Today (10/20) we will be watching Andrew Stanton's Wall-E (2008). Film is a text and it
demands to be interpreted critically just as any written work does. As we watch Wall-E, I want you to answer the following
questions. You will read these questions before attending our screening
and you will print these questions out and take notes as we watch the
movie. You will turn in the study questions the day we conclude our discussion (10/22). Your answers will be typed.
1. What does this film have to say about work?
2. What does this film have to say about consumption and buying?
3. Wall-E is a collector. Explain how Wall-E produces property using John Locke's theories of labor?
4. Wall-E plays homage to the silent film comedies of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd. What role does sound play in the film? Who gets to speak and who does not? What role does language play in the film?
5. What is the film's point of view on the light-track on which everything moves on The Axiom? What does this say about freedom, creativity, etc.?
1. What does this film have to say about work?
2. What does this film have to say about consumption and buying?
3. Wall-E is a collector. Explain how Wall-E produces property using John Locke's theories of labor?
4. Wall-E plays homage to the silent film comedies of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd. What role does sound play in the film? Who gets to speak and who does not? What role does language play in the film?
5. What is the film's point of view on the light-track on which everything moves on The Axiom? What does this say about freedom, creativity, etc.?
