A DYSTOPIAN FILM

PRESENTATION

BY: THERESA, MONEJAE, BRIANNA & SYDNEY

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THIS FILM ILLUSTRATESDYSTOPIAN AND POST-APOCALYPTIC

THEMES

Apocalyptic themes in fiction are about Earth's technological civilization collapsing or has collapsed. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; natural, such as an impact event; man-made, such as nuclear warfare; medical, such as a plague or virus, whether natural or man-made; or imaginative, such as zombie apocalypse or alien invasion.

A dystopia is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening; totalitarian governments and dehumanization are

common characteristics.

In the first half of WALL-E we are shown a post-eco-apocalyptic Earth destroyed by garbage. 700 years after all humans have relocated to a new planet, the waste left by the former is being collected and compacted by our robotic hero, WALL-E.

WALL-E

Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth-Class

WALL-E has become sentient by collecting and studying the garbage of humanity, including an old tape of the movie Hello Dolly he plays over and over again.

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WALL-E’s functioning dystopian world is turned upside down at the arrival of EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator)–a beautiful yet perplexing probe droid sent to Earth by megacorporation Buy ‘N Large. Her mission is to scan for any signs of self-sustaining plant life on earth

WALL-E’s curious lovable nature soon overcomes EVE’s robotic hardwiring. She starts becoming more charismatic and they form a fast bond. Now we have a heroine!

WALLE-E’s smitten feelings for EVE grow more each moment they spend together. He presents her with one of his most sacred treasures, a tiny plant he has been caring for. Any detection of natural life automates EVE into “directive” or shutdown mode. Her spaceship quickly arrives to gather her and the plant. WALL-E, in a desperate attempt to “save” EVE, clings onto the shuttle and journeys to Axiom where he discovers that EVE is not the only one in trouble.

Axiom is an ark-like spaceship carrying humanity's remnants, mortals who have grown obese and utterly self-absorbed as robots tend to their every need. WALL-E and EVE's arrival turns everything topsy-turvy—helping a few humans realize the time has come to re-colonize Earth.

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‘Directive’

Overview of the Film, Video Links & Questions

MONEJAE LARRY

Film’s Textural Source

BRIANNA MONTES

Film Themes & Awareness

SYDNEY JACOBS

Power Point Presentation

THERESA LUSSIER

Director Interview With Andrew StantonOn How He Came Up With WALL-E

“We came up with the last robot on Earth, this robot that just keeps doing the same thing, that got left on for whatever reason, and it's just doing the same job. And I just thought that was the saddest character I had ever heard of and I just loved that and I remember Pete Docter and I couldn't drop it for a couple of weeks. We said, wouldn't it be cool if it was sort of like R2D2, you sort of had to infer based on how it was engineered how it -- it would almost be a movie about Luxo Jr. through the whole thing. ... it's such a great character, I don't even know what he's called, I don't why we've left Earth… And I just started to answer all that. I found myself very quickly writing the first act of the movie, which is not that different than what you have here. Then I couldn't stop.”

Theme: Consumerism

One huge theme in this film is consumerism. On the starliner, there are advertisements everywhere about the newest products and everyone is constantly gravitating towards the newest merchandise regardless of if they actually need it. This is definitely present among today’s society. Everyone constantly buys the latest products to appear trendy and stay ahead of the curve. Unfortunately, most people do not realize the amount of materials used to produce and market these frivolous articles, and the waste they leave behind.

Themes cont.: Environment

Another big theme centered on environmental issues taking place in our world. In the movie, once the Earth was filled with waste, instead of attempting to clean it or make environmental changes, the population moved into space and left robots to clean their mess. This says a lot about our tendencies as humans to use up a lot of waste and leave it behind for someone else to deal with.

Mainstream media does not like to advertise where a huge percentage of our consumer excess ends up…in our oceans. A recent study shoes that a staggering 5.25 TRILLION pieces of PLASTIC debris are floating in our oceans. The damage caused to the marine life is awful. The wildlife that perish from ingesting plastic die a terribly painful death.

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