Turning Red Doesn’t Follow Pixar’s Rules. Good

Mar 11, 2022 7:00 AMThe studio's early works were lauded for their “universal” storytelling. Its new approach champions personal stories—and audiences are the richer for it.

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The director Domee Shi had just finished a Pixar short called Bao, in which a woman's bao bun lunch comes to life and grows from an adorable dumpling into a surly steamed-up teenager. It was an example of being a mother. Her Pixar colleagues asked her to pitch ideas for a feature after she saw the film. She spent the summer working on stories about teenage girls that were based on her experiences growing up in a Chinese Canadian family.

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