It's kind of scary that a company that started out as a frozen yogurt company slowly bought everything over the years to become a corporate giant, sounds kind of similar to a certain company....................
The two people accidentally falling off the chairs in the movie has so much more context now. The chairs moved on autopilot, the consumers were trained to sit there and “go with the flow.” Those two people were the first humans to make their own choices in generations, probably felt like breaking the fourth wall for them
Bro learning to walk is preprogrammed in our dna it’s evolution what I don’t get is how they all still consume and buy shit I’m guessing it’s because there’s 600,000 thousand people on each axiom and only the Rich could buy their way to escape the apocalypse and the citizens aboard are spending their savings
Without a doubt, this is the single most horrifying Pixar movie by lore. The fact that a megacorporation had the ability to destroy the planet and sent humans to space to avoid it is nuts. Plus, in the movie, Wall e is the last of his kind which means that the efforts made by BnL to recolonize Earth had failed. Theres so much thats unanswered in this film that makes you think.
@@gooigigamer7398 Maybe something similar, but I think they would probably be researching more effective ways to deal with the increasing trash problem on Earth. Rather than just using the WALL-E bots doing most of the work.
@@skyfeelan No, its in the movie. Its cut in between scenes. Like the first part introducing the Wall-e robots is one of the first scenes in the movie. Its how they "narrate" the story a bit, considering theres not many speaking roles.
According to these commercials, each Axiom cruise liner only holds 600K passengers. The movie never states how many ships left Earth, but I'm sure it wasn't enough to carry the entire population. I wonder how many people were left behind on the doomed planet to die?
We know there is at least 2 more ships as seen in the operation cleanup section, seeing how big BNL is they definitely had the funds to build alot more,and even then it apparently wasn't free since one of the commercials said "reserve your spot today", meaning alot of people probably couldn't afford to get on a ship.
@@mcfeddleThis is true, as ships were eventually issued directive A113 which basically told all of them to never come back and to just drift around in space forever. Axiom was the only one we know of to defy that order.
If BNL ruled the world, it would have definently met a lot of resistance on the way, meaning that at some point BNL would have been responsible for creating massive fleets of hunter killer robots and vehicles, this is evidenced by the existence of EVE having an advanced plasma cannon on her arm, which fits into a tiny profile while having the power of a tank cannon, while also being semiautomatic. This proves that BNL researched hyper advanced weapons of war and bent over the nations of the earth through devastating wars and genocides.
@foxy2.0 While that may be true, they're not the only company that does things like that. Gillette makes those razors and creams you shave your face with, but also makes military-grade Razor Wire that's strung along the tops of fences at many state prisons, for example.
Oh yeah I definitely agree. It was so good, the story was great, and the CGI was great too! Unlike what kind of crap we get from Disney as they are so concerned about DEI and woke nonsense.
@@rayvaul3539 Ironic how you're complaining about Disney being "woke" when WALL-E was probably the most "woke" Pixar movie, being a rebuke of corporatism and late-stage capitalism.
It looks like the writers/artists that worked on these had a lot of fun doing so and that makes me happy. To think how excited they must've been to get to create these realistically harsh commentaries on modern society all on Disney's dime 😁
@@hydrawzensky It would be funny if Cave Johnson from the Portal series in an alternate dimension somehow manage to become the new CEO(or a co-CEO) of BNL. Here's what he would say about the whole situation: Hello investors, Cave Johnson here. New CEO of Buy N' Large, that's right you've been bought, first order of business, we're renaming you under the Aperture brand. I'm thinking Aperture N' Large, marketing boys thinking of something else, so Aperture N' Large it is. Now you might have notice that there is an overabundance of trash outside of your hometown, city, country, and basically the whole damn planet. Well according to our ecological experts that the decomposition of the large landfills is causing the CO2 toxicity levels to skyrocket through the roof. Not to mention that due to all this trash everywhere(due to people not doing the sensible thing of recycling all this useless stuff they let lying all over place), will likely lead to the rapid population growth of rats, flies, raccoon and cockroaches that thrive in large amounts of garbage in one area. Although another thing to note is due to the increasing trashy environmental conditions will likely lead to theses pests to evolve into anthro-like intelligent creatures either through natural selection or mutation from all the toxic chemicals lying around, likely rule the planet once we leave the Earth in our ANL Starliners. Anyway to solve the trash-covered planet problem, let me introduce the WALL-E(Waste Allocation Load Lifter *Earth-Class*) robot. Think of this bot as a miniature Trashcompactor on treads that can compact more trash into cube for cube. They also are very durable, easy to maintain, and can apparently recharge in the sun due to being equip with Solar panels to recharge their battery without the need to plug in. They even been designed to have a laser in between their eyes to slice through any obstacle that is in their way, it may also be used to burn any pest so to prevent future animal overloads from taking over the planet. Now since the WALL-E units can only go 35 mph at top speed at best, these robots would be carried by a Truck that is also powered by Solar energy to avoid furthering polluting the atmosphere. They also been equipped with a warning signal that alerts them of an incoming duststorm, so they can retreat into the safety comfort of their home. Now that covers pretty much everything about the WALL-E robot, and while they do the cleaning, we will basically go to space for an extended vacation until they clear up all the trash. Anyway to you little trashcompactor bots out there, good luck, we are counting on you. Cave Johnson out.
