Fun Trivia : WALL-E

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WALL-E

When we meet WALL-E, he is tirelessly cleaning up the masses of garbage left behind on Earth. Who or what is his one companion?

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a cockroach. The cockroach can be seen sitting on WALL-E’s shoulder and running around him. This little piece of humour probably stems from the urban legend that cockroaches can survive anything, including a nuclear war. The fact that they have been around since the time of the dinosaurs, and that they can live even after their heads have been chopped off contributes to this myth, which has been proven to not be true. Pixar has fun with the legend though, showing the cockroach to survive many mishaps, including blasts from EVE’s blasters. WALL-E stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth class.



At the end of the day, WALL-E takes his lunch box back to his home. How does he amuse himself in the evening?

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He watches old movies.. WALL-E does enjoy watching old movies on VHS and seems to have a particular affection for the musical "Hello Dolly", as he watches the same scene over and over again. WALL-E’s batteries are solar charged and being a robot he has no need to eat. We do see him making repairs to himself, using parts from other similar robots that are no longer functioning.



WALL-E takes his lunch box with him every day, but he uses it to collect things from among the garbage he is cleaning up. What does he find when he pries the door off of what looks like an old refrigerator?

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a plant. WALL-E takes the plant and repots it in an old boot. The plant is just a small seedling, but it is pivotal to the plot, as it later convinces the humans that Earth is ready to sustain life again. It is not clear that the plant is in a refrigerator, but it is definitely behind a heavy panel of some sort. How the plant is growing cut off from the sunshine is not explained. WALL-E does find a diamond ring in a blue velvet box, but it is not behind anything heavy. WALL-E tosses away the ring and keeps the velvet box.



When EVE arrives, she tries to communicate with WALL-E, using various different languages. What English word does WALL-E respond to?

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directive. WALL-E’s directive is to compact trash, and he responds to the word when spoken in English. EVE stands for Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, and her directive is to seek out plant life on Earth and return it to the ship Axiom. The concept of directive later turns out to be an important one, as EVE tries to get WALL-E back into a pod to return to Earth. He wants her to come with him, but her directive won’t allow her to leave.



WALL-E becomes quite smitten with EVE. He shows her his movie and offers her all his treasures. What does she do when he offers her the plant?

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She puts it inside her body and shuts down.. EVE recognizes the plant as what she has been sent to find. She puts in inside the main compartment of her body, which then shows a green plant icon on the front. Her directive fulfilled, she shuts down completely and waits to be picked up by the ship that dropped her off. WALL-E’s attempts to revive her and care for her are quite touching.



EVE is picked up by the rocket that dropped her off and WALL-E tags along. When they get back to the mother ship, the Axiom, what has happened to the people?

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They have become obese and are unable to walk without assistance.. In a flashback, the people of Earth are shown boarding these massive cruise type airships. The original plan is for them to live on these ships for five years while Earth is cleaned up and made hospitable again. However the plan hasn’t worked and they are in the 700th year of what was to be a five year cruise. They spend their time lying around in flying, propelled chairs and all their activities (except ingesting food) are done holographically. They have become very large and have lost bone mass. A couple of times we see someone knocked out of their chair, unable to move without assistance from a robot.



EVE’s finding of the plant, a "confirmed specimen of photosynthesis", causes quite a stir with the Captain and the robots. According to the manual, what does it mean?

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that it's time to go home. The manual informs the Captain that the existence of plant life indicates that the Earth, once too toxic to support it, is now clean enough for the people to go home. The Captain has the computer show him scenes of Earth and he gets very excited about going back. Auto, the auto-pilot seems determined to stop that from happening.



Auto’s assistant tries to destroy the plant by putting it in a pod which is fired into space and exploded. WALL-E is in the same pod and escapes, before the explosion, with the plant intact. How does he propel himself in space?

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with a fire extinguisher. EVE has the capacity for flight, but WALL-E does not. He grabs a fire extinguisher and propels himself through zero gravity by shooting it off in small bursts. In this way he and EVE dance through space. When EVE finds that he has saved the plant, she give him a "kiss", after which the dance is even better!



Why is Auto so set on stopping the ship from returning to Earth?

