Why Does WALL-E Use Live Action? - Eddache (One Musical Scene)

Music:
Cover Charge - TrackTribe
Magical Gravity - Asher Fulero
Saving the World - Aaron Kenny
My Dog Is Happy - Reed Mathis

[cerealsneaky]

Fun fact: my parents believed walle to be completely silent so when they bought the film they bought it in Spanish from a guy selling DVDs on a beach while we were on holiday. This meant that the first ever time i watched walle it was completely in Spanish but it didnt matter because the film still make sense to a 9 year old because of the robots. Shows that the complete lack of speach was still able to tell an amazing story, and i think thats pretty neat

[poweroffriendship.]

Watching the full scene of "Put Your Sunday Clothes" from _Hello Dolly_ after years of seeing the TV clip that Wall-E watched feels like my childhood is finally completed in peace. Pixar surely does have a good taste of musicals.

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

WALL-E fun fact: Stanton got the inspiration for WALL·E’s design when someone handed him a pair of binoculars at a baseball game. “I missed the entire inning, ” he recalled. “I just turned the thing around and I started staring at it and I started making it go sad and then happy and then mad and then sad and I remembered doing that as a kid with my dad’s binoculars and I said, ‘It’s all there.’”

[ajmeraki]

One thing that I'll always feel is kind of disturbing about this movie is that _the Axiom wasn't the only ship, but it is the only one that is ever seen to return to Earth._ In the hologram commercial at the beginning of the movie, we see an entire fleet take off at once. Just like Wall-E is the only Wall-E of many to survive and gain humanity, only one ship's worth of humans ever regain their humanity, and the rest presumably rot in space forevermore, unknowingly living in a _Black Mirror_ hell, forever growing dumber, fatter, and more atrophied, never even knowing there's anything more to life. Not only that, but since it can be assumed that every ship had an AUTO, it's likely that it was the same AI copy-pasted by BnL into every ship, and as a result, without an external force showing up to challenge it, it would most certainly succeed in it's goal of keeping the humans that way forever, all for their indefinite "survival."

Humanity will survive forever, but most of it will never live.

[southron_d]

I loved the first part of WALL-E where there is almost no dialogue. It's a nice throwback to silent films and shows a story can still be told without words coming at you at a hundred miles an hour.

[averyeml]

When I was a kid the live action in the movie weirded me out in a way I couldn’t describe at the time, but with time I did learn that the feeling was what made the movie WORK for me. Not only does it do the “wow look how different the humans got so far away from their origins” but it also leans into the uncanny valley vibe to boost the isolation and dystopia of the story. Pixar does a great job of using style to keep us from falling into the valley in all of their movies, but seeing live action humans morph into Pixar humans through those pictures of the captains haunted me as a kid. Similarly, watching Pixar characters watch Hello Dolly on decaying, Jerry rigged technology provided a deep sense of loneliness that I hadn’t felt at that young age until then. It all felt… wrong, in a way that made the movie make an impact.

And of course, Fred Willard did a great job in his role and is a very memorable character.

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

Exactly, the point of using live-action instead of just animating is to make us see ourselves. To show that this is our planet, and if we don't do a better job protecting it, it will become this way IRL. Dietrich Bonhoeffer said it best, "The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves its children", while Lady Bird Johnson said "The environment, after all, is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest. It is one thing that all of us share.”

[metalsilver]

Wall-E is my favorite Pixar film of all time! This was really well made and sheds into some light on relationships and the emotions that these characters feel. I love it, keep it up

[thetwistedsamurai]

“Nobody wants Happy Feet Humans.”

Actually, maybe I’m the outlier, but the humans from Happy Feet were my favorite part of the whole film. ESPECIALLY the part where the Antarctic team starts dancing with him, and one slips and falls. I almost cried!

Also, the little girl tapping on the tank reminded me of myself at that age, and how often we went to the zoo. I haven’t seen the movie in a while granted, but I remember really enjoying the way they incorporated that.

[crcoghill]

not gonna lie: The portions and songs shown in this movie really did make me want to check out this movie when this movie came out and, one fine day when i went to my grandparents house: they had a copy on VHS in a bundle they were giving to us. I can't recall everything that happened in the movie but the songs and characters are just delightful.

[Flipface]

Wall-E is literally my favorite movie of all time. I loved the universe as a kid. I loved the love story as a teen. I loved the subtle themes and (maybe unintentional) deep events that happen all the time in the film.

One of my favorites I noticed, is how the hover chairs were first shown as advanced wheelchairs for the disabled... Only for all humans to rely on them to get around. Perhaps this originally was because of the atrophy that the extended time in space caused, eventually humans only ever knew the hover chairs, despite their muscled getting used to the gravity and allowing them to walk again over the years.

When John falls out of his chair, suddenly he realizes how artificial everything is. No one offering to help him up, the robots just redirecting traffic and telling him help will come *eventually.*
This may be because originally they were programmed to go through every active chair to find where the fallen person was, but due to the sheer amount of active chairs, the process takes an absurdly long time.
Wall-E instantly reaches out to help, pushing John back into his chair, changing his viewpoint forever.

Also quick thing, how fucked up is this distopian future? A company owns the earth and acts as its leader. The ships used to *save* humanity are advertised as luxury cruise liners. And one time someone brought up to me that people probably sold themselves to BnL just to get on the ship.
There is so much to unpack in this movie, and I know I will watch it all over again the first chance I get.

[IcyDiamond]

Wall-E was one of my favorite childhood movies, and it still holds up today!

[nefwaenre]

Even to this day, i cry watching Wall-e.. it's my fav animated movie. Just thinking about a lonely robot left in a desolate world, is just the saddest thing. So it felt great when he found love in Eva~ The story telling is just so beautiful~ :')

[SkyKidShyKid]

Absolutely loved Wall-e as a kid, I remember just re-watching it over and over. Good ol memories.

[TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Funnily enough I was talking about this to someone recently. Technically, WALL-E is a live-action film, or an interpretation of one anyway. All the live-action photos, the recorded messages, the BNL adverts in the DVD extras and the musical WALL-E watches are from centuries before when the film is actually set. Everyone's just deteriorated into weird blob-Humans over the last 700 years or so, and now look so different to how they started, they look like they're animated.

[Dan-.-]

Wall-E is my favourite Pixar film, I just love how beautiful the visuals, story, relationships, music, god the music and visuals, the characters, and just everything about it including the lack of dialogue and comedy is just amazing

[miniminerx]

I love the live action scenes. They make wall-e feel grounded and make me realize our modern era will one day be history.

[Nic_]

The fact both plots A and B are so good and harmoniously unionized makes the movie so much better cause both independently are perfect but the fact they lead into each other makes this a masterpiece of storytelling

[surrealrosalynd]

The beginning of Walle is absolutely magical. When you were explaining how he was singing to the stars I got goosebumps and started tearing up! ❤

[Nhot]

On the "does Toy Story exist in Toy Story?" The answer is yes. In Toy Story Racer on the PS1, one of the maps has in-universe ads for the movie