Chappie (2015)

[Glendora Spink]

DioneWood Chris Harvey Jenny Fulle Amitav Nakarmi Scott Kravitz Geoff Anderson Robin L. D'Arcy Charlie Iturriaga Umesh Shakya Jeremy Mesana Earl Fast Manoj Shrestha Luis Barquero Paul Copeland Sarah Fuller Andrew Hutton Giuseppe Improta Leo Ito Rmi Pierre Mark Theriault Terry Veer

Michelle Child Craig Berkey Vince Renaud Matthew Wilson Dave Whitehead Chris Scarabosio Gord Hillier Steve Boeddeker Ken Saville Sandra Fox Goro Koyama Andy Malcolm Don White Stephen Muir Ian Tarasoff

posits itself as blomkamp's Robocop but has virtually nothing to say about crime, police militarization or artificial intelligence and instead mostly functions as an ultra-violent, south african E.T. or Iron Giant, which is so blatantly mornoic and ill-conceived im almost inclined to give it credit for some of the all-timer comedy like patel yelling at chappie to nurture his creativity while he decides between painting & committing crimes or the scene where jackman (in his psychopathic catholic high school gym teacher aesthetic, complete with the mullet, lanyard and rugby ball) assaults and threatens to blow patel's brains out in the office and then deflates the situation by going "haha just a prank, guys, everyone go back to work" but the writing here is otherwise so embarrassingly earnest and the performances so miscalculated i just can't do it. still one of the most baffling studio releases of the decade.

A typically incoherent piece of exquisitely designed tech-fetishism from Blomkamp. Has virtually nothing to say about artificial intelligence, privatized/militarized/automated law enforcement, the limits of consciousness, or weird South African prankster rappers, but does continue his distinctive obsession with disrupting human bodies with technology, what metal does to meat. His films are never more compelling or beautiful than when they gaze lovingly at flesh being shredded by bullets like it was pulled pork.

blomkamp is so clearly of the same school as jim cameron and the wachowski sisters -- big themes, messy emotions, a craze for production detail, a fascination with subculture ephemera, a desire to find the transcendent ghost within the oppressive machinery of mundane life.

Of course, my main reference was Chappie, from the movie named after him "Chappie", 2015

My purpose was to imagine chappie as a bigger and scarier robot, as if I imagined another possible version of him. More renders will come very soon, with better scenes/lighting/ and ambition!

This research discussed the image of the future human which is represented in Chappie (2015) movie by using representation theory. The researcher focused on the way the movie director created the figure of the future humans in his movie. The implementation of representation theory is used to analyze the image of the future humans created by the movie maker in Chappie (2015) movie. Chappie is a robot that has artificial intelligence to support itself in making decisions toward its acts. Furthermore, Chappie which is an Artificial Intelligence human-robot occurs as the most suitable figure to represent the human in the future era.

This chapter explores the social, economic and political tensions of exclusion through embodied experiences of transformation to Other as depicted in Neill Blomkamp films, District 9 (2009), Elysium (2013) and Chappie (2015). As a result of the journey to Otherness, the protagonists are empowered to enact social change and subvert the interests of the powerful within their social systems. The chapter frames the argument within social justification theory and discusses love and redemption as concepts inextricably tied to leadership and social change.

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