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WALL-E

WALL-E

Date: Sep 24 2008

Themes: News

Grammar: Simple Future Tense

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Who hasn’t wished for a cleaning robot? It would be great. Something that doesn’t get tired and doesn’t have feelings to do all your dirty work.

But the new movie WALL-E shows us that robots have feelings too. In the distant future when Earth is so polluted that all the humans have gone and only cleaning robots live there, love blooms.

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Beren

Beren

Mason

Mason

Beren:  Have you seen this new movie, WALL-E?

Mason:  Absolutely. Totally. It took me too long to see it, but it was phenomenal.

Beren:  Is it a Pixar or…

Mason:  Yeah. So it totally lives up to standard, right?

Beren:  Yeah, awesome. What’s the plot, it’s a robot…like post-apocalyptic or…

Mason:  It’s not really apocalyptic, it’s like garbage…It’s way, way off in the future and basically the humans have completely polluted the planet so they’ve all left on this giant cruise space ship and they created these teeny little WALL-E robots to clean up all the garbage, basically and they’ll call when they’re done and it’s thousands of years. Of course, it still hasn’t happened.

Beren:  And then they’ll come pick up the WALL-Es?

Mason:  No, then the people will come back and repopulate Earth. But in the meantime, it’s just kind of not happening. There’s so much trash. So there’s a lot of social commentary in the film, actually.

Beren:  Yeah, that’s what I heard. Everybody who’s seen it, all of my friends are older and they don’t have kids and they’ve seen it multiple times.

Mason:  It’s a kind of very current movie with issues that are going on right now, but it’s also just a freakin’ incredible story. It’s a great love story…

Beren:  A love story between the WALL-E and another WALL-E?

Mason:  Yeah, there’s a lot of emotion there, which is kind of the Pixar magic. How do they take this boxy-looking robot and practically make me cry with him?

Beren:  Yeah, make him human.

Mason:  Mm-hm.

Beren:  Wow.

 

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Discussion

Mason liked that WALL-E, a movie made for children, had a lot of social commentary about environmental issues. Most of Beren’s friends liked the movie too.

One thing that Mason finds particularly amazing about the film is that it is able to be very emotional even though the characters are robots. The robots don’t even look like humans either!

What would like a robot to do for you?

 

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Alexander02

Russian Federation

My favorite robot is Bender from Futurama :)

11:42 AM Sep 25 2008 |

waiwkwong

China

I have seen the movie twice. It's not suitable for toddlers as other movie such as Cars produced by Pixar before.  The theme of the movie is freaking profound to understand for them.  Anyway, It raise our awareness to the environmental problem in our life and it is interesting.

08:41 AM Sep 25 2008 |

waiwkwong

China

I found that there are some missions for Eva and Well-E should have to do at beginning.  It is quite interesting to see the conversion of robot to human being…

08:08 AM Sep 25 2008 |

lescharn

lescharn

Colombia

this lession is very interesting in my process of learn english.

11:33 PM Sep 24 2008 |

saeb dhlan

Palestinian Territory, Occupied

i think we will be lazy if we  use robbot in every thing in our life and destroy our selves)))))))))))))   I think that

08:42 PM Sep 24 2008 |

195854255

195854255

United States

Wel, i guess i am going to watch it…

05:15 PM Sep 24 2008 |

Totto

Totto

Sudan

  This movie is very similar to the TRANSFORMERS movie except in the TRANSFORMERS the robots are going to take over the planet and kill us all.  I have not seen WALL-E yet, though.  May be I will later.

   This movie points out what pollution can do our planet Earth and the consquences.  It warns us to cut back polluting the atmosphere, or we will be gone in the far future. 

03:52 PM Sep 24 2008 |

joojo13

Syrian Arab Republic

I like this movie alot … thanks for lessons :)

11:06 AM Sep 24 2008 |

Lily86

Lily86

Syrian Arab Republic

it’s awesome film, but I donn’t know why my rate went to be 1 while I put 5!

09:33 AM Sep 24 2008 |

sara xia

China

Though i have not watched this move,the robot are soo lovely.I relly want to see it soon.

07:00 AM Sep 24 2008 |

moha_22

moha_22

Saudi Arabia

I wanna the robot to massage me everyday

LooooL

  imagine that..!!??

06:17 AM Sep 24 2008 |

qeregetron

qeregetron

Turkey

how do you find robots like human? are you all crazy?let people live here in peace.dont you know the machine made upset our planet.dont you agree.i dont like anykind of robots.go away all machine!i fuck all of them.

06:03 AM Sep 24 2008 |

wayne198719

China

Maybe in the far future .men can have robot girlfriend!That  is amazing!

04:39 AM Sep 24 2008 |

john_zhang_q

China

I have seen this movie,and like it very much~

The robot ,Wall-e is a very funny guy,i wanna get one be my toy,haha…

04:32 AM Sep 24 2008 |

Dekler

Dekler

Kazakhstan

I saw it and can say that is really nice movie,
with purpose to all of us that we are doing now a lot of thing which shouldn't.
funny moment was when they couldn't walk themself))


Advice to watch!

04:27 AM Sep 24 2008 |

leonlai

leonlai

China

I like the movie too,the wall-e is so cute and kind.this is a great moive.

04:17 AM Sep 24 2008 |

Steelheart

Indonesia

I like the robot to help me find the friends

02:45 AM Sep 24 2008 |

Mariangela Giuliane

Brazil

in the film, people still get a chance to change things… but i think if we let that kind of thing happens the end will be very different… i loved the movie… but in the movie all the animals ( except humans ) are dead… that’s terrible… do the humans need to let all that trash and polution ruin the world?

01:58 AM Sep 24 2008 |

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