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Movies were always very popular and there are many reasons for this. First of all, movies are one of the main resources of entertainment. A movie is a perfect way to relax after stressful day or week. Another important reason why movies are so popular is because they are the easiest way to learn.
Pixar Animation Studios produced the film Wall-E and Andrew Stanton directed
it. It follows the story of a robot called Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-
Class) who somebody has programmed to clean up the polluted planet. Rubbish
has so overrun Earth that it has forced the planet's population to take a vacation
on a holiday resort spaceship where somebody does everything for them. The
corporation Buy n Large run the holiday resort. Into this scenario pops Eve, another
robot who somebody has sent to Earth to find plant life. Wall-E falls in love, but
at first she doesn't reciprocate his feelings because she has no feelings. Pixar have
aimed Wall-E at children, but it won't disappoint adults.
Among its many wondrous achievements, the animated WALL-E is a sci-fi trifecta: a vision of the future, a tale for our times and a blast from the past.
It's a breathtaking, inspirational film, transcending the medium of animation and blossoming into a genuinely magnificent piece of cinema.
Simplicity and complexity harmonize together in cinematic zen in the instant-classic WALL-E, a film that uses technical prowess to tell a straight-forward yet far-reaching story
he most ambitious, visually-breathtaking film from the animation stable to date, pushing family entertainment to new limits of thoughtfulness and imagination, and offering unprecedented challenges to young minds
Wall-E" is not just your average loveable Pixar film, but it also has the brains and a realistic tone to go along with it. As a world is stripped of everything, a banned wasteland remains with a little robot to re-inhabit the earth. It shows what life could really be like in a thousand years from now, with a society that is corrupt on technology, becoming fat and run by computers, having no relation to the outside world. When opportunity presents itself, the story then becomes a mission to repopulate the earth. There are so many symbols for adults to notice and appreciate what their childhood was like, and so many symbols that this generation to snap out of and notice as well. "Wall-E" is not just an amazing pixar film, but story-wise, it's one of the best films of 2008!lessAugust
Final Project
Disney and Pixar’s hit movie Wall-
E (2008) reaches beyond the realm of
entertaining children’s film and can be
viewed as an environmental work. It
encompasses a number of the warnings
and fears for the environment addressed
by environmental writers like Bill
McKibben, Don Marquis, Wendell Berry,
and Henry David Thoreau. The film also
meets critic Lawrence’s Buell’s four
components of an “environmentally-
oriented” work. When viewed from this
angle, the movie sends an advocacy
message for environmental protection,
rather than simply being a cartoon about
a robot.
Wall-E depicts a planet destroyed by
human waste, where the superstore Buy
& Large had become a ruling force on the
earth. The first scene shows the world as
a city where all that is left is sand and
garbage piled as high as skyscrapers. The
earth is no longer fertile or sustainable
for human life, so people have left the
planet to live lives of lazy luxury aboard
Buy and Large’s space ship, the Axiom. In
the meantime, robots like Wall-E have
been left to clean up the mess. A process
meant to take only 5 years before humans
could return to Earth, has now resulted in
700 years aboard the ship, as Earth has
been damaged beyond their estimates of
repair. The only inhabitants able to
survive on the planet beside the robots
are lowly insects like Wall-E’s pet
cockroach. The world is changed when
Wall-E finds a single healthy green plant,
and shows it to EVA, one of the space
ship’s probe robots sent to search the
Earth for signs of life. EVA and Wall-E
return to the Axiom with the plant and
show it to the captain. After much
conflict, the robots manage to protect the
plant and convince the captain that Earth
is once again sustainable. In the end, the
humans return to save the planet by
nurturing small plants, and beginning
marginal farming to heal and restore the
earth.
