Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is a battle cry that turns out to belong to two different people: the explorer who lies, and the girl who actually lives by it. Ellie takes the words from her hero and makes them her own, which is why Carl's long journey later feels like an answer to her. People now say it as a travel-poster slogan whenever they want to push a friend out of the door.
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In context
Spoilers for UpShow the scene
Up (2009) begins in a cinema: a young Carl Fredricksen watches a 1930s newsreel about the famous explorer Charles Muntz, who lands his airship, the Spirit of Adventure, with a skeleton of the Monster of Paradise Falls. Scientists call it a fake, the National Explorers Society strips him of his membership, and he swears to return with the beast alive. The newsreel's rousing catchphrase is Muntz's own. Later young Ellie, who has made a clubhouse out of an old house, shouts it to Carl and pledges to move it to Paradise Falls. Christopher Plummer voices Muntz.
Sources (3)
- Up (2009) transcriptThe newsreel at the start, then Ellie's clubhouse sceneReference checked
- Charles Muntz, Pixar wikiIntroductionReference checked
- Up, Pixar wikiSynopsisReference checked
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