Hi All,
Just wanted to drop a post about upcoming Ghost In The Shell movie. I'm a huge fan of this idea and this future universe that Masamune Shirow created in his manga.
Fans of this universe often critisize the movie for the fact that they changed a lot and everyone is afaid that it may look like robogirl :) rather than full-cyborg "who am I?" questioning super-skilled hacker major from the manga. However I found some easter eggs which makes me beleive the movie is going to be AWESOME :)))
First, I'm sure nobody noticed, but when she "goes in" to the battle scene during the meeting involving robo geishas, she shoots the first attacker, but he is the cyborg too, so he manages to shoot Major too, in the arm - that's why later in the trailer we see her back in hanka probably repairing herself from wounds
You can even see in some later TV spots this wound (extremely interesting that it's bleeding - wow, creepy)
Also check that she is targeting geishas head, yes, this in in order to kill the hacker who may still "be there"
So ther story as you probably know is around Kuze, first of all I like how he looks like Anakin Skywalker in this shot :) so cool
So Kuze was this named-brother of Major when they were young kids - only persons survived in a plan crash. That's why they are so unique and "first of your kind" - technology for cyberbody is arond in the future, but nobody wants to put a child in the cyber-body - because this could mean dangerous consequences for human nature of his/her mind. But these two lost everyone and they required huge cyber-body replacements, that's why someone decided to try and go full cyborg with them. That is why major is unique, not because she had some super-improved cyber body (although I'm sure she has because works for the government). You can even get a glimse on this story, you can clearly see two child hands in this shot
Then Kuze dicided that is unfair that they can have a cyborg body while other people without Obamacare :)) cannot, so he decided he will donate his cyberbrain to host ghosts of others and many of his followers did the same - this is what is happeningn on a scene with many people sitting in circle connected to the network, also this is probably what is happening here
I think it's probably hard to host someones ghost, someones identity, so probably these monks are trainning to do that
So in a nuthsell Kuze's idea is to kill everyone, while hosting people without cyber-bodies in his and his followers' brains - this will mean that people will stay only in their virtual computer forms - in the network as ghosts, everyone will be a cyber ghost and everyone will have same rights and capabilities. So some kind of cyber anarchy/communism :)
I like this shot a LOT, you can see how some other people are living (I'm not sure you can fully "live" actually in this form) in the network while someone is HACKING A MAJOR'S BODY
I think this frame should set the tone for the movie - it's super creepy and awesome :) and very unique :)
It's also cool how they found a paradigm for someone to get into the network, in the original movie it's looks almost the same but from first point perspective and they figured out how to show it 3rd person, so cool
It's like diving in a pool of information (what an analogy, great job guys!) backwards while laying on a table.
Now I cannot' think of why after seeing this you can think movie is going to be bad. I'm not even mentioning the level of details in costumes and scenes, in everything. I think the movie is going to be super cool :)
