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Published: 2015-03-09 16:52:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 2640; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 5
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As someone whose mother chose to give birth to me knowing full well she had severe genetic defects that I would get, CHAPPiE was a movie that I could really relate to.
I like how they portrayed all of the main characters as human beings, not heroes or villains - there wasnβt a neatly defined protagonist or antagonist until quite late in the film, and even then, they didnβt follow good and evil stereotypes. The mild-mannered, skinny computer programmer was prepared to shoot another person to get his creation back, and the rowdy tough-guy gangster was obviously devastated when his girlfriend was killed.
The level of detail to the technological accuracy of robotics and computer programming was impressive! Instead of showing the programmers using flashy blue or green holographic screens, they showed a real Linux terminal, used real functions to run programs, and had an actual file structure for the consciousness software. But really, all that detail and accuracy and they obviously copied the design for the Moose from ED-209 from the original Robocop? That was a little silly.Related content
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I liked that movie a ton too! I liked how Chappie exceeded his creators expectations, and also questions things like mortality, right and wrong, and the afterlife. He was so awesome yet innocent.
Being really into robots and digital stuff myself, I liked how they used stuff like actual Linux stuff and things that made it futuristic, but still somewhat modernized. The characters also did seem relatable too!
The ending was awesome too! The way he saves the lives of those he loves. It was like Transcendence meets Portal 2!
The dislike of this movie though, really exaggerated.
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I agree. People don't like the movie, fine, go back to watching your old tired Terminator tropes about how technology is evil and wants to take over the world. Don't bash a well-planned movie about technology actually being able to help people improve themselves!
The only thing I didn't really like with the movie is that I think they should've done a little more development with Hugh Jackman's character. Okay, he's a former soldier and he doesn't like some little programmer stealing all his funding, that really doesn't justify or explain all the violence he does towards the programmer. The way they did his character, he's just needlessly violent for no reason, just to up the body count in the movie or something. Other than that though, it was awesome! (And I will forgive that because they actually knew how the computer file structure worked. Very few people in movies bother with the little details like that)
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Say, have you seen Transcendence? You gotta admit the ending was very similar to what happened in Transcendence.
I also loved that movie a ton too.
Also, I found it easy to tell who was good and who was bad. In fact, it had some good character development of how the ones who are at first some of the bad guys, turn good.
My brother didn't like it because he thought it was "weird." Well apparently he doesn't understand these sorts of tech things and sci-fi.
My only problem was the part with his battery running out. Couldn't they have just solved that with a Battery Charger?
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I haven't seen Transcendence, but I would like to.
I agree about the character development. It was interesting to see how those gangsters learn some different perspectives from Chappie and learn that there are better things to do than shoot stuff and take drugs. Like I said earlier, it showed technology as a way to help people improve themselves, instead of using the old Terminator plotline where technology takes over the world, and that was a refreshing thing to see.
Well I think the batteries were made in such a way that you have to take them out of the chassis to put them on the charger. Some things, like phones, you can charge with the battery inside the device. But other things, like most power tools, you have to take the battery off the tool and put it on the charger.
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Recently, I got to watch this anime "Ghost in the Shell" for the first time (Well technically I saw the movies and the video game), and I noticed it was a whole lot like Chappie. Very similar concepts and plot and more, just in a setting where the said technology is less wide-spread, and against a less serious enemy.
I could name a ton of things the two series have in common. For starters, both involve Police Robots with AI Systems, who act like young and curious children but still know how to fight well and perform their duties (In Ghost in the Shell though, the Sentient Robot AIs are mass-produced though, not just one unit is like that. And they have multiple variants).
Like in function (not so much appearance), Chappie himself is rather similar to the Tachikoma Robots from Ghost in the Shell, who help out the main characters in their missions.
Ghost in the Shell also has humans who brain-uploaded their consciousness into robot bodies to survive after death and/or for personal enhancement. Though in Ghost in the Shell, much more widespread (like in the series, the main characters work for a Top Secret Crime Fighting Agency called Section 9, which consist almost entirely of Brain-Uploaded humans so that they can better gain mechanical powers to fulfill their work). Also, like Yolandi at the end, the Section 9 Operatives new bodies are designed to look really human-like as so that they more blend in with society.
Also, that Moose mecha thing, I found it to be very similar to a lot of the Heavier Tank-like Robots seen in Ghost in the Shell.
Ghost in the Shell also is largely about Police Organizations fighting bad guys. Though in Chappie it was just gangsters and drug dealers. In Ghost in the Shell, they also take down high-level terrorists and extremists, some who are smart enough to take advantage of the limitations and weaknesses of this almost entirely mechanized corporation's operatives.
I wonder if the movie was inspired by Ghost In The Shell at all?
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Good job on this one, it is really lovely!
I still don't get why people keep throwing crap at Chappie, this movie touched me more than any other one wich i've watched in my entire life.Β
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From what I've read, a lot of people don't like it because you can't tell right away who the protagonist and antagonist are, but I personally think that made the movie better; the characters behaved like HUMAN BEINGS, not hero and villain stereotypes...
Thanks for the comment ^_^
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You know, i do not care who is the protagonist and antagonist, for me the movie had a value and had a meaning and also had something important to say and i've noticed that, i don't care if it had references to other movies. It made me cry for entire day so if it did that, then it just had to be good.
And really indeed, i hope that people will understand it in time and Blomkamp won't stop creaing wonderful movies, he said he planned to make Chappie a trilogy
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Agreed. I really don't think CHAPPiE had much in common with Short Circuit - both movies had a curious, intelligent robot in them, so what? That idea's been in fiction since Asimov's I, Robot. Probably before that. At least they didn't go with the "machines are evil and want to take over the world" trope.
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I never actually watched it but i do know what is it about. Indeed i am actually agreed on this one.
You should draw Chappie once again, you've did it really really good over here ^^
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There are a couple more drawings of Chappie I've done... this one chaostructure.deviantart.com/aβ¦
and this chaostructure.deviantart.com/aβ¦
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I've seen them, they are increddibly cute X3
But i think you should do more anyway, i love how you draw him :3
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Thanks! ^_^ I probably will, I like drawing robotsΒ and mechanical things
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True, both Robocop and Chappie are trained robotic cops in the future, Chappie is like Robocop's cousin or love child of the future generation
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Do you think that Chappie could be considered taking place in a shared universe with Robocop?
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I recently found "Chappie" to be more similar to the anime "Ghost in the Shell," but in a setting where the said technology is less wide-spread, and against a less serious enemy. I just recently got to see that anime and I found it to be more like that than like Robocop.
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Does that contradict the possibility of a Shared Universe?
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Not really sure or unsure about that.
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In my opinion, Robocop is a sociopolitical story about a man being owned by a corporation. Chappie is more of a philosophical look of what is humanity, what does it mean to be human. So even though the two stories have the shared concepts of robot police officers and corrupt corporations, there are quite different meanings behind them.
Looking at only the technical stuff though, Robocop took place in the U.S. and Chappie took place in South Africa, so there's no reason both stories couldn't have been going on at the same time in the same alternate universe. It is possible.
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