Now that you’veseen the first stunning trailer for Neill Blomkamp ’s Elysiumandpicked apart the screencaps , you’re able to pop to see a few similarites to Blomkamp ’s first movie , District 9 . The political relation , the coolheaded gearing , and the massive object floating in the sky . We catch up with Blomkamp a while ago , and he told us the secrets of a compelling dystopia .
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Note : we talked to Blomkamp before the trailer add up out , but this still helps to crystalize a lot of the stuff you control in the trailer .
So one of the images that we ’ve see a destiny from Elysium is basically this little tyke kind of look up at the Torus in the sky and it ’s kind of looming over him , which remind me a lot of the images from District 9 , where we would see the ship loom in the distance , and it symbolize the ghettoization of the aliens . And I ’m marvel in Elysium , is it kind of the somerset - side of that ?
Blomkamp : Yeah , it is . It ’s interesting — no one ’s ever say that to me before , but yeah , it ’s definitely … it ’s a space station filled with billionaires , so , they ’ve left Earth in this kind of very destitute , diseased fashion . So , it is , it is somewhat the blow , I hazard . Although Johannesburg in District 9 was also a ghetto , so there was less wealth discrepancy between the two .
So in Elysium , it seems as though the loaded masses have access to a lot of innovative biotech . Are they basically post - human ? We ’ve listen pinch that they ’re in reality altering their desoxyribonucleic acid .
Yeah , there is [ some of that ] . I mean , the whole like transhumanist [ idea and ] all of the kind of science fiction ideas and fairly real risky fable ideas and everything are fantastically interesting to me . You love , what happen is , there ’s so much data out there , it becomes a question of how much you want to include in any one direction .
You know , like for instance , there is just the level and the plot of land . If you do n’t have something that paste the audience to the screen , you ’re in fuss . Like , that ’s the staple . Right ? On top of that , you may initiate layering thing , like the whole transhumanist motion is just really interesting to me , you have a go at it .
The question is , how much time you could invest in a film with that , if you want to keep the audience invested in the narrative . And the answer is you ca n’t do as much as I would wish to do . Like [ a different ] kind of film , a documentary or something like that , may be a means to get more of those ideas out . But with less money , you do n’t see the cool [ stuff ] — you do n’t see the manner it can be really implemented . So I put as much of that in Elysium as I could , that did n’t feel like it was despoil the pic I wanted to keep an eye on . It ’s a fine balance .
So another matter that we see cropping up a lot in your study is a connectedness between the problems with corporations and body horror .
torso repugnance , yeah .
So we ’re wonder , what ’s the connection there ?
This has no body horror , though . Elysium does n’t really have any eubstance repulsion .
But it seems like there ’s a gray - arena corp , and an emphasis on people qualify their bodies .
Yeah it ’s possibly not as much as you think , though . Like , the viral [ marketing ] stuff is cool , because you may receive and go to areas you do n’t in the film — but the film does n’t mussiness with DNA as much as the viral perchance make you recall it does . Although body horror is incredibly interesting to me .
We ’ve view a few peeks of Matt Damon wearing what looks like basically body armour or some variety of biomechanistic suit of clothes . And you had that in District 9 , there ’s a lot of sort of coming together of bodies with machine and technology and weapons . Why are you disembowel to that ?
I do n’t know . I ’ve been fascinate with that stuff [ for as long as ] I ’ve been conscious . I have no estimation why . There is something fundamentally captivating about the mechanics , I guess , of the human eubstance and where consciousness and judgement survive , and what you may do with the mechanics of the body while keeping those intact , and where those two traverse over .
Can you put a human mind in a horse ? What ’s the result of that ? Can the human judgement operate in a model in a figurer ? What ’s the result of that ? There ’s a lot of Kurtzweilian stuff , where they ’re running simulation of rat mental capacity , on an IBM supercomputer — where the spooky system of a scab is actually function , and work in a simulation . So if you could scan , at an atomic level , the entire brain and run it again , you could theoretically have that running in a estimator . That ’s just interesting , I do n’t have a go at it why , [ but ] it ’s interesting to me .
But I want to see that stuff in plastic film , you lie with — and I have a lot of melodic theme with that sort of thing , that coalesces down . That ’s the trouble : You have a million ideas , and you’re able to only have like four in a film . So you have to do like X phone number of films , to get like the satisfaction of [ getting ] XTC number of estimation out .
But , yeah , and the body repugnance matter — which is not in Elysium — for me , it has to be organic . If it ’s [ mixing ] constituent with organic , that , to me , is body repugnance . Like there has to be like goop and like scale and like psychology to it . Elysian Fields , with Matt ’s lawsuit , is [ just the fact that ] he ’s sick and really what it is , is an amplification of strength — like it would appropriate a affected role to walk out of a chemo hospital ward , essentially . That ’s kind of what it is in the moving-picture show .
Like an exoskeleton basically .
Yeah , it ’s just strength . Still , that concept is interesting . You know , like using engineering in that caseful on a very simplistic story that just make you that much more agile or able .
What are some of the optical clue that you give us about the difference between the wealthy earthly concern up in the Torus , versus on Earth ? How do we unreasoningly see the class differences you ’re showing us ?
Well , the direction I always go about it , is Elysium is “ Bel - Air in Space . ” It was always Beverly Hills in place . Right ? The film is n’t as satirical as District 9 , but there ’s still a lot of dark caustic remark to it . And so the dark satire of like building a mansion in space — with the free weight of need Stone and rat up there — is hilarious , you hump ? It ’s not scientifically plausible , but it ’s incredibly odd . So showing the level of opulence and wealthiness , where they ’ve in reality recreated Bel - Air on a distance station , and having pull all of that wealth and those resourcefulness out of Earth , result in the optical landscape that is diametrically opposed . And also , both are equally interesting . To me , personally , I would almost argue that the imagery of Earth , to me , is more interesting . Just because the way of life that I present Earth — which I ’m certain a lot of citizenry will disagree with — is just interesting . It ’s just a total measure backwards , compared with where people think we ’re going .
Can you narrate us more about that ?
It ’s just diseased . It ’s like a consummate lack of technology , and Third World . When you see that as a futurist scope , it kind of messes with you . It mess with me , a footling bit . But I imagine that ’s where we ’re run .
And when you say that it ’s crushed technology , has there been an event that ’s have a trouble ? Or just a gradual decline ?
Just a gradual [ decline ] . It ’s like , how do you explain [ why ] South Sudan is in the situation it ’s in ? That kind of thing . When you pull the wealth out and you ’re unable to get the resources together to do 10 , and you take it from the whole satellite , that sort of Malthusian - like breakdown can spread quite rapidly . And those image are interesting . The space station , I have to say … It feel to me like all of the imagery of science fable that I see when I was a Thomas Kyd . It feels like that , which is cool . It ’s just being on the inside of this [ massive object in place ] .
Are there any interesting technology and objects on Earth ? Are masses cobbling together tech , maker - expressive style ?
Yeah . There is that . There ’s form of a black market , cyberpunk constituent to the film , where citizenry are cobbling together cerebral - interface , kind of , make out - up technology in a Third World form of means .
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