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“WHAT makes a movie a classic?” asked the National Post. “Quality?
Time? Or is it a cute little robot with droopy eyes?”
The Vancouver Sun’s
Katherine Monk called the same film “so profoundly moving, so quietly
eloquent and so purely magical, it may well be movie of the
decade.”
WALL-E is what all the
fuss is about; and the secret behind it could be the faith of its creator.
Andrew Stanton is co-founder of Pixar, the company
behind hits such as Toy Story, Monsters Inc. and Finding Nemo. He is also a Christian, and spoke to Christianity
Today about the influence of faith on his
work.
Stanton noted the film’s references to Eve and
Noah’s ark. The script, he said, was the key.
“As a storyteller, it’s vital to just stick
with and be honest with your values system. The last thing I want to do is
go to a movie and feel like I’m being preached to, or being told how
to be; and I think it’s more honest – and you’re going to
have more effect – to be truthful with the values of your characters,
working off of your own values.
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“That was the case with WALL-E. The greatest commandment is to
love one another . . . So that was the perfect goal for the loneliest robot
on earth, to learn the greatest commandment, to learn to love.”
– DFD
August 2008
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