My side of the "Eyes in the Windshield vs. Headlights" argument

"Justin Young" (jus1029) 11/17/2015 at 08:19 • Filed to: None

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Yesterday, Jason Torchinsky was !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Now, I’ve actually seen the first article before this example of fandom butthurt unfolded recently, and here’s what I simply think.

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I do not concur with Jason’s opinion, the eyes should stay in the windshield. Sure it may look fitting in cars like the Fiat 500, Mazda Miata, S30 Fairlady Z, Austin Healey Sprite, etc., but most cars nowadays have this sort of fixed emotions in their “eyes”.

Let’s start with the first group of cars.

Notice the similarities in all of those cars? All have rounded headlights, perfect for placing eyes! Now, compare them to these ones...

Yeah, I think you can see the difference. Rounded lights are perfect because they can illustrate multiple feelings, but the four cars above have lights that aren’t, meaning those “characters” only get to have one feelings, either angry or happy! In the windshield, there is room for where “eyelids” can express different emotions in different scenes.

Another point I would like to make is more towards the race car characters where some of them have no headlights in them whatsoever. In Lightning McQueen’s case, his lights are purely stickers. Sure he had those installed in the second installment (pun slightly intended) , but still he wasn’t born that way!

Another character is Francesco Bernoulli where his eyes are located in the cockpit area. I’ve seen a couple of comments in Jason’s article where it went along the lines of...

If they can add a closed cockpit on an F1 car, why can’t they do the same for the lights?

The first thing that came to mind was this sketch.

The second thing is that where we humans see the road. The reason why Francesco’s eyes are placed in the driver seat is simply because that’s where the driver would see in real life. Think of it as the hood/bonnet cam in any racing game.

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To conclude, I’m sticking to windshield-based eyes for Cars characters mainly because it emulates where humans are positioned in reality. While I oppose Torch’s opinion, that doesn’t mean I’m on the Disney Pixar Cars Roleplay side of this situation. I can understand their point, but not their action towards Torch of firing him from Jalopnik!

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Also, why does this group exist in the first place?! I can understand bronies (since I am one) because they follow original-designed characters. In Cars, they’re based on existing or generic cars IRL! Like...what the hell?!

Dasupersprint - base trim is enough > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 08:35

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I can’t see why non-round headlights can’t be eyes. I agree with Jason, and I see a face in every car.

Svend > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 08:36

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Wow. That person from Disney Pixar Role, whatever....... Needs to get out more. And asking for them to get fired. Who ever that idiot is needs a wake up call and get their head out their arse and realise people may have differing opinions.

I personally am with Torch on this. Headlights are the eyes and the grille is the mouth. Anything else seems wrong for me but I wouldn’t act like that guy and say I was right and no other opinion matters.

Wobbles the Mind > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 08:37

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I think this will be an unyeilding discussion. Personally, I feel headlights are an accessory (like piercings) while windshields allow you to see (like glasses, because you’d squint without a windshield). Wipers are the glasses cleaner. However symmetry and proportions argue against that as well. That Datsun made me immediately look up Dachshund, so I don’t know how I feel.

LongbowMkII > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 08:41

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People don’t critique modern car design as “aggressive” or “angry” because the windshields are squinting. It’s the headlights, it was always the headlights, it will always be the headlights. especially when the NHTSA effectively bans windshields in cars in 2027.

Justin Young > Dasupersprint - base trim is enough 11/17/2015 at 08:41

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You can, but in terms of that Pontiac, only anger. That’s the problem because that would mean morphing its headlights to suit different emotions, and since most of the cars in the movie are licensed, manufacturers wouldn’t want Pixar to manipulate the original looks.

But hey, that’s your opinion.

Justin Young > LongbowMkII 11/17/2015 at 08:46

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That’s in the real life perspective, but in a movie where the car-acters have different emotions, you wouldn’t want them to stay angry!

(unless they’re doing a Cars-universe parody of Inside Out)

Dasupersprint - base trim is enough > Svend 11/17/2015 at 08:48

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It’s probably a twelve years old kid, anyway

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 08:56

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Mclaren can’t stop grinning. I think this is appropriate.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 08:57

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BRZ/FRs/FT-86 takes itself WAY too seriously and is trying too hard... sounds about right.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 08:57

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Evo is angry and just wants to watch the world burn, this is fitting.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 08:58

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Go is surprised it exists, and slightly pissed off about it’s state in life... seems a reasonable set of emotions to me.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 09:03

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I can practically hear is giggle with glee about that upcoming corner...

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 09:03

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bro. do you even stance bro?

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 09:04

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I amuse myself. thats all that really matters. you don’t like my stance? too bad. I do.

Svend > Dasupersprint - base trim is enough 11/17/2015 at 09:04

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Or a 55 year old loner living in the basement of their mother’s house and has Pixar bedding and bed.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 09:05

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hey! hey! hey! can we go up the canyon again? can we canwecanwecanwe!?? huh? huh? yeah! let’s do it again!

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 09:11

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I see what you mean about the cockpit eyes... but what do we do with this?

Nonster > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 09:26

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Clearly I was bored at work

Dasupersprint - base trim is enough > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 11/17/2015 at 09:37

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This clearly has a face

Justin Young > Nonster 11/17/2015 at 09:45

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* * * * * KAWAIIIIIIIIII! (^3^)

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Justin Young 11/17/2015 at 10:15

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I believe the “built in emotions” are called resting bitch face.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Dasupersprint - base trim is enough 11/17/2015 at 10:15

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exactly, but its eyes aren’t in the cockpit. They can't be, cuz it has no windshield.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 11/17/2015 at 10:17

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DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > Dasupersprint - base trim is enough 11/17/2015 at 12:14

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In that press photo, I see an excitedly angry face saying, “DRIVING EXCITEMENT! RADICAL!”

Take off the rose-tinted 1990s glasses and look at any 1990s Grand Am on the road today and I see a washed-up sitcom star saying, “Will provide transport for vital fluids.”