Some interesting thoughts

[dracphelan]

I haven’t seen it yet, and now I really don’t want to watch Wall-E.
WALL-E questions

by Egregious Charles

If the gender roles of the robots in Disney’s WALL-E were reversed, if EVA were male and WALL-E were female, wouldn’t EVA be violent, arrogant, abusive, and dismissive? (Think of the scene where EVA crushes one of WALL-E’s eye cameras, and EVA

Comments

[daemonnoire]

Here's the problem with that scenario. EVA is a scouting robot. She's single minded, and programmed to watch for and avoid any dangers. She's not programmed for friendship, love, or companionship. She has one focus. Find a plant, protect the plant, bring the plant back to the main ship. Anything else is outside her programming. If she were male, she would be the guy who slavishly follows directions because his brain freezes up at the thought of having to make a choice on his own. The problem with humanizing her is that she's not programmed to have human reactions. She initially sees Wall-E as a threat and shoots at him, sure, but once she recognizes him as non-threatening, she ignores him. Because he is not a factor in her programming. She's dismissive, sure, but arrogant and abusive? That would require her to have human reactions, and at the point in the movie where she displays these traits, she simply can't

[waterlilly]

I skipped it because it looked preachy and tedious. Looks like it was worse than I thought.

[ferretlightning]

Saw it and thought it was cute movie. Reading that excerpt, I think someone is reading WAY too much into the film.

[minirth]

That is the worst animated movie I have EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. It's boring, it's extremely negative about the future of the human race (and this is me saying that), it's preachy, and there's not one entertaining moment in it.

[atomic_fungus]

There was a similar situation with Gwyneth Paltrow's character in Sky Captain. If that character had been male, it would have been the sneaky wretch character who got killed near the end of the movie.