Personally, I think Neil Blomkamp is a genius director in the world of science fiction films, and his works are full of imagination and can attract the attention of the audience.
Unfortunately, his long-form film works are too few, only three, and because the box office of these three films is not as good as one, he himself began to question his creative ability, and the long-form film stagnated and began to turn back to continue shooting short films.
Neil Blomkamp
His science fiction film debut, but also let him overnight hit the movie, "District 9", I believe that most of the friends who read this article have seen it, as a small-budget movie, relying on his wonderful script and conscience of special effects, won the double harvest of word of mouth and box office.
District 9
District Nine tells the story of a giant alien spaceship that suddenly descends on Earth and hovers over the city. Humans have found countless aliens that resemble prawns, all of whom are extremely malnourished.
Aliens in District 9
As a result, the human government divided the area under the huge spacecraft into a ninth area, which was dedicated to aliens to inhabit.
Alien spaceships
During a relocation and persuasion operation against aliens, Wikus, an agent of the Alien Affairs Department, accidentally touched the alien material and was splashed in the face by the alien liquid, causing his body to begin to gradually mutate, and he was about to become a member of the prawn aliens.
Persuade the aliens to relocate to more remote locations
Wikus, who gradually became a prawn, really put himself in the position of feeling the discrimination and oppression that aliens have been subjected to on Earth. In order to heal himself, he cooperates with a clever alien so that he can fly back to the hovering mothership with his son, so that the father and son can return to their planet for help, and also bring back the technology that can heal themselves.
Male lobsterization
Finally, in order to cover the alien father and son on the spaceship, the male protagonist Wikus is willing to stay and attract firepower, he no longer discriminates against aliens, he sympathizes with aliens, and he sympathizes with himself who is about to become aliens, and the aliens also promise to come back to save him after three years.
Unfortunately, the three years said good, this is almost twelve years, "The Ninth District 2" has not been filmed, the aliens have not returned, only the endless reverie left for everyone, the aliens will come back with peace, rescue their compatriots on the earth, heal the male protagonist, and then go home? Or will it bring a large number of armies to retaliate against the humans who once discriminated against them?
The male protagonist holding an alien weapon
This "District 9" also has a predecessor short film, that is, the director's first short film "Aliens in Johannesburg", the short film and "District 9" have the same world view and setting, and can even be seen as a trailer and a positive film, and friends who have not yet seen it can go to see it.
Aliens in Johannesburg
After the explosion of "District 9", director Neil Blomkamp filmed another science fiction film "Elysium Space" and invited Matt Damon to participate.
Elysium Space
"District Nine" reflects racial contradictions in disguise, while "Elysium Space" reflects class contradictions and the gap between rich and poor.
Elysium Space is a huge artificial ring, just like the famous game masterpiece Halo (aka: Halo, Halo), is a ribbon celestial body, on which it has gravity, has a spacious living space, enjoys a very high level of technology and living standards, in a word, is where the rich live.
Blissful Space
At this time, the earth was already heavily polluted, full of garbage and pollution, full of heavy industrial factories, and the population exploded. The people here are very poor, the resources they can enjoy are very limited, they can only rely on traditional surgery and drugs to cure their diseases, and the medical bed on the Elysium Space can detect and cure all terminal illnesses in an instant, and even resurrect people with the brain intact.
Earth life
Max (Matt Damon), an ordinary man who is exposed to intense radiation at work, will die in five days unless he uses Elysium's advanced medical system. So for that glimmer of life, Max prepares to sneak into Elysium space in a small spaceship.
For this trip he was also equipped with black technology, exoskeleton armor, which greatly enhanced his strength.
exoskeleton
In the end, Max not only ascended to the Elysium Space, but also sacrificed himself to save thousands of poor people on the earth and let them also share the Elysium technology. (Matt Damon: Don't keep saying that I'm the hardest person in Hollywood to save, not to mention my sky-high rescue fee, I'm the one who saved the whole planet this time!) ）
Max sacrificed
Although the box office of "Elysium Space" is not as high as that of "District 9", only 160 million, it is not at a loss, the production is also very sophisticated, and the story script is also very good, but because the starting point of "District 9" is too high, it is difficult to reach a new high.
Since then, director Neil Blomkamp has continued to work hard, and another science fiction film "Super Chapai" has come out!
"Super Chapai"
In "Super Chapai", Neil Blomkamp brings a new topic to the audience, artificial intelligence, and also invites Uncle Wolf, Hugh Jackman to participate.
Mechanical police
In response to rising crime rates, a large weapons company developed an all-mechanical police force. They mass-produced and put into use mechanical police, achieving remarkable results in the fight against crime.
Developer, programmer Dean, has been committed to developing the closest to humans, the most human artificial intelligence, in an accident, Dean stole a mechanical police body that was destroyed in action, and wrote it a new program, just like this, the most grounded in history, even the most spooky intelligent robot, was born.
Deal with lepers
Learn how society walks
This is a pretty good movie, the style is the same as "District 9" and "Elysium Space", there is no change of flavor, there is no going farther and farther, but it is not hot, and the box office is even lower than "Elysium Space", only 104 million. This hit director Neil Blomkamp so hard that he doubted his creative abilities and became autistic.
Since then, he has not made a full-length film, and has devoted himself to his old profession, short film production.
Fire Bunker
Zygote Xenomorph
"Raqqa"
It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a wizard, and his subsequent short films, such as "Fire Bunker", "Raqqa", "Zygote Xeno", etc., have been well received, with strange ideas and rich creativity, which has satisfied the audience's appetite, and everyone is looking forward to seeing feature films as soon as possible.
In addition, Neil Blomkamp is also a very serious person, in "District 9", Neil Blomkamp used a completely unknown actor as the male protagonist, that is, Chartor Copley. Because Sharto Copley is his good friend, and Sharto Copley is very talented and perceptive.
Chartor Copley and Neil Blomkamp
Neil Blomkamp can be said to have single-handedly won the popularity of Chartor Copley, in three films he directed, he invited Chartor Copley to play an important role, although the three films were lower than one box office, but the word of mouth and production were placed there, and the actor's acting skills were also tested, so Chartore Became more and more popular, and since then the career has developed smoothly, received more scenes, and shot more movies.
Charto Copley played the male protagonist in District 9
Sharto Copley played the main villain in Elysium
Even the robot Chapai in "Super Chapai" was played by Sarto Copley himself.
This is also played by Chartor Copley
Finally, I hope that director Neil Blomkamp can return to the production of the film as soon as possible, after all, the short film of more than ten or twenty minutes can not satisfy our appetite at all, so the director with ideas should not be buried in the talent of the short film, and look forward to seeing the orthodox sequel of "District 9" as soon as possible.
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