Especially for our non-human agents, directives in the beginning of the film deal specifically with programming design by humans. As worker robots, they are tied to a sense of blind duty, not ever grasping impact, effectiveness, or even if they are actually completing their tasks appropriately; especially WALL-E whose task seems ridiculous and unattainable. Fortunately for the audience, the scattered programming of the two introduces a beautiful love story. Driven by the apparent need to connect with others, the closest human emotion one can relate to the feelings expressed is the concept of true love. Looking at the captain of the ship as the main human character, his purpose is also one of duty—at first to stay the course and by the conclusion …show more content…
As an overview of the five pentadic terms in WALL-E, the film is presenting this situation to the target audience of children. In the over-polluted and toxic world (scene), a robot (agent) understands his duty (purpose) to aid in the clean-up process (act) by piling trash and collecting spare parts (agency). Missing connection and curious about human’s conceptions of love (purpose), “he” is excited to meet another robot visitor
(agent) who also has a directive (purpose) to discover sustainable life on Earth (act).
Unfortunately, the two must travel to space and inform humans (agents) of the discovery of plant life on Earth. The humans and the robots travel back to Earth and begin to farm
(agency) and responsibly plan for the future through stewardship and love (purpose) for the once-abandoned planet.
In contrast to the previous films, three dominant terms exist after analyzing
WALL-E. While scene and purpose are similar, this film has another dominant term which includes the agents. Since it is different from the other examined films, I will report findings about agent and its influence over other terms in the film. To begin, let’s look at the robot for which the film is