1. Wall-E By Disney-Pixar

2. Participants And TheirContribution Katie Maloney Overview of movie Rachel Cohen - Introduction to movie Kylie Postell discussion questions Farhood Nahavandi Creating Powerpoint Slides 3. Participants And Their Contribution Wall-E group consists of four members and eachis responsible for a separate work portion withinthe group project. Rachel Cohen, is responsiblefor the introduction to the film. FarhoodNahavandi is in charge of creating a PowerPointand Kylie Postell will be taking care of thediscussion questions and visuals in power pointslides. Katie Maloney is doing the overview. 4. Overview The groups topic is pollution andindustrialization. The film on thesurface is about two robots who fall inlove. However, by looking closer, Wall-E has an incredibly deep back story.Wall-E involves the monopolizing ofthe sales industry by the mega-corporation Buy n Large, the over-abundance of trash collected on Earthleaving it inhabitable and theadvanced technology that eventuallyleads to the deterioration of thehuman body and mind. 5. Overview Wall-E scurries about compacting trash and adding it to garbage pile skyscrapers that literallytower over the rest of the city, while the human population has been living a life of luxury on thespace craft Axiom for the past 700 years. This outer space vacation lifestyle turned the people intoa morbidly obese group whose every whim is taken care of by computers and robots. They travelin floating chairs along a set course and have all but lost the capability to think for themselvesbecause theres no need to. The people know nothing of Earth nor do they know of the mess theirancestors left behind. 6. Cultural AspectsThe movie has an emphasis onindustrialization with technology relating toobesity in people. People never doinganything for themselves and being too lazyto think and too bloated to walk is causingrapid obesity. In todays culture in Americaeveryone is obsessed with weight and themajor obesity problem (Engber, 2008). Thewestern culture has pulled our bodies andour planet down with obesity and ecologicalcatastrophe (Engber, 2008). 7. Cultural Aspects Although Wall-E was made to portray love between two robots it also carries some messagestoward peoples opinion of the apocalypse. In a culture where cellular reliability, fatty foods andelectronic toys is more important than sustainability, the outcomes would be the Earth becomeunlivable and pushing people to create a new world somewhere else. The main message is lifecentered on productivity (like industrialization) threatens the life forms and the planet andthe planet itself (Clarke, 2010). 8. Cultural Aspects Feminism take a step in themovie because EVE, a femalerobot is the one responsible forsaving Earth and finding life onEarth. Feminists had a debate onthe movie because they feel themessage should have menemphasized just as much aswomen. American culture andmodern ways today focus onequality of women (Clarke, 2010). 9. Introduction In 2008, Disney created a movie with western (American) style animation titleWALL-E. The film focuses on what has become of the western world, primarily theUnited States. This film follows a young robot named WALL-E(waste allocationload lifter earth-class) who is the last remaining of his kind on Earth. There are nohumans and the Earth has been turned into a huge pile of garbage. All thataccompanies WALL-E is his friend the cockroach, as he collects different itemsthat were left on earth. All humans from Earth are now living on a ship called theAxiom that is run by technology. Everyone in the ship is morbidly obese. Anotherrobot named EVE(extraterrestrial vegetation evaluator) comes down to earth andbefriends WALL-E. Wall-e then gives her the last remaining plant on Earth, andthe adventure begins. 10. IntroductionThis short video clip fromthe movie introduces themovie and its maincharacters, and it showsthe viewer both themes:Pollution andIndustrialization.