Is it a VHS? Even now is possible to copy digital recordings many times with no quality loss. Maybe a retro-VHS-design-Digital-recorder/player because Wall-E is watching a very good quality video?
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The sky over Wall-E's city is totally covered, from horizon to horizon, in thick brown, billowy clouds. Yet when the Earth is seen from space at the beginning of the film, no clouds whatsoever are visible. Every detail of the surface is plainly shown. The clouds only appear as the camera zooms down toward the surface and through the suddenly present clouds. See more...
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Because of Ben Burtt's work in the Original Star Wars Trilogy, the film was jokingly referred to as R2-D2: The Movie among the staff. See more...
Wall-E (2008) - 8 questions
Directed by Andrew Stanton (add more)
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-fi
The "questions" section is for any random questions that occurred to you while watching this film, or anything you didn't entirely understand, and which Google or the IMDb can't help with. Submit them as a question, and hopefully someone will answer (the bold comments in brackets) - check back regularly. If the answer is wrong, or missing information, please use the "clarify answer" option. Don't feel limited - want to know what music played in a certain scene? Whether this was the first film to use a certain effect? Here's the place to ask!
Is it a VHS? Even now is possible to copy digital recordings many times with no quality loss. Maybe a retro-VHS-design-Digital-recorder/player because Wall-E is watching a very good quality video?
When Wall-E and Eve are in the repair ward, and Wall-E is misinterpreting Eve's cleaning as torture, what is the second "scene" supposed to be? I understand that the first one looks like Eve is having her arm ripped off and the third looks like Eve is having her head chopped off, but I can't figure out what the second one with the malfunctioning umbrella is supposed to be. [It's a combination of what WALL-E sees happening to EVE, with her circuitry lighting up and her head bobbing up and down as she laughs, with the noise of the umbrella as the diagnostic arms try to force it down. All WALL-E can hear is something that resembles a mechanical screech, along with EVE reacting - he thinks that she's being electrocuted and is in pain.]
Answered by Tailkinker
Perhaps I missed it somewhere, but how is it that the Wall-E main character is the only functioning Wall-E unit left? [All the others have either malfunctioned or been damaged beyond repair in the 700 years since they were built - their mission was only intended to last five years, so they're a long way past their expected functional lifespan. WALL-E has simply lasted the longest and has kept himself going by replacing his own worn-out parts with those scavenged from other defunct WALL-E units.]
Answered by Tailkinker
How could Auto act against his directive? He's playing the top-secret order he got (never to come back to Earth) in front of the captain, yet isn't able to act against it again because things might have changed in the 700 years since the order was received. And in the face of the new evidence (the plant), doesn't that contradict the order? [One of the key points of the movie is that programming can evolve - WALL-E being the most obvious case in point. After all this time, Auto's entitled to be somewhat erratic in how he deals with things. Besides, he's still very firm on his primary directive, to prevent the return to humanity to Earth - keeping the existence of that directive a secret is rather less critical. As for the plant, that does very little to invalidate the directive. It may show that the principles underlying that directive are flawed, but Auto's not got the leeway to deal with that. The directive still stands.]
Answered by Tailkinker
Why is Eve, who is a vegetation evaluator reconnaissance robot sent to Earth to find proof that life is once again sustainable, provided with a gun, and she shoots at the least perception of the slightest movement? [She would require some method of gaining access to every area she needed to scan. A blasting device like the one in the film would make perfect sense. She would need to blast through doors, walls, barricades, etc. Also, she is programmed to find living vegetation. Any other life (animals, even humans) would be outside her directive and she would deal with it as she chose. In this case she probably felt threatened.]
Just a question about the remarkable resemblance to Johnny Five from the Short Circuit films. Is Wall-E intentionally modeled this way or is it just a coincidence they look so alike? [It certainly wasn't intentional, although the director, Andrew Stanton, has acknowledged that he did see Short Circuit many years ago and agrees that it could well have been a subconscious influence. WALL-E was principally designed with the job that he does in mind - the design brief was to consider WALL-E as an appliance first, what he would need to look like in order to do his job efficiently, then work out how to read emotion into the character after that. Stanton has stated that the chief inspiration for WALL-E's eyes came from a pair of binoculars, which he decided looked happy or sad depending on which way up they were.]
Answered by Tailkinker
How did Wall-E get the VHS tape to play on an I-Pod? [Analog-to-digital converter. The technology exists today. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog-to-digital
for a long technical explaination of the device.]
Answered by BocaDavie
What is the movie that Wall E has on his iPod? ["Hello, Dolly!"]
Answered by Phixius
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