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- Oct 2016
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WALL-E not only anthropomorphizes but Westernizes our robot hero and the loving sequences between WALL-E and the two loves of his life, EVE and his pet cockroach, are loaded with Disney’s signal sentimen-tality
This is what we as an audience are comfortable with.
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the peculiar self-alienation—and particularly the alienation from the body—experienced by technologically immersed humans
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Nostalgia is one of the central pleasures of the Pixar films, which not only focus on “classic,” vintage objects (the world worn, low-tech WALL-E and his collection of ephemera, and timeless classic toys in Toy Story), but also on a nostalgia for Hollywood
This could be considered the 'thesis' of this section. It lets us know what it will be about.
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