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A couple of questions

posted 11 years ago by rjw510
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1. Mike's roar in the simulator at the final Scare Games event was actually quite scary. That would easily frighten a child enough to make them scream. Especially the way he leaps suddenly from down the side of the bed. So why didn't he do the same thing to the child in the camp rather than quite a tame growl? I know the point is that he's not as scary as he thinks, but what he did in the Scare Games would surely have been enough to frighten the girl. At that point does he not believe in himself so much anymore and so doesn't put as much into the scare?

2. Even though it turns out that Mike's scare in the simulator was exaggerated by the tampered settings, Johnny and the other ROR members weren't to know that as they thought they'd lost fair and square and they never heard Sulley's confession to Hardscrabble. So how come Mike never seems to earn Johnny's respect? Throughout the film Johnny looks down on Mike for being small and unscary, and usually in movies like this the underdog earns the rival's respect at the end. Yes, Johnny will have known about Mike and Sulley being expelled and would probably have read the article in the school paper, but Mike was expelled for the door lab incident. Sulley was the one expelled for cheating. And do we know if the article mentions the fact that Mike's result in the simulator was void? Johnny is quite ready to let Sulley back into ROR for his performance, but as far as he was concerned at that point in the film, Mike's scare was better and won OK the games, and he must know that Mike was the reason for them winning as he saw him training them and not giving up, so why do we not see Johnny at least congratulate Mike or shake his hand? I found it slightly disappointing that there was no closure between Mike and Johnny.

" The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry."

[–] pitbulllady 11 years ago

Johnny never got a chance to tell Mike anything following the Scare Games, because Mike ran off towards the Door Tech building, and Johnny only encounters Sulley after that. I do believe, in spite of Johnny's behavior towards Mike throughout the movie, that he had way more respect for Mike than he let on. Johnny had to keep up that front of being large and in charge, because that's what his father expected of him. That's what his followers(who were NOT his friends)expected of him, and he could not allow himself to show respect to a little green "beach ball" or allow said "beach ball" to keep showing him up, because then everyone would get the idea that they could do that, too. Although Johnny is completely lacking in tact, he's brutally honest about Mike not being cut out for Scaring and he actually knows what Mike's best options really are. It's just Johnny's delivery of that information that stinks, lol. If you recall, it was Johnny who first suggested that Mike join Oozma Kappa, and who does Mike wind up with? Oozma Kappa! It was Johnny who first suggested that Mike start out working in the mail room at Monsters, Inc., and where do Mike and Sulley start out, to get their "leg up" towards becoming a Scare team? In the mail room at MI! I know most people will think that Johnny made those suggestions just to be an a$$, and to some extent that he did, but I also think he knew all along what Mike's best pathway to success would lie.

pitbulllady