The Influence of One Person in the Disney Movie Wall-E

In the Disney film Wall-E, the robot named Wall-E influences everyone he meets. He touches their lives and changes their perspectives just by being his polite self. From the beginning to the end of the movie, his compassion and caring nature inspires most of the people he meets to change for the better.

Eve (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) comes to Earth looking for plant life. She meets up with Wall-E, who just so happens to have a plant in his collection of treasures he found in the garbage the humans left behind. Once Eve had found the plant and locked it securely away inside her robot shell, she became the first EVE probe to return to the Axiom spaceship with a plant.

This single plant that Wall-E found while rummaging through garbage made its way to the edges of space to the spaceship called The Axiom. This plant was proof that vegetation and photosynthesis returned to Earth and that living conditions was stable enough for the humans to return. This all happened because of Wall-E.

When Wall-E boards the Axiom, he meets Mo, the obsessive compulsive cleaning robot. Mo follows Wall-E everywhere because Wall-E leaves a trail of dirt behind him. Mo always follows orders and stays on the lighted line, but when he meets Wall-E, he steps off the line to continue his cleaning duties. This changes Mo because he realizes that he doesn't have to stay on the line, he can go where he wants.

While Wall-E chases Eve through the traffic of robots aboard the Axiom, he meets a human named John. John demands that Wall-E takes his cup and when Wall-E doesn't, John falls out of his hover chair. Wall-E then proceeds to help John back into the chair, introduces himself, and then runs off to find Eve. John is left on his chair thinking about the kind deed.

Mary is another human Wall-E interacts with by trying to get around her on a tram. Wall-E wants to get closer to Eve, but Mary is in the way. When Wall-E disrupts Mary's video screen, she sees the surroundings for the first time. When the tram stops at the pool, Mary says, "I didn't know we had a pool." She had lived on the Axiom all her life without noticing everything around her because of her video screen in front of her face.

Wall-E hangs on to the end of Eve's cart and heads to the Captain's station. When passing the security guard who is busy pushing buttons, Wall-E waves at him. The guard then realizes he can move his robotic hand up and down to wave, not just to push buttons. When we see this guard again later, he waves frantically and happily at Wall-E, as if he'd been practicing the entire time.

When Wall-E gets caught inside the Captain's station by the Captain and Auto, the auto pilot, Wall-E introduces himself to the Captain. When they shake hands, Wall-E leaves dirt on the Captain's hand. This leads the Captain to analyze the dirt with the mother computer. She explains the dirt to the Captain as "earth" and he asks her to define "earth." This leads him to asking the definitions of many terms, something he has never done before.

In the Repair Ward, Wall-E gets Eve's shooting arm and accidentally shoots the security system box. This disables all the robot guards and partitions that are keeping the malfunctioning robots in order. The malfunctioning robots realize they are free and carry Wall-E out of the ward like a hero. These robots then go on to run rampant and free around the Axiom.

Go-4, a robot that strictly follows rules, tried to throw the plant down the garbage chute, by following orders from Auto. Wall-E so happens to be coming up the garbage chute to get to Eve. He rescues it accidentally as it lands on his head.

In the perilous moment when Wall-E tries to hold up the Hollow Detector, the Captain (who is unable to walk) sees Wall-E stretching with all his might to stand as tall as he can. The Captain, who is lying on the floor, decides to stand and he goes on to fight against Auto. This is the first time the Captain has stood on his own two feet and taken steps and is witnessed by everyone on board, who cheers him on. The passengers later go on to walk for themselves.

The most important influence Wall-E has in the entire movie is that he teaches Eve human qualities. She is introduced as a robot that follows the rules, but by the end of the movie she has emotions. Eve falls in love with Wall-E for the brave little robot he is. She even picks up his nervous habit of tapping his fingers together.

The movie Wall-E shows that one person, or robot in this case, can change the world. His natural habits of being nice, polite, and fighting for love led him to reunite the entire human race. Wall-E gave the people and some robots something to believe in and something to live for.