I want to work at Pixar.

While I know little to nothing about computer technology and programming (take a look at this site, for instance!!), I do know a thing or two about writing … and I could probably learn to suck John Lasseter’s dick under his desk just the way he likes it.

Just gimme a chance, guys!!!

We all love Pixar movies – even that damn Cars thing – because they have heart, they uniformly feature strong characters, and they are textbook examples of perfect story structure.

Their latest creation, Ratatouille, is fortunately doing well despite the unwieldly name and mature subject matter. However, Pixar is never a company that rests on its fat, computer-geek ass. The gears are now spinning in the marketing department for Pixar’s newest feature - adorably named Wall-E -and the thing looks like a monumental hit.

It involves a little cleaning robot named Wall-E that becomes sentient while cleaning the Earth all by himself.  He begins to dream about life and love … oh boy … my eyes are already beginning to well up. You just know this damn thing will have Old Yeller-style, “E.T. dies while Henry Thomas cries rivers of tears” kind of emotional pull. Great. I love that kind of manipulation.

First, take a look at the brilliant promo put together for the robot:

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Neat, huh?

Also check out their amazing website: Click here!

Peter Sciretta over at Slash Film has this awesome article from the Wall-E segment of the San Diego Comic Con this weekend. In it, director Andrew Stanton reveals some great stuff about the movie:

Sometime in the future overpopulation and rampant consumerism literally buries the world in trash. And mankind, the entire population is forced to re-colonize for a mandatory five year cruise out in space on these luxurious star-liners that had the latest and greatest in care and entertainment and automation. Meanwhile those WALL-E units were deployed to help clean up the planet’s surface. And something didn’t go right and nobody ever came back. So for over four centuries one little robot was like the little energizer bunny. He kept going and going and going. Day in and day out, compacting trash for seven hundred years. During this period of time he formed a personality with a curiosity in the artifacts and history of mankind. Wondering what this thing called living is all about. Until one day an unusual event occurs that motivates WALL-E to for the first time, break from his life-long routine and seize an opportunity to go out into space.

Also great is the idea for having very little dialogue in the film … nearly the “silent” film that Chris and I have talked about for so long:

One thing I knew in the beginning is I didn’t want to have dialogue in the traditional sense. In order to stay true to the integrity of the inanimate object, I really wanted to view most of it’s personality through how it was constructed. And it’s a metal box, a piece of electronics. I’m basically making R2-D2 the movie.

These guys are freakin’ geniuses, every single one of them.

Here is the wonderful and heart-tugging trailer for Wall-E:

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