July 12, 2021
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In the last 18 months, audiences around the world have had the pleasure, luxury, and at times, painful experience of watching theatrical movies in the comfort of their own homes.
Due to the vast differences between a cinema hall and a living room hall, from the ambient lights, background noise to speaker system, it can be challenging to find the same appreciation for a movie watching it at home for the first time, than if it was first viewed in the cinemas.
But animated movies are somewhat different, in that they were made to hold the audience’s attention in a different way.
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Robots have fascinated cinema-goers ever since Fritz Lang’s 1927 expressionist silent film Metropolis. The German dystopia film portrays a near future where a female robot (a “gynoid”) is built as an evil twin of Maria, a woman trying to unionise the workforce. The robot Maria wreaks havoc, turning the workers against each other, inciting murder and the destruction of the machines powering the city.
The portrayal of robots in popular culture has always captured the technological hopes and fears of the day, veering between hyperbolic promises and dystopian nightmares. The original evil robot from Metropolis. IMDB
This millennium, Pixar’s animated WALL-E (2008) gave us warm fuzzies for a friendly and lonely garbage-cleaning robot. Comedy-drama Robot & Frank (2012) showed a close relationship developing between an older man and his care robot.