“Chappie” is perhaps the first science fiction film , in which there is no harm before a crash course in Hip-Hop and to complete techno. The Gangstas returning from a fishing trip in the beginning, have their skin zutätowiert, swing Phantasiewummen, spray testosterone, and every moment you expect to hear them break out in a rap. But before it can go as far as to grab fortunately the police robot
The robots are the fiction part, man -. You see the outfit of our Special Forces to – the feeling that fiction is already about to become a reality: the police, the crime in South Africa no longer in control and therefore sends robo cops in the fight. “With whom do not negotiate it, you can not convince,” says director Neill Blomkamp.
And just when you feel like you in a thriller to find “teKino”, which refers to civil liberties more trampled – the state power in China, North Korea and the US, suggests the film, to lust after such Cops – two roles performs “Chappie” backwards and lands in the middle of Zef.
Zef – here the crash course starts – is South Africa’s counterculture. White counterculture. The emerging working class during the apartheid drove Ford Zephyr. Souped ZEFS, the engine, the tires, the moldings. The ZEFS were poor, but sexy. Today, they are a little further up the social ladder and would be ashamed of themselves for so much vulgarity.
the white chavs this vulgarity The Zef-style skin around the ears, and the main exponent of this style is the rave duo Die Antwoord: the dry brush cut-MC Ninja and Yo-Landi Bitchette platinum. In interviews, they throw terms like Next Level Shit, Shit High Energy, Super Cool flavor and Fucking around. In “Mshini Wam”, a video of Kinoimprovisators Harmony Korine, brings platinum Blondie in the first half minute ten fuckings below.
Your videos have it in the network brought zillions clicks or similar Shit and their third album, the number one US dance charts. That’s always been the moment aufhorchte in Hollywood. The rise of “Hound Dog” to the top of the charts until the premiere of the first film Presley passed just three months.
Today it takes a bit longer, and the artist is talking to. Ninja and Yo-Landi could bring the style doctor of their videos to the shooting of “Chappie” he guaranteed the click credibility. They were allowed to paint their creaking phosphorescent pink color and the frequent flying balls candy colors. For their director is a fan Africans and something like the new Peter Jackson. With one difference: Neill Blomkamp has sharpened from a childhood in apartheid, an eye for the input and being excluded
In his first film. “Alive in Joburg”, trying to come to terms with the alien racial segregation. In his breakthrough film, “District 9″, aliens were held in South Africa as blacks in the ghetto. In “Elysium 9″, its $ 100 million most expensive movie, the super-rich one percent of the population hilarious in a space colony, while the 99 remaining percentages on earth were starving.
In “Chappie” apartheid runs between humans and robots. A programmer develops the dumb RoboCop on to a potentially intelligent beings whose disk but initially is as empty as the brain of a newborn baby: Emotions, language, values, everything has to be learned
This is the first fun that is” Chappie “allowed that he uses two Raver as guardians (” We make you the indestructible Robo-Gangsta Nos. 1, yo! “) and the two during the Menschwerdungsakts themselves haunted by their Posing-down landings. Chappie is an ET in iron gear (“I want to go home”, it whines again), a robot, which the audience to take in the arm. And yes, Chappie plays with blonde dolls before Ninja scold him.
Blomkamp has made the Robo-Baby by his old pal Sharlto Copley embody the the Alien mutating scientists from “District 9″, and Spezialeffektler have Copley’s body and face digitally painted over so that we are really encouraged to include a piece of metal in our hearts.
This is ambitious to say the least. Probably is “Chappie” overambitious. There is even more difficult tattooed gangsta with even heavier weapons. There is a dogged Australians (Hugh Jackman) who wants the police necessarily existing andre its bristling About robot. There is a company boss (Sigourney Weaver, in a kind of warm-to “Alien 5″, the Blomkamp will turn next), which plans to make public safety business.
There are above all the recurring theme of the enlarged Blomkamp humanity. An Italian surgeon has just announced that it will for the first time to transplant a head on a foreign body in 2017. Blomkamp makes the matter in his film – which is also set 2017 – a lot easier that consciousness is copied by data helmet from his head and loaded into a virgin empty robot brain. Is necessary even my stick. And so does humanity + originated under the corrugated iron roofs of Soweto.
Sounds like a political statement. But is not. If only a flirtation with an exciting idea, as the new white middle class flirts with the risk of black ghettos, whose red blood is diluted by the Antwoord to candy-colored. Blomkamp’s mother, is the real violence tired, drawn with their children almost 20 years ago to Canada, and Blomkamp himself now works in Los Angeles. Johannesburg Light, he calls it, or Diet Jo’burg. “Umshini Wim” would say the Zulus to “bring me my machine gun”.
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