Does Wall-E hate fat people?
Oh for crying out loud. Apparently there is a big controversy over the Disney/Pixar movie Wall-E. I guess some overweight people are upset about the way Wall-E portrays fat people. Give me a break.
If you haven’t seen the movie let me give you a run down. It’s a cute love story between Wall-E, an old robot who was left on Earth to clean up the mess left by people, and Eve, a new robot Wall-E unexpectedly runs in to. The premise of the movie is that people are not taking care of their planet and eventually it gets so bad it can no longer sustain life. Since people can’t live on Earth they are all hanging out in a spaceship. On the spaceship technology takes over and people start to live a very sedentary lifestyle.
Nowhere in the movie did they make fun of fat people. They did not make the people seem like bad people. In fact it was just the opposite. The people were all very nice people. They were just average people who were lured in by the power of technology and getting what they want without truly realizing the consequences. The movie was just showing what could happen if we don’t stop to think about what we are doing to our environment and ourselves.
Hello?!? Are you looking around? Have you seen the obesity epidemic that is going on; especially in the U.S. Part of the epidemic is due to our sedentary lifestyles and our love for all things fast food. When we were kids we didn’t have computers or video games or 500 cable channels. Instead we had bikes to ride, trees to climb and games of tag to win. But kids today are hanging out inside with the butts plastered to a chair in front of some kind of screen. Sound familiar? Yeah, it sounds like the exaggerated lifestyle everybody on the spaceship in the movie in Wall-E is living.
Yes some people gain weight due to medical condition, such as a thyroid issue, or as a side effect of some medication they need to take. But many gain weight because they don’t eat well and they don’t exercise. The movie was just trying to point out that if we don’t take care of ourselves and if we rely to heavily on technology rather than our legs we may end up obese.
People just need to get over themselves and let a kids movie be a kids movie.
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Mrs. Schmitty Said,
July 15, 2008 @ 7:32 pm
Oh for God’s sake. People always need something to complain about. I’m overweight and I didn’t think anything like that. If they were making fun of anything it was LAZY people…not FAT people. UGH! Get over it already!
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Christine's Mom Said,
July 16, 2008 @ 8:32 am
I saw the movie (with Christine, Lee, and four of the five lil beans) and loved it — despite the fact that I am quite overwweight (thank goodness Christine got her Dad’s skinny genes!!). I don’t understand the controversy either.
I am fairly sensitive to “fat” jokes, but I believe that the movie was pointing out lifestyle choices and their consequences, not making fun of fat people. It had decent people who had, over time, had made choices that had bad consequences.
At first, everyone was self-absorbed, basically unaware of their fellow passengers. Everything they did was controlled by their digital interfaces – to the detriment of their humanity. Being overweight was just one of many aspects of the characters – they were also clueless, subject to the whims of meaningless fashion, bone structure was horrible, and they have forgotten how to interact with each other.
If anything, Disney was optimistic at how quickly the characters regained their basic humanity after decades of having everything done for them!!
Cathy
patrick Said,
July 17, 2008 @ 10:39 am
i heard on an NPR interview that the people in space are portrayed as fat because of the effect of being in lesser gravity than earth
Momilies Said,
July 17, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
I haven’t seen it yet, but one of my student workers said to me, “it’s full of fat people, I loved it!!”
I am a fat girl, and fat people make me happy when they are in movies, even when they are in cartoons. I hope to see the movie tomorrow.
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