Pixar’s WALL-E to portray our superobese descendants
Pixar may be having second thoughts about the box office impact of portraying future humans as superobese couch potatoes in its future robot-themed animated feature WALL-E.
We previously reported that the plot of the movie takes place 700 years in the future, after mankind so completely trashed Earth’s environment that it had to relocate to spaceships.
In their new orbital home mankind has evolved into huge floating fat blobs.
Now a CalorieLab correspondent reports that he had the opportunity this week to view an early focus group screening of WALL-E in Portland, Oregon, attended by Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook. Our source judged the movie to be very entertaining and well done, despite large sections where the animation rendering had not yet been completed.
WALL-E indeed seems to be making a statement about fitness and the obesity crisis. “It shows a future in which mankind literally spends all day on a giant starship moving around in floating chairs, drinking liquified food from Big-Gulp-esque cups, and forever surfing (and chatting) on chair-mounted video screens,” says the source.
A section of the film reveals the history of mankind’s fall into sloth and fat: “There’s an amazing sequence where the camera pans over portraits of the previous captains of the ship — and we watch as they slowly devolve into amorphous blobs with each successive generation. Will the lethargic humans re-awaken to their possibilities as people? I hate spoilers: you’ll have to see the movie to find out!”
retreived 23/09/09 from http://calorielab.com/news/2007/10/31/pixar-wavering-over-wall-es-portrayal-of-our-superobese-descendants/
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