Andrew Stanton had a great idea for a Pixar movie, one that centered on the last robot on Earth. He just wasn't sure what the robot was going to look like. Then inspiration struck
. "I borrowed his binoculars and then I missed an entire inning just looking at them and starting to make them look happy and mad and sad....That cracked it open for me. That's pretty much what I did: I put binoculars on top of a trash compactor.", Stanton's Oscar-winning follow-up to 2003'sFor the robot's sidekick — a cockroach named Hal , Stanton was determined not to 'Disney'-fy the character, despite the studio having acquired Pixar in 2006.
Regarding the movie's bleak environmental themes — the first half takes place on an Earth rendered uninhabitable due to over-consumption — Stanton insists, "I hate being preached to and I assume other people do to in a movie. So I went there very reluctantly, and it ended up being out of pure necessity to my main drive, which was I just wanted to believe in the authenticity of why WALL-E was alone.
For his vision of humans as amorphous blobs on interstellar cruise ships, whisked around on self-propelled chairs, heads buried in their screens, he found another source of inspiration. "I used to be a smoker when I was in college, and I remember that," he continues. "That was way before there was a computer or anything else to distract you with. You would use a cigarette to just sort of pass the time and not be bored...But I remember then going, wow, this could get really outta hand fast. This is like a nicotine hit. And that’s what made me come up with the distraction of humanity through technology and the screens, and everybody being right next to each other.
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