Taryn Gray Professor Buaas Eng. Comp. II 5 May 2017 Film Analysis Essay Wall-E is an animated science fiction film that was produced by Pixar and directed by Andrew Stanton in 2008. The setting, at the beginning of the movie, is a futuristic depiction of planet earth covered in garbage and filth, which sets the foundation for the environmental message. The creator also uses dancing and music throughout the movie to set the mood for the development of a relationship between Wall-E and Eve. The creators throw in lots of symbolism throughout the movie in order to show what earth/society may come to if we do not change our ways. The seedling is seen throughout the movie and is a symbol for hope and new beginnings for humanity after …show more content…
When Wall-E broke the first display system, it was almost like he woke the passenger up, because that was when she finally realized the true beauty of everything surrounding her. The display system serves as an oppressor of existential thought and is symbolic of the societal ignorance. The ship symbolizes the ignorance of humans because it allows everything to be done for them. The passengers can get everything with the push of a button. Wall-E realizes how ignorant people have become because when he boards the ship he sees they have reached a state where all people do is eat while keeping their eyes glued to a display screen. He realizes that all the ship is really doing is dictating peoples’ lives. Auto constantly has the protocol A113 pop up which is symbolic of destroying hope and new beginnings. The repetitive protocol symbolically shows the boring lives people live on the ship. The passengers of the ship live with no desire to have purpose, and they live an inauthentic life that is mapped out for them by the BnL corporation. Wall-E’s actions end up inspiring the passengers (especially the captain) to look for something different and break away from blindly accepting what everyone else is accepting. The lighters that Wall-E collects can be seen as a symbol of the love that is kindling between him
We constantly hear we are in the ‘age of technology’. It’s crazy how much technology we use on a daily basis. It has become so routine to have technology incorporated into our daily lives that we don’t realize how much we rely on it. Who would have thought Pixar’s animation Wall-E could have so much technological awareness incorporated into the plot. The director of Wall-E created this movie with a universal message of what will happen to our society over time if we do not stop relying on technology.
People often write off animated films as childish and lacking any depth. However, the movie, Wall-E, points a large microscope at our society and our potential future. In the movie Wall-E, it’s a robot name Wall-E and Ben Burtt’s play’ him. Also, there are other characters is Eve and Elissa Knight play’s her. There's a that they go on because the planet earth doesn’t have a living plant except one. They have to place the plant in the place that the plant will go so they can get to earth. The Captain is played by Jeff Garlin and, the Captain had a hard time to get the plant into the deposit that it’s supposed to go in. Satire is used for humor and poke fun at a thing that is happening like when the place is in the chair they are too lazy to get up and do their own things. Also, they have the robots bring them the food. It pokes fun at humans because humans are lazy and us humans what other people or robots to get are things cause the humans made robots so people wouldn’t have to get up. They also wanted to show what happens to the earth if we don’t take care of it and, it will turn all to trash and doesn’t look like a nice place to live. The director Andrew Stanton used the movie, Wall-E, and satire as a way to criticize and comment on technology and environment in our society.
Many people obsess over technology, In the movie WALL-E people take it to a whole other level of technology. The movie takes place 700 years from now in a dystopian earth that has become uninhabitable. People have floating beds, robots and more! The creators of WALL-E used several examples of satire and symbolism to portray the theme that we shouldn’t let technology take over.
In 2008, director Andrew Stanton and a team of producers that included scientists created the film Wall-E, a Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth class robot on planet Earth, which took us to seven hundred years after humans had polluted the environment. The people on Earth wind up living in space to escape the waste of planet. After seeing this movie over five times, and experiencing waterborne illnesses, Wall-E is adorable and emotional, but the story itself opens our eyes and forces us to become aware of water pollution in our environment. Water pollution is a threat to humans, ecosystems, and the environmental plants. Soon enough, our blue waters will be full of trash and waste.
Throughout the novel, multiple different symbols are being portrayed, although the symbol of light depicts the full meaning of the characters and theme of Anthem. Ayn Rand uses light to symbolize knowledge, hope, freedom, and life. The light symbolizes hope since, it shows how Equality separates himself from collectivism and thinks for himself when he proclaims “We made it. We created it. We brought it forth from the night of the ages. We alone. Our hands. Our mind. Ours alone and only” (59). By contrast to the light of the box, the City is dark and only lit by candlelight. Therefore the light shows the hope that Equality and all others have of breaking away from the collective society and becoming individuals and to have freedom to be themselves. The discovery of light starts Equality's journey of changing the society and granted him the chance to create a new world where light and other things from the Unmentionable Times exist.
WALL- E is an animated Disney Pixar movie about the future of our planet, Earth. The opening scene is a futuristic reality of our planet becoming a waste-covered landfill. WALL-E is a robot that is designed to clean up the mess and pollution humans have made throughout the decades. This movie is not only child friendly, but also is recognized as a critique on today’s society.
