President : “The planet is so polluted by unrecycled waste, IDK how much longer this planet can sustain life. Does anyone have any ideas on how we can combat this?”
Exec: “How about we make thousands of robots, and have them gather about a cube of waste and then crush it into a smaller cube roughly 90% the size of the original? And then they’ll stack these ‘cubes’ until they look like buildings? That will surely git rid of the waste and make the earth livable again!”
Um, I don’t really know what the reasoning was behind it. Maybe they wanted to make the trash more “manageable” but stacking it…? Or maybe they were going to burn it all after it’s collected? Or maybe just send it into space…
Well when you have that much trash, there’s not much you can do but try to collect it before any other plans of action take place. Plus, I think they were just trying to get it out of the way of life, so life wasn’t overrun with it. And the towers thing is so that it’s packed vertically, not horizontally, thus taking up the least amount of space. But since it got to the point it did, it was kind of impractical anyway, especially since the humans had stopped trying to support life at that point.
I guess it organises it, makes it use up a little less space and was probably a last resort anyway. The humans probably got so desperate that, aside from leaving Earth, they couldn’t think of any other way to solve the problem. Of course, they left anyway, leaving all of the WALL-Es behind since they are only robots after all, and their continuous clean up might help Earth sustain life.
After all, surely the point of the ‘five year plan’ that Buy N Large had was that they’d return to Earth as soon as it could sustain life, and the only thing that has actually changed from the time humans left the Earth to their return is the contribution of all of the WALL-Es- what other reason is there for the Earth suddenly becoming able to sustain life again?
Going along with what they said, I think they just wanted to organize it, maybe create a giant dump in one area of the world so the rest of the world would be livable.
Anyway, it’s a Pixar movie, go with it!
It’s sort of like when you clean your room. You just organize it, but in doing so you’re able to walk around in it. Not only would the WALL-E units move the garbage out of the way for more room, but would also give plants room to grow back. Then maybe when the planet can support human life again, they can return to manage the garbage properly.
Or it could’ve been some big old scheme to get the whole world to spend five years on their cruise ships. Either way Buy N Large ultimately benefited in this leaving the humans helpless.
Nice criticism lol. You know, the film does mock Buy N Large’s really dumb marketing toward the humans, and the idea that tiny, tiny robots (in relation to the size of the trash) cleaning the entire earth doesn’t do much for me, either.
Plus, I also don’t think Buy N Large really ever intended to come back to earth in the first place. Compare a WALL-E to a WALL-A and you’ll see what I mean. They probably spent more time developing the technology on the Axiom than they did trying to clean up earth. And because they already trapped the humans on the Axiom, they had no incentive to get back to earth, everything was done for them on the ship! It’s just another way Buy N Large manipulated the humans into thinking everything was going to be all right.
After seeing the film 3 times, I was wondering about the Wall-E units we see in the opening.
Given their positions, it almost seems to fit with Stanton’s line that Wall-E was not turned off properly. Though what had me intrigued was how the other Wall-E’s were positioned, with what looked like they were scattered among a river of garbage that went over parts of the monorail tracks.
MY idea about that area where Wall-E passed by, was that there were some robots working on a trash tower when they were switched off. After some years, possibly due to high winds or unstable bits of trash in the construction, the tower collapsed, creating that ‘debris field’ with deactivated Wall-E units in the rubble.
Marketing: And how about we make all the robots really cute so when people see the bilboards, they’ll support the project.
Actually, I remember seeing, I think in the guide book, that those towers are actually supposed to be for the solar power stations that were supposed to be built when the humans got back. Actually, the fact that the real time frame is so much larger than expected reminds me of what I heard about the Chyrnobel incident where everyone evacuated thought they would only be away a few weeks but still can’t go back
