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Post by vanessajoyce on Aug 21, 2008 20:03:52 GMT -5
I think there's been a thread for this before . . . but thought I'd start a new one with this article . . . www.praguepost.com/articles/2008/08/20/hello-wall-e.phpThis Czech reviewer seems to be pretty convinced WALL-E is in close to the "Great White Way". I'm tempted to agree . . . what do you think? |
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Post by MidgardDragon on Aug 21, 2008 20:05:43 GMT -5
I don't think we've had a thread on this, actually, but I was thinking about it earlier today. I agree with Manhattan. I just can't imagine that it's anywhere else based on the buildings.
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Post by Kingdomheartsora on Aug 21, 2008 20:07:23 GMT -5
Well, I'm pretty sure about that, but one thought that comes to me is that he's in Yonkers, blame Put on Your Sunday Clothes.
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Post by vanessajoyce on Aug 21, 2008 20:12:22 GMT -5
Oh good . . . maybe I'm thinking of IMDB . . .
It's funny because when the movie came out I remember reading an article in a San Francisco paper that was saying everyone assumed it was Emeryville. So, I guess I just sort of went with that and didn't think anymore about it.
But now that I'm studying "Hello, Dolly", this explanation makes more sense to me. I also like the thought that WALL-E becomes another "New York love story" movie and sort of puts a funny spin on that film-making tradition.
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Post by Norwesterner on Aug 21, 2008 22:23:57 GMT -5
Looking at where the Axiom sets course for after the plant is inserted in the Holo-Detector, it looks to me more like the chart on the Lido Deck ceiling is aiming more for Chicago, than New York City.
The topography in Act One (WALL•E on Earth) is somewhat difficult to ascertain, as all the water bodies (be they harbors or lakes) seem to be dry. If it was New York the Pixar folks were aiming for, you think that, will all the other movie homages they were making, they might pull an (original) "Planet of the Apes" moment and show a wrecked Statue of Liberty or something in the dry harbor. The ships EVE knocked over though were designed after ocean-going freighters that you would typically see in New York — not "Laker" Great Lakes freight vessels.
(The ship magnet bit with EVE by the way, while funny, was inaccurate, as it was an electro-magnet, that without power, couldn't have held her like it did. To hold her like that without the ship's electrical power up and running, would have required a permanent magnet — which would have been useless in handling of scrap or steel cargoes, as it would never have let go of the cargo on command!)
The seemingly "U" shaped basin that WALL•E enjoys a sunset with a dormant EVE looking out over, does suggest a lower New York Harbor with "land" on each of the two sides.
I think it was judge a fictionalized hodge-podge of a big city on Pixar's part though, to perhaps avoid any controversy over "trashing" an actual city, and hearing protests from fathers of the featured city later!
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Post by hopper on Aug 21, 2008 22:30:36 GMT -5
yeah good point.. it could be a lake tho wwhen panning out at the end of the film it appears to be zooming out from the east coast of the US
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Post by smkndofpnutdssrt on Aug 25, 2008 4:49:05 GMT -5
Maybe it's Philadelphia. I don't see much difference between Philly now as opposed to that, lol.
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Post by bkim on Aug 27, 2008 0:17:37 GMT -5
Haha, Philadelphia; that would work for Detroit as well.
Films actually contradict themselves all the time in this manner by suggesting two or more different geographical settings. I had the impression that they were in Yonkers as well, and that WALL-E was a kind of reincarnation of Michael Crawford, if you will.
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Post by smkndofpnutdssrt on Aug 27, 2008 1:31:44 GMT -5
Yonkers would be perfect. It would make sense. I used to think Yonkers was a fictional place, haha.
I'll just add this one to my "List of Things I Would Ask Andrew Stanton If I Ever Met Him"
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