Wall-E, Women and Love
I really like this Newsweek interview with Andrew Stanton, director of Wall-E (which missed out on the Oscar nomination for best picture).
Anyway, in the interview he talks about lots of stuff, but I especially liked his explanation of how the story ended up the way it did: “I wanted to wallow in that innocent wonder and joy that you could get out of a love story in a ’50s musical, but I felt there’s no way the world would accept that in today’s society. Unless you disguise it in a dystopian, sci-fi love story with two machines. Then, suddenly everybody’s willing to take down their shields and just indulge. And maybe realize how much they miss being fulfilled that way — with unadulterated joy.”
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what a great interview! i hadn’t seen it…and I thought I had the Wall-E market cornered. I was so sad when it didn’t get the nomination for best picture, because it clearly deserved it over everything else. To me, most live actors are more cartoonish than any Pixar character in their performances, so why should their movies be seen as more ‘serious’?
my favorite part of the interview was this:
“The line is just getting so blurry that I think with each proceeding year, it’s going to be tougher and tougher to say what’s an animated movie and what’s not an animated movie. And what I’d love is to get to the point where someone just goes, ‘I don’t care.’ Because I’ve been at the ‘I don’t care’ point a long time now.”
that was one of the best screen kisses i’d ever seen. but yes, that’s what sci-fi is for – exploring things we really want to explore but in a world we can easily pretend is not like our own.
Came across this article engaged, added to reddit