Burn E

burne1

Release Date: November 18, 2008 (Wall-E Blu-ray/DVD)
Running Time: 7 minutes 19 seconds

Cast
Ben Burtt, Jeff Garlin, Elissa Knight, MacInTalk, Angus MacLane & Tessa Swigart

Credits
Music by: J.A.C Redford
Story By: Angus MacLane, Andrew Stanton & Derek Thompson
Produced By: Galyn Susman
Directed by: Angus MacLane

Tidbits

angus

  • This is the directorial debut of Angus MacLane. He was the animating director on Wall-E and has worked on all the Pixar feature films since Toy Story 2.
  • Burn E stands for Basic Utility Repair Nano Engineer.
  • Why does Burn E do a fist pump right after he cuts through the door? I’ll let director Angus MacLane explain: “That is a bit of an inside joke. Brad Bird’s pet peeve is the movie cliche’ where a character does that fist-pump an says “YESSSS!” I think that I put that joke in just to irritate him. I think there is an easter egg on the Rataouille DVD that explains this. So if you watch that before you see BURN•E, the short will be 34% funnier.
  • There is a graphic on the elevator inside the Axiom that reads “ELV 426″ indicating that this is elevator number four hundred and twenty-six. This is a reference to LV-426 the planet that is the setting of the movie Alien and Aliens. These sci-fi classics are favorites of Angus MacLane.