer to supply their own breadth of emotions.
Scenes such as the opening scene of Pixar's 'Up' allow the viewers to reflect their own experiences and emotions onto the characters who are in silence, allowing it to be more of a touching experience for the adults as well as the main audience of the children within the family audience. Children are said to react in a different way, allowing the storyline to develop but not with the same emotion, it became a milestone in Pixar's way of narrating things with more power by using the technique of silence.

Charlie Chaplin

In the past, silence in films had been used mostly in horror or action circumstances, to build tension, but in these circumstances, I think it's interesting that silence is used as a tool to narrate the story in more of a powerful way as the silence allows the audience to make their own interpretations of the storyline and apply their own emotional journey to the silence that surrounds the powerful images.

'Wall-e'
A particular example of said emotions being able
to be inserted into the silence is Pixar's 2008 film 'Wall-e' about a lonely robot who is isolated in a world destroyed by humans who no longer live there.
The film begins in a silent way, with the isolation of the robot being shown by the fact that he is the only living thing other than a small insect, who also doesn't resemble much life or have a personality of sorts. The influence of such silence usage comes from those of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, with their reflection and influence having an effect on the consideration of silence representing an aspect of isolation.
An important aspect for Pixar has always been to alter some perspectives of certain things, and for the audience to learn certain things through their films, in this instance to perceive life in a different way and the impact we have on living things and the environment in general.