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WALL•E world (Pixar director mentions Christ As motivation for film)
World Magazine ^
| 6/28/08
| Megan Basham
Posted on 07/03/2008 5:59:57 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Filmmaker Andrew Stanton says his latest film isn't about the environment or obesity. It's about relationships...[said Stanton] 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 saythat 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 livingrelationship with God and relationship with other people.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andrewstanton; christ; hollywood; humanity; moviereview; pixar; stanton; walle
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Andrew Stanton, director of WallE
To: Recovering_Democrat
Good film, and I liked it before I read this article.
RD
To: Recovering_Democrat
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posted on
07/03/2008 6:05:44 PM PDT
by
It's me
To: Recovering_Democrat
World mag has the best movie stories of any magazine...
To: Recovering_Democrat
One of the most moving films I've seen in a long time.
A MUST see. Pixar nailed it.
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posted on
07/03/2008 6:10:58 PM PDT
by
stravinskyrules
(Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?)
To: Recovering_Democrat; Kolokotronis; LibreOuMort
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 saythat 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. Saw it a couple of hours ago, before reading this.
Think he's caught in the very deficient English definition of "love" (the Greeks are far better here), but there's more than "basic programming" involved -- all three (one a late entry) robots are able to "learn," and that is part of the story. Driven home with a sledgehammer shortly before the end.
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posted on
07/03/2008 6:18:00 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: Recovering_Democrat
We have 5 grandchildren from 5 to 12, and when my wife and I took them to see this, they seemed a little confused by it all. My wife and I loved it, but the kids were middling in their appraisal.
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posted on
07/03/2008 6:19:06 PM PDT
by
mozarky2
(Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist!)
To: Recovering_Democrat
WALL*E = Chock full of green propaganda. People are BAD, BAD, BAD...fat and lazy...polluters/consumers.
To: I'm ALL Right!
Yea, saw this movie with my grandchildren (3 and 5) they liked it and played Wall E and Eva for a couple of days but over all I was shock at how the movie stressed the green propaganda and people are bad, fat and lazy.
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posted on
07/03/2008 6:47:39 PM PDT
by
svcw
(There is no plan B.)
To: Recovering_Democrat
Was Christ an inspiration, or was it Johnny Number 5?
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posted on
07/03/2008 6:52:32 PM PDT
by
GOPyouth
(Osama and Obama are both against President Bush.)
To: Recovering_Democrat
Well, The Incredibles were chock full of conservative messages.
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posted on
07/03/2008 6:56:46 PM PDT
by
MattinNJ
(I can't sit this election out. Obama must be stopped.)
To: I'm ALL Right!
WALL*E = Chock full of green propaganda. People are BAD, BAD, BAD...fat and lazy...polluters/consumers. But not inherently. The message was mixed in this regard.
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posted on
07/03/2008 7:14:06 PM PDT
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sionnsar
(trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: Recovering_Democrat; Shelayne; Quix; Star Traveler; Sensei Ern; Das Outsider; PROCON; ...
God bless Andrew Stanton for having the
courage to “out” himself as a true believer
- a man of faith in Jesus Christ.
**********************
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posted on
07/03/2008 7:22:54 PM PDT
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: Jo Nuvark
Amen! I will see all his films!
To: Jo Nuvark
Amen! I will see all his films!
To: Jo Nuvark
So I came up with this premise that could demonstrate what I was trying to saythat irrational love defeats the world's programming.
Irrational--precisely. A love that surpasses the secular world's understanding. And with that, we're off to what looks to be a very great Fourth of July vacation.
May you have a blessed Independence Day!
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posted on
07/03/2008 7:31:15 PM PDT
by
Das Outsider
(Practicing illegal ninja moves from the government since 2005.)
To: I'm ALL Right!
How about reading the filmmaker’s ideas expressed in the article? You’ll come away knowing his intent was really about dependence on government and that attitude destroys the human soul.
To: MattinNJ
yes, and so was Nemo, imo.
To: Recovering_Democrat
I took my son last week, and I was pleasantly surprised. I was waiting for the enviro-guilt to start and it never did- since the focus was indeed on sacrificial love vs. our tendencies toward selfishness. Great movie, Pixar has a winner.
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posted on
07/03/2008 7:37:03 PM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(This election is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if McCain wins, we're still retarded.)
To: Recovering_Democrat
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Pixar director mentions Christ As motivation for film
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posted on
07/03/2008 7:39:46 PM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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