Chapter 144 Pixar’s New Cooperation
In the future Earth, humans have to evacuate the Earth and live in giant spaceships due to excessive pollution and garbage.
The earth has become a garbage dump, and only a group of garbage disposal robots are left to clean up the garbage.
The little robot WALL-E is one of them, performing tasks for a long time.
At the beginning of the story, other robots of the same model are basically broken.
Wall-E is like a scavenger, dealing with garbage in the huge garbage dump of the earth and picking out things he finds interesting and useful.
WALL-E is an old-fashioned robot. Logically speaking, it only relies on programming to determine its behavior.
However, due to long-term independent operation, something strange happened in his personal processing core.
WALL-E has learned to watch TV during his long life. This is the TV he assembled from the garbage he picked.
Through past TV programs, he learned about previous human civilizations and gradually developed emotions.
Wall-E works alone, finding some interesting items every day and collecting them in his home.
One small plant in particular, he regarded it as a symbol of life.
This short paragraph at the beginning of the movie describes WALL-E's work and life.
This plot has no human voices at all, just like a silent film. If it is not good, it will make people feel boring.
But Pixar makes it very interesting. Every time WALL-E picks up trash, it’s like an adventure.
In the four to five-minute scene in Wall-E's home, the director did an excellent job of establishing the humanity of Wall-E, the machine.
He is like a young human being, full of emotions.
I like to collect new gadgets, have strong curiosity, and have all kinds of childishness. I like to listen to music on my iPod, and I also yearn for love.
Next, by chance, a spacecraft from space sent an advanced detection robot named Eva.
That is, the heroine.
Eva is a search robot sent to Earth by a spaceship to find green plants.
WALL-E and Eva met. The robot, which had been alone for hundreds of years, seemed to be full of energy again and began to take Eva around.
Suddenly, a sandstorm hit, and Walli took Eva back to his residence.
Then he began to show her the various treasures he had collected on the earth.
Eva is also a self-aware robot and is curious about WALL-E's collection. The two robots also watched human song and dance movies together and learned to dance together according to the scenes in them.
Wall-E was a little too hasty and wanted to hold Eva's hand, but was ruthlessly rejected.
Walli, who was rejected, had no choice but to use his trump card and show Eva his most precious collection, the plant.
This is exactly what Eva is searching for.
Eva took the grass into her body, and then began to sleep, waiting for the spacecraft to take her back.
WALL-E didn't know that the other party fell into sleep.
She thought she was sick and it was her responsibility to take care of her.
This scene was very romantic. Wall-E dragged Eva outside to bask in the sun and waited with Eva.
In the meantime, he helped her shelter from the wind and rain, took her wandering and watched the sunset.
The spacecraft took Eva back according to the predetermined procedure. Wall-E didn't want to let her leave, so he also got on the spacecraft.
The scene changes from the desolate earth to the beautiful space landscape.
From here, the movie transforms into an adventure story.
A human figure appears.
On this ship called the Truth, people live a life of clothing, food, and mouth. They don’t need any labor, and even the function of walking has deteriorated. They all lie on their own exclusive chairs.
The captain learned the good news brought by Eva. Green plants can appear on the earth, which means that the time has come to return to the earth.
When the captain wanted to put the plants in Eva's body into the program and execute the return command, he found that Eva's body was empty.
Eva was sent to the repair shop as a malfunctioning robot that lied about military information. Of course, Wall-E had to rescue her. What follows is the funny escape scene that Pixar is good at. During the common battle, the relationship between WALL-E and Eva also develops by leaps and bounds.
While escaping, Eva and WALL-E discovered the conspiracy to control the autopilot AI of the spaceship.
It is it that steals plants and wants to prevent humans from returning to the earth.
Because it received a higher-level secret instruction, saying that the earth's garbage cleanup plan failed, and humans are not allowed to go back, even if it violates the captain's order.
Coming down is the battle of wits and courage with the villain. In the process, the captain, who was originally unable to walk, stood up again, just like the first time humans changed from crawling to walking upright.
At the end, humans return to Earth, and WALL-E also has to be with Eva.
After the movie ended, there was a long round of applause in the theater.
Chen Linfeng was also applauding.
Lively and interesting, it can also promote the concept of environmental protection. Of course, it is more than this. It also expresses the irrational and uncontrollable impulse of love of human beings.
Everyone can see the deep meaning they want to see in it. This is the best example of containing private goods.
When the people in the theater dispersed a little, Lasseter walked up to Chen Linfeng with a bright face.
Chen Linfeng was the first to say, "Congratulations to Lasseter, you have made an excellent movie."
"Hahaha." Lasseter's laughter was a little wanton.
“Congratulations to you too, Chen, you are going to become a hot screenwriter in Hollywood”
This is really not about popping the champagne at halftime.
Based on the scores from the previous preview screenings and the feedback from the audience at today’s premiere.
It is almost certain that this movie will be a hit.
As a filmmaker, Lasseter certainly has a good sense of smell in this area.
Sure enough, the box office of "Wall-E" reached 75 million US dollars in its first weekend, becoming the North American weekend box office champion in one fell swoop.
The "Rotten Tomatoes" index of the beautiful country's film review website gave the film a favorable rating of 99%, directly giving it the highest rating so far.
This result is much higher than in the previous life. The movie is still the same movie, but the screening time is different.
The previous life of "Wall-E" was released in 2008. During the same period, there were movies such as "The Dark Knight", "Iron Man", "Kung Fu Panda" and "Superman", all of which were released in the summer.
It’s like a fight between gods.
This summer, there is only one blockbuster film: Pirates of the Caribbean.
In 2005, the box office for the entire summer season was much less than the same period.
"WALL-E" is equivalent to fighting a group of shrimps and soldiers. It is not surprising that the box office is higher than in its previous life.
America's major media outlets are reporting on this film.
Because the movie has an excellent reputation and is a family-friendly movie, it has a wide audience, spanning almost all age groups.
The theater chain expects the North American box office to reach US$300 million, and the global box office exceeds 600 million US dollars.
These box office figures have little to do with Chen Linfeng, after all, he will not be given more money.
But because he is the original author and has his name in the editing column, he also became famous.
Hollywood has set off another wave of pursuit of adaptation rights from him.
Chen Linfeng has always been tight on copyright. This time, he asked Sister Mei to contact Fox to discuss the adaptation of Wonderful Night at the Museum.
At the same time, Lasseter found him again.
Needless to say, the purpose is to seek cooperation again.
However, Lasseter was a little different from other companies. Instead of looking at Chen Linfeng's existing story, he wanted him to rewrite it and promised that he could directly serve as the screenwriter of the film.
Chen Linfeng was a little surprised.
“I promised you in advance that this time it won’t be as easy to talk to as last time.”
(End of this chapter)