Zef is a South African counterculture movement popularized by Die Antwoord’s music. Whether that’s good or bad is a side point, and a matter of opinion - but it’s probably not what people expected to see.ĭie Antwoord’s presence also turns into stuff like “ZEF” being written on Chappie’s back. Knowing that and seeing all the obvious product placement throughout the film makes Chappie seem like a 2-hour long Die Antwoord music video. The duo is a very outspoken, artistic, unique visual group. Why is all this obvious self-promotion here? And while it all sort of fits into this weird, hybrid, colorful world that Blomkamp has created in Chappie, it’s plain old-fashioned weird. Several of their songs are used for the film’s soundtrack. They wear Die Antwoord shirts with each others’ faces on them. That aside, what is unique about Chappie is that Yolandi and Ninja go by those names in the film, just as they do in real life. Die Antwoord’s Yolandi and Ninja may have been able to do more with their characters if the script had demanded it, but unfortunately it didn’t. Musicians starring in films isn’t a new phenomenon, and sometimes they prove to be decent actors. What they do is ensure that nobody will take Chappie very seriously, as their over-animated, one-dimensional personas, accompanied by their odd physical looks and brightly-colored everything help color the film into a hot action/sci-fi mess.
They’re not seasoned actors and they don’t make for very likable characters, but they’re overwhelmingly present in the film. Then we simulated it and allowed it to evolve and grow on its own into a very detailed and beautiful structure.Director Neill Blomkamp counts himself a fan of Die Antwoord, the south-African rap/rave group, so much that he cast them as leads in Chappie (2015). “We based the material of the cocoon on different molds and fungi to ground it in reality. JAMM created the photorealistic centipede and cocoon from which Jones emerges. “It was important to Ninja that the cocoon looked very real, but also unlike anything people had seen before,” said JAMM CG artist Zak DiMaria in a prepared statement. Die Antwoord’s Yolandi Visser plays an alien creature walking the streets of Detroit shunned by the locals, she eventually transforms into a human woman played by Sixteen Jones - Ninja and Visser’s real-life daughter.
studio JAMM to tell a story about feeling out of place. Die Antwoord’s own Ninja directed the latest music video for the South African band, using VFX contributions from L.A.
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