One Man Band (film)
One Man Band is a four-minute short film from 2005, produced by Pixar. It is available on the DVD of the computer animated film Cars.
Action
A tired -looking musician begins on a deserted square where a fountain stands in the middle of, to play a multifunctional instrument. While playing, he looks down on an empty tin cup and lets his eyes wander across the square. Suddenly, a little girl comes onto the pitch and goes straight for the fountain, without considering the musician. When she wants to throw a gold coin in the fountain, makes the musician with a high-pitched musical sound attracts attention. The musician begins to play again and the girl is interested in him. During the game he pushes with his left foot, the tin cup to the front. When the girl hesitantly looked at the cup after the end of the music game, he hints at the girl with a gesture, set into the coin there. Immediately before the girl is planning this, sounds from the background guitar music. The musician looks surprised in the direction of the music and the girl turns around.
A string musician opens a hanging on a squadron paper roll on which he is shown playing the violin. Then he starts on a stringed instrument to play and accompanies himself on a flute. Fascinated by this melody the girl walks over to him. Still playing, the player leans slightly forward, while a head figure steps out of his hat on a scissor joint construction, which is also wearing a hat, which automatically swivels in front of the head and the girl indicates into down his coin there. When the girl wants to do this, the first musician begins to play again, while he balances on a drum. This acrobatic over these estimates, however, and falls to the ground. After a short silence the strings musicians just shakes his head and begins his hand to play again. The first musician struggles to his feet and lies down again to the wheel in order to win the girl's attention for themselves. Visibly irritated, the strings musician draws the bow with a ghastly sound of his string instrument and drops him to the ground. Return compact from a quiver he draws a new bow and begins a nifty piece of music. Also greatly annoyed pulls the first musician to a kind of rip cord and it will open a folding mechanism, let go of the jib 16 small trumpet player an infernal noise. The string musicians then pulls a ripcord and wing-like boom occur left and right from behind his back, at which 10 automatically cables playing violins join in the song.
In the ensuing "Music Duel", the two counterparties to increase so much turns into a louder and higher pitch that the girl is torn between the two. In the end, the girl is forced by the musicians with his back to the fountain and is frightened at the finale so much that it is, because of the now enormous volume, both ears zuhält while slipping him the gold coin. These rolls over a manhole cover, turns back slightly, only to fall into the sewer through the manhole. Six pairs of eyes look behind the coin through the manhole cover until only can still be heard on the water surface a distant impacts.
The girl is crying on the verge and his lips tremble slightly as his sadness turns to rage, while the two musicians they watch helplessly with wide eyes. With an evil eye keeps alternating the musicians their left, open hand out to get compensation from them. These only look at each other completely and enter keys quickly to their pockets and jackets to make it clear to the girl with one hand and shoulder movement that they have no coins here. Now even more angry, the girl indicated by the right index finger on the left, outer violin, which hangs on strings musician on the outriggers. During the strings musicians dumbfounded looks at the girl, the other musicians tears silently from this violin and hands it to the girl. Then he gives her the matching bow to it. When the girl has the instrument, it turns away from the musicians and positions itself on the court. She has with the bow still raised the cup of the first musician, and set before themselves.
In the first experiments, the violin to produce tones, just a scrape is concluded and the musicians take up disgusted ears. The girl agrees the violin once, twice, and then it plays like a young god on the instrument, so that the musicians sit up in surprise. During their game you can hear approaching steps, and seconds later, a bag full of gold coins fall on the cup. Immediately the girl ended the game drops the violin and bow and sets off with the bag, to leave the place. When she is at the height of the fountain, she looks gracious to the two musicians, reaches into the bag and holding a gold coin in his left hand. The faces of the musicians lighten up, but neither of them knows who will get from them the gold coin. The girl makes a quick gesture, and already see two gold coins that lay above one another. Now shine the musicians and they nod at the girl to give them the coins. The girl waves his coins and points to the musicians, this pick with her. When the musicians converge on the girl, it throws a skilful movement the coins over her shoulder in the upper basin of the fountain. Dumbfounded look the musicians on the coins as they sink into the pool. While it past hopeless tears when strings musician a string to the instrument. In the credits you can still see how the musicians try during the twilight, to get the coins by the first musician poised on a drum and strings musician stands on his head and the big drum of the first musician and just ahead of the upper basin of the fountain arms stretching out. When he touched the pelvis straight, they lose their balance and the film is over.
Background
The film was directed by Mark Andrews and Andrew Jimenez and produced by Pixar. He appeared on the DVD of Cars. The film is not spoken, the focus is the music. The short film was 2006 Best for an Oscar in the category of animated short films nominated in 2006 but lost to the short film " The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation".