Andrew Stanton, the director of Disney/Pixar’s “WALL*E,” contends his film isn’t a message movie.
And Sylvester Stallone shot the latest “Rambo” sequel because there were so many unanswered questions left by “Rambo III.”
We can take Stanton at his word, but I wonder what he thinks about this?
(UPDATE: This link no longer goes to a faux web site called www.buynlarge.com that mocks corporate activities. Disney has changed the link … now it goes directly to its Wall*E site)
Buy N Large is the corporation at the heart of “WALL*E.” The film implies that corporate greed, and the consumerism it breeds, left the earth in the sorry shape it’s in (El Planet Trasho).
But what about this faux Web site? Why create it in the first place? Who is meant to see it? It doesn’t seem to steer people back to anything related to “WALL*E.” It seems some of the minds behind the movie have very real axes to grind.
Again, there’s nothing wrong with that. But it does open the film up to new levels of debate. Stanton’s attempts to cry, “no message here” seems hollow - unless he truly knows nothing about this intriguing web site.
