Well it doesn't give away much. A couple fo obserrvations from this creaky old ludite slowly assimilating to the many varied tools of the new digital world.
1) Pixar continues to push the "we are the warm and cuddly gods at the alter of story" line. God those guys (or their marketing people) really need to take their hand off it.
2) The small snippet of wall-E looked very exciting to me. I emmediately felt empathy for that little guy. Sci-fi hardware ta-boot.
When I first heard about this concept I was emmediately reminded of Chris Ware's tinman that pops up in his comic book compendiums. Does anyone out there know who I am talking about? He is an awesome artist and story-teller. He has a character who is a robot trapped in a deserted world. He wanders around slowly getting more and more bored and asking the very human question - what am I here for? The irony (and the iron) is palpable, poignent, depressing and poetic.
If wall-E captures just a small slice of what Chris Ware pulls off in his story's I'll love it. Although I suspect the boys at Pixar will have to adhere to thir own mantra and give us a story all about feeling ok about yourself regardless of who you are, yarda yarda.
2 comments:
Yeah how's the smulch at the begining of that trailer? Complete with the Randy Newman music and all?? The trailer turned around for me when he started to talk. What a cool and interesting voice!
reminded me of a robot I've heard before. Can't quite place it. Was it Dexter?
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