![]() For Ben, it's a lawyer named Lou who used to live in New York but came back home to Grady. For Lightning, it is a blue Porsche named Sally who came to Radiator Springs from Los Angeles. They Both Fall for Big-City Women Who Prefer the Slow LifeĪs Ben and Lightning begin to care for each town and their citizens, they also catch feelings for a girl who is adamant about the preservation of the towns they live in. They may know a lot of people in their professions, but no one shows either of them the genuine compassion that the people of these unknown towns show them. They each begin to feel a sense of freedom that their big city lives don't allow them to feel. The people of Grady and the residents of Radiator Springs start to care for Ben and Lightning respectively, and vice versa.īoth characters begin to admire the simplicity of life in a small town where everyone knows each other. Once they start interacting with the townspeople, Ben and Lightning's distaste for them and their distrust for the two of them slowly starts to turn into something else. They each make a friend and start learning valuable life lessons from an older mentor. As the days pass, each character's resentment toward the towns and their residents begin to fade. Both of these aspirations seem to be trivial and materialistic, which coincide with their personalities in the beginning of each film.īen's community service sentence is to work at the local hospital, which is really just an old house, while Lightning must repair the road that he tore up during his arrival into town. Lightning is focused on becoming a famous Piston Cup winner while Ben is determined to become a wealthy Hollywood plastic surgeon. Since both characters are accomplished in their industries and are used to having everything they could ever want handed to them, it is not surprising that they don't show the people of each town any common decency upon their accidental arrival. Their only priority is to make it to California. All either of them want is to serve their respective sentences and get out of dodge. When Lightning winds up stuck in Radiator Springs off, a rundown town off Route 66 that's not even on the map anymore, and Ben winds up stranded in South Carolina in the tiny town of Grady, both of them are immediately on edge and want nothing to do with any of the people in these middle-of-nowhere country towns. They are both a bit selfish and put their own wants and needs before others. Lightning is a talented racer (and talking car) who believes he is meant to live a life of fame and success. ![]() Ben is a talented surgeon who believes that he is meant to live a life of fame and success. Lightning McQueen and Ben Stone have basically identical personalities at the start of their movies. Even though Ben Stone is a human doctor and Lightning McQueen is a talking race car, their stories follow the exact same patterns. All the major plot points and character arcs that Lightning McQueen goes through in Cars, Ben Stone already went through 15 years prior. Ben Stone, a self-absorbed young man headed to California for to pursue an important job opportunity. Fox starred in the dramedy Doc Hollywood as Dr. However, there's another movie that shares this exact same plot. Disney and Pixar's Cars would probably be the first movie that comes to mind for many people, and that's correct. ![]() The unique thing about this particular plot is that it applies to more than one movie. ![]() This plot summary sounds familiar, right? Most likely you immediately had a movie in mind while reading it. At first, the thought of being stuck in the middle of nowhere is the worst thing that could happen to him, but he starts to warm up to the simple life. He is sentenced to community service in the rinky-dink town while the car is being fixed. Along the way, he gets into a car accident, ultimately leaving him stranded in a small town off the highway. A young, hot-shot guy embarks on a cross-country road trip to California for a huge career opportunity.
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