The guys at Rotten Tomatoes got to see 30 minutes of Pixar’s new summer movie, Wall-E, and talk to the director afterward.
What kind of reaction were you getting because in the first 30 minutes there was no dialogue in the film?
Andrew Stanton: First of all, I think that that’s a misnomer. There is dialog all through it. All I am saying is that they are not necessarily saying words in a language that you know. What I wanted was integrity. It all comes down to just as much as I believe that Luxo is a lamp and that it has a life in it and it thinks like a lamp and acts like a lamp and I don’t have to be told that, it doesn’t have to be spelled out to me, I just get it right away, I wanted the same thing with the robots.
I’d like a diagram of that last sentence, please.
Are you offering a prize for the first one who successfully diagrams it?
The prize is the satisfaction of a job well done! What more could a body ask for? No, beside that . . . and that too. What more could–all right already! I don’t know that I remember how to diagram a sentence well enough to check you.
That’s an amazing comma splice. It’s a whole spliced series of splices.
P.S. But I’m really looking forward to Wall-E.