{"id":4293,"date":"2021-05-10T20:51:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T01:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4293"},"modified":"2021-05-10T20:53:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T01:53:30","slug":"disney-dreams-part-xiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4293","title":{"rendered":"Disney Dreams, Part XIII"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few random thoughts, and notes about Pixar’s Wall-E<\/em>, here for future reference.<\/p>\n

– The “space dance” scene seems taken from \/ inspired by the NES game Solar Jetman<\/em>.<\/p>\n

– “Auto” is not so much HAL 9000, but the A.I. from Flight of the Navigator<\/em>.<\/p>\n

– The characters are toys. Wall-E itself might be a combination of toys I had as a kid, including a robotic arm that I spent eons with, putting stuff into it’s accessories box and back out again. Also that little mobile robot from the space set I had as a kid. The space set itself looks like Wall-E’s home, with the same ramp and everything. I still have the arm and the little mobile robot. And then of course there is the obvious Short Circuit<\/em> influence.<\/p>\n

– There is an influence here from toys like the Robotix line from Milton Bradley, especially IMO in the decals, buttons and signage.<\/p>\n

Hmmn. Interesting. Looks like a good movie. Never seen it fully- I’ve only studied bits here and there on youtube.<\/p>\n

Still I wonder. Very peculiar, all of this. The bits and pieces I’ve seen do seem oddly, weirdly “me”, especially the space dance scene, and a bunch of other stuff, like the overall tone of the world and Wall-E in particular. Very interesting.<\/p>\n

Random thoughts.<\/p>\n

I still wonder. Do other people watch these movies and think to themselves “Yeah, I remember all of this stuff from my own childhood” or is this again just me? I don’t know, but damn, this is so fucking weird.<\/p>\n

I mean… I don’t remember the exact story, or even the exact characters. But I remember the pieces<\/em>. It’s again like… someone just took all the stuff I did as a kid and then reassembled everything in a different order, like they’re just painting with my memories, or something. It’s really weird.<\/p>\n

And again, some of this is extremely specific, like the space dance scene. I remember doing stuff like that for hours on my NES, with my little pixelated spaceship. It’s just… the feeling <\/em>of the scene. Like, I know <\/em>I’ve done this myself, before.<\/p>\n

And the feeling <\/em>of Wall-E himself, and watching him pick stuff up and make little boxes out of them. Like, I’ve done that, hundreds of times, with my own little robot arm. Just not… like <\/em>that, but verrry similar to that, in tone.<\/p>\n

And the obvious references to my favorite films as a kid.<\/p>\n

It’s really uncanny. IDK honestly what is going on here, but… it’s stuff to think about, for sure.<\/p>\n

Really crazy, all of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few random thoughts, and notes about Pixar’s Wall-E, here for future reference. – The “space dance” scene seems taken from \/ inspired by the NES game Solar Jetman. – “Auto” is not so much HAL 9000, but the A.I. from Flight of the Navigator. – The characters are toys. Wall-E itself might be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}