Good point, Rachel. There also aren’t any older people on board the Axiom, and the lack of both older and younger people is intriguing, since they both appeared in that BnL Axiom advertising video.
I can’t think of a really good reason as to why this is. Part of me is thinking that perhaps it was easier just to have either adults or babies, as creating so many humans must’ve been difficult in the first place without having to change their base for each age bracket of human. But then again, Pixar doesn’t usually like to cut corners. Maybe the sheer numbers of the humans forced them to limit what they could feasibly do.
Yes, they both appear in the ad video that poor Wall-E had to see nearly half a million times. But no, there are a few old people on the Axiom. You can see one with a walker right at the front of the group exiting the Axiom with the Captain. There are others who appear to be elderly in the huge mass of people being slopped around on the Lido Deck by Auto’s antics.
Something funny that I’ve noticed is that they give EVE the “breathing effect” when she is standing (or rather, hovering) still. Perhaps it is only an effect of hovering in which you can’t be completely motionless, but especially in the truck scene (specifically, when she is gazing at the lighter) her chest seems to rise and fall rhythmically as though she were breathing.
Also, this is also clear the moment WALL-E’s pod explodes later in the film. Again, it could also be the effects of hovering, but her chest seems to heave as though she were breathing hard (as somebody would in that situation, both from the vigorous acitivity she took part in as well as the shock and disbelief she suffered from WALL-E’s potential death).
Sorry if this has already been answered, but [spoil]I saw it as a kind of shrug. He scans WALL-E and then jumps in surprise, then when he goes back and sees the empty spot he just says “ehh…” and goes on scanning the other EVEs.[/spoil]
Yeah I think that is more for expression than anything. Since Go-4 doesn’t have eyes, arms or a mouth, they use those “shoulder/hand” things to convey emotion.
After EVE presses down the “Hello, Dolly!” tape in hopes of reviving WALL-E, we see him compact some of his favorite things into of box. One of those things is a mixer, presumabley the same one WALL-E showed to EVE in the beginning (he grabbed it from roughly the same spot she placed it); the one EVE accidently broke. However, it was suddenly magically fixed.
If you listen closely to the “Top Secret Video” near the end of the movie, when Shelby Forthright tells AUTO to assume Directive A113, in his greeting it almost sounds like he says “Hey there AUTO Pilot(s)”. (Note this is plural.) Does anyone else think he says this?? This would indicate that all of the AUTO Pilots assumed the directive.
I noticed two more Mac references, particularly in both Wall-E and Eve’s design.
For Wall-E, notice how the L-shaped arm tracks on his body resemble the slot drive on Mac computers (especially the dust-cover ‘bristles’)?
And for Eve, notice how when she went into hibernation mode, her ‘plant logo’ glows in the same manner as the power light on Macs when they’re in sleep mode?
Yeah, I put the first one in on the other observations thread. You might mean when Hal wiggled his way into that slot, it sure looked like it was for a disk. It made me think he has at least a disk in there somewhere and perhaps other motherboards.
Btw, this forum sure has died in the past few weeks. The bad news has cast some kind of shadow. A few posts a day is pretty sad.
I was honestly confused with all the “observation” threads… I wanted to post something about the captains of the Axiom once (which I did), but I didn’t know whether to put it in the “History” thread or the “Science” thread… or the “Observation” thread!!!
I think it’s clear that he says ‘AUTO Pilots’ in the movie…So that would mean that there are still millions of people floating through space for all eternity…
I don’t think that’s the case. My idea is that all of the ships are networked somehow, and the moment Brandon (oops… Captain McCrea…) pressed the holo-detector button, the other ships responded as well. I’m pretty sure that they all hyperjumped back home at the same time to their respective locations.
Either that or after the humans on the Axiom had lived on Earth for a while, the EVE probes from the other ships found the plants that grew there and brought the other ships home. (Now the thing with that is… all of the other captains would have had to battle with their AUTOs to override Directive A113!!!)
My guess is that the ‘History’ and ‘Science’ threads come from the walleforum.com site, which links to there, and they have found a lot of extra stuff and expanded on the basics of the movie. There is also a Soundtrack thread, an Advanced (Observations) thread, and probably lots of smaller threads, just not a Ben Burtt thread.
There are just too many types of observations in a 97 min movie to put in one thread, and it’s good on the other hand that they do collect into just a few threads instead of having numerous threads like “Did you see all the Captain’s names? Har har har!”
Other ‘Observation’ threads:
‘Dvd observations’
‘Subtitles always correct?’
‘Pixar in-jokes in Wall-E’
I’m not sure that I agree with picking holes in every aspect of this film, the plant can survive in space because it’s surrounded by a field of ‘plot’ which leads to one of the most beautiful moments in 2008 cinema, that’s all that is needed.
This film is brilliant as it is, it doesn’t require picking at it’s few flaws just to satisfy curiosity, I’m all for highlighting the clever in-jokes and observations purposefully put into the film but attempting to analyse it ona scientific basis? That’s hardly necessary.
Ha, this is funny. I think it’s a speech impediment, I remember WALL·E trying to pronounce it a few times.
In Spain, in the dubbed version they changed the name EVE to EVA, with the same meaning, so the gag didn’t worked and the scene seemed stupid. Pepole couldn’t have understood “EVE” as a name, while Eva is a common name here.
I also love the scene of her first flying, haha. This robots are like children, but they’re more human-like than the humans, which is one interesting part.
Yeah, this film is dark. Darker than it seems, I believe. I like the hard criticism against big private firms: they have total control of our future in this film.
I never paritcularly saw Wall•e as having a ‘speech’ impediment, as a robot he just tries to pronounce every letter in a word, EVE does the same; for the first few attempts she tries to pronounce both l’s in Wall•e, making her say Wal-l-e
When Wall•e tries to pronounce EVE he tries to say the ‘E’ at the end hence Ev-ah.’
Halos Nach Tariff: Hmm…that’s a good way of thinking of it. I don’t think I ever thought of that before…maybe I did with "Ev-ah’ but I didn’t realize that with “Wal-l-e”. That’s interesting…
