But they left without turning off a robot they’d left behind this is the plot of Wall-E. Apparently, humans never changed course on pollution and consumerism, and sometime in the 22nd century they were forced to leave a planet they had turned into a giant rubbish dump. The quiet is broken only by the unlikely sound of a song from Hello, Dolly! - Originally considered to be non-diagetic sound is actually heard coming from a solitary (inhumane) figure quickly moving around a junk-strewn landscape. What seem at first like skyscrapers turn out to be neatly stacked mountains of rubbish on a vast wasteland. In the establishing shot at the start of Wall-E, the camera slopes from outer space to a landscape that looks uncannily familiar but undoubtedly different. ![]() This assignment studied Disney Pixar’s Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth Class) examining the narratives binary oppositions in relation to other film narratives which are drawn upon in the film and explain how they naturalise contemporary societal norms. Brooks (1984, p.3) From our parents, from our friends, and from strangers in school, at work, and at home in newspapers, novels, advertising, film and TV factual, fictional, or somewhere in-between, the number of narratives we are exposed to even in a single year must run into many thousands. Brooks has said, we are now “immersed” in narrative. Narrative is a product of all cultures story-telling, myths and folklore that have been shared from generation to generation throughout the world in order to help produce ‘meaning.’ Turner (1988, P.32) States, ‘Myths negotiated a peace between men and women and their environment so that they could live in it without agonizing over its frustration and its cruelties.’ Many film theorists suggest the same can apply to film narrative as it naturalises the inevitable and the inexplicable, homogenising societal norms and practices. According to the theories of Levi-Strauss (1955:1966) and his studies of Mythology, film narrative is a construction of binary opposites which help us make sense of our social world. They convey our longing for consistency, closure, and a single unified meaning. Narratives are cognitive patterns that we construct to make sense of the world. This is why I don’t watch films very often, I end up analysing them to death but this is my favourite one and I found it really interesting so thought I would post.Īnalytical Film analysis: The narrative structure and intertextuality of Disney Pixar’s ‘Wall-E.’(2008)
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