Do you think Buy n Large was good?
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I still can’t figure it out. Fred Willard thought they were trying to do their best to make a better world, but messed it up in the process. But I’m not sure about a corporation that makes, controls, and looks over everything with a slogan of “Buy, Shop, Live”. It looks like they wanted to make everyone happy through consumerism, but they went a little too far. Opinions?
I think BuynLarge’s intentions were good, but as you said, they went a little* too far.
*Edit: Way too far!
Buy N Large has the same capacity to be evil as mother nature. Sure there are storms every year that kill people, but there’s no active thought process that is required to be evil. BNL does not have the capacity to be evil. There were no doubt people in BNL’s ranks who were evil and tried their damnedest to have Buy N Large consume the earth, but BNL itself does not have the ability to be evil.
And from what little we see of him, the president is not evil either. He’s just a figurehead probably, doing what he can to run the company and world as best as he thinks. For all we know though, that’s just an act. Or, more likely, he’s just a puppet and there’s an entire board of directors full of people scheming ways to make sure they can squeeze every cent they can out of people.
Well, it didn’t seem to be entirely orientated around money. Somewhere, in that massive corporation, were good intensions to help both humanity and the Earth. They just got lost on the way as the company developed from something with a pure purpose, to something that wanted to make money and endorse laziness. So, a mixture of both.
Anyway, if it was truly evil, no-one would’ve bought the stuff, and if it was only good, it would never have grown to such a size.
I think they had good intentions. Kind of like politicians today. They want to keep the economy booming and they want to keep people satisfied. And it’s just easier to do than to worrry about taking care of the planet.
good intentions that went wrong.
I agree with lizardgirl. I voted for both. THey wanted to help. BUt they crossed the line and went too far. I don’t think they inteded to hurt anyone. THe laziness just came by naturally.
They did too much “good”
they controled the world and couldn’t keep it together and in the end had to leave the Earth.
They let it go,
evil. Wal-Mart is evil, BNL is evil.
i think wal-mart just wants to take away competition.
as all companies do!
I did wonder if they felt that with so much trash cluttering up the place, they could clean it all up, bring everyone back, and then the mass-consumerism would resume. I never did get much of an idea that BnL had a recycling plan in place.
Of course, the BnL Starliners were kind of shopping centers you couldn’t ever really get away from.
I was wondering about the Axiom, if payment was even taken anymore. Given that it seems noone really ‘works,’ there’s no real way to build up funds, unless they’re inheriting massive debt from 3-6+ generations.
I really think that money has no value at the time of the film, which is very ironic, considering the amount of consumerism on the ship. The bit where [spoil]WALL-E rolls over some money on Earth outside the BnL Bank[/spoil] can demonstrate two things- firstly, that the humans were in a real hurry to leave the Earth, and secondly, that at that point, money didn’t matter, even to BnL itself.
I mean, if you think about it, the whole paying for the cruise thing doesn’t work, because surely there would be some people on Earth unable to afford to leave? People in less economically developed countries (assuming that in the future, there is still a fine distinctio between LEDCs and MEDCs) wouldn’t be able to go on the voyage whilst the Earth is cleaned up. So, either BnL would let them on for free, or they’d be left behind to die. We can’t tell which has actually happened because of where the film is set- we don’t get to see the situation around the globe- but I can see BnL being condemned heavily even at the suggestion of leaving behind any humans.
Unless, by that point, those in LEDCs were so poor anyway that the effects of the humans poisoning the Earth would’ve just killed them off, leaving only those rich enough to survive.
EDIT: BnL was a global thing, right? So I guess that puts the idea of there even being any ‘poorer’ countries out the window. I’m not sure if what I’ve written is relevent to anything.
walks out of the thread quickly, whistling innocently
I don’t know if what I’ve said is on or off topic, but ah well. Anyone wanting to poke holes in my thoughts are welcome.
Like any company, it is/was neither good nor evil. It had good people and bad people involved in it, likely that all levels. Their goals were honorable AFTER they helped destroy the planet, but before that, they were simply a marketing machine attempting to monopolize everything. Even after they went into space, they continued to be a complete monopoly, so they never really outgrew their greed, but the WALL-E program most certainly had the most noble of intentions in mind.
Well, Buy n Large must have still been running because signs say “Buy now, pay later”, so there must have been a system. If anyone noticed Buy n Large isn’t actually running. Everything on the Axiom is 700 years old. It’s just a defunct, repeated cycle that’s continued by the ship’s computer. There are no actual Buy n Large officials. No one works. Buy n Large is there, but it’s actually not there.
the whole ‘buy ‘n’ large’ thing is pretty clever. i am pretty pessimistic about companies like these - i believe, even though they may do everything for what seems like a good intention (think, for example, kelloggs advertising their cereal as healthy) at the end of the day, it’s done to sell the company and the product. in the same way, i believe B’n’L made the wall-e operation, and axiom, etc as some kind of massive advertising endorsement.
the ultimate way to advertise your products and nobody elses’ - have people live in a massive world where people are brought up on B’n’L, only see B’n’L adverts - only have B’n’L available! no wonder it had such a huge monopoly on the market!
i think it switched onto robots, in time, and then money became an idea of the past. if this was a terminator film, the robots would have started getting violent 
[b]Buy n large!
The Superstore!
All you need,
and so much more!
Happiness
is what we sell!
Everyone loves
BnL![/b]
Sorry, now that that’s out of my system…
I think the Buy n Large Corporation looks very successful because of its popularity. In fact, i wouldn’t mind becoming part of it, although Jesus would still be my God.
Its intentions were and are clearly good. But humans always mess up, and they made one bad one, and, well…huge bummer.
But thanks to WALL•E, the humans, including BnL, decided to fix Earth back to its original state, so BnL is in no way evil.
“Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely” the famous saying goes. If your the “global” head of an organization that has its hands in basically everything, you have a organization that controls the world. It’s easy to see how the head guy (forgot his name) could mess up the world.
The commercials are probably just for encouraging consumers to go to the only store out there, lol. They mean nothing.