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Wall-E
My mom gave this Disney Pixar movie to one of the kids for Jesus' birthday, I loved it.
It's a post apocylyptic love story between two robots. Wall-E is a trash robot whose job it is to compact trash on Earth into little cubes and stack it and a hobby collecting human artifacts and Eve is a botanical probe searching for evidence of sustainable life. Eve was sent to Earth from the Axiom, an interstellar cruise ship all of humanity went on while a few remained behind in a thought to be failed attempt to clean up the planet. They have been on the cruise for over 700 years and now when Eve returns with a plant and the captain is set to go home, the autopilot, Otto, mutinies revealing that not long after the cruise disembarked, the clean up effort was abandoned and tries to prevent the plant being used to trigger the Axiom's preprogrammed navigation back to Earth for recolonization.
http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/anim ... ms/wall-e/
It's a post apocylyptic love story between two robots. Wall-E is a trash robot whose job it is to compact trash on Earth into little cubes and stack it and a hobby collecting human artifacts and Eve is a botanical probe searching for evidence of sustainable life. Eve was sent to Earth from the Axiom, an interstellar cruise ship all of humanity went on while a few remained behind in a thought to be failed attempt to clean up the planet. They have been on the cruise for over 700 years and now when Eve returns with a plant and the captain is set to go home, the autopilot, Otto, mutinies revealing that not long after the cruise disembarked, the clean up effort was abandoned and tries to prevent the plant being used to trigger the Axiom's preprogrammed navigation back to Earth for recolonization.
http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/anim ... ms/wall-e/
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I loved it too!
Obviously, it is very much about ecology - but when the captains says to the computer running humanity for its own good: "We don't want to survive; we want to live" I knew someone had read good ol' Herbert!
Hopefully, we will have a few 'tweens seeing this movie who will get that message. KJA&BH, and their devoted fans, will probably remain ignorant...
Maybe they can write a prequel, in which it turns out the machine was really trying to kill mankind, and the reason the captain shouts this was that his chldren were tortured by a toaster in drag...? Must be a buck in it for some author-for-hire, right?
Obviously, it is very much about ecology - but when the captains says to the computer running humanity for its own good: "We don't want to survive; we want to live" I knew someone had read good ol' Herbert!
Hopefully, we will have a few 'tweens seeing this movie who will get that message. KJA&BH, and their devoted fans, will probably remain ignorant...
Maybe they can write a prequel, in which it turns out the machine was really trying to kill mankind, and the reason the captain shouts this was that his chldren were tortured by a toaster in drag...? Must be a buck in it for some author-for-hire, right?
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Saw it at the cinema - great film.
Now watch the BBC version of EM Forster's The Machine Stops on Youtube ... I'm pretty sure they did
Now watch the BBC version of EM Forster's The Machine Stops on Youtube ... I'm pretty sure they did
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Allthough it was late, my kids fell asleep watching it with me last night, and I thought the same thing. I had the feeling the theme was not intended for them but for the parents.Spicelon wrote:Really good effort from Pixar, although they might have lost some of their
younger audience with the general lack of dialog.
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Really liked this movie. I'd forgotten it was out on DVD already. We'll have to get a copy.
My kids seemed to like it as well although they are preteen and teenage years, so the lack of dialog doesn't bother them as much as it might some younger kids.
Thanks for reminding me about a well made movie
My kids seemed to like it as well although they are preteen and teenage years, so the lack of dialog doesn't bother them as much as it might some younger kids.
Thanks for reminding me about a well made movie
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That occured to me too. The Captain getting off his hovering lounge chair and challenging the autopilot was more in the right direction.Tleszer wrote:Even their version of machines taking over the ship makes more sense than appeared in McDune.
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Re: On Wall-E
How times change ... I had to read books in school.Sole Man wrote:I didn't see it but something tells I will in school. (They play those kinds of movies. Constantly.)
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My Favorite Pixar film so far. Listened ot an interview with the c0-writer/director Interesting to here he say how he worked with others and hwhere parts of the movie came form. For example the humans were originally suppose to be aliens and how they went form aliens to humans. He says it is not an environmental movie, originally it was not suppose to be set on earth, and he was thinking like a six year old and how cool would a planet be if it was completely covered in trash? All the digs at technology and how people today do not interact with others as much were intentional. It is a good discussion.
You can down load it from here:
http://creativescreenwritingmagazine.blogspot.com/
Creative Screen Writing Magazine has screenings of movies followed by Q&'A's with the writers, directors, actors ,etc. Some good stuff can be found here.
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You can down load it from here:
http://creativescreenwritingmagazine.blogspot.com/
Creative Screen Writing Magazine has screenings of movies followed by Q&'A's with the writers, directors, actors ,etc. Some good stuff can be found here.
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Thanks for the link. Downloading it now.Robspierre wrote:My Favorite Pixar film so far. Listened ot an interview with the c0-writer/director Interesting to here he say how he worked with others and hwhere parts of the movie came form. For example the humans were originally suppose to be aliens and how they went form aliens to humans. He says it is not an environmental movie, originally it was not suppose to be set on earth, and he was thinking like a six year old and how cool would a planet be if it was completely covered in trash? All the digs at technology and how people today do not interact with others as much were intentional. It is a good discussion.
You can down load it from here:
http://creativescreenwritingmagazine.blogspot.com/
Creative Screen Writing Magazine has screenings of movies followed by Q&'A's with the writers, directors, actors ,etc. Some good stuff can be found here.
Rob
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