July 07, 2008

Speechless over WALL•E

There seems to be a cooperative dissatisfaction among the uncultured with the lack of dialogue for a large part of WALL•E's screenplay. Would you rather have him follow the class-less trend of mainstream media and talk to himself? Perhaps Pixar was providing us with a premature lecture when Mr. Incredible and Frozone complained to each other about the silliness of monologue. Words are the lazy way out to the progress of a story presented in a primarily visual medium. Yet, nobody seems to mind, and everyone seems to revere, Pixar's traditionally wordless animated shorts that prime the audience before each feature. Have your speech-cluttered Dreamworks whose imagery is incapable of bearing a plot minus vocal embellishment, and I'll speechlessly take my Pixar whose binocular-face robot tugs out deep emotion with little more than a few sighs and whistles.

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