I was tearing up for most of the first half hour of the movie. When he watches Hello Dolly and holds his own hand? *wibble*
I put on the director's commentary while taking a nap, and in that he says he spent a year with a group of people storyboarding the first act of the movie. Only after they had done that did they even come up with the plot for the rest, which is why there is such a discontinuity. But it's interesting to hear that he started out with this idea of a lone robot still doing his task long after the creators are gone, and backed into the rest of the premise. Well, if he's cleaning up trash and there are no humans around, what circumstances would have led to that? So the whole environmentalist message of the movie is a consequence of the character of WALL*E, not the other way round. And it really does feel like that.
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Date: 2010-01-14 02:23 pm (UTC)I put on the director's commentary while taking a nap, and in that he says he spent a year with a group of people storyboarding the first act of the movie. Only after they had done that did they even come up with the plot for the rest, which is why there is such a discontinuity. But it's interesting to hear that he started out with this idea of a lone robot still doing his task long after the creators are gone, and backed into the rest of the premise. Well, if he's cleaning up trash and there are no humans around, what circumstances would have led to that? So the whole environmentalist message of the movie is a consequence of the character of WALL*E, not the other way round. And it really does feel like that.