Out there! There's a world outside of Yonkers!
I lasted a whole three days before I sped to the video store to see WALL-E. Of course, it was a horrible day and I wanted something cute to make me feel better. Neither of my parents were especially interested, as my mom didn't stay for the whole thing, and my dad FELL ASLEEP. And he's the most fascinated by computer animation! He watched... I think it was The Polar Express, but didn't want to watch Princess Mononoke.
Anyway, now I'm smitten with WALL-E again. (the movie and the character) It's a little funnier now that I've seen Hello Dolly, and WALL-E's copy apparently only has Put On Your Sunday Clothes and It Only Takes a Moment. I can't help but laugh at the fact that we're doing Hello Dolly this year, too. This is seriously my new favorite movie, and we do the musical that's in it? As soon as I either buy it or wait through the 541 holds at the library, I'm bringing it to watch before one of the late practices.
I wrote a big long summary that I must've posted somewhere... dunno where, since it's not on my LJ entry from when I saw it in theaters. But anyway, with the video store DVD, I got to see the Director's Commentary (I love Andrew Stanton now. All the reasons for making this movie and all of the things he put IN the movie are exactly why I want to make films), a featurette about sound design. (Holy R2-D2, Ben Burtt did the sound design for the original Star Wars!) BURN-E (poor little guy, lol), and to my amazement, deleted scenes. Not pencil storyboards that got cut. Actual alternate versions of scenes that got cut from the movie, that were already animated. I've never seen animated deleted scenes, because that's insane to waste all that money. The first one was good; it was the Garbage Airlock scene only with WALL-E and EVE's positions reversed. That had me very confused till WALL-E actually fixed EVE. Dunno what he soldered in there, but it did the trick. Stanton had a bunch of reasons for changing it, the biggest one being that WALL-E would be that much heroic and we'd sympathize with him that much more if he got zapped by Auto AND crushed by the Holo-Detector .
The second one, though, was an alternate to Define Dancing. I'm not sure if the dancing bit still happened (it seems like it would've, since that's just about everyone's favorite part of the movie) where EVE doesn't see the plant and "kiss" WALL-E until they get back inside. I thought the original one was cuter. EVE sees the plant, grabs WALL-E and spins him around, sending them flying into some shelves where EVE falls on WALL-E and accidentally kisses him. She gets up acting all embarrassed, and WALL-E "proposes" by playing It Only Takes a Moment and holding his hand out. EVE gives him a look like "what are you doing?" and turns him down. (that bit was moved to the Lido deck, where she tells him to be quiet instead of giving him the funny look. I thought the funny look was better, but then there's the bit where WALL-E rehearses his second 'proposal'... aah, too many cute moments to chose from)
Apparently there's also an alternate "ending", which may or may not be on the second DVD, involving more funny robot looks. At the very end of the movie, after EVE repairs WALL-E, instead of forgetting everything and making audiences everywhere cry, goes back to normal, and notices the hole in his roof. He gives EVE a "why is there a hole in my roof?" look, and she giggles and holds his hand. Fin. That one was an obvious choice, though I would've like to see the "why is there a hole in my roof?". (oh, and MO herding the reject robots away to give them privacy wouldn't have been there, I guess. Gotta have that.)
After painfully parting with the DVD so as not to incur video store fines (why don't we ever BUY movies? I need to get in the habit of that. 'course I need money to do that, first...) I spent a good chunk of today looking at fanart. Wonder what Stanton would say if he saw all the human versions of the robots? XD I also joined a "WALL-E Best Picture 2008" facebook group, (Sound Editing, Original Score, and Original Song, anyone?) and became a "fan" of WALL-E. I have problems. >_> I can't do things by half. Or at least not dealing with fandoms. No, I have to go completely overboard. But at least this one's really good, instead of all those CLAMP and Yu Watase mangas I read in the summer. No offense, Yu Watase... but... why did I waste my life reading Alice 19th? It was a cool plot, and had nice artwork and everything, but I HATED the Alice/whathisface romance. I can't even remember his name now. XD Kyo? Anyways, nice to be obsessing over something I'm actually proud to obsess over.
