Monsters University's 700th Anniversary (time confusion)

[RandallBoggs]

OK...
So we all know (the initiated at least) the events of MI occurred November 3-4...ending...from what I think Pitbulllady said, October of the next year.

I've been monitoring over at Pixar Planet and came across that MU is celebrating it's 700th Anniversary "this year", and some people say that it's related to the time-frame.
Now, I proposed, logically...that "this year" IS this year. MU was founded in 1313. 700 years later...2013. So it's THIS year.
I mean if MU is set in the past, would not make sense making the year LATER, that just doesn't make sense.

Now, anybody with spoiler swag hear about this? I'm trying NOT to look at my own stuff too much so I'd have SOMETHING new to see in the film heh.
I do know it's not in the essential guide...but unsure if it's mentioned elsewhere. I'd look myself but...my focus is on other matters at the moment.

[mintygreen]

I guess they just want the movie to be 'current' despite the fact that the characters were already 25 back in 2001 when the first film came out(and there was evidence that that film took place in 2001, considering the paper Roz was reading at one point in the film had a date on it from 2001).

[RandallBoggs]

Well, Randall was 25 a least then heh.

It's also from Randall's paper too if I recall. And Sullivan's chart also dictated a year AFTER as well. So we're shown both the year of the events, as well as a proper "year-later" date.

Given the MU website "for fun", I do think this 700th is for 2013. Makes sense given the date.

[pitbulllady]

I think that the website, the one that looks like a REAL college website, is supposed to be set in the current year, but that is 700th anniversary of the COLLEGE, not necessarily the year that the characters were there. The date on the newspaper Randall was squinting at...I mean reading...was 2001, in MI, so if they were in college 10 years prior to that, this would make MU set in 1991, and there WAS internet and cell phones around then, folks. My brother and father had internet, out in the wilderness of Darlington County, in 1991, and Yours Truly had a cell phone by then. Some of the folks over on Pixar Planet need to remember that the Monster World is a good bit more technologically advanced than we are, anyway(guess the monsters have not spent as much time trying to annihilate each other over the centuries). They have mastered inter-dimensional travel, something our top astrophysicists are still debating the very existence of!

pitbulllady

[RandallBoggs]

That's what I meant PBL. 1313 was when it was founded, website came human-wise on 2013.
I'm a little unsure website-wise though, as we see character refs from Squishy, Don, some of the OKs (meaning around 22 years ago). Hardscrabble and Knight I can understand, as they're staff...but...
But yeah, probably helps make the current site "relevant" to back then.

*nods* Plus, if they went with that, that means it was 2023 in the monster world, which hasn't even happened yet, and the other side of the human world didn't look very futuristic now did it?

[CrazyDiamond]

OK, simple idea how to solve this: Do monsters in the movie use computers, smartphones, Grumblr and other social networks, or digital cameras? I don't think so, hence I believe the movie is set in the past, while the website is set in the present. I mean, why would they make a website when prospective students would have no way how to view it?

[pitbulllady]

Jun 10, 2013 4:55:51 GMT -5 CrazyDiamond said:

OK, simple idea how to solve this: Do monsters in the movie use computers, smartphones, Grumblr and other social networks, or digital cameras? I don't think so, hence I believe the movie is set in the past, while the website is set in the present. I mean, why would they make a website when prospective students would have no way how to view it?

I have not seen any of those things mentioned or spotted them in the trailers or clips thus far. That tv in Mike and Randall's dorm looks pretty old-skool(then again, most of the stuff Randall has is VERY old-skool), nothing at all like modern tv, and the computers in MI at the factory looked like mid-late '90's Apple models, which you would expect to see in 2001. None of the students on the quad in MU are seen with cell phones, and nowadays, to be realistic at all, just about EVERYONE would be walking around either talking or texting or listening to music via an iPod or MP3 player.

pitbulllady

[RandallBoggs]

Good point there Diamond. I was noting the less futuristic look of Boo's bedroom, and the simulator room, but yes, the website proves that.
==
Too right about the cellphones there. EVERYBODY has one...of course, now, everybody has, not a cellPHONE....but a cell-gameboy/music box/internet browser/etc....used for everything BUT phonecalls heh heh.

[CrazyDiamond]

One more thing: in one of the trailers, Squishy uses a Polaroid-style camera to take a photo of Mike and Sulley. Had it been today, he would've used an Instagram-like phone app. Case closed .

