But I’ll put aside a character I might not personally like if I feel like a film really had something to say.
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This definitely correlates to a film possibly having a weak main character and/or world–it’s all connected of course. I have found, that when I don’t like a film or am dissatisfied with one, most of the time it is because I feel like the theme is too weak or vague. Wall-E: Thematically Undeniable Environmentalism You can listen to this article if you want! Click here to jump to the recording. It will contain slight spoilers for Nausicaa. This post will contain full spoilers for Wall-E and Princess Mononoke. That Andrew Stanton’s film seems to have come out relatively unscathed and different from any film before (or after) it is a testament to how unique and thematically strong it is. There are so many factors that are out of a director’s control, especially at a big studio, that it’s a miracle when any film gets made, full stop. Did kids get impatient? Or were they fixated on the screen? Were parents confused? Who knows!) (Honestly I’d love to go back to opening weekend now and watch people watch this film in theaters. While those are not inherently bad things, their complete takeover of the medium at large just makes Wall-E stand out that much more. But we’ll discuss that in the second half of this essay.Įven with the leaps and bounds we’ve made with animation in the last decade, I still feel like if an animated feature at a major US studio with no dialog and a slow, meditative pace for the first 30-ish minutes was pitched it would get turned down immediately or green lit until it drowned in notes and was averaged out to look more like the gag or dialogue driven, quick paced snappy visuals we’re used to. Princess Mononoke (1997) might be the most important in the decade preceding Wall-E, but also just one of the most important films full-stop. I would argue that it might be one of if not the most important animated feature to come out that decade, including internationally. Wall-E (2008) is one of the strongest films to come out of the big US feature animation studios.