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The 21st Century's 100 greatest films". BBC. August 23, 2016. Archived from the original on January 31, 2017 . Retrieved October 19, 2017. Peter Hartlaub (June 29, 2008). "All Ears on 'WALL-E' ". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012 . Retrieved November 3, 2008. Busis, Hillary (August 3, 2012). "An interview with Mike Senna, builder of a real-life Wall-E". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on August 9, 2016 . Retrieved May 19, 2016. Thomas Newman recollaborated with Stanton on WALL-E since the two got along well on Finding Nemo, which gave Newman the Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Feature. He began writing the score in 2005, in the hope that starting this task early would make him more involved with the finished film. But, Newman remarked that animation is so dependent on scheduling he should have begun work earlier on when Stanton and Reardon were writing the script. EVE's theme was arranged for the first time in October 2007. Her theme when played as she first flies around Earth originally used more orchestral elements, and Newman was encouraged to make it sound more feminine. [69] Newman said Stanton had thought up many ideas for how he wanted the music to sound, and he generally followed them as he found scoring a partially silent film difficult. Stanton wanted the whole score to be orchestral, but Newman felt limited by this idea especially in scenes aboard the Axiom, and used electronics too. [70] A live-action clip of the song "It Only Takes a Moment" from Hello, Dolly!, which inspires WALL-E to hold hands with EVE