None of that, however, GETS MY NOVEL DONE. I'm not going to sleep for the next week. That's it. I HAVE A WEEK, HOLY LACK OF WRITING SKILLS, A WEEK.
Anyway, now I'm smitten with WALL-E again. (the movie and the character) It's a little funnier now that I've seen Hello Dolly, and WALL-E's copy apparently only has Put On Your Sunday Clothes and It Only Takes a Moment. I can't help but laugh at the fact that we're doing Hello Dolly this year, too. This is seriously my new favorite movie, and we do the musical that's in it? As soon as I either buy it or wait through the 541 holds at the library, I'm bringing it to watch before one of the late practices.
I wrote a big long summary that I must've posted somewhere... dunno where, since it's not on my LJ entry from when I saw it in theaters. But anyway, with the video store DVD, I got to see the Director's Commentary (I love Andrew Stanton now. All the reasons for making this movie and all of the things he put IN the movie are exactly why I want to make films), a featurette about sound design. (Holy R2-D2, Ben Burtt did the sound design for the original Star Wars!) BURN-E (poor little guy, lol), and to my amazement, deleted scenes. Not pencil storyboards that got cut. Actual alternate versions of scenes that got cut from the movie, that were already animated. I've never seen animated deleted scenes, because that's insane to waste all that money. The first one was good; it was the Garbage Airlock scene only with WALL-E and EVE's positions reversed. That had me very confused till WALL-E actually fixed EVE. Dunno what he soldered in there, but it did the trick. Stanton had a bunch of reasons for changing it, the biggest one being that WALL-E would be that much heroic and we'd sympathize with him that much more if he got zapped by Auto AND crushed by the Holo-Detector .
The second one, though, was an alternate to Define Dancing. I'm not sure if the dancing bit still happened (it seems like it would've, since that's just about everyone's favorite part of the movie) where EVE doesn't see the plant and "kiss" WALL-E until they get back inside. I thought the original one was cuter. EVE sees the plant, grabs WALL-E and spins him around, sending them flying into some shelves where EVE falls on WALL-E and accidentally kisses him. She gets up acting all embarrassed, and WALL-E "proposes" by playing It Only Takes a Moment and holding his hand out. EVE gives him a look like "what are you doing?" and turns him down. (that bit was moved to the Lido deck, where she tells him to be quiet instead of giving him the funny look. I thought the funny look was better, but then there's the bit where WALL-E rehearses his second 'proposal'... aah, too many cute moments to chose from)
Apparently there's also an alternate "ending", which may or may not be on the second DVD, involving more funny robot looks. At the very end of the movie, after EVE repairs WALL-E, instead of forgetting everything and making audiences everywhere cry, goes back to normal, and notices the hole in his roof. He gives EVE a "why is there a hole in my roof?" look, and she giggles and holds his hand. Fin. That one was an obvious choice, though I would've like to see the "why is there a hole in my roof?". (oh, and MO herding the reject robots away to give them privacy wouldn't have been there, I guess. Gotta have that.)
After painfully parting with the DVD so as not to incur video store fines (why don't we ever BUY movies? I need to get in the habit of that. 'course I need money to do that, first...) I spent a good chunk of today looking at fanart. Wonder what Stanton would say if he saw all the human versions of the robots? XD I also joined a "WALL-E Best Picture 2008" facebook group, (Sound Editing, Original Score, and Original Song, anyone?) and became a "fan" of WALL-E. I have problems. >_> I can't do things by half. Or at least not dealing with fandoms. No, I have to go completely overboard. But at least this one's really good, instead of all those CLAMP and Yu Watase mangas I read in the summer. No offense, Yu Watase... but... why did I waste my life reading Alice 19th? It was a cool plot, and had nice artwork and everything, but I HATED the Alice/whathisface romance. I can't even remember his name now. XD Kyo? Anyways, nice to be obsessing over something I'm actually proud to obsess over.
None of that, however, GETS MY NOVEL DONE. I'm not going to sleep for the next week. That's it. I HAVE A WEEK, HOLY LACK OF WRITING SKILLS, A WEEK.