|Video Release:||17 Nov 2008| |See Canadian Ratings| |How We
Determine Our Grades| After watching a movie with your children
or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for
education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few
discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in
the home. What does WALL-E learn about human interactions from
watching the video of the musical Hello Dolly? How does he try
to emulate that in his relationship with Eve? Although he has
all the stuff in the world, why does he still crave contact with
another being? How do the film’s producers develop their
characters’ personalities, even with very little dialogue? How
do facial features, tone of voice and inflections all contribute
to communication? The moviemakers address social concerns such
as consumerism, waste, interference from big business, lack of
physical fitness, institutionalized childcare and the addiction
to screens and virtual worlds. Which of these issues do you
think is our biggest conce