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He has been given a directive by the BnL CEO that it was not safe.. The cruise in space was supposed to last five years, after which time the Earth was supposed to be clean enough for people to return and start again. At the end of the five year period, Auto got a message from the CEO of the company in charge of the clean-up, telling him that Earth was too toxic and they were abandoning the project. Auto was told not to return to Earth. In the 700 years since that time, the Earth has cleansed herself of her toxins, if not her garbage.



What do we see the Captain doing at the end of the movie?

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planting seeds. The Captain overthrows Auto and sets a course for Earth. They are dismayed to find how much garbage is still there (because WALL-E seems to be the only Waste Allocation Load Lifter that is still operational), but the toxicity is indeed gone. The Captain, standing on his own feet, is planting the plant and telling the children that plants will grow from seeds. He lists the different kinds of plants that would grow, one of them being a pizza plant!



WALL-E saves various objects from among the mounds of trash on Earth and arranges them in his shelter. What object does he find that he is uncertain where to place in his collection?

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A Spork. That bizarre hybrid of a spoon and a fork that is frequently encountered in school cafeterias and fast food restaurants. WALL-E wavers between putting the spork with the forks or with the spoons, and finally sets it between the two.



What is the musical that WALL-E watches repeatedly?

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Hello, Dolly. You had to watch the credits to find this out, unless you recognized it in the film. The two songs used were "Put on Your Sunday Clothes", which was chosen for its refrain of "out there", and "It Only Takes a Moment", which has the hand holding scene which is such an influence on WALL-E in his quest for love.



What toy is seen among the "treasures" that WALL-E recovered from the trash heaps?

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A plastic dinosaur. The dinosaur is "Rex" from the movie "Toy Story". It's a Pixar trademark to sprinkle their films with references to other Pixar films. The wrong answers are also toys featured in "Toy Story".



When we first see Captain McCrae of the spaceship Axiom, he is upset that Auto the Autopilot did not wake him up for what?

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Morning announcements. The captain complains about not being woken up because morning announcements are the one thing he gets to do on the ship. This is an indication of how much humans have relinquished control of their own lives.



Who directed the film?

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Andrew Stanton. Stanton both wrote and directed the movie. He also directed "Finding Nemo" and "A Bug’s Life". Docter directed "Monster's Inc", and Lesseter directed the "Toy Story" movies. Michael Bey is the director of big budget spectacles such as "Pearl Harbor" and "Transformers".



What is the designation on the large trash compactors aboard the Axiom, which almost crush WALL-E?

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WALL-A. This stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Axiom Class. They are essentially much larger versions of WALL-E, whose E stands for Earth Class.



What can be seen in the background of the pictures of all of the Axiom’s captains?

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Auto the Autopilot. After Auto starts refusing to obey the Captain, we again see the pictures of the previous captains. This time, we see how Auto is lurking behind them ominously. Auto's glowing red eye is a reference to the HAL 9000 computer from "2001: A Space Odyssey", another machine that starts refusing human orders and becomes a threat.



What is the name of the couple on the ship who meet, thanks to WALL-E?

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John and Mary. John and Mary meet when they are watching WALL-E and EVE flying outside of the spaceship, after WALL-E narrowly avoids being blown up in the escape pod. They are later seen frolicking together in the ship's pool, and then saving the children when Auto tips the ship on its side. John is voiced by John Ratzenberger, who is best known for his role as Cliff on the TV show "Cheers", and who has had a role in every previous Pixar film. Mary is voiced by Kathy Najimy, who is the voice of Peggy Hill on the animated series "King of the Hill".



What veteran of science fiction films provides the voice for the ship's computer?

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Sigourney Weaver. Among Weaver's science fiction credentials are the roles of Ellen Ripley in the "Alien" series of films and of Gwen DeMarco in "Galaxy Quest", where her only job on the ship was to talk to the computer. She was also the voice of a ship's computer on an episode of the animated TV show "Futurama".



What does Captain McCrae tell the children they are going to be great at back on Earth?

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Farming. He puts the boot with the plant in the ground and explains to the assembled crowd that it’s called farming, and the kids are going to be great at it: growing, among other things, pizza plants. In the end credits of the film, we see WALL-E and EVE sitting beneath a large tree that has grown from the plant in the boot.