@@hydrawzensky Yep, it would be a treat to Cave Johnson in an alternative universe narrate these BNL(or ANL) commercials after somehow ending up being the [Co]CEO of the Biggest company in the world of WALL-E. I wonder if he would find a way to use BNL in the further development of the Portal technology, or make Androids with names like GREG(Giga Remote Emulator Grid), TUR-ET(Target Ultra Reactive Earth-Class Turret) or CARO-INE(Computer Adaptive Role Operator Interlink Network Emulator). It would be interesting to see robots with both Aperture and Buy N' Large aesthetics unified to make some unique designs of the bots.
There needs to be a Pixar movie where it shows the events leading up to WALL-E in 2105 where Earth becomes truly too polluted and mankind is ordered to evacuate Earth. It will show how the Axiom and the other BNL starliners are made and the WALL-E’s being introduced and how Earth got covered in so much refuse. But it will mainly focus on an older guy similar to Carl who refuses to leave and stays behind.
Really illustrates what an excellent critique on "green" capitalism Wall-E really was. Of course, the original film had BnL as more of a background critique, with the main focus being more on moving past our mistakes and making a greener more sustainable future.
I remember as a kid back in 2008 that I thought Sears would end up being like this but then years later they went bankrupt and closed like 98% of stores 😂
@@hydrawzensky without all the aging and distortion effects, just on its own its not so bad 3:18 but when you hear it being played through the speakers of an abandoned gas station in the middle of a desolate wasteland that was once a thriving ecosystem... idk it's just beautiful juxtaposition, the sounds of what should be a commercialized paradise but all that is left is the heaps of excess waste caused by such consumerism.
I'd say monopoly is kind of evil, but I will say it's not evil to the consumers. It's very clear that they want to take care of the consumer as much as they can here, make them happy as possible.
5 years is not enough to make good profit, so they set a goal and made it as long as possible, so they could have time to become the government and control and manipulate everything
For a massive world owning company BNL actually comes across as surprisingly responsible and willing to take responsibility for the state of the earth. Had the plan actually worked out a relatively short 5 year trip wouldn’t have really altered humanity as much as they where in the movie. We also don’t necessarily know when the other WALL E units burnt out so it’s possible they didn’t last long past that initial period and a single unit couldn’t have done all that much especially given it spent a good deal of time goofing around. If the auto pilot hadn’t gone rouge the plan may have worked in the planned time frame. BNL are surprisingly moral given no one was ever going to hold them responsible for anything.
Well, in the operation cleanup explanation they say that the problem is that "global real-estate" is shrinking, not mentioning pollution directly. So, it doesn't exactly seem to be out of the goodness of their hearts, but rather them just realizing their expansion will be limited. Plus, I don't think you can just pump the smoke from incineration directly out of the atmosphere. I mean, I'm not an expert on incineration, but I don't see how that is supposed to work.
bnl knowing that the five year trip would never work from the beginning is a major plotpoint in the movie and the reason why auto "went rouge". the bnl/world president literally sent all autopilots a secret message hidden from the human captains that told them to never let the humans come back. The EVEs were just a fake show to get support and so were the WALL-Es. They wernt supposed to work. The only robots that got a personality and "went rouge" were WALL-E and EVE. wall-e learned over time by himself how to fix him, and both robots fell in love and worked together. Auto did exactly what BnL wanted and followed its programming. in fact AUTO was the only robot in the entire movie with no funny moments or personality or anything at all. even the ones that wernt deemed defective like mo and the typist near the elevator deviated from the script with mo leaving the track and shivering in fear, the typist waving back at wall-e, and BURN-E getting frustrated in that one short and actually making his job harder for himself out of anger.
AUTO never went rogue. He was simply following the directive given to him. The real problem is BNL's willingness to just give up instead of finding other solutions.
Wall-E was one of my favorite movies that take place in the future back then, if not, my favorite movie back then. Can't believe how incredibly well this movie aged.
BnL has a strong simularity with distopic games companies like Aperture Science from Portal, or Spacers Choice from The Outer Worlds. This level of Monopoly and power that a Company can get, and at the same time, comicaly incompetent in a Lot of ways. It's interesting How different médias developed so similar world building. Who inspired who?
