I guess you must have been watching [Love, Death and Robots] lately , right!
The name of this popular animated series of Netflix is unremarkable, but every minute of opening it can make one's jaw stunned. A mixture of doomsday robots, werewolf warriors, ancient sacred fish, alien possession, monsters, foxes, and beasts, so short! Why are there only 18 episodes!
I like [Qi Ma Lan] in 14 episodes . The artist uses blue to explore the vast universe and truth. After evolving to the extreme, he finally chooses to return to his corner of the pool in the pool; I like [Ancient Fish Recovery] in 12 episodes , because How wonderful is such a story. The earth on which you stand was a vast ocean hundreds of millions of years ago, where the rare fish and ancient beasts met you across time and space.
I like [Witness] in Episode 3 and [Wishing you a good harvest] in Episode 8. Cyberpunk and steampunk can be beautiful, subtle, mashup, romantic and full of power and beauty. It can also be thrilling. Erotic.
Love x death x robot title may miss a key word, cyber erotica .
What is the erotica in the cyber world?
It is a narrow red light district with pink neon signs in [The Witness] , which is also based on Hong Kong. It is the black SM leather and rubber clothing under the ambiguous atmosphere of the store;
It is also a mechanical prosthetic body in which the human form of the demon fox swallow was completely replaced by a gangster in [Wish you a good harvest] . It is the special habit of the man "only to be hard against the mechanical human body".
The girl Yan, whose body was replaced with a mechanical body, reminds many people of "Alita" that was just released, but I think of the Sexy Robot written by Japanese erotic manga artist Sora Yamaki.
For example, the mechanized Marilyn Monroe.
When Monroe has a silver-blue-white mechanical body glowing with metallic light, she can still wear a white dress, a light smile, or a blonde, tight gold dress, with a touch of arrogance and indifference in her sexy.
Sora Yamaji painted robots, but he rarely painted ordinary robots. He painted those sexy, seductive, and erotic mechanical girls.
Taking inspiration from science fiction and movies, he followed the concept of depicting the texture of metal. He shaped the combination of metal, plastic and the human body, as well as the unity of SM leather, metal equipment and charming gestures.
His Sexy Robot series not only retains the rigid and cold side of the metal, but also is often given a side closer to the human body; it can not only make people think about it, but also remind you of the beauty of machinery.
Sora Yamaki said that his love for sexy mechanical girls is a kind of fanaticism since high school, which is his own unique "goddess worship". Inspiration is not only from the foreign book Flower Girl in high school, but also from the influence of science fiction films such as [Star Wars] and [Blade Runner] at that time.
Speaking of it, since [Blade Runner] is a cyberpunk milestone that has influenced countless works in later generations, it naturally also has implicit and hidden cyber erotic connotations.
Do you still remember the hunter played by Harrison Ford hunting down the female clone Zola in the foggy and rainless slum neighborhood?
Zola was shot and killed by a hunter. Before the plastic model's shadow, Zola slowly fell to his death through the glass window.
Her figure that dances with snakes, her bronze skin, and the golden sequins all over her body are all impressive. Even if the movie doesn't say it clearly, you know that it is a copy of the scene of life in the red light district.
And Harrison Ford and the replicator Rachel also had a famous sex scene, playing the piano together and whispering "I want you" in each other's ears.
Rachel is beautiful, cold, and silent. The shot of smoking in the silent darkness makes her look like a retro-futuristic mechanical girl. In fact, she is indeed not a human being, she just didn't know it as a copy at first.
However, although [Blade Runner] is early, the history of creating beautiful mechanical girls in the movie is still longer.
If you go back to the [Metropolis] world in 1927 , you will meet a mechanical girl named Maria with a wide waist and beautiful buttocks. She performed sultry dances on the stage to confuse all living beings, and later used her own power. Call on the workers underground to carry out an uprising.
It was 1927 a hundred years ago, and the influence of [Metropolis] on the subsequent cyber world was too important.
In fact, it is famous for its huge production and science fiction that almost surpassed the times. In terms of architecture and scene design, which science fiction film in later generations dare to say that it has not been affected?
From the [Blade Runner] who laid the foundation of cyberspace to the recent [Mechanical Ji], it is not difficult to see the continuation of the concept and style of the mechanical girl in [Metropolis].
In SexyRobot, there is also a mechanical girl who pays tribute to [Metropolis]; the pop singer Beyoncé was also inspired by it in the appearance of the "Sasha Fierce" album tour.
In 1985, science fiction author Gwyneth Jones created the word "Gynoid" for the first time in her work to describe the female robot Cho (short for The Chosen in the Beautiful). The Japanese two-dimensional culture translates it as "Ji Niang", which is full of the meaning of the gaze of an otaku, and has developed the "Ji Niang" culture in the house circle.
Compared with the "Ji Niang" culture, movies like [Mechanical Ji] are more subtle.
Has there ever been sex between the artificial intelligence Ewa in [Mechanical Ji] and her maker Nathan? When I was watching a movie, I thought about this all the time.
Binesen's suggestion to another male programmer was that "Eva has a mouth for sexual activity" and "a lot of sensors are densely packed."
And the immature male programmer fell. He watched Ewa through the monitor day and night, watched her sit quietly, watched her change clothes, and his gaze was full of hidden true eroticism.
Of course, in the end, Nathan revealed another truth that was shocking enough: Eva's appearance was designed according to the preference of the male programmer's pornographic star.
From the very beginning, the birth of Eva contained the connotation of "sex".
And the test of artificial intelligence in [Mechanical Ji] asks all the time: Is sex a part of consciousness?
As someone said, taking the design of Korayamaji as an example, although his Sexy Robot is based on erotic desire, another level of thinking is:
If human lust can be projected on the mechanical female body of inorganic matter, can the eternal philosophical proposition of "human definition" have a deeper answer?
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