Well, even after attempting to make a ripped copy from my DVD, it still has to compress the film a bit to fit on a DVD5, so the resolution was still a tad diminished. But we're moving ahead anyway.
In the short before the flick,
Presto, when Alec (the rabbit) is pulling tricks out of Presto's sleeve at a rapid pace, a tiny Luxo ball falls out, too:
I really like this flick quite a bit and I consider it to be one of the coolest love stories I've ever seen. I always wondered how many adults thought this one was too dark for their kids, I only know a few whose kids really like it a lot. But the ones that do like it think it rules.
So in the Pixar timeline, Buy n Large (BnL), which also appears in
Up, pretty much takes over the function of both corporations and the government and all services are rendered by BnL. Which means that they absorbed Dinoco...:
...but somehow chose to let Eggman Movers to remain it's own entity. But check out how their billboard is the old, still, stationary print ones that we know, and BnL's are lighted and animated. Even to the point of obscuring the Eggman Movers ad.:
And these next two are for redlandslide (thank you, sir) who reminded me that I forgot to include the appearance of Eggman Movers in
Toy Story...:
...and Toy Story 2:
WALL●E marks the first time Pixar integrated live-action people into one of their flicks - I still think it looks a little odd:
And they cast Fred Willard as the smarmy huckster, CEO/President of BnL, Shelby Forthright. They'll eventually show him in a scene where he has the same seal that's hung behind a US president when a speech is given to imply that in addition to being CEO of the corporation, he is president of the country (and possibly the world, we only get to see one part of the globe, tho'):
Some try to say the upside-down piggy bank on the left there is Hamm from
Toy Story, but I say thee nay! If you look at Hamm's feet, he has little black cloven 'hooves' which the one in
WALL●E doesn't have:
Oh, hey, lookie there! It a Mike Wazowski antenna topper
:
Leakless Brand Oil is from
Cars, sorry I forgot to get an establishing cap for it:
In this pile of junk we can see the scooter Skinner used in
Ratatouille. Some sites say that those cones are from
Toy Story 2, but I was always pretty skeptical about it, since there are cones all over the movie:
When the ship that brings EVE arrives, and it's targeting lasers scan across several landscapes, it passes one where you can see one of the buoys from
Finding Nemo. What's interesting is the implication is that this canyon was once an ocean:
WALL●E makes EVE a little tribute sculpture, that she basically ignores, and he uses a Luxo lamp to fashion one of her arms. I always wondered if she was aware of what he used to represent her head.
I always was a little bummed that she's floating in the foreground of this shot obscuring part of it - it would probably still be my signature pic.
Some say this is the magician's hat from the
Presto short, and while it is
a top hat, I'd be more inclined to think it was
that top hat, if the accompanying wizard's cap was somewhere nearby:
When WALL●E and the rocket punch through satellite shield surrounding Earth, the one that sticks to his face is Sputnik. Sputnick was the Russian satellite success story from the 1950s that sparked the US/Russian 'Space Race' within the 'Cold War'.
I capped these two because they always brought up an interesting question for me (look at the sign in the background on the left of each pic):
All we ever see these people do is float around in their hover chairs, suck food from cups and visit the pool, and every service is automated. What do these people do for money?
Or has Pixar inadvertently shown the horrific end game of dunt - dunt - DAH! SOCIALISM?!?!?! (Oh noes!)
But i digress...
There are 3 different occasions when the code A113 come on screen. The code is, naturally, Auto's primary function is to take over fundamental control and prevent at all costs the Axiom from returning to Earth as ordered by BnL CEO/President Shelby Forthright. Auto really isn't a bad machine, he just had bad programmers:
I always liked this collection of stuff because it showed how abstractly WALL●E was thinking - also like when he sets the spork between his forks and spoons. Which is why there are other cone shaped things in with the garden gnomes - including the jack which is red and has to points like the gnomes' hats:
And then in the credits, one of the mosaics has an ocean theme in which Crush swims by:
Well, that's pretty much all I can do for now since the
Up DVD doesn't come out until November and I haven't found a decent digital copy myself. So we'll have to leave off here for a bit. But I do have a couple of things still left.