[RandallBoggs]

*dusts hands* That's right. It's from the "First Morning" clip or something or other, when the two first wake up in the OK house. Good call Diamond!

Ok, between us and another MU viewer, yes, it's confirmed (as we've said) that MU IS in the past. 1991. So, no more confusion, the record is straight!

[pitbulllady]

Jun 10, 2013 17:47:13 GMT -5 RandallBoggs said:

Good point there Diamond. I was noting the less futuristic look of Boo's bedroom, and the simulator room, but yes, the website proves that.
==
Too right about the cellphones there. EVERYBODY has one...of course, now, everybody has, not a cellPHONE....but a cell-gameboy/music box/internet browser/etc....used for everything BUT phonecalls heh heh.

I would not include Boo's room as evidence of the time period in which MI takes place. As I stated on here before, her room and bed definitely smack of a very old house, probably built in the 1800's if not earlier, and probably located along the SC or GA coast or possibly along the Gulf Coast, but that style of architecture is very indicative of the SC and GA "Low Country", and that bed style actually originated on the SC coast, where it is known as a "rice planter's" bed, as it was very popular with the wealthy rice plantation owners in Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort and Jasper Counties prior to the Civil War. The very high ceiling in Boo's room(Sulley has no trouble standing up in there)shows that it's not a modern house at all, since most homes built after the Great Depression era have much lower ceilings.

Squishy's camera, though...nope, NOT 2013 tech THERE! Given that the Monster World actually is a bit MORE technologically advanced than we are, they would definitely have digital cameras or cell phones with cameras by now, even someone who wasn't exactly rolling in money. I've also read that Squishy's mom likes "Thrash Metal", which was popular in the late '80s-early '90's, but doesn't have too many followers today as it used to, and most of those got into that style of Metal when they were much younger.

pitbulllady

[RandallBoggs]

Well Boo's room is the most relevant, but I meant the human rooms in general, including the simulator room.

But yep, that is not 2013 tech, though you could say they JUST had an old camera...but I believe that's not the case.
Also, somebody on Pixar Planet noted that the Scare Floor featured in the film has more old fashioned mechanics from scare board to canisters.
So yeah, seems Pixar IS sticking with the time-line.

[CrazyDiamond]

Jun 11, 2013 20:35:39 GMT -5 pitbulllady said:

Jun 10, 2013 17:47:13 GMT -5 RandallBoggs said:

Good point there Diamond. I was noting the less futuristic look of Boo's bedroom, and the simulator room, but yes, the website proves that.
==
Too right about the cellphones there. EVERYBODY has one...of course, now, everybody has, not a cellPHONE....but a cell-gameboy/music box/internet browser/etc....used for everything BUT phonecalls heh heh.

I would not include Boo's room as evidence of the time period in which MI takes place. As I stated on here before, her room and bed definitely smack of a very old house, probably built in the 1800's if not earlier, and probably located along the SC or GA coast or possibly along the Gulf Coast, but that style of architecture is very indicative of the SC and GA "Low Country", and that bed style actually originated on the SC coast, where it is known as a "rice planter's" bed, as it was very popular with the wealthy rice plantation owners in Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort and Jasper Counties prior to the Civil War. The very high ceiling in Boo's room(Sulley has no trouble standing up in there)shows that it's not a modern house at all, since most homes built after the Great Depression era have much lower ceilings.

Squishy's camera, though...nope, NOT 2013 tech THERE! Given that the Monster World actually is a bit MORE technologically advanced than we are, they would definitely have digital cameras or cell phones with cameras by now, even someone who wasn't exactly rolling in money. I've also read that Squishy's mom likes "Thrash Metal", which was popular in the late '80s-early '90's, but doesn't have too many followers today as it used to, and most of those got into that style of Metal when they were much younger.

pitbulllady

I don't think Boo's bedroom is located in SC or East Coast, for that matter... The scarefloor shift started with East Coast in the morning, meaning that there was nighttime already in East Coast. Sulley found Boo's door after the shift, so some 8 hours later, and it was still dark in Boo's bedroom. In fact, it seems like Boo's bedroom is ALWAYS dark, so perhaps she lives somewhere in the Arctic Circle? Canada, perhaps?