Daily Archives: December 10, 2008

Movie review: Wall-E

Lnexun doesn’t normally do movie reviews but I thought this movie deserved one.

Wall-E is computer-animated-science-fiction-romance film produced by Pixar Animation Studios (Now owned by Disney, with Steve Jobs on the board of directors). All in all, a wonderful movie, Most of the characters do not have actual human voices, but instead communicate with body language and robotic sounds, designed by Ben Burtt, that resemble voices. It is also quite interesting to note that Wall-E runs Mac OS.

“By the early 22nd century, the mega corporation Buy n Large took control of every economic service on Earth, causing excessive worldwide consumerism to cover the planet in un-recycled trash. A plan was proposed that would have the Earth’s population evacuate the planet into space on fully automated luxury star liners where they would spend the next five years while an army of waste disposal robots called “WALL-E” (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) would be left behind to clean the planet. This plan failed, however, and the planet was deemed uninhabitable. For the next 700 years, humanity continued to live in space while all of the WALL-E robots on Earth broke down except for one; this lone unit still performs his duties but, after centuries of prolonged activation, has developed sentience and a sense of curiosity, as shown by his habit of collecting knickknacks among the trash (as well as spare parts for himself), and his fascination with the old musical film Hello, Dolly!.

Subsequently, Wall-E falls into love with a probe robot EVE. Wall-E’s adventures then lead him to the luxury star liner, the axiom itself. The captain of the ship discovers Earth’s present state and realizes that humans must go back and rebuild human civilization on earth. Once they reach Earth, the humans and robots begin working together to restore their home.”

C.O.R.E 2008 – Overall Winners!

C.O.R.E, the computer club of D.P.S Dwarka organized its first annual interschool Computer symosium- C.O.R.E ’08. Delhi Public School R.K Puram bagged the overall trophy. The individual results are as follows-

Quiz- First Position

  • Anuj Bharadwaj
  • Dhananjay Goel

Programming- First Position

  • Anand Khare
  • Sakshi Gupta

Surprise Event- First Position

  • Tanay Padhi
  • Adideva Sekhri

Gaming (Fifa)- First Position

  • Aviral Goyal

Group Discussion- Second Position

  • Samarth Mathur

Crossword- Third Position

  • Sampoorna Biswas
  • Aditya Grover

There was also a special mention of the participants of Creative Event, Pranav Obhrai and Arpit Mathur.

Congratulations to all!