The wasted Earth shown in the movie is
one that is predicted by Bill McKibben
in The End of Nature. He warned that the
gases people produce “in pursuit of warm
houses and eternal economic growth and
of agriculture so productive it would free
most of us from farming,” were
destroying the atmosphere, and would
cause heat, dryness, and storms. These
would breed deserts across the earth and
eventually end nature (719). This scene
comes to fruition in the movie, where the
earth is so unsustainable that humans
have to leave in order to survive, because
they have ruined nature, and the world is
covered only in sand and garbage, rather
than plants and animals.
McKibben described the loneliness he felt
with the thought of such a world, where
all of nature has been destroyed by
humans: “And that was where the
loneliness came from. There’s nothing
except us. There’s no such thing as nature
anymore- that other world that isn’t
business and art and breakfast is now not
another world, and there is nothing
except us alone” (723). This loneliness is
emphasized two ways in the movie. First,
it is highlighted by the way that the
humans continue to send EVA probes to
Earth for 700 years in a desperate search
for any sign of life on the planet aside
from the cockroaches. They do not want
to accept that they have destroyed all of
their other living company on the planet.
Secondly, the loneliness is embodied in
the scenes created in which Wall-E is the
only being on the planet. Wall-E continues
to pile trash day in and day out, and at
night watches the same romance movie
alone. Disney paints an incredibly lonely
picture of the earth in the film.
As mentioned, Wall-E is the only surviving
entity on earth in the movie, aside from
his companion, a pet cockroach. Author
Don Marquis warned of this outcome
in what the ants are saying. Like
McKibben, Marquis predicted that human
destruction would eventually lead to a
desert-covered world. Writing as if from
the perspective of an ant, he also claimed
that destruction of the environment would
end human reign on the earth and lead to
one where only insects like ants,
centipedes, and scorpions could survive:
“man is making deserts of the earth. it
won’t be long now before man will have
used it up so that nothing but ants and
centipedes and scorpions can find a living
on it. man has oppressed us for a million
years but he goes on steadily, cutting the
ground from under his own feet making
deserts deserts deserts” (235-236). This is
Wall-E’s world, where only a lowly
cockroach can thrive with the robot in the
nature-less environment.
The ideas set forth by a third
environmental writer, Wendell Berry, can
be seen in Wall-Eas well. Wall-E’s world is
eventually saved by human intervention,
but only when people return to carefully
nurture plants, and begin marginal
farming. This type of healing was
advocated by Wendell Berry in The
Making of a Marginal Farm. Berry
stressed the importance of living off small
areas of the environment, and restoring
each area of land as it is depleted. He
described his work on his own farm, in
which he used old-fashioned and more
difficult methods to clear and grow on the
land because they would cause less
damage to it. In healing the land, he felt
that he also healed himself: “As we have
continued to live on and forth from our
place, we have slowly begun its
restoration and healing…A great deal of
work is still left to do, and some of it – the
rebuilding of fertility in the depleted
hillsides – will take longer than we will
live. But in doing these things we have
begun a restoration and healing process
in ourselves” (511). In Wall-E, the human
race also heals itself by returning to
nurture the earth. The people have grown
fat, lazy, and useless aboard the ship,
which has even resulted in bone loss over
generations. When people return to plant
and grow the earth, the human race
relearns to walk and exercise, and begins
a return to its normal, strong, and healthy
form.
Like the other two authors, Wendell Berry
also made predictions for the future in his
writing. As mentioned, he stressed the
importance of healing the land as it is
used. Otherwise, all of the land would
eventually become unrecoverable, as
evidenced in the movie. Berry foresaw
this outcome when he asked, “If a people
in adding a hundred and fifty years to
itself subtracts fifty thousand from its
land, what is there to hope?” (512). He
knew that as humans destroyed their
environment in pursuit of easier and
longer lives, they were using up natural
resources so quickly that eventually they
would all be gone, and would create a
world like Wall-E’s.
