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WALL-E

Jun-18 » Filed Under: Movies & TV » Posted by: Todd

While we were at the theater to see Kung Fu Panda (which was great, 4/5 stars) Cooper and I saw the trailer for the new Pixar flick WALL-E. We're both suckers for anything Pixar so this will definitely be on our to-see list. You can watch the trailer here. There's also a nice long article about how the movie was created. Excerpt:

Deciding there was only one person who could give the robots their 'voices', Stanton approached legendary sound designer Ben Burtt, who has created some of the most iconic noises in science fiction in Star Wars and E.T. Famed for bringing natural sounds to the distinctly unnatural realm of sci-fi, Burtt gave E.T. his gutteral grunts, which were achieved by recording his sleeping wife while she had a cold. For R2D2's bleeps, he used water pipes and whistles; Darth Vader's heavy breathing was actually Burtt huffing and puffing in a scuba diving mask; and the hum of the light sabre came from blending noises from his TV set with an old 35mm projector. [...]

Burtt has spent much of the past two years holed up on his own in a concrete bunker at Pixar's studios, recording the sounds made by toothbrushes, household appliances, miniature jet planes, army tanks and his own voice. "I went to a newspaper printer overnight and recorded all the gigantic scanners and presses," he says. "There are sounds in the movie I recorded when I was a kid from my grandfather's shortwave radio. I would tune it between stations and tape the weird electronic noises. I've used something from those original recordings in every science-fiction movie I've worked on."


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