Chappie

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Movie
German title Chappie
Original title Chappie
Chappie Logo.svg
Country of production United States , Mexico
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Neill Blomkamp
script Neill Blomkamp,
Terri Tatchell
production Neill Blomkamp,
Simon Kinberg
music Hans Zimmer
camera Trent Opaloch
cut Julian Clarke ,
Mark Goldblatt
occupation
synchronization

Chappie is an American science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp from the year 2015 . The screenplay, which is based on Blomkamp's short film Tetra Vaal  (2005), was written with his wife Terri Tatchell . The main roles in the film are played by Dev Patel , Hugh Jackman, as well as Yolandi Visser and Watkin Tudor Jones , part of the South African band Die Antwoord . The cinema release in Germany was on March 5, 2015.

action

To get the high crime rate in the city of Johannesburg under control, the South African police will be using autonomous police robots in the near future . These "scouts", produced by the weapons manufacturer Tetravaal, show great success after a short time and reduce the crime rate in the city considerably and without human losses. The young engineer Deon Wilson is recognized as a project manager. This makes his colleague Vincent Moore jealous, as his own project MOOSE, a much larger remote-controlled combat robot, no longer receives any further funding through the support of the scouts. Tetravaal does not consider this robot to be fully developed and is no longer considered necessary by the police because of the now low crime rate.

Deon works feverishly on artificial intelligence for robot systems in his spare time . When he finished it, but did not get permission from Tetravaal boss Michelle Bradley to test the software, Deon quickly stole a robot intended for the scrap press and the “guard key” required for programming. When he leaves the premises in a company car, he is kidnapped by Ninja, Yolandi and America, a group of local gangsters. The gangsters blackmail Deon into reprogramming the Scout to work for them and commit crimes with them instead of the police. Since this is not possible for technical reasons, he installs his artificial intelligence on the damaged robot instead, which after activation shows childlike, frightened behavior. Deon and Yolandi try to get closer to the robot and call it "Chappie".

Ninja, Yolandi and America have only seven days to debt of 20 million Rand of Hippo, a powerful gangster in Johannesburg to repay. While Yolandi develops feelings of motherhood for Chappie, Ninja becomes impatient, as the low state of charge of Chappie's battery only allows him to function for about five days, according to Deon. Ninja therefore tries to turn Chappie into a gangster as quickly as possible so that he can help the group in a robbery to get the necessary money for Hippo. To show Chappie "the real world", Ninja leaves him to a group of thugs who beat up Chappie. When Chappie was able to escape the group, he was kidnapped shortly afterwards by Vincent, who took the Guard Key from him for his own purposes with the MOOSE project and sawed Chappie's arm off. Chappie escapes again and returns traumatized to the hiding place of Ninja's gang, which he regards as his home. Ninja and America tell Chappie that his battery will soon run out and that he urgently needs a new body. To get to this, Chappie the gang is supposed to help with the robbery.

Meanwhile, Vincent uses the Guard Key to switch off every police robot in Johannesburg in order to generate a need for his MOOSE robot. The now missing police presence is immediately exploited by the criminals and the city is in chaos after a short time. Since Chappie has also been deactivated, Deon takes him to Tetravaal to restart him. There Chappie discovers the “neuronal helmet” (see also electroencephalography ), which is needed to control MOOSE, and reprograms it so that one can use it to transfer awareness. He hopes to later transfer his own consciousness into a new body before his current body runs out of electricity.

With the help of Chappie, ninjas gang rob a money transporter and get the money they need for Hippo. When Chappie asks Ninja about his new body, he admits that he lied to him beforehand so that Chappie would help them with the robbery and not be able to get him a new body. Chappie gets angry and is about to kill Ninja. At that moment, however, Deon shows up with the news that Michelle Bradley has meanwhile authorized the MOOSE project and that the combat robot, which is controlled by Vincent, is on its way to destroy Chappie. Shortly afterwards, MOOSE appears at the same time as Hippo, who has come to collect his debts. MOOSE shows his tremendous attack power and tears America in two pieces. Meanwhile, Deon is hit and seriously injured by Hippo in battle. Ninja then kills Hippo and wants to distract MOOSE so that Yolandi and Chappie can escape with Deon to Tetravaal. When Yolandi sees MOOSE is about to kill ninja, she gets out of the car and shoots MOOSE. He turns around and shoots Yolandi. Chappie ultimately destroys MOOSE by detonating a sticky mine.

Chappie gets into the car and drives the seriously wounded Deon to Tetravaal. Once there, Chappie beats Vincent wildly, but forgives him in the end. Chappie then goes to the control console with the MOOSE helmet. He puts the helmet on Deon and transfers his consciousness to a robot just before Deon dies. When Chappie only had a few seconds left because of his empty battery, Deon, now in the form of a robot, transfers Chappie's consciousness to one of the many deactivated scouts nearby. Robot Deon escapes just in time before the human police storm the Tetravaal building. In front of the fence of the Tetravaal area he finds a scout who has just been reactivated. It turns out that this is the scout Deon Chappies transferred consciousness to.

Ninja, deeply shaken by the death of Yolandi, finds a USB stick labeled “Mama's Consciousness Test Backup”, which contains a copy of Yolandi's consciousness and was made by Chappie before her death. Chappie hacked into Tetravaal's manufacturing system and produced a robot with an imitation of Yolandi's face into which he finally uploaded the file.

synchronization

Sharlto Copley provided the motion capture movements and the English voice of Chappie.
actor speaker role
Sharlto Copley Timmo Niesner Chappie
Dev Patel Julius Jellinek Deon Wilson
Watkin Tudor Jones Marcel Collé Ninja
Yolandi Visser Manja Doering Yolandi
Jose Pablo Cantillo Michael Deffert America
Hugh Jackman Thomas Nero Wolff Vincent Moore
Sigourney Weaver Karin Buchholz Michelle Bradley

reception

The film website kino.de judged that the film mixed “hard action, street gangster milieu and political social criticism with a romantic hope for the good in man and machine”. While Dev Patel shines as a nerd, Hugh Jackman "visibly enjoys the role of the bad guy". The South African music duo Die Antwoord provide “the bizarre moments”. The film service attested the film “brilliant character design and a breathtakingly realistic animation”, which allows “a sensitive being behind all the hydraulics and the chrome steel to be recognized”. It was criticized, however, that the questions about a “superordinate creator or about an afterlife [...] seem strangely short of breath”, especially in relation to Blomkamp's Film District 9  (2009). With Chappie , Blomkamp mainly directed an entertainment film. For Frank Schnelle from epd Film , “Chappie remains so superficial and arbitrary that none of it is even remotely interesting or credible”. Instead, there is “a lot of pointless shooting”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jörg Gerle: Chappie. Filmdienst , 6/2015, accessed on March 9, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Release certificate for Chappie . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2015 (PDF; test number: 150 011 K).
  3. ↑ Age rating for Chappie . Youth Media Commission .
  4. ↑ Release Info. Chappie (2015). Internet Movie Database , accessed February 5, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Chappie. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on March 10, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Chappie. In: kino.de . Busch Entertainment Media , accessed February 5, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Chappie. epd film , accessed April 1, 2015 .