The influence of the ideas of these
environmental writers can be seen
throughout the movie. They prove that
Wall-E certainly contains environmental
content. However, it is in meeting critic
Lawrence Buell’s four components of an
“environmentally-oriented” work
that Wall-E becomes an environmental
film instead of simply a children’s movie
with environmental references. The first
of Buell’s four components is that the
nonhuman environment is present not
merely as a framing device, but as a
presence that begins to suggest that
human history is implicated in natural
history. Wall-E meets this portion because
the environment is the central theme of
the movie, not simply a staging area for a
story about human interaction. Humans
have had to leave on space
ships because they have destroyed
nature, and have left robots to try and fix
their mistake. Human history has
changed over the 700 years because
people have not had the natural
environment as their base. The human
race has become lazy and large without
the earth to take care of, which has
resulted in bone loss over generations,
and a loss of the necessity for human
instincts like walking and personal
communication. The lack of Earth, the
nonhuman environment of the movie, has
been the cause of the change in human
history, making it a huge presence in the
movie.
Buell’s second component states that the
human interest is not understood to be
the only legitimate interest in an
environmental work. In Wall-E the main
conflict becomes the protection of the
plant that the robots bring aboard the
Axiom in an old shoe. The plant
symbolizes Earth’s renewed
sustainability, so the humans eventually
realize it is their job to protect and
nurture this plant, which is why they
decide to return to Earth. So, the plant’s
interest is a legitimate interest of the film.
The film’s plot stresses the importance of
the plant’s survival as well as the
human’s.
Similar to the previous component,
Buell’s third requirement is that human’s
accountability to the environment is part
of the text’s ethical orientation. This
component is seen most clearly when the
Captain of the Axiom realizes that the
people aboard the ship can no longer sit
around and “do nothing.” He cares for
and waters Wall-E’s plant and exclaims
that it has come “a long way for a drink of
water!” The Captain then realizes that it
is human’s job to take care of such plants,
and the earth itself. He asks the ship’s
information system to define the idea of
“farming” to him, because it was a
concept lost with the human’s exodus
from Earth. He then sets the ship on a
course back to the planet, where he
instructs the other people on the ways of
marginal farming to re-cultivate the land.
The humans return to save the
environment at the end of the movie as a
result of their acknowledgement of their
accountability for its protection.
Buell’s final component of an
environmentally-oriented work states
that some sense of the environment as a
process rather than as a constant or a
given is at least implicit in the text.
Certainly the environment is not constant
in Wall-E. It changes from a land full of
nature and human life to a barren
wasteland under constant attacks from
sand-storms. However, because the Earth
is a process, it eventually returns to a
state where it can support plant and
animal life again. This is the point where
Wall-E finds a small green plant growing,
which is used to prove that humans can
return because the world is once again
sustainable. The environment in Wall-E
changes throughout the film, showing
that Earth is not a given or a constant,
but a process.
As a result of its meeting Buell’s elements
of an environmental work, and the
incorporation of the ideas of
environmental writers, Wall-E can be
viewed as an environmental film. The
movie shows the influence of authors like
Bill McKibben, Don Marquis, and Wendell
Berry. These authors published works
throughout the 20th century, while Wall-
E was not produced until 2008. This
implies that the work of such authors
influenced the choice of topic for the
recent Disney film. Protecting the
environment through efforts like “Going
Green” and concerns about Global
Warming have become prominent current
issues in today’s society. Their
prominence has been supported by the
writing of such authors. Earlier Disney
films had less realistic themes than
environmental protection. For
example,Cinderella (1950) and Snow
White (1937) showed tales about princes
and princesses and magic spells.
Therefore, the rise in environmental
awareness movement likely triggered the
choice of topic for the 2008 Disney film,
contributing to its viewing as an
environmental work.
What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? Academy Awardr- winning writer/director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo) and the inventive storytellers and technical geniuses at Pixar Animation Studios transport moviegoers to a galaxy not so very far away for a new computer-animated cosmic comedy about a determined robot named WALL E. After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve. This encounter leads to WALL E chasing Eve across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to the big screen.