Wall E loves Broadway- Page 2

[Testing1232]

Posted: 6/30/08 at 12:50pm

<< DISNEY = STORY

PIXAR = Technical >>

Not really true... Andrew Stanton wrote "Wall-E", and works at/for Pixar.

Most of the Pixar films and written by Pixar writers.

[SgtDonut]

Posted: 6/30/08 at 12:56pm

This is hardly a typical Disney film. Pixar has consistently amazed me with their movies and Disney has had good and terrible ones. Just because Pixar is owned by Disney doesn't mean Disney actually did anything to this movie. Anyways, yes, the Hello Dolly stuff was great. Wall-E was probably the best movie I've seen in a long time. It was better than Ratatouille and waaaay better than Cars (the only PIxar movie I didn't like).

[Testing1232]

Posted: 6/30/08 at 1:03pm

<< This is hardly a typical Disney film. Pixar has consistently amazed me with their movies and Disney has had good and terrible ones. Just because Pixar is owned by Disney doesn't mean Disney actually did anything to this movie.>>

Totally agree -- I think its much darker than just about all of the Disney movies, and it really makes you think afterwards.

Going back to my previous post.. I believe all of the concepts for the Pixar movies are "hatched" at Pixar studios. Dont know how much input Disney has at all, as far as the storylines/plots go.

[SgtDonut]

Posted: 6/30/08 at 1:05pm

Oh yes it was very dark. In the future, corporations have destroyed the world and everyone's fat and lazy. Disney's input is through its wallet.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 6/30/08 at 1:09pm

[jrb]

Posted: 6/30/08 at 1:22pm

In my opinion, Pixar does what disney used to do (back in the days between Snow White and maybe Aladin) - they place story telling above anything else.

With other brands (dreamworks, today's disney, etc - and yes, I am generalizing) the ideal has turned away from story telling. It's similar to how "no child left behind" is causing schools to teach to tests rather than focusing on the process of learning. Studios today are producing to their audience rather than considering the art form itself. Pixar escapes this in many ways, I think. Wall-E has so little to do with CGI and animation. You forget it's animated because the charaters are so intimately and intelligently drawn. I wish other studios would take a hint and stop producing one-night-stands, as it were.

I also love how Pixar has maintained a certain anti-corporate edge despite its being connected to Disney. They seem to defy their umbilical by holding on to those early Lucas roots.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 4:01pm

Just watched it on iTunes. Reminded me how much I love this movie.

[jaystarr]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 4:09pm

I just saw the Disney/Pixar movie 'WALL-E' last night and I fell in love with the Put On Your Sunday Clothes opening credits and number featured in the animated movie.

Here's the full video:
PUT ON YOUR SUNDAY CLOTHES:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5joZhVHS7lU&feature=related

I think they did "It Only Takes a Moment" and "Dancin' in the animated movie too!
and featured Louis Armstrong singing La Vie en Rose.

Very good movie! Its almost a remake of HELLO DOLLY!

J*

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 6:01pm

It made me sick when the credits came up and started listing the names in charge of Wall*E merchandise and the Wall*E material in Disney theme parks. THAT'S Disney's influence in the film, providing a dose of hypocrisy. Watching the film, I couldn't help but think of the Disney World complex when they showed the Buy N Large space center.

Loved the Hello Dolly, and that's never even been a musical I've been interested in before.

[withoutyou08]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 9:59pm

i bought wall-e on black friday at walmart for 10 bucks so thanks to this thread to remind me to watch it :]

[fromthecity]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 1:23am

Dear Schmerg,

Go f*ck yourself. Those are people who work hard in marketing and the creative advertising of the feature and deserve to get the credit when it's due. Just because a game or a plush toy is something you buy after the movie does not lessen the amount of time spent working during pre-production and production of the flick.

Disney is one of the few companies (Dreamworks being the only other that comes to mind) that is happy to give credit when it is earned. So many people in so many departments such as merchandise, marketing and film finance go uncredited and unnoticed on these projects.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 12:42pm

DISNEY = STORY

PIXAR = Technical

Um, no. Every movie made by Pixar Animation Studios is a movie thought up by the guys at Pixar. John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, and Joe Ranft (now deceased) had an infamous lunch while working on Toy Story where they came up with A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, and WALL-E.

Pixar is a subsidiary of Disney, but Disney pretty much leaves them alone to do their own thing. That, and John Lasseter is now head of Walt Disney Animation Studios and only answers directly to Bob Iger. So they pretty much have free reign.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 12:44pm

Right, and don't forget that until a few years ago, PIXAR was a totally independent company and only had a contract for Disney to distribute the films they made. They're totally separate entities, creatively.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 2:56pm

Dear Schmerg,

Go f*ck yourself. Those are people who work hard in marketing and the creative advertising of the feature and deserve to get the credit when it's due.

I am really, really sorry it came off that way. Because I love, love, love Disney. I love their money-grubbing corporation. I love going to Disney World, I love all of the Disney musicals, and I own basically every Disney film soundtrack/Broadway cast recording. That's why it saddened me that they had all of the advertising stuff listed in the credits of Wall*E, which is kind of about anti-consumerism. I thought Wall*E would be the one film that they wouldn't overcommercialize.

But you're right that the people involved deserved to see their names on the credits. I never thought about it that way before.

In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy