Especially chilling is the slow zoom-in shot of Lotso smiling Kubrick-style and leaning on his cane, while the only thing the audience has to go on is a few fleeting glimpses of Buzz darting around in the foreground and the sounds of him single-handedly dispatching his friends.The reveal, in which Buzz emerges from the shadows in front of Jessie, even resembles something from a horror film. Considering that he's been one of the most heroic characters of the series, watching him be overpowered and turned evil (particularly after his Character Development in the first film) and then ruthlessly help imprison his friends is pretty unsettling. Speaking of the brainwashing, there's what happens to Buzz.Imagine what would've been if the tyrannical teddy bear ended up sounding like The Joker or Fire Lord Ozai, or if Luke turned to the dark side! Mark Hamill was also in contention to play Lotso.Anyone who has seen Iron Man knows how incredibly intimidating Bridges sounds like as a villain. Apparently, before Ned Beatty was cast, none other than Jeff Bridges was considered for the voice of Lotso."The guy may seem plush and huggable on the outside, but inside, he's a monster!" It's the first - and only - time we get to peek into his deeply twisted psyche, due to his Motive Rant, which is every bit as dark, nihilistic, and terrifying as his cold and shriveled soul (if he even has one), and it is immediately right after he essentially tells his minions to dump every single toy in the dumpster and leave them to die. Lotso's confrontation of Andy's toys at the dumpster is the only scene which precisely demonstrates how terrifying he truly is.Lotso on the other hand is purely malicious and takes it out on others. Sid was just a kid with an appetite for destruction, Scud was just an aggressive dog, Stinky Pete was just bitter about never having been played with, Al was just a greedy adult who wanted the big bucks the Woody's Roundup merchandise would give him. Especially compared to previous antagonists in the last films.Even Woody, after he and the others escape the incinerator, considers Lotso too far gone to be worth the trouble. On the inside, he's a sociopathic nihilist acting like a mob boss who not only doesn't give a second thought to sending new arrivals to the Caterpillar Room where they'll inevitably be used until they're ruined and sent to the dump, but is so bent on doing so that he's turned Sunnyside into a nigh-inescapable prison where he rules with an iron fist through lies, abuse, surveillance, coercion, and even brainwashing - all for the sake of forcing his nihilistic worldview upon any toy he possibly can as a self-validating coping mechanism for the heartbreak his former owner put him through. On the outside, he's a caring stuffed bear who looks after all the other toys at Sunnyside.
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