![]() ![]() He has a child’s fascination with simple interactive objects. Left to clean up a trash-strewn Earth, WALL-E splits his time between compacting trash and unearthing lost reminders of humanity’s technological gifts from the rubble. All these feats of character design conspire to make WALL-E as expressive as a droid could realistically be. A symphony of blips, squeaks and squalls. A stocky frame into which he can retract like a tortoise. Though the break in titling scheme alone implies it, we can tell from the raves accompanying the movie’s prologue-in which WALL-E is only character we encounter, save for a curly-feelered roach-that Pixar invests much of WALL-E’s success on the cult of personality that forms around its title character.Īnd what a personality! Binocular eyes that pivot as though they were brows. The movie is built on the premise that he is the last of his kind, and the essential pleasures of WALL-E do not spring from his assigned mission but in the tangents he chases beyond it. Earth-class”-barely counts against this claim, since the acronym is pronounced like a regular human name.That WALL-E’s name is shared by his peers and short for his mission-“Waste Allocation Load Lifter For all that Pixar loves to celebrate its underdogs, WALL-Emarks the first (and so far, only) time the studio has named an entire movie after its protagonist, neither effacing him into part of a wider community ( Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Monsters Inc., The Incredibles, Cars) or a central mission ( Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Up).
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