In WALL-E, humanity is put in a situation where earth can no longer provide them with a safe place to live. Without the role of technology in the making of a humongous spacecraft capable of occupying the whole human race, the people of earth would not have survived the consumer apocalypse. Not expecting to spend thousands of years in space, the president formed a cleanup plan for earth with the use of robots named WALL-E. Their job was to collect all the garbage and make the planet clean for the return of the humans.
The film Wall-E is related to the science and description area because it talks about the environment and what can happen in the future. The film starts with a robot named Wall-E and he has been assigned to clean up Earth from all the waste that the humans have left behind. It shows him coming out of his house that is full of little different things that humans would think are trash but he does not know what they are and considers them treasures. As he is performing his duties he hears another ship land and drops off another robot named Eve. Eve’s mission is to find any living
In short words, Wall-E is the story of a robot who was designed to clean up an extremely polluted Planet Earth. This animated movie has a much larger meaning than expected – it explains what can happen to our planet if we keep consuming the way we do. As indicated by the movie, big corporations and greedy consumers destroyed our ecosystem. A planet that was full of nature, water, fuels, animals and vegetation along with many other things simply vanished because of a society that consumed too much. It is a pretty scary thought to watch this movie and think about how we are on a process of doing the exact same thing. With a huge market of major retailers in the world consuming more than necessary is easier and easier each day.
Through symbolism Walls was able to portray a deeper meaning to otherwise ordinary objects or events. She wrote, “A few days after Mom and Dad brought me home, I cooked myself some hot dogs…The neighbor lady who had driven me to the hospital was surprised that I didn’t run in the opposite direction from any fire I saw. ‘Why the hell would she?’ Dad bellowed with a proud grin. ‘She already fought the fire once and won’” (Walls 15). Fire represented hope and not giving up. Despite getting burned as a young girl, Walls was not afraid to approach fire again. This symbolized all the future challenges she would have to face, and no matter how much they would hurt her, she would rise back up. In addition, the Glass Castle that her father had envisioned represented hope and the American Dream. She explained, "Once he finished the Prospector and we struck it rich, he'd start work on our Glass Castle" (Walls 25). Even though the family was poor, they were chasing after that dream. The Glass Castle was a representation of happiness, stability, and all their worries coming to an end. It was glass because it’s fragile, and at any moment it could collapse. Symbolism played an important role in conveying ideas and
Throughout the first semester of our English class, we have debated and discussed many key ideas of science fiction, all the way from an overreliance in technology to genetic mutations. We have discussed these ideas through the short stories, films, and books that we have read and watched. The most prominent aspect of science fiction that resonated and created the most interest for me was an overreliance in technology and the harmful effects of technology. People’s overreliance on technology helps destroy human interaction and basic human wants, needs, and desires. For my honors presentation my partner and I decided to discuss this idea through Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Pedestrian,” and the movie Wall-E. Both of these pieces of art have major connections to technology and the impact that it has on society.
“The Hurt Locker” by film maker Kathryn Bigelow conveys the theme of the movie at the very beginning. The theme is a simple quote by Chris Hedges which states, “The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.” (Hedges)The film 's greatest achievement is its ability to communicate the underlying truth of this quote consistently throughout the movie. Sergeant First Class William James, played by James Renner, captures this message through his job description, dialogue, and demeanor, as well as his obstinate/erratic behaviors. The creative selective style of slow motion effects, instability of camera movement, and the intense sound/visual effects clearly evokes the chaos and confusion that is associated with any drug/addiction. The location, scenery and lighting contribute to the feel of realism.
WALL-E is a robot who was left on Earth when it was too polluted for even people to live on it. Only one was left, and his everyday job is to go around and get trash off the ground to build these towards that look like buildings. His reason for doing this is to clean up the Earth, hopefully making it safe for humans to emigrate back to Earth. One day, WALL-E is out and about just doing his job, and he sees a red dot. Of course, he goes and follows it. It ends up leading him to a ship that came down from space, and Eve pops out. Eve, a robot sent from Earth to see if there is any plant life still on Earth. WALL-E and Eve end up becoming great friends, so great of friends that they fall in love. WALL-E is a very caring robot.
The main issues are shown from this movie is "how to trash can change human life on Earth?". The film tells the story of the only remaining cleaner robot in 2110. This robot named Wall-E, a name which derives from an abbreviation for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth Class. Wall-E is intentionally created to solve the problem of garbage that exists on Earth. While the man fled into a spaceship, Wall-E will work clean the
First of all, the setting of earth in WALL-E is clearly a resemblance of other post-apocalypse films. 28 Days Later (2002) is one obvious example of this. Both films take place in the post-apocalyptic world and the earth is portrayed as the abandoned planet. Also, there are clips within the films which describe the preceding events that commence the apocalypse.