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...nearly enough of the campy talking owl Bubo from the original in this Clash. He makes an appearance here. But he was sort of like R2-D2 in the original one. You have to be careful with those little nods to the [original] audience. My nephew ain't going to get that. Mads Mikkelsen [(Draco)] didn't even get it. He didn't see the original, so he didn't know what...
...eventually live off of. Back then, I was almost using pop music as an act of rebellion, especially being part of the experimental-music community. I thought a lot of those people were recycling a lot of ideas, like playing noise and feedback and having some name like X_R2. So I kind of picked the name Girl Talk because it was so glossy and sounds like a 10-year-old girl's band name. I just thought it would be the most inappropriate name for the music community that I was involved with. And some people really hated...
...pass as a local; the details and pentatonic scale may come from Chinese folk music, but the playful melodies are rooted in pop. The fluttering female voices on "Heavenly Peach Banquet" resolve as the la-la-la-la-las from Minnie Ripperton's "Lovin' You." "Iron Rod" sounds like R2-D2 rapping on a dance floor. "The Living Sea" is a ballad of such delicacy that it feels like a love song in any language. The music does a fair job of telling Monkey's story, but that's far less interesting than the ambition on display and the effortless...
...virtually no dialogue. Nor does it offer a Star Wars--like print crawl to inform viewers that this is Earth 800 years from now. The mechanical critter who is the film's hero can speak only in electronic grunts and sighs, or in one-word bursts, like a chattier R2-D2. The movie's other main creature, a robot named EVE, also can speak only a few words. Yet it's Pixar's big, bold belief that the mass audience will be astute enough to follow the visual clues and game enough to play along. So confident is the studio...
...didn’t want you to think it was a cartoon character,” Stanton says. “That made me think it shouldn’t speak.”Wall•E, he said, is in many ways influenced by R2-D2 from the “Star Wars” series. “It was clearly a machine. There was nothing anthropomorphic about it, and it just did a lot of beeping.” Stanton recruited Ben Burtt, who designed R2-D2’s “voice?...