WALL-E

Post by **silentfilm** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:08 pm

It doesn't come out until next weekend, but Disney/Pixar's new film is supposed to be virtially silent, with only music and sound effects and very little dialogue. This should easily make it a hit in the non-English-speaking world. The Urbanora Bioscope blog has a great write-up on it today at http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2008/06/ ... es-silent/ (with You-Tube previews). Director Andrew Stanton is a big fan of silent films.

Post by **silentfilm** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:26 am

Here's a great photo-shopped photo of WALL-E...

Richard P. May · Post by **Richard P. May** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:29 am

WALL.E is regularly spoken of as a "silent" film, especially for about the first half hour.
I think it is a wonderful example of the oft made statement "the silents were never silent". There is no dialog, but boy oh boy is there sound!

misspickford9 · Post by **misspickford9** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:51 pm

LOL to the photoshop!

Ya know I liked the movie (specially the ending) but I didnt feel it was anything akin to a 'Silent' Movie. Too little action. Yeah hes not really talking, but they fail to mention hes not really doing anything either. I think it dragged on too long that way. Yes we get it: earth is full of garbage...now bring on the rest of the plot!

I think people just equate: it has music and no words=silent movie. The little skit in the beginning with the rabbit was more 'silent movie' in my opinion.

rudyfan · Post by **rudyfan** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:51 pm

Well, I adore Pixar films and am always amazed how they in their art can make me care more for an inanimate object or a machine than any humanoid character (okay, Boo was an exception in Monsters Inc.)

Although, the minute I even think about Wall-E, I get earworm with the damn Hello Dolly tunes.

dr.giraud · Post by **dr.giraud** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:35 pm

rudyfan wrote:Well, I adore Pixar films and am always amazed how they in their art can make me care more for an inanimate object or a machine than any humanoid character . . .

At the end of WALL-E, I didn't care in the least if the humans turned out OK or not. But WALL-E and Eve? I wanted them to live happily ever after.

rudyfan · Post by **rudyfan** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:23 pm

dr.giraud wrote:
rudyfan wrote:Well, I adore Pixar films and am always amazed how they in their art can make me care more for an inanimate object or a machine than any humanoid character . . .
At the end of WALL-E, I didn't care in the least if the humans turned out OK or not. But WALL-E and Eve? I wanted them to live happily ever after.

I cared more for the cockroach than the humans. But, I'm with you, Wall-E and Eve, happily ever after.

silent-partner · Post by **silent-partner** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:20 pm

Mr. Calvert, thank you for posting that picture. It would make a great tee-shirt, don't you agree??

Tommy Stathes · Post by **Tommy Stathes** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:53 am

Great image, Bruce.
As for the film I was only partially impressed. I appreciated the concept in general but on a personal basis I'm not very much into the anthropomorphization of the "artificially intelligent", so throughout the whole thing, it was a bit of a conflict feeling much remorse for the robots. Eva's teenage girl voice drove me batty. I could have seen the cockroach or some similar creature solicit more sympathy. But aside from all that, great commentary on the future of human life as it's currently playing out.