Directed By
Andrew Stanton
Produced By
Jim Morris
Lindsey Collins (Co-producer)
John Lasseter (Executive)
Screenplay By
Andrew Stanton
Jim Reardon
Story By
Andrew Stanton
Pete Docter
Starring
Ben Burtt
Elissa Knight
Jeff Garlin
Fred Willard
John Ratzenberger
Kathy Najimy
Sigourney Weaver
Music By
Thomas Newman
Editing By
Stephen Schaffer
Studios
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Distributed By
Walt Disney Studios Motion
Pictures Release
Date June 27 2008
Running Time
98 minutes
Budget
$180 million
Gross Revenue
$521,311,860
Narrative
The narrative is about a robot named Wall-E who is living on earth, he is the only functioning machine left of his kind, he was made and programmed to clean up the rubbish on the earth made by humans.
The Opening
The movie opens with shots of outer space, planets, stars, galaxies. The earth comes into shot; it looks decidedly unpleasant from space, more brown than green and blue. However the shapes of the continents are unmistakable. The camera zooms in towards North America past an impossible amount of space junk. The first 2 minutes of the opening uses a piece of music from an early 1950’s musical, it’s a happy upbeat piece in contrast to the sad state of the planet which is shown to be lifeless, full of rubbish left by human activity. The music fades leaving a desolate whistling wind; the camera angle is a bird’s eye view of various piles of rubbish. Wall-E comes in to shot speeding past with the same piece of music now echoing from the last scene. The camera follows Wall-E; the little unassuming robot zooms about doing its programmed job, which seems to entail gathering rubbish and crushing it into neat cubes which can be stacked. The only sign of biological life is a cockroach which appears to be a companion of the robot.
Diegetic
Diegetic sounds are of whistling wind, Wall-E’s movement and a transition of the opening title music alternating from diegetic to non-diegetic.
Non Diegetic
Non-diegetic sounds are of the 1950’s musical song.
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