WALL-E - Interview with writer/director Andrew Stanton

I knew it -- it's a chick flick romance!

I heard 16 lines of dialogue, to be exact. And I think there's been about 4 of them in the trailers.

The rest are the robot sounds ... mixed by the same guy who worked on R2D2 in Star Wars.

This whole no-dialogue routine makes me want to see it even more!

I'm still biased becuase the opening of the trailer made me think they had ripped my story off.





And by biased, I mean I really REALLY want to see it!

Thanks for the article link, Pat - very very interesting. I thought there was more going on there than mere "consumerism is bad." I loved how-- okay, no spoilers, nevermind.

Pat~ said:

My kind of flick. But the interesting thing is, I've heard there is very little dialogue in the movie. (Which makes sense, I guess, being as how they're robots...)

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Yeah-- actually I keep telling people that this could have been a silent movie. The "dialogue" is all visual, through motion and expression. The other interesting thing to me is that neither Wall-E nor Eve have mouths, which are a huge part of expression. Almost 100% of their body language comes through hands and eyes.

I think, just purely as an experiment, I would have loved to see this movie have zero dialogue. Like, just put the humans talking in the background and let the robots do their thing. I love stuff like that. Literally you could show this to any child in the world, and they would get it. Okay maybe not blind kids. But everyone else.

According to Nikki Finke, apparently some Hollywood industry insiders got bent out of shape about Stanton not bowing at the altar of the god Demographics.

So we've decided ever since then to just listen to the audience member in ourselves, and not worry about the demographics. I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see. And if it doesn't match perfectly for somebody else, so be it, but at least it's an artist being pure with their vision.

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Firggen demographics...

Though, I'd like to ask how a movie about a robot in space DOESN'T hit every major demographic. ROBOTS KICK ASS and SPACE KICKS ASS...


Seems to hit everything by my calculations.

Zoombie is right. Robots are automatically filled with AWESOME, and are thus exempt from ecclesiastic demography.