Andrew
Stanton – WALL-E
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| Photo by Victor Navone |
For
the 1st 15 minutes or so of PIXAR's latest masterpiece WALL-E, there
is no dialogue, very little music, and nothing that pushes the story
forward in any real way. We, the audience, simply spend that time
watching this tiny robot go about his daily routine with no fanfare
and no real spectacle. This was a gigantic gamble in terms of
storytelling, but it paid off so wonderfully. Even if the rest of
the story had not developed around our diminutive hero, I could have
been content just to watch WALL-E wander around the remnants of the
garbage dump of Earth for another 90 minutes. Director Andrew
Stanton understood that if we could fall in love with WALL-E, it
wouldn't matter that he wasn't human, hardly talked, and was
basically a moving garbage disposal. The use of body language,
setting, and quirkiness demonstrated the power of Stanton's instincts
as a director and the power film has to create bond between the
audience and character (even if he is a walking garbage disposal).
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