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10 Things About The Movie Wall-E You Never Knew Before

by N/A, 10 years ago | 2 min read

Here's what you never knew about this futuristic animated film. 

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1. The same person who provided the voice for Wall-E voiced R2D2.

Ben Burtt is a well-known sound designer who worked on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the Indiana Jones series. 

2. There are lots of references to the movie Alien in Wall-E.

Sigourney Weaver  provided the voice for the main computer on the Axiom starliner. Writer-director Andrew Stanton was a huge fan of Alien. 

3. Andrew Stanton got the inspiration for Wall-E's look from a pair of binoculars.

Someone handed him a pair of binoculars at a baseball game and he missed the whole first inning while he was playing with them. 

4. There was a "no elbows" rule when it came to character design.

Creating characters with elbows would've made it easier for them to express themselves, but the designs desired Wall-E didn't need them. 

5. The humans were going to be represented by blobs.

Stanton originally wanted to make the humans into unrecognizable blobs and have a twist in the movie that revealed the blobs as human. He later pulled back on the idea after thinking it was just too bizarre. 

6. The "Hello, Dolly" references may not have been an accident.

Hello, Dolly is Wall-E's favorite movie in the film. Its score was composed by Lionel Newman and his nephew Thomas Newman composed the score for Wall-E. 

7. Thousands of sounds were created for the movie.

Ben Burtt create 2,400 new sounds for the movie. 

8. Wall-E's cockroach friend is named after a Hollywood legend.

The Pixar team named the roach Hal after 1920s producer Hal Roach and the homicidal computer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

9. A cinematography legend consulted on the film.

Roger Deakins, who's won 12 Oscars helped to make the film look like it was shot with cameras and not like it was animated. 

10. There are tons of easter eggs in the movie.

The biggest is probably the Pizza Planet truck found in one of the trash heaps. 

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