Wall-E

The first time that I saw Wall-E was in class on Friday.  I enjoyed the movie; however, I found it a little hard to stay fully focused because there was not much dialogue from the main characters.  Although the movie lacked dialogue, the characters’ emotions had a very clear intent.  In the beginning, Wall-E never said that he was scared when Eve first landed on Earth, however, viewers could sense his emotion by the way that he was shaking and hiding.  Eve’s emotions came out mostly in her eyes.  The audience could tell that she was happy when her eyes were extremely big.  And when she became angry, hey eyes became slanted and squinted.

Another thing that I noticed about the movie Wall-E was its lighting.  In the beginning, the lighting was very dark.  As the movie continued, the lighting became brighter and the robots inside of the spaceship and the humans were expressed in very bright colors.  I believe that the darkness in the beginning of the movie is showing Wall-E’s loneliness and desire for love.  As the movie continues and Wall-E becomes closer to Eve, the scenes become brighter.  This may not have been the producers’ intentions to have the lighting done this way, however I believe it works well with the plot of the story.

The audio in this film was also done very well.  Everything in this movie had some type of audio to it.  Whether Wall-E was picking something up, putting it down, moving across the dirt, throwing garbage, popping bubble wrap, etc, there was audio to it.  I believe that the movie’s main concentration was audio, which is why not having dialogue in the movie was not a main concern.

I’ve never watched a movie with intentions on focusing on the way that the movie was produced rather than the story itself, and it was a little difficult.  The producers’ intentions on doing something may be different than what the audience believes the producers did something for.  It also makes me think; producers spend hours on audio and everything else that goes into a movie, when for the most part, the audience watching the movies takes it all in, however does not recognize exactly how or why something was done.  After this assignment and having a friend who is very passionate about film making, I believe that I will no longer be watching movies just for the pleasure of it, but for figuring out how and why some things were done in the process of making the film.