Movies were always very popular and there are many reasons for this.

First of all, movies are one of the main resources of entertainment. A movie is a perfect way to relax after stressful day or week. Another important reason why movies are so popular is because they are the easiest way to learn. Pixar Animation Studios produced the film Wall-E and Andrew Stanton directed it. It follows the story of a robot called Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter EarthClass) who somebody has programmed to clean up the polluted planet. Rubbish has so overrun Earth that it has forced the planet's population to take a vacation on a holiday resort spaceship where somebody does everything for them. The corporation Buy n Large run the holiday resort. Into this scenario pops Eve, another robot who somebody has sent to Earth to find plant life. Wall-E falls in love, but at first she doesn't reciprocate his feelings because she has no feelings. Pixar have aimed Wall-E at children, but it won't disappoint adults.
Among its many wondrous achievements, the animated WALL-E is a sci-fi trifecta: a vision of the future, a tale for our times and a blast from the past.

It's a breathtaking, inspirational film, transcending the medium of animation and blossoming into a genuinely magnificent piece of cinema. Simplicity and complexity harmonize together in cinematic zen in the instant-classic WALL-E, a film that uses technical prowess to tell a straight-forward yet far-reaching story he most ambitious, visually-breathtaking film from the animation stable to date, pushing family entertainment to new limits of thoughtfulness and imagination, and offering unprecedented challenges to young minds Wall-E" is not just your average loveable Pixar film, but it also has the brains and a realistic tone to go along with it. As a world is stripped of everything, a banned wasteland remains with a little robot to re-inhabit the earth. It shows what life could really be like in a thousand years from now, with a society that is corrupt on technology, becoming fat and run by computers, having no relation to the outside world. When opportunity presents itself, the story then becomes a mission to repopulate the earth. There are so many symbols for adults to notice and appreciate what their childhood was like, and so many symbols that this generation to snap out of and notice as well. "Wall-E" is not just an amazing pixar film, but story-wise, it's one of the best films of 2008!less
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Final Project Disney and Pixars hit movie Wall-E (2008) reaches beyond the realm of entertaining childrens film and can be viewed as an environmental work. It encompasses a number

of the warnings and fears for the environment addressed by environmental writers like Bill McKibben, Don Marquis, Wendell Berry, and Henry David Thoreau. The film also meets critic Lawrences Buells four components of an environmentally-oriented work. When viewed from this angle, the movie sends an advocacy message for environmental protection, rather than simply being a cartoon about a robot. Wall-E depicts a planet destroyed by human waste, where the superstore Buy & Large had become a ruling force on the earth. The first scene shows the world as a city where all that is left is sand and garbage piled as high as skyscrapers. The earth is no longer fertile or sustainable for human life, so people have left the planet to live lives of lazy luxury aboard Buy and Larges space ship, the Axiom. In the meantime, robots like Wall-E have been left to clean up the mess. A process meant to take only 5 years before humans could return to Earth, has now resulted in 700 years aboard the ship, as

Earth has been damaged beyond their estimates of repair. The only inhabitants able to survive on the planet beside the robots are lowly insects like Wall-Es pet cockroach. The world is changed when Wall-E finds a single healthy green plant, and shows it to EVA, one of the space ships probe robots sent to search the Earth for signs of life. EVA and Wall-E return to the Axiom with the plant and show it to the captain. After much conflict, the robots manage to protect the plant and convince the captain that Earth is once again sustainable. In the end, the humans return to save the planet by nurturing small plants, and beginning marginal farming to heal and restore the earth. The wasted Earth shown in the movie is one that is predicted by Bill McKibben in The End of Nature. He warned that the gases people produce in pursuit of warm houses and eternal economic growth and of agriculture so productive it would free most of us from farming, were destroying the atmosphere, and

would cause heat, dryness, and storms. These would breed deserts across the earth and eventually end nature (719). This scene comes to fruition in the movie, where the earth is so unsustainable that humans have to leave in order to survive, because they have ruined nature, and the world is covered only in sand and garbage, rather than plants and animals. McKibben described the loneliness he felt with the thought of such a world, where all of nature has been destroyed by humans: And that was where the loneliness came from. Theres nothing except us. Theres no such thing as nature anymore- that other world that isnt business and art and breakfast is now not another world, and there is nothing except us alone (723). This loneliness is emphasized two ways in the movie. First, it is highlighted by the way that the humans continue to send EVA probes to Earth for 700 years in a desperate search for any sign of life on the planet aside from the cockroaches. They do not want to accept that they have

destroyed all of their other living company on the planet. Secondly, the loneliness is embodied in the scenes created in which Wall-E is the only being on the planet. Wall-E continues to pile trash day in and day out, and at night watches the same romance movie alone. Disney paints an incredibly lonely picture of the earth in the film. As mentioned, Wall-E is the only surviving entity on earth in the movie, aside from his companion, a pet cockroach. Author Don Marquis warned of this outcome in what the ants are saying. Like McKibben, Marquis predicted that human destruction would eventually lead to a desert-covered world. Writing as if from the perspective of an ant, he also claimed that destruction of the environment would end human reign on the earth and lead to one where only insects like ants, centipedes, and scorpions could survive: man is making deserts of the earth. it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and

centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it. man has oppressed us for a million years but he goes on steadily, cutting the ground from under his own feet making deserts deserts deserts (235-236). This is Wall-Es world, where only a lowly cockroach can thrive with the robot in the nature-less environment. The ideas set forth by a third environmental writer, Wendell Berry, can be seen in Wall-Eas well. Wall-Es world is eventually saved by human intervention, but only when people return to carefully nurture plants, and begin marginal farming. This type of healing was advocated by Wendell Berry in The Making of a Marginal Farm. Berry stressed the importance of living off small areas of the environment, and restoring each area of land as it is depleted. He described his work on his own farm, in which he used old-fashioned and more difficult methods to clear and grow on the land because they would cause less damage to it. In healing the land, he felt that he also healed himself: As we

have continued to live on and forth from our place, we have slowly begun its restoration and healingA great deal of work is still left to do, and some of it the rebuilding of fertility in the depleted hillsides will take longer than we will live. But in doing these things we have begun a restoration and healing process in ourselves (511). In Wall-E, the human race also heals itself by returning to nurture the earth. The people have grown fat, lazy, and useless aboard the ship, which has even resulted in bone loss over generations. When people return to plant and grow the earth, the human race relearns to walk and exercise, and begins a return to its normal, strong, and healthy form. Like the other two authors, Wendell Berry also made predictions for the future in his writing. As mentioned, he stressed the importance of healing the land as it is used. Otherwise, all of the land would eventually become unrecoverable, as evidenced in the movie. Berry foresaw this outcome when he asked, If a

people in adding a hundred and fifty years to itself subtracts fifty thousand from its land, what is there to hope? (512). He knew that as humans destroyed their environment in pursuit of easier and longer lives, they were using up natural resources so quickly that eventually they would all be gone, and would create a world like Wall-Es. The influence of the ideas of these environmental writers can be seen throughout the movie. They prove that Wall-E certainly contains environmental content. However, it is in meeting critic Lawrence Buells four components of an environmentally-oriented work that Wall-E becomes an environmental film instead of simply a childrens movie with environmental references. The first of Buells four components is that the nonhuman environment is present not merely as a framing device, but as a presence that begins to suggest that human history is implicated in natural

history. Wall-E meets this portion because the environment is the central theme of the movie, not simply a staging area for a story about human interaction. Humans have had to leave on space ships because they have destroyed nature, and have left robots to try and fix their mistake. Human history has changed over the 700 years because people have not had the natural environment as their base. The human race has become lazy and large without the earth to take care of, which has resulted in bone loss over generations, and a loss of the necessity for human instincts like walking and personal communication. The lack of Earth, the nonhuman environment of the movie, has been the cause of the change in human history, making it a huge presence in the movie. Buells second component states that the human interest is not understood to be the only legitimate interest in an environmental work. In Wall-E the main conflict becomes the protection of the plant that the robots bring

aboard the Axiom in an old shoe. The plant symbolizes Earths renewed sustainability, so the humans eventually realize it is their job to protect and nurture this plant, which is why they decide to return to Earth. So, the plants interest is a legitimate interest of the film. The films plot stresses the importance of the plants survival as well as the humans. Similar to the previous component, Buells third requirement is that humans accountability to the environment is part of the texts ethical orientation. This component is seen most clearly when the Captain of the Axiom realizes that the people aboard the ship can no longer sit around and do nothing. He cares for and waters WallEs plant and exclaims that it has come a long way for a drink of water! The Captain then realizes that it is humans job to take care of such plants, and the earth itself. He asks the ships information system to define the idea of farming to him, because it was a concept lost with the humans exodus from Earth. He then

sets the ship on a course back to the planet, where he instructs the other people on the ways of marginal farming to re-cultivate the land. The humans return to save the environment at the end of the movie as a result of their acknowledgement of their accountability for its protection. Buells final component of an environmentallyoriented work states that some sense of the environment as a process rather than as a constant or a given is at least implicit in the text. Certainly the environment is not constant in Wall-E. It changes from a land full of nature and human life to a barren wasteland under constant attacks from sand-storms. However, because the Earth is a process, it eventually returns to a state where it can support plant and animal life again. This is the point where Wall-E finds a small green plant growing, which is used to prove that humans can return because the world is once again sustainable. The environment in Wall-E changes throughout the

film, showing that Earth is not a given or a constant, but a process. As a result of its meeting Buells elements of an environmental work, and the incorporation of the ideas of environmental writers, Wall-E can be viewed as an environmental film. The movie shows the influence of authors like Bill McKibben, Don Marquis, and Wendell Berry. These authors published works throughout the 20th century, while Wall-E was not produced until 2008. This implies that the work of such authors influenced the choice of topic for the recent Disney film. Protecting the environment through efforts like Going Green and concerns about Global Warming have become prominent current issues in todays society. Their prominence has been supported by the writing of such authors. Earlier Disney films had less realistic themes than environmental protection. For example,Cinderella (1950) and Snow White (1937) showed tales about princes and princesses and magic spells. Therefore, the rise

in environmental awareness movement likely triggered the choice of topic for the 2008 Disney film, contributing to its viewing as an environmental work.
What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? Academy Awardr- winning writer/director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo) and the inventive storytellers and technical geniuses at Pixar Animation Studios transport moviegoers to a galaxy not so very far away for a new computer-animated cosmic comedy about a determined robot named WALL E. After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve. This encounter leads to WALL E chasing Eve across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to the big screen.