Rotten Tomatoes has a fantastically informative interview with Wall-E director Andrew Stanton, where he riffs a bit on the dialogue in the film (or lack thereof)...
"There is dialog all through it. All I am saying is that they are not necessarily saying words in a language that you know. What I wanted was integrity. It all comes down to just as much as I believe that Luxo is a lamp and that it has a life in it and it thinks like a lamp and acts like a lamp and I don't have to be told that, it doesn't have to be spelled out to me, I just get it right away, I wanted the same thing with the robots. I wanted you to believe that that's a machine and it's been there for hundreds of years, it's been weathered, and it has a thought process on its own. It was designed a certain way so therefore it would have a certain way that it spoke electronically and Eve was designed a certain way and would speak a certain way electronically. I just wanted things to be sort of, logic-based, and it was all to service the integrity of the world, because I just want to believe that I am there. I want to believe it's really happening. So that shows the look of the film, the lens choice, some of the technological advances we made so that you'll get more of a sense of the three dimensional atmosphere. Anything we did was just to enhance the experience of believability."
Among other highlights are Stanton's points of view on the similarity between Wall-E and other screen robots, the hiring of cinematographer Roger Deacons to help achieve an intimate look, the sound effects wizardry of Ben Burtt, Eve's similarity to Apple products and the inspiration of Disneyland's Tomorrowland.
The folks at Rotten Tomatoes were also privy to the first 30 minutes of the film, so, beware of a few slight spoilers which are revealed throughout the course of the interview.
Check it out HERE!
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Source: Rotten Tomatoes
