The message of Wall-e

Erik Meyer103

WALL-E movie analysis

In the movie WALL-E by Disney-pixar, the movie is made up by certain techniques, pacing, setting, characters and a interesting story line to help show a message.

In the beginning of the film it shows wall-e a robot that is given human characteristics. The way the robot goes about cleaning up the earths trash and making buildings out of it shows he has human traits. While he cleans he sings a tune he plays on a mp3 player at his home. He also has a friendship with a cockroach that stays with him at his home. The way they represent wall-e as a character, other characters also seem to underestimate him. The way he was designed with camera like eyes, tracks for feet, and a trash compactor for a torso, he differs from the female robot eve. Eve share human qualities like wall-e by sharing a love emotion for wall-e, but also can float,fly really fast and be super destructive, with an arm blaster. They way they make these characters has a strong effect on the movie itself,and the viewers.

The settings in the movie are another big factor,or part of the puzzle that helps construct what the movie really is about. Earth were wall-e lives is a wasteland. The way how the sun shines down on the city and shows how theres nothing there but trash and buildings of trash, a abandoned world. The ship in outer space where the humans live/where Eve lives is an unfortunate and funny site. The ship itself is way too convenient for people, in a sense where everyone is lazy and fat. It shows how no one ever walks/exercise, and everyone just eats and floats around and the robots do everything for them. It is appeared to be like a paradise with futuristic buildings and technology but, it also shows that to much of it is a bad thing.

The pacing of the movie helps the viewer stay in tune really well. They did this by not staying on earth too long, then having wall-ego after Eve, and then end up on a ship that is run by robots. The main conflict of the story happens on the ship. Eve finding the plant is really the start,or rise to the climax. Then they resolved it by the humans returning to earth and planting plants in hope to regrow earth,and make it a livable planet.

There is also a lot of transition and reaction shots throughout the movie that make the movie flow really smooth, or chaotic. Like The shots with wall-e and eve sitting watching the sunset are smooth but when there rogue robots on the ship there is a lot of quick shots.

Lighting and color are used a bit also. The way Eve has blue digital eyes and a white smooth/shiny body make her look like a futuristic robot compared to Wall-e who looks a bit outdated compared to her. The ship is mostly white which helps it look futuristic. The way the robots can wall-e a screen pops up red and yellow screen with words saying foreign contaminant also adds to action and symbolizes a conflict. Also the main robot of the ship who controls auto pilot, auto refuses to go to earth and is represented evil by having a red glow to him. When the captain and auto are fighting the lights are off creating tension and action.

The characters eve and wall-e having human emotions such as love, the setting of abandoned earth and a ship ran by robots controlling people, lighting and colors affecting the tone or mood of the scene help get a message across to the viewers. The message is clearly put that too much technology, can be a bad thing and that living on a ship in outer space can be avoided if people of the earth can understand to take care of it better, because its are home and without it we can’t live properly.