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‘Chappie’ would be like ‘RoboCop,’ but hilarious. If you mixed ‘Robocop’ with ‘E.T.’ and it was… funny, that’s what it is.

Ifs

Robocop

Would Be

‘District 9’ was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and ‘Elysium’ is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.

Elysium

Immigration

World

‘District 9’, ‘Elysium’ and ‘Chappie’ were all born out of some visual concept first. ‘Chappie’ is the imagery, because I think I’m a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It’s much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.

Character

Elysium

Thinking

A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

America

People

Years

A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

House

Important

Tree

Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It’s like, well, they’re deleted because they’re not good or you lost the battle and you couldn’t put them in the movie.

Battle

Lost

Scene

Generally speaking, it’s a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

Drones

Middle East

Nevada

High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I’d heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

Actors

Horror Stories

Powerful

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

Looks

Thinking

World

I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.

Believer

Firm

Humans

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Audience

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Be Prepared

Believe

Believer

Block

Brain

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Class

Climbing

Community

Compromise

Cutting

Decision

Degrees

Design

Directors

Dna

Drones

Elysium

Ends

Evidence

Fiction

Film

Filmmaking

Firm

Gains

Games

Giving

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Goal

Growth

Gun

Half

Height

Honest

Horror Stories

House

Humans

Ice

Ideas

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Quotes by Neill Blomkamp

Neill Blomkamp

‘Chappie’ would be like ‘RoboCop,’ but hilarious. If you mixed ‘Robocop’ with ‘E.T.’ and it was… funny, that’s what it is.

‘District 9’ was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and ‘Elysium’ is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.

‘District 9’, ‘Elysium’ and ‘Chappie’ were all born out of some visual concept first. ‘Chappie’ is the imagery, because I think I’m a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It’s much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.

A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It’s like, well, they’re deleted because they’re not good or you lost the battle and you couldn’t put them in the movie.

Generally speaking, it’s a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I’d heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.

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