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Plot summary
Centuries of consumerism and corporate greed have left Earth an inhospitable wasteland, and in 2805 people live aboard giant spaceships far from it. Trash-compacting robots were left behind to clear the mess, but the cleanup is abandoned once the air turns toxic, and nearly every machine has stopped. One unit, WALL-E, still runs, keeping himself going with salvaged parts and the company of a cockroach named Hal. He collects objects people once used and watches a video of an old musical. Then a sleek probe robot, EVE, lands to look for signs that life can be sustained, and WALL-E is drawn to her.
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- MacInTalkas AUTO (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about WALL·E (2008)
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- Andrew Stanton conceived WALL-E during a 1994 lunch with fellow writers John Lasseter, Pete Docter and Joe Ranft, where they brainstormed A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo. Stanton asked, "What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot?"
- An early version had WALL-E inciting a Spartacus-style rebellion by the robots against the remnants of the human race, by then cruel, gelatinous green "Gels" degenerated by prolonged weightlessness, whose ancestry would have been revealed in a Planet of the Apes-style ending.
- Ben Burtt had completed Star Wars: Episode III and told his wife he would no longer work on films with robots, then recorded 2,500 sounds for WALL-E, twice the average number for a Star Wars film and a record in his career.
- Burtt saw a hand-cranked electrical generator while watching Island in the Sky and bought an identical 1950 device on eBay to use for WALL-E moving around; the sound of cars being wrecked at a demolition derby provided WALL-E compressing trash in his body.
- Walt Disney Pictures pushed for an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination, but the film was not nominated, sparking controversy over whether the Academy deliberately restricted WALL-E to the Best Animated Feature category.
- The film is dedicated to Justin Wright (1981-2008), a Pixar animator who had worked on Ratatouille and died of a heart attack before WALL-E's release.
- The film cost $180 million to produce, a record-breaking sum for an animated film at the time, and despite that outlay it was denied a theatrical release in China.
