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Buzz and Buzz
For those who care to ponder the cunning way in which Hollywood communicates messages through
movies, the catch phrase of Buzz Lightyear is “To infinity and beyond.” This is a subtle alteration
of a title card which appeared at the beginning of the fourth act of Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001,
A Space Odyssey bearing the phrase “Beyond the Infinite.”
When one considers Stanley Kubrick’s role in directing the faked Apollo 11 mission, a subject we
previously examined in Kubrick’s disclosure of this fact in his movie The Shining, the associations
between the Toy Story movies, their characters, and actual events come to light. Buzz Lightyear is
first introduced in Toy Story as a deceived toy space ranger who thinks he can actually fly. The subtle
allusions to Buzz Aldrin and his crewmates is thinly disguised, for they too pretend to be able to fly
to places which are beyond the realm of their actual ability. There are many more connections made
in these animated Disney movies. It is as if Disney is mocking the gullibility of Americans who have
believed that the Apollo missions were real.
Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3
