World According to WALL-E's Andrew Stanton, Ben Burtt and the Cast
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Fred Willard on where he drew inspiration for his character:
“I based him more on the pilot of an airplane. We get on an airplane and that very soothing voice, ‘We’ll be taking off very shortly. Flying time is 3 hours and 40 minutes. Get comfortable.’ And then you sit a long time and something’s up. ‘This is your captain speaking. Unfortunately we have a little delay. ‘ And then by the end it’s, ‘I have some bad news. We’re going back to the gate. The flight has been cancelled. We should have you on another plane in no time.’ That night you’re in a cheap motel waiting to fly out the next morning.”
Ben Burtt on creating EVE’s sound:
Eve is a very high-tech robot and so unlike the motors, squeaks and metallic sounds you have with WALL-E, EVE is held together with some sort of force field and magnetism. A great deal of her sound is purely synthesized musical type of tones that I could make in a music synthesizer and treat various ways, because her whole character was supposed to be graceful and ethereal, so she always has an electronic noise associated with her floating around. Sometimes she feels angry in scenes where she needs to be aggressive. Sometimes she’s very enchanting during a romantic moment.