Chappie
Chappie (stylized as CHAPPiE) is a 2015 American dystopian science fiction action film directed by Neill Blomkamp and written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. It stars Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Ninja, Yolandi Visser, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Sigourney Weaver. The film, set and shot in Johannesburg, is about an artificial general intelligence law enforcement robot captured and taught by gangsters, who nickname it Chappie.
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| Running time | 120 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Budget | $49 million
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| Box office | $102.1 million
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Chappie: Why?
Deon: Because you are conscious. You can't be copied because you're not data. We don't know what consciousness is, so we cannot move it.
- Sony edited the Japanese version of the film to PG-12, the Japanese equivalent to a PG-13 rating, and has refused to release an uncut version in Japan. While Sony claims Neill Blomkamp approved the edits, Blomkamp himself says he'd never heard about them until Japanese fans began asking him questions about it.
- The word 'zef' is an Afrikaans slang word, which roughly translates to the English word 'common'. Also means 'uncool' in Afrikaans. It differs from the Australian term 'bogan' and the British term 'chav' in that it is mostly a positive term for oneself, rather than a derogatory term for someone else. It is also not typical of the poorest classes of the society, but rather a mostly white, lower-middle class subculture.
- In the alternate ending, Chappie's consciousness is transferred into all the police robots. It is included on the special features on the blu-Ray disk.
- Chappie is also the name of a South African chewing gum. Its mascot is Chappie Chipmunk.
- When water is dumped on Deon to wake him up, Ninja is wearing a vest/sleeveless jacket with "Bite Me Fanboy" and a stylized winged skull design on the back. This is a nod to the DC comics character Lobo, who often wears an almost identical vest.
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