Dying girl gets wish to see Up

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thread starter Catastrophet Jun 20 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Meh. It might be old, but it's still sad. Story By The Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. - Colby Curtin got her final wish. The 10-year-old girl desperately wanted to see the new Disney-Pixar movie, "Up." But the cancer-stricken girl was too sick to go to a theater. Thanks to a family friend who got in touch with the movie studio Pixar, an employee of the Emeryville-based company arrived at Colby's home with a DVD copy of the movie, The Orange County Register reported Friday. The girl died later that night. Colby's mother, Lisa, said she had asked her daughter if she could hang on until the movie arrived. "I'm ready (to die), but I'm going to wait for the movie," she said her daughter replied. "Up" is the animated tale of a grumpy old man who, after his wife's death, tries to fulfill their joint dream of visiting South America by tying thousands of balloons to his house and floating away. "When I watched it, I had really no idea about the content of the theme of the movie," Colby's mother told the Register. "I just know that word 'Up' and all of the balloons and I swear to you, for me it meant that (Colby) was going to go up. Up to heaven." Colby, who was diagnosed with vascular cancer in 2005, saw previews for the film in April. "It was from then on, she said, 'I have to see that movie. It is so cool,'" family friend Carole Lynch said. But the girl's health began to deteriorate. On June 4, Curtin asked a hospice company to bring a wheelchair so that her daughter could go to a movie theater but the chair was not delivered over the weekend, Curtin said. By June 9, Colby was too sick to go anywhere. Another family friend, Terrell Orum, called both Pixar and Disney, which owns the animation studio. The message was received by Pixar officials, who agreed to send someone to Colby's house the next day with a copy of "Up" for a private screening, Orum said. The employee arrived with the DVD, stuffed animals of characters and other movie memorabilia. Colby was unable to open her eyes to see the movie so her mother described the scenes. When her mother asked if she enjoyed it, the girl nodded, Curtin said. The Pixar employee left after the movie, taking the DVD, which has not been released. Lynch, who was with the family during the screening, said the employee's "eyes were just welled up." A call to Pixar seeking comment was not immediately returned Friday. Colby, with her parents nearby, died later that night. Her mother said one of the memorabilia left by the Pixar employee was an "adventure book" based on a scrapbook that, in the movie, is kept by the wife of the main character. "I'll have to fill those adventures in for her," Lisa Curtin said of her daughter.

Aziraphale 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Lanique said: "wow disgusting how they use that to promote their movie" Because obviously the better thing to do would be to not let the dying girl have her final wish. Its not like this was done at anybody's expense, and both Pixar and the girl benefited.

yPOS1 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Lanique said: "wow disgusting how they use that to promote their movie" Well it worked, I want to see Up now.

hellokit Jun 20 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Aziraphale said: " Because obviously the better thing to do would be to not let the dying girl have her final wish. Its not like this was done at anybody's expense, and both Pixar and the girl benefited." you're obviously too naive to see that they just did it because it benefits them and they can promote their movie with a heart warming story about a little girl dying from cancer, this is not heroish in any way just disgusting

averby 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Lanique said: "wow disgusting how they use that to promote their movie" That was exactly what I was thinking. o.o...

ladyoftherings 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

That's so horrible

Biotic 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

hellokit said: " you're obviously too naive to see that they just did it because it benefits them and they can promote their movie with a heart warming story about a little girl dying from cancer, this is not heroish in any way just disgusting" You're hating them because they granted a girl her wish. They couldn't say no or they would be hated but they say ok and they still get hated.

hellokit 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Biotic said: " You're hating them because they granted a girl her wish. They couldn't say no or they would be hated but they say ok and they still get hated." no, if they had given it because they are nice people they wouldn't try to make profit from it and use it as a cheap way to promote their movie, they would have done it in privacy don't be naive and open your mind to the real world, noone is nice out there, everyone does things for their own benefit, especially big company's, it was more of a gift from the girl to them

Catastrophet 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I'm pretty sure it wasn't Pixar who told the Associated Press about this story. I'm pretty sure it's the family.

yPOS1 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

hellokit said: "you're obviously too naive to see that they just did it because it benefits them and they can promote their movie with a heart warming story about a little girl dying from cancer, this is not heroish in any way just disgusting" Who really cares what the original intent was? The girl was glad to see the movie, Pixar got their movie promotion, everyone wins. I swear to God, you guys are so quick to criticize a company for their supposed selfish interests, you can't acknowledge the fact that it produced positive results. Looking at the world in terms of black and white is extremely childish.

Biotic 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

TheMagdiel 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

That's so sad =( But it's nice how she got her wish at least. And to the people that are only looking at the negative possibility: Buzz out please, there are such things are nice people. I'm not saying that someone working there didn't think of that possibility, but I'm sure that for the most part, they were doing it as a good deed.

imzack1 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

blueburst said: "The movie was that bad?" LMFAO! thats funny as helL! but also horrible =/ SHAME on me for laughing

azngrldaisy 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

hellokit said: " no, if they had given it because they are nice people they wouldn't try to make profit from it and use it as a cheap way to promote their movie, they would have done it in privacy don't be naive and open your mind to the real world, noone is nice out there, everyone does things for their own benefit, especially big company's, it was more of a gift from the girl to them" Your pessimistic way of thinking is shocking. The poster above you is right, Pixar had only two options- either ignore it, look heartless, and be hated, or grant it and give a dying a girl her last wish, but still be hated simply because some people couldn't accept the fact that they did it out of their moral goodness of their heart. They will be hated either way, so why not grant her wish? There has been nothing given by this article that tells that Pixar leaked the story, most likely it was the family. You can not rule out the option that Pixar may have initally did this in private, but a family member leaked it out.

hellokit 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Biotic said: " The story is from a magazine not from the makers of Up. And everyother time a wish thing happens it's on the news and tele. Why would it be differnt for a simple wish like this?" oh please, who do you think pulls the strings behind this, do you really think the magazine sells this story because they are good people and they want to share wonders with the world? thats really cute, but face it it sells. the world is not rainbows and butterflies, good people are rare in that business, its like stars who build schools in africa for poor kids, promotion, image, money. grow up

iNotNewbie 06/20/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I teared I feel sorry for the parents T-T ...