Wall-e Stuff

1) Here’s three important themes from walle:
- Environment
- Love
- Ignorance/Laziness

2) How the movie explored the themes:

Environment:
Earth is unsustainable and humans have colonized in space to get away from it. When the captain finds out that earth is sustainable again, they go back. When they get there, earth is littered with mountains of garbage and haze obscures the view.

Love:
Walle meets Eve and shows her all his belongings. Eve eventually becomes inactive (kinda like a coma) and walle tries to protects her. Eve regains consciousness and they stick up for each other throughout the film. At the end of the film; walle breaks down and Eve repairs him.

Ignorance/Laziness:
- Computers give people a false reality
- “I can't just sit here and do nothing. That's all I've ever done! That's all anyone has ever done on this blasted ship…nothing” – Captain
- “I didn’t know we had a swimming pool” – fat lady

3) Wall-E has references to today’s society. Everyone had computers in front of their faces which gave them entertainment and a way to be social (ex. video games and FACEBOOK). They were also massive consumers and slaves to the market (ex. “red is the new blue”). They had forgotten the important things about life.

4) I really liked the character design of Walle and Eve, but more Eve. The eyes were quite simplistic, yet conveyed a lot of emotion depending on which lights were lit up. Sometimes the bottom half of her eyes lit up so she looked angry, but other times only the top portion of her eyes lit up so she looked happy. I used to think a mouth and eye brows were also needed, but I guess I was wrong. I also liked how they used movement to show expression; such as bobbing up and down to show excitement, and looking down to show disappointment.



5) Walle and Eve hold hands a lot throughout the film to show the friendship and trust between them.

6) The robots take on human characteristics and the humans have taken on robotic characteristics. It shows that we value laziness, comfort, and entertainment more than the other parts of life.

7) I think this is a very good movie because it’s one of the few pixar films where humans play a valuable role in it and deals with problems that are relevant to us today without completely shoving it in front of our faces. The only thing I would change is the ending because it was kinda corny watching all those fat people cheering for walle when they didn’t even know enough about who he was or what he was trying to do for them.

- Andy.S