Just like films music can do much more for people than to just provide mind numbing entertainment. With the right minds, music and be used to tell the whole story of the film in just a matter of minutes and with minimum dialog. Throughout a good portion the animated film Wall-E, there appears to be minimal dialog and speaking. Instead, sound effects and music is used to communicate to the viewers and tell them exactly what is going on. Throughout the whole film, Director Andrew Stanton uses music from classical films to not only set the mood for certain scenes, but also to add a deeper meaning to an adventurous and romantic story of a little robot named Wall-E.
At the beginning of the movie, it reviles that there is nothing on earth but mountains of compacted trash and that there seems to be no sight of human life. The earth appears to be fairly empty of life except for Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) whose main purpose to be there is to compact the trash and pile it up to make more room. Although the earth seems pretty empty and boring, it does not stop
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Wall-E from his mission and to have a little fun on the side. It is reveled early on in the movie that Wall-E has quite a collection of items; some of which consist of a television and possibly some old movies. One of the only movies that Wall-E shows the audience, which he seems to enjoy immensely, is the movie Hello, Dolly!, which is a film that was made in 1969 and directed by Gene Kelly. This film plays a popular roll in the film Wall-E, in which Andrew Stanton uses the two songs “It Only Takes A Moment” and “Put on Your Sunday Clothes!” to tell Wall-E’s story. The first song “It Only Takes A Moment” is a song that helps tell the story of the love between Wall-E and EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) instead of using any dialog to tell their love story. At the beginning of the movie, Wall-E plays the song “it Only Takes A Moment”, which catches Wall-E’s interest and helps him learn that holding hands is a way to show affection. In the next scene shortly after that, it shows Wall-E looking up at the rocket coming down to land on earth and instead of playing his normal tune, he chooses to play “It Only Takes One”. This foreshadows that just like in the movie when the song plays that something romantic is about to begin (00:08:15). The final time this song is heard is when EVE is looking through her recordings and sees “it Only Takes A Moment” playing and shortly after that it cuts to EVE’s security camera where it shows Wall-E showing his love towards her by taking care of her. Again this song is shown to represent love since right after it cuts off from the song to the security camera, it shows how much Wall-E loves EVE by how well he takes care of her (Stanton). The second song “Put on your Sunday Cloths!” is a song that tells the story of two young men who have decided to put on some fancy looking cloths an to go out and explore and adventure and not to come back to their home town until they have found and kissed a girl. When looking at list song deeper it is clear to see that not only just a catchy tune, but also tells Wall-E’s whole story of what happens to him in this film. In a way it could even be said that this song foreshadows what is about to happen to Wall-E later on. In the beginning of the movie, the first scene opens up with the camera in deep outer space slowly zooming into earth and its atmosphere. As the camera is zooming in, the first two lines of “Put on your Sunday Cloths!” starts playing which is two men talking about how “there’s a world outside of Yonkers, way out there beyond this hick town” and how it is “full of shine and full of sparkle” (Herman ln. 1-2). Here the lyrics of this song are being compared to both the universe and the earth. When the song talks about there being another world outside of Yonkers, it is talking about how there are other places and planets outside of the planet earth and when the song talks about how it is full of shine and sparkle, it is referring to the starts in the universe and how they shine and sparkle. In line 10 of the lyrics it talks about “Girls in white, in a perfumed night”, which could be a comparison to EVE, since she is completely white except for her face (Herman ln. 10). In lines nine and eleven, the song talks about how the two men are “gonna find adventure in the evening air, where the lights are bright as the stars” (Herman ln. 9,11) These two lines in the song to could be compared to the scene where Wall-E is holing onto the space ship as it takes off. The adventure the song talks about is the adventure Wall-E is about to take on the spaceship through the evening air that is going to blow him back as the ship takes off and the lights that are as bright as the stars is a direct comparison to the stars Wall-E is going to be passing in his adventure through space. In lines twelve and thirteen, the song talks about how the two men are “gonna ride through town in one of those new horse drawn open cars” (Herman ln. 12-13). The new horse drawn open cars are a comparison to the ship named Axiom which they ride through town which is a comparison to space. Finally, in line sixteen of the song, the two men state they “won't come home until we've kissed a girl” (Herman ln. 16). This is a direct comparison of when Wall-E receives a kiss, which is the spark that appears between them when their faces touch, after giving EVE the plant which will allow them to head home. This song is used numerous times throughout the film, whether played by Wall-E’s prerecording of it or by background music, and in a way is Wall-E narrating his own story. This song could also be a sign that a new adventure is about to start as well. The first the song is played is during the beginning of the movie when the audience is being introduce to a new adventure of future earth and the beginning of Wall-E’s adventure. The second time the song is played is when Wall-E is showing EVE the song on his television, which shortly after that EVE takes the new plant and prepares to return to the Axiom, starting a new adventure for both her and Wall-E. The final time the song is played is when the captain is just waking up and hits the play button on Wall-E instead of his alarm, waking him up and starting him on his new adventure “beyond this hick town”(Stanton). One other soundtrack that is used from a classical film in Wall-E is the soundtrack called Also sprach Zarathustra created by Richard Strauss that is used at the beginning of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey which was directed by Stanley Kubrick.
During the scene where Strauss’ song is being used, it shows a primitive human smashing bone with another bone. This scene is supposed to show man evolving and using their first weapon. Later on, the primitive human uses the bone it found to over power and kill another primitive human and to prove its technology is superior. In the movie Wall-E the music by Strauss is played again when the captain becomes angry at AUTO for crushing Wall-E and begins to stand up. Just like in the 2001: A Space Odyssey, the captain becomes superior by used new technology, his legs, to overcome and defeat AUTO (who is also a reference to the 2001: A Space Odyssey,
HAL). Through the use of classical music, Stanton was able to successfully create one of the most fun and charming little robots in the history of film and tell his story. Stanton also showed that it is still possible to enjoy a movie without to use of much or little dialog. Without these classical films imported into the film, Wall-E may not have been the funny and lovable robot that he is remembered by today.
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