I will be analysing the opening sequence from Wall-E
Hermeneutic Code (Enigma)
- Flying through "ghost planet"
- Looks like a post apocalyptic earth
- Little cockroach still alive
Proairetic code (Action)
- No real action takes place
- He compresses a metal cube, then takes it to a big pile
- Cockroach pops out and follows him
Connotative [or Semic] code
- Audience could assume that maybe due to human behaviour of littering and wasting energy and releasing CO2 emissions that we destroyed the earth and made ourselves extinct, connotations such as:
- Cockroach surviving always been the animal that can survive
- Absolute wasteland
- Robot clearing it up
Cultural or referential code
- Very tall skyscrapers, would normally make us think, bust town centre lots of people, very fast pace
- We also see everything is rusted which as we know is a process that takes time
- We know its set in the future because robots to that level have not been created or commercialised yet
Symbolic code (and Binary Opposites)
- The Opposites Wall-E and the Cockroach, there relationship will grow to be very important to the story line.
- As we fly to the planet we see wind powered electrical generators, these are almost opposite to Wall-E in the way that they are both trying to achieve the same goal, but the generators have been around since humans inhabited that planet.
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