Ben Burtt

Hayworth, William Life is not about where you started I began to know hardship at a very early age of 2 months; I was removed from my family and placed into foster care. My dad divorced my mom shortly after I was born and never looked back. I spent the next 15 years moving between foster homes. I became a bitter and rebellious child. I was kicked out of all the middle schools in my local school district in Detroit Michigan and placed in a mental hospital. I was mad at the world and felt…

The desire for political and civil rights have driven numerous societies to revolt against an oppressive rule in hopes to achieve a more democratic lifestyle. Thus, when Middle Easterners began becoming more fed up with oppressive regimes, the desire for a revolution emerged. The political outcomes of the Arab Spring uprisings were different for each country involved. While civil war arose in some countries, other countries did not have substantial revolts; there were even states that became so…

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The plot centers on a robot called WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class) whose job is to collect garbage on Earth due to years of mass over consumption. After years of collecting garbage, WALL-E (voice Ben Burtt) grows a certain behavior as he collects things to decorate his home and develops an affection for ‘Hello Dolly’ which he watches on a VHS tape time and time again. From the video, WALL-E seemingly learns the ideas of holding hand and falling in love. One day,…

The Foley sound effects are artificial, created with props or sources that are often radically different to what appears on screen. In cinema, the sounds of monsters or futuristic technology, for instance, have been created using every from envelopes to breezeblocks and biplane motors. It’s not just for fictional TV or movies either. In a radio documentary, The Sound of Sports, Dennis Baxter describes how sounds are added to sporting events, from rowing to athletics. In horse racing, for example…

Wall-E is a movie released in 2008 and is directed by Andrew Stanton. The sound designer was Ben Burtt. The movie portrays Earth as a massive dumpster with garbage everywhere, and only one small robot, Wall-E, left to inhabit it. Wall-E rummages on the dystopian Earth and is unaware on how life is on the space station where humans now live. Humans are mostly immobile and overweight, as robots do the jobs they used to. A robot, Eve, from the station is sent to Earth to potentially discover any…

Lincoln gives an account of the drastically divided nation existent during the American Civil War. Seen from the viewpoint of United States President Abraham Lincoln, it details his struggles with the continuing warfare between Americans, as well as the disagreements with lawmakers on the decision to permanently abolish slavery. Directed by Steven Spielberg, and released on November 9, 2012, Lincoln was nominated for, and received numerous awards. Met with worldwide critical acclaim, the film…