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Post by pitbulllady on Jun 1, 2010 19:58:58 GMT -5
While I do agree with Mistica's assessment that most of the monsters who were bowing in adoration at Sullivan's feet were just fans, not friends, it still does seem odd to me that someone who is supposed to be such a great guy as James P. Sullivan had only ONE real friend, even at work. Heck, I'm sure not the Teacher of the Year, but I've still got more than one person I can consider a good friend at work, and there are far, far fewer people where I work than there were at the MI factory. You would expect Sulley and Mike both to have a group of good buddies who were their friends just because, not due to them being on the team who happened to be on top, but you don't. Why? Neither of them actually seems to be any better at making friends than Randall does, from what we see in the movie. Sulley's only other "friend" was the CEO, and we know how THAT turned out! Still, it's only fair to say that for both Mike, even more so than for Randall, the competition was everything, and anything that might potentially get in the way had to be taken care of, ASAP. Thus, Mike kept others from getting too close to Sulley, lest that friendship take away from both the friendship between himself and Sulley, or worse, Sulley's ability to concentrate on keeping himself(and therefore Mike)at the top of the Scare Board. It's like one of those relationships where a guy is dating a gorgeous woman who has a lot of friends, and then he starts trying to drive a wedge between her and them, out of fear that her friendship with other people might somehow lessen her relationship with him or take time away from her relationship with him. There is a certain amount of possessiveness involved.
pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 1, 2010 20:03:18 GMT -5
Heh. *grins* Seems one could even say Wazowski was the one who chipped away at the mutual frienship Sullivan and Randall had after "a certain thing".
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Post by pitbulllady on Jun 2, 2010 5:24:32 GMT -5
Heh. *grins* Seems one could even say Wazowski was the one who chipped away at the mutual frienship Sullivan and Randall had after "a certain thing". You're gonna have to clarify what you mean exactly by "a certain thing", since that really did not come out right as I read it. pitbulllady |
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Post by mentalguru on Jun 2, 2010 6:57:25 GMT -5
-Coughs and begins to LOL hard-
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 2, 2010 18:09:37 GMT -5
*coughs* I was doing that for Randall's sake. I'm referring to when Sullivan beat him and claimed the Top Scarer position and stayed as such no matter how hard he tried to get it back.
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Post by pitbulllady on Jun 2, 2010 19:39:44 GMT -5
*coughs* I was doing that for Randall's sake. I'm referring to when Sullivan beat him and claimed the Top Scarer position and stayed as such no matter how hard he tried to get it back. OK, that would have made more sense to simply say that, BUT, I'm not sure that Randall and Sullivan actually had a friendship prior to Sulley's meteoric and unnaturally-sustained rise to success. They probably had no DIFFERENCES, and got along with each other as co-workers or even as trainer-trainee, but I don't think that you could have actually called them "friends". Outside of the workplace, they most likely traveled in very different circles and gave very little thought to each other at all. They would have been civil to each other, but other than that, I just can't see them being "buds' and hanging out together, Mike or no Mike. That mutual respect would have started to sour not because of Mike, but because of that unnaturally-sustained success I mentioned earlier. When it became apparent that no matter what Randall, or ANYBODY for that matter did, that Sulley was always going to come out on the top of the Scare Board and ALWAYS going to be named "Employee of the Month", Randall's frustrations would have turned to suspicion and that would have turned to bitterness and anger, justifiable in my opinion. Logic and common sense and simple mathmatical statistics(which I'm sure his assistant would have kept reminding him of) dictates that there had to be something wrong with that picture. pitbulllady |
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 2, 2010 19:43:31 GMT -5
Well not much in the way of "friends", but seeing as how Randall had zero actual ones, it was close enough. Wazowski probably was the successful one in keeping them from ever getting that way.
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