Disney-Pixar 2008 SPECIAL ISSUE No.1 WALL-E with luxo JR.

Pixar's Feature Films WALL•E
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I think this belongs here, but if the powers at be want to move it go ahead.

tohotheater.jp/newstopics/t_pixar/index.html
There are some interesting articles, in Japanese, in this Disney-Pixar 2008 SPECIAL ISSUE No.1 from theatre culture magazine T. I’ll translate the table contents in English but I’m not sure if I should translate any articles due to copyright laws. The generous side of me wants to translate some of these articles and post them here, especially How much is WALL-E?, but I don’t think I have permission.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
MOVIE NEWS
006 Tinkerbell, Disney movies lineup, Strategy of Disney 3D

WALL-E
014 WALL-E photo gallery
026 New possibility of animation on movies in WALL-E
028 ANDREW STANTON-BEN BURTT-JIM MORRIS
036 WALL-E STUDY 1: architecture
038 THE ART OF WALL-E: Asked the robot experts
042 HOW MUCH IS WALL-E?
046 PIXAR TOYS: WALL-E and EVE toys for sale
050 WALL-E: Let’s enjoy WALL-E games
052 WALL-E STUDY 2: Sociology

PIXAR Feature film
056 TOY STORY
057 A BUG’S LIFE
058 TOY STORY 2
059 MONSTERS, INC.
060 FINDING NEMO
061 THE INCREDIBLES
062 CARS
063 RATATOUILLE
064 This is the way how to select the vocal actor for the character
065 Ryuta Sato (voice of Remy in Ratatouille) tells us what he understood when he was challenged as a vocal actor
066 MY BEST PIXAR selected by 77 fans
074 WALL-E STUDY 3: Science Fiction
077 PIXAR STORY
084 PIXAR SHORT FILM genealogy of PIXAR short FILM
087 Short film ‘Presto’ which is shown with WALL-E
088 WALL-E STUDY 4: economics
102 WALL-E STUDY 5: religion, anthropology
105 ILLUSTRATED PIXAR CHARACTERS

This magazine isn’t sold through Amazon.com in Japan or at any magazine stands. It’s only at TOHO movie theaters. My city doesn’t even have a TOHO movie theater. When I first got it, I had to pay a total of 1,600yen, 400yen more list price, to have it shipped to my place. What a ripoff!

However, if one reads this magazine over and over and over again, it can put her above some of the better Pixar fans. Yeah, rote memory is back in Japan or did it ever leave?

Ohhhhh, the power of holding this magazine and reading it makes me smart about Pixar.

It is pretty neat that all this Pixar information is in this heavy grade magazine and it brings someone who has no knowledge of Pixar up to speed especially of WALL-E.

Page 066: Japanese celebrities born between 1949 to 1994
Page 105: 140 Pixar film character snapshots and short biography

#2

Yes, Powers-That-Be please move this to an obscure sub-corner of the Off-Topic portion of the Japanese Anime’ forum, if such exists. It’s embarrassing to see this cornucopia of Wall-Eisms, especially where we can’t even actually read it! :imp:

Anyway, the 5 Wall-E studies seem attractive, and so too seem to be a few of the other topics. In the U.S., most of these magazines, such as Nickelodeon are pure fluff. The movie on their front covers is only discussed for a few pages, and then at least a third is just pictures, and the remaining portion is either already well known or some drivel about having to balance schoolwork and acting.

Edit: Verbatim translation verses quoting or synopsis. Well, you can always liberally quote an article, adding your own comments and those of others from this forum or elsewhere. Also, posting what we call ‘the take home message’ is useful too. Better than nothing!

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The writer who wrote WALL-E STUDY 5: religion, anthropology is Keiji Uejima or Ueshima. He was born in 1947. He went to grad school at Tokyo University. He studied religion and anthropology but focused on religion. There is a snapshot of him in the article.

There is also a picture of this magazine cover bottom right. Directors Label Chris Cunningham
palmpictures.com/film/the-wo … ingham.php

This article is deep. I would take days to translate this article because I have to study and do some research, on my quiet days, in order to translate this article perfectly.

#4

That sounds like a really interesting magazine, Rey. For it to go into such depth about the sociology and the religion of WALL-E is surprising, especially since most adults don’t bother to analyse ‘kid’s films’ because they’re just for fun. It’s good to know that WALL-E is being taken seriously around the world, and that Pixar as a whole are being appreciated. Ooh, I’d love to get my hands on that magazine. But you’re probably right about posting sections of the articles on here- I’m not sure if copyright allows that.

Either way, thanks for telling us about this.