Wall-E Trivia: Eve Repair Ward Scene
So I know this isn't Dan and Phil themed lol, but Wall-E is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I thought I'd share some trivia that I thought was really interesting because my ADHD brain said to lol
So, if any of you guys have seen the Pixar movie Wall-E, you may know the rogue robots that basically help Wall-E bring the plant to the Lido Deck so they can bring the Axiom back to Earth. And I heard a lot of people have been wondering why when Eve was brought to the Repair Ward, she was turned off, brought into the Diagnostics Lab, and then turned back on again, like, why wasn’t she kept on the whole time? Why did they turn her off? And I have the answer to that. (For context, I’m getting this info from the Director's commentary from the DVD.)
So when the crew at Pixar was developing the movie Wall-E, they knew they had to figure out a way to let the audience know that these robots were broken and defective ones. Sort of like the “lovable losers” that band behind Wall-E and help him in his plan. So what they did was they came up with these “red boots'” that the crew would call them, and they would sorta act like a boot that would be put on the tire of your car if you’ve been parked in the wrong zone or something like that. And they would basically help the steward robots (which are like the police robots) identify the robots from one another and say that these robots were ex-cons; they’ve broken out and need to be locked up.
And not only that, but it also helped show that EVE herself was a fugitive because, again, we don’t have any dialogue or anyone saying, “Oh, no! You’re a rebel, and you broke out! We have to hide you!” Like, everything has to have a visual symbol to remind the audience of how the story is evolving and where it's at with certain characters' situations in the movie.
And according to Andrew Stanton, the director for Wall-e, it actually ended up working out in the end because in a later scene, she had to be shut down by AUTO and then rebooted in the garbage disposal, and the crew wasn’t sure on how to do that.
And then they saw that there was a bright little yellow button on her boot and thought, “Oh wait, what if you could just press that, and it would turn off like you would with any other machine?” So they went back to the Repair Ward scene and then added those few shots of her being turned off, brought into the Diagnostics Lab, and then turned on again, just to show the audience that that was what that function did so that they could use it later.
Kinda a random trivia, but I thought it was a really interesting statement and just goes to show how creative the team at Pixar is!
