Big Hero 6 Anniversary Tribute

Why I Love Big Hero 6

I first fell in love with Big Hero 6 about 2 weeks before the movie even came out in theaters. After watching multiple short clips and trailers of it, I was counting down the days to see it in theaters somehow knowing I would love this movie forever. Although making this little document is in no way, shape, or form me intentionally worshipping the movie, I can say confidently this movie changed my life.

     I believe that God placed a message and love and support in this movie for me when I was a kid. I would always watch this movie alone on the anniversary, but I would always have my dog with me when I watched it, whether I be alone when he watched it with me or being with my family and him being around. Now that I’m in college and my best friend Bozo passed away a few months prior to the 5th anniversary, I am now all alone, having more of an emotional connection to the main character Hiro than ever before.

     I can relate to Hiro because of his rage and anger and how he lost someone that was dear to him. I couldn’t really understand his grief when I was younger, but it hit me whenever I watched it again after I lost my best friend: my dog. In the beginning of the film, the audience learns that Hiro has lost both his parents. Towards the end of the movie, he loses his brother, and finally Baymax. During this process of experiencing loss, his team of 5 friends were there with him through all of it: a giant marshmallow colored, squishy robot named Baymax; an edgy, short, purple short-haired woman named Gogo; a broad-shouldered, bulky black man named Wasabi; a tall, quirky Latin-American woman named Honey Lemon; and finally a fun-loving, funny, kid-like white man named Fred. Throughout the movie, the audience and Hiro’s friends in the movie experience his developing emotions and how he copes with certain things in the movie, ranging from anger issues, awkwardness due to puberty, personality development, and grief. I believe at the time I watched this, I related to him when it came to awkwardness and personality development, but at one stage in my life I related to him because of his anger issues, and currently I can relate to him because of his grief. I can all around say this is one of the most important Disney movies ever created because of my emotional connection with this movie. 

     The last little surface level things I love about the movie are the characters and how well they are developed and introduced, the aesthetics of the movie, the intelligent, original, and inspiring inventions they added into it, and the storyline. Everything about this movie inspires me and makes me happy. I remember I was in middle school when this movie first came out. Everyone knew I was obsessed with the movie and after watching it multiple times, I felt like I could be friends with the characters. After watching the movie the first time with a friend of mine, she told me that Honey Lemon reminded her of me. Ever since then, I have chosen kindness in front of everything because I wanted to be like her. I later learned that it was a lot harder to stay happy than I anticipated and subconsciously became a lot like Gogo, even naming my first car after her. My present-day personality has speckles of Honey Lemon’s happiness, but my fashion and a lot more of my personality and attitude relates more to that of Gogo’s. With Fred, I feel like I relate to him when it comes to his goofiness. Wasabi, his goofiness and last, but not least I can relate to Tadashi and his desire to be emotionally connected to the people around him that he cares about. 

     With all that said, that is why I love the movie Big Hero 6 and I give the producers a virtual hug for making my life sweeter because of their hardwork and dedication to making this movie. Happy 5th anniversary Big Hero 6!