Post by Bartle on Jul 22, 2008 18:45:29 GMT -5
Pulled this from IMDB.
* The teaser trailer contains part of Michael Kamen's score for Brazil (1985). Michael Kamen was going to score another Pixar film, The Incredibles (2004), but died before he could.
* Jim Reardon left his position as supervising director of "The Simpsons" (1989) television series to do animation on this film. On the DVD audio commentary for his episode _"Simpsons, The" (1989) {Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo (#10.23)}_ , Reardon finally confirmed the title of the film he was working on - prior to that he would only say that it was due in 2008.
* The main character's name is actually an acronym, standing for "Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth-class." EVE stands for "Extraterrestial Vegetation Evaluator" and M-O stands for "Microbe Obliterator."
* Most of the predominantly robot cast of characters is voiced by Ben Burtt through mechanical sounds of his creation.
* First instance of a Pixar feature-length film using live-action.
* The makers consulted with a live-action director of photography, Roger Deakins, to learn how Deakins would light and shoot a scene if it were a live-action movie.
* The film contains numerous references to Apple computers: -when WALL-E is fully charged by the sun, he makes the same "boot up" sound that most of Apple's Macintosh computers have made since circa 1996. -WALL-E watches his favorite movie every night on the screen of an iPod -The villainous Autopilot's voice is provided by Apple's text-to-speech system, MacinTalk -EVE's sleek design as an evolution of WALL-E's parallels the sleek iMac design having evolved from the boxy, beige Apple IIe. Steve Jobs, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Computer, was CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney in 2005, and as a shareholder and member of the Disney Board of Directors is still actively involved with the company.
* Niagara Falls provided the wind sounds for WALL•E 's world.
* The logo on Eve's chest that appears after she obtains the plant is the same logo used by Disney Epcot's The Land pavilion up until 2005.
* WALL•E collects numerous objects from the 1960s-1980's including a VCR tape of Hello, Dolly! (1969) (featured prominently in the film), a Rubik's cube, and even an Atari 2600 with the game Pong (1972) (VG). Despite the film taking place over 800 years after these objects were created, all the objects are still in working condition.
* The last piece of debris that clears away from WALL-E as he leaves Earth's atmosphere is the Russian satellite Sputnik I, which in 1957 was the first man-made object to be placed in earth orbit.
* The protocol that AUTO is programmed to follow is A113, a reference to the animation room at the California Institute of the Arts, where many of the Pixar animators studied.
* The end-credit montage not only contains artwork in the style of many ancient cultures, but also mimics specific artists such as 'Vincent Van Gogh' , Georges Seurat, and Auguste Renoir.
* The film has a dedication to Justin Wright, a 27 year old Pixar animator who died from a heart attack.
* Director Andrew Stanton explained why he used excerpts from Hello, Dolly! (1969) in an interview: "When I got to 'Hello, Dolly!' and I played 'Put on Your Sunday Clothes,' and that first phrase 'Out there... ' came out, it just fit musically... I finally realized, 'You know what, this song is about two guys that are just so naïve, they've never left a small town, and they just wanna go out in the big city for one night and kiss a girl. That's my main character.' And then my co-writer, 'Jim Reardon' , said, 'You know what, he could actually discover an old tape in the trash, and that's how he got inspired by it, and it's a great way to show that he's got a romantic slant.' So we started looking at the movie, and when I found the other song, 'It Only Takes a Moment,' and saw the two lovers holding hands, I realized, 'That's a perfect way for my main character to express the phrase 'I love you' without being able to say it.'"
* The name of the ship that the humans are living on is "Axiom." In logic and math, an axiom is something unquestionable or taken for granted.
* Sound wizard Ben Burtt recorded many of the sounds for this film in a junkyard.
* The sound of insect clicks was the actual sound of locking handcuffs.
* The cockroach chirps were created by speeding up the sounds of a raccoon.
* The picture has virtually no dialog for the first 30 minutes.
* The teaser trailer contains part of Michael Kamen's score for Brazil (1985). Michael Kamen was going to score another Pixar film, The Incredibles (2004), but died before he could.
* Jim Reardon left his position as supervising director of "The Simpsons" (1989) television series to do animation on this film. On the DVD audio commentary for his episode _"Simpsons, The" (1989) {Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo (#10.23)}_ , Reardon finally confirmed the title of the film he was working on - prior to that he would only say that it was due in 2008.
* The main character's name is actually an acronym, standing for "Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth-class." EVE stands for "Extraterrestial Vegetation Evaluator" and M-O stands for "Microbe Obliterator."
* Most of the predominantly robot cast of characters is voiced by Ben Burtt through mechanical sounds of his creation.
* First instance of a Pixar feature-length film using live-action.
* The makers consulted with a live-action director of photography, Roger Deakins, to learn how Deakins would light and shoot a scene if it were a live-action movie.
* The film contains numerous references to Apple computers: -when WALL-E is fully charged by the sun, he makes the same "boot up" sound that most of Apple's Macintosh computers have made since circa 1996. -WALL-E watches his favorite movie every night on the screen of an iPod -The villainous Autopilot's voice is provided by Apple's text-to-speech system, MacinTalk -EVE's sleek design as an evolution of WALL-E's parallels the sleek iMac design having evolved from the boxy, beige Apple IIe. Steve Jobs, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Computer, was CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney in 2005, and as a shareholder and member of the Disney Board of Directors is still actively involved with the company.
* Niagara Falls provided the wind sounds for WALL•E 's world.
* The logo on Eve's chest that appears after she obtains the plant is the same logo used by Disney Epcot's The Land pavilion up until 2005.
* WALL•E collects numerous objects from the 1960s-1980's including a VCR tape of Hello, Dolly! (1969) (featured prominently in the film), a Rubik's cube, and even an Atari 2600 with the game Pong (1972) (VG). Despite the film taking place over 800 years after these objects were created, all the objects are still in working condition.
* The last piece of debris that clears away from WALL-E as he leaves Earth's atmosphere is the Russian satellite Sputnik I, which in 1957 was the first man-made object to be placed in earth orbit.
* The protocol that AUTO is programmed to follow is A113, a reference to the animation room at the California Institute of the Arts, where many of the Pixar animators studied.
* The end-credit montage not only contains artwork in the style of many ancient cultures, but also mimics specific artists such as 'Vincent Van Gogh' , Georges Seurat, and Auguste Renoir.
* The film has a dedication to Justin Wright, a 27 year old Pixar animator who died from a heart attack.
* Director Andrew Stanton explained why he used excerpts from Hello, Dolly! (1969) in an interview: "When I got to 'Hello, Dolly!' and I played 'Put on Your Sunday Clothes,' and that first phrase 'Out there... ' came out, it just fit musically... I finally realized, 'You know what, this song is about two guys that are just so naïve, they've never left a small town, and they just wanna go out in the big city for one night and kiss a girl. That's my main character.' And then my co-writer, 'Jim Reardon' , said, 'You know what, he could actually discover an old tape in the trash, and that's how he got inspired by it, and it's a great way to show that he's got a romantic slant.' So we started looking at the movie, and when I found the other song, 'It Only Takes a Moment,' and saw the two lovers holding hands, I realized, 'That's a perfect way for my main character to express the phrase 'I love you' without being able to say it.'"
* The name of the ship that the humans are living on is "Axiom." In logic and math, an axiom is something unquestionable or taken for granted.
* Sound wizard Ben Burtt recorded many of the sounds for this film in a junkyard.
* The sound of insect clicks was the actual sound of locking handcuffs.
* The cockroach chirps were created by speeding up the sounds of a raccoon.
* The picture has virtually no dialog for the first 30 minutes.
