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Clifford the Red Inner circle LA, California 1941 Posts |
Just saw Pixar's new film - Wall-e today which was fantastic by the way and in front of it was a new short - about a magician! This short was fiendishly funny about a feud between the magician and his rabbit and being that it was far more entertaining than many magic shows I've seen as well as totally original, it has to be bizarre. Go see it!
"The universe is full of magical things, waiting for our wits to grow sharper." Eden Philpotts
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SpellbinderEntertainment Inner circle West Coast 3519 Posts |
Ca-wazy Wabbit! I wuved it too!
And Wall-e is pretty deep for a Pixar kids flick, makes its point, super-size and non-recycle guys? Magically, Walt |
Will DThrill New user South Jersey 69 Posts |
I was in hysterics during that short. It reminded me of an old school Chuck Jones/Looney Tunes cartoon.
I have to agree that Wall-E was very deep for a kids movie. The whole family enjoyed it and it does make you think about what we may become. I can't wait til it comes out on DVD so I can watch the "Presto" short again!
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Illucifer Inner circle 1403 Posts |
Contrary to the belief that this movie had an environmental message, writer/director Andrew Stanton says otherwise:
WORLD: Pixar has built a reputation not only for innovative visuals but for original storytelling with Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and others. How have you managed to maintain your integrity in a field that is famous for making lazy grabs at parents' wallets? STANTON: When Toy Story came out the media was making such a big deal about the technology, but what we were really interested in was the story. At the time everybody thought that the only way you could do an animated movie was to make it a musical fairy tale. We set out to prove that animation is not a genre, it's a medium that can be anything it wants to be like any other movie. And we've worked very hard to keep Pixar a director-driven studio where each of our films is conceived, inspired, and executed by a singular vision. I think that ensures it will be art first and a product second. It's a lot harder to make a good movie when you try to make a product first with a little bit of art in it. WORLD: How does WALL•E represent your singular vision? STANTON: Well, what really interested me was the idea of the most human thing in the universe being a machine because it has more interest in finding out what the point of living is than actual people. The greatest commandment Christ gives us is to love, but that's not always our priority. So I came up with this premise that could demonstrate what I was trying to say—that irrational love defeats the world's programming. You've got these two robots that are trying to go above their basest directives, literally their programming, to experience love. With the human characters I wanted to show that our programming is the routines and habits that distract us to the point that we're not really making connections to the people next to us. We're not engaging in relationships, which are the point of living—relationship with God and relationship with other people. WORLD: The depiction of humanity is pretty stark in this movie. STANTON: Well, when I started outlining humanity in the story, I asked myself: What if everything you needed to survive—health care, food—was taken care of and you had nothing but a perpetual vacation to fill your time? What if the result of all that convenience was that all your relationships became indirect—nobody's reaching out to each other? A lot of people have suggested that I was making a comment on obesity. But that wasn't it, I was trying to make humanity big babies because there was no reason for them to grow up anymore. WORLD: Now that you mention people misconstruing your intentions, how do you feel about reports that WALL•E is an environmental movie? STANTON: People made this connection that I never saw coming with the environmental movement, and that's not what I was trying to do. I was just using the circumstances of people abandoning the Earth because it's filled with garbage as a way to tell my story. I always knew that I wanted WALL•E to be digging through trash for two reasons: One, I wanted him to be the lowest on the totem pole. It's a janitorial job; it's the saddest, lowest status amongst his kind; and it just makes him that much more of a lonely guy. Two, trash is really visual. Even the littlest kid understands when there's stuff in the way and it needs to be picked up, so I didn't need to spend time explaining his job. And then I just reverse-engineered from there, "OK, if there's trash everywhere, how did it get there?"
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docsteve Inner circle 1831 Posts |
Surely that's the point of it being "deep" and art - it's a pretty facile and reductionist view to say it's either about or not about a topic; even if Stanton denies it, could it be his own artistic perception has been influenced subconsciously?
Just my tuppenceworth, but I hate the thought that a book or film, or even 'trick' has to be about something, and not anything else, DESPITE the view of the creator! Steve
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Philemon Vanderbeck Inner circle Seattle, WA 4694 Posts |
"Suffer the little robots to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God."
Professor Philemon Vanderbeck
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SpellbinderEntertainment Inner circle West Coast 3519 Posts |
But then no one has brought up the “gay sensibility” of the film either,
in that the Broadway Musical “Hello Dolly” is the only shred of culture to survive 700 years, and “Put On Your Sunday Clothes” is the film’s signature tune. The movie opened on Pride Weekend too. Maybe only the Café’s resident gay-guy noticed this though? <grin> Walt |
docsteve Inner circle 1831 Posts |
So what's "Kung Fu" panda about then?
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Clifford the Red Inner circle LA, California 1941 Posts |
A funny little bit of trivia - That Hello Dolly song, Put on Your Sunday clothes, was sung in 1969 by none other than...Michael Crawford. Yes, the Phantom. THAT Michael Crawford!
I loved the juxtaposition of the future with Hello Dolly, that was very original. I'm not gay, but I still love the music. I grew up with those musicals on my family's records. I played them constantly as a youngster and know all the lyrics still - Oliver, Fiddler, Dolly, etc.
"The universe is full of magical things, waiting for our wits to grow sharper." Eden Philpotts
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Clifford the Red Inner circle LA, California 1941 Posts |
Quote:
On 2008-07-01 18:07, docsteve wrote: Uh...a Kung Fu Panda. ;-P
"The universe is full of magical things, waiting for our wits to grow sharper." Eden Philpotts
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christiancagigal Special user SF Bay Area 625 Posts |
Well when you sing enough show tunes you do get a little gay...
Christian Cagigal Former Musical Theater Actor =p
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Clifford the Red Inner circle LA, California 1941 Posts |
Why should gays have all the fun!
"The universe is full of magical things, waiting for our wits to grow sharper." Eden Philpotts
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