Monday, August 18, 2008

Wall-E

Saturday morning. Early-bird. me and dear went to watch Wall-E. Wall-E is a Disney Pixar animation. The story is about a robot fall in love with another robot. Very nice and romantic animation.

1 more thing make sure u enter the cinema early. because it will have extra thing before the movie start. enjoy.
Movie Plot -
As revealed gradually during the film, by the early 22nd century the megacorporation Buy n Large assumed every economic service on Earth, including the government. Overrun by un-recycled waste, the planet eventually became so polluted that it could no longer support life. In an attempt to keep humanity alive, BnL CEO Shelby Forthright sponsored a five-year exodus from Earth aboard a fleet of executive starliners that would support every need for the humans with a fully-automated robot crew.
Hundreds of thousands of waste-disposal robots, known as "WALL-E" units, were left behind to clean up the planet by compacting the trash into cubes and stacking them into skyscraper-like towers for easy disposal. However, this plan was rejected when Forthright determined by 2110 that Earth was too toxic for return to ever be feasible. By 2815, almost seven hundred years later, only one WALL-E unit remains operational.

Centuries of prolonged activation have given this particular WALL-E sentience and a sense of curiosity. He collects items that he finds interesting among the refuse, gathers spare parts for himself from inactive WALL-E units, and frequently watches a videotape of the 1969 musical film Hello, Dolly!, especially the performances of "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" and "It Only Takes a Moment" (which becomes a key motif). This teaches him emotion, emphasizing the act of holding hands, which he interprets to be an act of showing love. Having ascribed to himself the need for one with whom to hold hands, and lacking anyone equivalent to himself, WALL-E is forlorn.

One day, WALL-E discovers a seedling plant, which he replants in an old shoe. Shortly afterward, a spaceship lands on Earth and deploys EVE , a feminine, probe-like robot sent from one of the starliners, the Axiom, with the directive of finding signs of plant life. But while, WALL-E immediately falls in love with her, and as EVE expresses fascination and amusement in his personality, she is only interested in carrying out her directive and not WALL-E's love. When WALL-E shows her the plant he found, she stores it inside herself and deactivates. WALL-E goes to great lengths to protect her motionless body until she is retrieved by the ship that delivered her. Distraught, WALL-E pursues the ship, clinging to the outer hull as it departs into the depths of space, eventually arriving onboard the Axiom.

After centuries of living in micro-gravity, the humans aboard the Axiom have lost considerable bone mass, rendering them too obese to stand or move without robotic assistance. Even the ship's commander, Captain B. McCrea has delegated all his duties to the ship's autopilot, aptly named "Auto" . As WALL-E follows EVE to the bridge of the ship, his unique behavior causes both humans and robots he meets on the way to act outside their normal routines, particularly M-O, a decontamination robot who learns to think for himself when he decides to follow WALL-E's filthy trail so he can clean him, and the humans John and Mary who, until bumping into WALL-E by accident, had been blind to the world around and each other, and become a couple.

EVE tries to present the plant to McCrea to place in the ship's holo-detector—a device which will activate an automatic hyperjump to Earth once it scans the plant—only to find it is missing. She is deemed to be malfunctional and sent to the robot-repair ward, along with WALL-E. Mistakenly thinking that the diagnostic machine is trying to hurt EVE, WALL-E takes and accidentally fires EVE's detached plasma cannon. This inadvertently frees the other malfunctioning robots in the repair ward who, along with EVE and WALL-E, become fugitives from security. Annoyed with WALL-E for causing the situation, EVE tries to send him back to Earth in an escape pod when McCrea's first mate GO-4 arrives and deposits the missing plant in the pod, indicating that he had stolen it without McCrea's knowledge. GO-4 sets the pod to self-destruct and launches it with WALL-E inside, but WALL-E manages to escape before it detonates, taking the plant with him. EVE is so happy at this that she gives WALL-E a "kiss" (an electrostatic discharge), and they dance around the Axiom, flying together through space.

EVE returns the plant to McCrea, WALL-E following shortly after. Curious to see images of Earth, the Captain projects EVE's security camera footage, which allows EVE to witness the lengths to which WALL-E went to protect her while she was deactivated, whereupon she falls in love with him. Having been enthralled by earlier images depicting life as it was before the rise of Buy n Large, McCrea is shocked by the environmental devastation on Earth depicted in EVE's recordings, and decides that humanity must return to Earth to make amends. Auto insists that they cannot return to Earth, and is forced to reveal that Shelby Forthright ordered the autopilots never to do so after his cleanup plan failed. Unable to disobey his directive, Auto stages a mutiny and tries to dispose of the plant. In the ensuing struggle, Auto violently shocks WALL-E and temporarily deactivates EVE, drops them both into a garbage chute along with the plant, and locks McCrea in his quarters.

After managing to avoid ejection into space among the trash in the ship's waste disposal facility thanks to the timely intervention of M-O, EVE dismisses her directive of bringing the plant to the ship's holo-detector in favor of attempting to repair WALL-E. WALL-E, however, selflessly insists that EVE carry out her directive and tells her that if they return to Earth, he may be saved with the spare parts he has stockpiled there. WALL-E and EVE escape with the plant and set out to find the holo-detector, with M-O tagging along. They are aided by McCrea, who directs them to the holo-detector from the confines of his quarters, and the malfunctioning robots, who help them fight off security. After tricking Auto into believing he has retrieved the plant, McCrea confronts and battles with Auto, and manages to activate the holo-detector, a pedestal which rises from the floor of the deck. Auto then tilts the ship on its side, piling the immobile humans in a corner. Auto attempts to retract the holo-detector again, but WALL-E jams it open with his own body, to EVE's horror. McCrea summons the strength to stand up unaided and manually overrides Auto, restoring order aboard the ship. The plant is placed in the holo-detector, releasing the severely damaged WALL-E and activating the hyperjump back to Earth.
Having arrived on Earth, EVE frantically repairs and reactivates WALL-E. However, the extent of the damage seems to have erased his memory and personality completely, making him return to his original directive. Heartbroken, and believing that the WALL-E she knew and loved is gone forever, EVE takes hold of his hand and gives him a "parting kiss". The resulting spark reboots WALL-E's memory and personality, and upon readjusting his eyes he instantly recognizes her and is ecstatic to find that EVE's hand is finally grasping his. As the two robots embrace for a tender kiss, humanity and robots alike begin working together to restore Earth's biosphere with a renewed sense of purpose, directed by the enthusiastic McCrea.

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