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 

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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.