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Wall-E (2008)
In Pixar's and Disney's animated science-fiction love
story:
- the wordless scenes of the title character WALL·E
(short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class) (voice of
Ben Burtt) - the last lone garbage-compacting robot on Earth, eccentrically
collecting various treasures (plastic forks, light bulbs, Rubik's
Cubes, Zippo lighters, etc.) and neatly stashing them in his protective
truck shelter
- and after the arrival of EVE (short for Extra-terrestrial
Vegetation Evaluator) (voice of Elissa Knight), a sleek, white-shelled
probe droid-robot, the scene of their introducing themselves by name
- the scene of showing her his collection of treasured
trinkets - including a hand-mixer and popping bubble-wrap, and constructing
a replica of himself out of trash as a present to her
- his repeated watching of a VCR recording of Helly,
Dolly! (1969) including the romantically-inspiring songs: "It
Only Takes a Moment," and "Put on Your Sunday Clothes"
- the sight of humans on the planet AXIOM - all Bob's
Big-Boy style corpulent fatsos reclining on floating, robotic lounge
chairs while electronic robots served their every need - on the 700th
year anniversary of their 5-year cruise
- the repeated scenes of robot M-O ("Moe")
cleaning up the "foreign contaminant" of WALL-E's tread-tracks
- the space dance sequence between WALL-E and EVE after
she kissed him
- the great reawakening scene of the Captain (voice
of Jeff Garlin) standing up (to a "Thus Spake Zarathustra" theme
song) as he shut off the one-eyed, AUTO-pilot, HAL-like robot (voice
of MacinTalk)
- the final scene when a crushed and 'dead' WALL-E
(rebuilt by EVE who used his own spare parts collection to reconstruct
him) appeared to have lost his acquired sentience and memories but
then remembered who EVE was after they clapsed 'hands' and she 'kissed'
his forehead, and they then enjoyed a longer second kiss
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