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A faux advertisement for a third-world robotic police that established Neill Blomkamp's signature style of mixing lo-fi production with seamless CGI.
Tetra Vaal
2004 Directed by Neill Blomkamp
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A nice "first step into the future" animation clip. Only a minute long, but enough to inspire a later Blomkamp work, Chappie, the upcoming zef comedy featuring Die Antwoord.
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I always thought that chappie would’ve been so much better without those two degenerates and apparently I was right.
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You can see the footprints of where Neill Blomkamp wanted to go as a filmmaker, and honestly for effects done in 2004 on a presumedly small budget, I have to say that I'm still impressed.
Although Tetra Vaal isn't as deep as Blomkamp's other projects, you can still get all of the themes established in CHAPPiE and District 9 summed up in one small film. Obviously, a feature length film can explore the themes in greater detail (and they do), but Blomkamp does a solid job of showcasing his world in a very short but effective short film.
And yeah, I'm 100% sure that this is still canon in Blomkamp's universe. This has to be the early stages/prototype designs of the CHAPPiE styled police bots.
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In the #vintage #rare days before Blomkamp had millions of funbux to throw around. Dude loves his robots.
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The forerunner of Chappie, Tetra Vaal would showcase Blomkamp early idea in an interesting short film that is quite inventive in its concept. The idea is simple, yet engaging. One thing that stands out in this short is the effects, which for a film of this sort is quite impressive. For a short, Tetra Vaal expresses creativity to its fullest, and an idea that Blomkamp would later revisit in Chappie. This film would serve as the template for that film, and the ideas would to come to fruition in a more elaborate film. Tetra Vaal is an imaginative short that would be fully explored in Blomkamp’s third full length feature. Chappie has received a mixed response by critics and filmgoers, but I believe that it’s a film that has a strong sense of imagination, and a good concept. With Tetra Vaal, the seed of that idea was planted, and Blomkamp would steadily hone his craft in a few other shorts.
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Lo ví sin subtitulos y no entendí nada, aunque no sé si había algo que entender...
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Tetra Vaal feels like a 2-minute advertisement for a Chappie prequel. It's a commercial for the police robot that would eventually get its own movie in 2015. Some 11 years after Neill Blomkamp's short film. What is there to say about Tetra Vaal? It's actually quite hard to review when the short is a mere 120 seconds. I want to be able to say that I loved this short, but it's not the case. I admire a lot of the work that's gone into Tetra Vaal. Yet, I much prefer the feature-length Chappie.
Visually, I admire Neill Blomkamp as a science-fiction filmmaker. District 9, Chappie and Elysium are movies that I actually enjoyed upon their release. I enjoyed them all…
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6/10
You can see Blomkamp's ambitions for his feature film Chappie (2015) take center stage here, but it's also impressive to take into consideration where he comes from, and how aspiring artists can come from anywhere.