Actual corporations for doing stuff like dumping toxic chemicals 'cause it's cheaper than properly disposing of them and making foreign children essentially work as slaves 'cause it's cheaper than hiring more workers and taking control of the government to focus on stupid political issues instead of the bullshit that goes on behind everyonecs back like murder, rape, insanity, exploitation, greed, lust, power, all to line the rich man's pockets. Because as long as it is lined, they get what they want. And if they have more, they get more of what they want. What they don't understand is what it's like. I'm getting tired of the bullshit like trump and abortion, gas prices, stupid wars with Russia, jobs getting worse, I want to live a life knowing somebody in the government body cares enough about their people to help them _themselves._ The leader of Ukraine is a massively good example. This freedom of the business has gone too damn far, because unless you can support the other rich guys and make them more money, you aren't up for government. It's all owned by rich guys that make each other more money, unmistakably sourced from _us, the people._ The entire BnL corporation is an attempted expression of this very real worry in a family movie. It expresses it well.
@@hydrawzensky Have you ever played the Outer Worlds? It's from 2019, and It's even more similar. All the storyline and the vibes of the game seem to be inspired in Wall-e
Something I noticed is in the movie multiple ships take off but only the AXIOM returns. So those other people who left in other ships won't return? I was hoping they would like contact the other ships and tell them to all come back too or something..
I, I think that the other ships did not return because the autopilot followed with the A113 directive, and although the captain rebelled as a step in the Axiom I think they did not return, because it is also seen at the end of the movie that they returned only emergency capsules and not the ships
It's possible that once back on earth, they sent a new directive to the other cruise ships. I mean, all of the tech that buy n large had on earth was left there.
Maybe the captain of the axiom found out later on after landing on earth that there were other ships, and then he sent a signal to them to come back to earth.
i was obsessed with bnl when it first came out. i was 9. and pointed out every big skyscraper or retailer and shouted another BNL! drove my parents crazy
Now Amazon has supermarket stores, very similar coming from a company that started selling books on the Internet, it is becoming more and more gigantic, don't be surprised if one day Amazon and Google join, or Elon Musk does his thing buying both, WALL -E is not far from reality in a few years, Buy n' Large is the example of what it could be in the future...
Imagine if a small company like buy n large was suddenly became a global superpower stronger than the US and China I would be scared if this company was real
It isn't just stronger. It _owns_ both of them. They _are_ the government, the army, your healthcare and stores, etc. They own everything. Including you.
BnL would be horrifying. OCP was also a big fictional megacorporation, but their influence was mainly within the United States, most prominently around Detroit. BnL, on the other hand, was global.
@@hydrawzensky at least BnL is not malevolent, or stupid enough to defend an alien device that brings monsters everywhere. Regardless, this world is better.
It's interesting how this movie cautioned us about the rise of corporations. They want us to stay in our comfort zone, stay unskilled, consume their products and give them money. A skill changes a person's brain's neural network and worldview, making that person harder to control. A monopoly leads to misery and inequality by eliminating competition.
I wanna know what sorta Hideo Kojima nightmare pack Pixar were smoking when coming up with Wall.E's world because gaht damn they've started predicting the future
I'll be honest, Wall.E is my favorite Pixar film of all time. But in terms of lore, yeah, there is a lot to unpack, whilst there is a lot of questions left unanswered.
@@hydrawzensky I mean , at least you could vote with your wallet . It would still suck , but considering that most politicians dont even care about their voters , at least it would be an improvement .
4:07 "Buy n Large has become the world leader in every conceivable field Including... World Leadership!" That kinda sounds like a dictatorship. would you?
Imagine a disney ride where you ride on the Axiom while its crashing, and while you are in line to get on the ride these commercials play! I need that in my life
Pff yeah five years Damn it the jingle is stuck in my head!!! *Tackles the announcer* nadie cubre la bandera de mexico con un ponche B n L logo!!! *Strangles them*
@@ELCarnerojrLFDO you'd be doing the world a favor it can never repay.....now that i think of it it was most likely their plan to do it all y'know like the enclave in fallout series for supreme world domination
Imagine being a high type 1 civ and instead of making sun centric orbital habitats and a dyson swarm to basically remove the need to live on a planet entirely, you make goofy cruise ships. Also if the goofy cruise ships were flying around so long but also constantly throwing out trash, meaning net negative materials, where were they getting raw materials?
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BnL has influence and power on the incredibles movie, cars, toy story, wall e, UP, and around 2 more movies. All pixar films are connected into one big storyline and plot, BnL plays a big part of it all
It’s kind of crazy when you realise that with big brands like Disney (ironic I know) buying loads of other companies, this could potentially be our future with all our products being made by a mega corporation
