Ghost in the Shell Page 2: More Screencaps
Here’s an example of Motoko with the invisibility mesh suit on. What’s kind of cool about this scene is her shadow. Just before this, she walks up to this guy, but still has to be careful, because while she’s in a mesh invisibility suit, she still has a shadow. This means the suit really serves as a ghost-hack, messing with your perceptions. It only “appears” to be invisible, but unfortunately, doesn’t work on the sun. This was a nice believability touch, I think.
Here’s a closeup of mesh invisibility suit.
Here’s Batau with a nice digital overlay shot of a map. I especially like the the window pane streaks here.
Oshii is absolutely terrific at dingy alleyways.
Here’s another great cityscape shot - look at the detail and perspective here! There are many “pause” type breaks where we see scenes of the city while the theme song plays. These are truly very cool imersive shots.
Something about 800 pound cyborgs scuba diving is cool!
Ah, the surgery of the future!
One more, the now-traditional mannequin shot. I can’t tell you the number of cyberpunk movies that imitate this imagery. Almost every movie with androids have it though.
Comments
August 31, 2006
mike said:
Ok I know Im probably gonna get alot of negative remarks from this, Kinda like “where have you been” kinda deal. hehe But here’s my question…..” where did her ghost come from?” Was she once a human that’s “ghost or soul” was transfered to the cyborg body? Or was her entire soul created from scratch from the beginning……Im sorry guys just a little confused…last time I saw this movie was a couple years ago so please understand my lack of GITS knowledge. Anyways take care. love this site.
ETM said:
Motoko Kusanagi had some sort of an accident as an 8-yo girl, and had to have her body replaced with a cybernetic one. So - she used to be human and does have a ghost - but all that remains of her biological existance is a part of her brain. That is, in part, why she has the dilemmas she has in the movie.
September 1, 2006
mike said:
thanks for the answer man, that question was bothering me for awhile.
April 1, 2007
Yoav said:
this movie speaks to my very soul,allways has.
anyone can share any details about the murials in the final scene?
i allways wondered what they ment,especialy the name at the top of that tree
when the tank shoots upwards the murial.
June 10, 2007
PAWN said:
Motoko Kusanagi TO MY KNOWING DOSE NOT KNOW IF SHE IS HUMAN OR NOT. REFER TO THE SCENE AFTER SHE IS FINISHED DIVING IN THE OCEAN. SECTION NINE OWNS ALL OF HER, BUT A FEW HUMAN BRAIN CELLS IN HER CYBER BRAIN. SHE HAS NO MEMORY OF HER PAST SO SHE QUESTIONS HER RITE TO BE TREATED HUMAN. LATER EVEN BEFORE LINKING WITH 2501, SHE KNEW BEING HUMAN WAS NOT THE DEFINITION OF BEING “ALIVE”. HER ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE HERSELF AS “HER”. ALSO HAVING THE ABILITY TO USE INFORMATION IN HER OWN WAY. AT THIS POINT IN THE STORY THE QUESTION OF IS SHE HUMAN NO LONGER MATTERS, EVEN TO HER. SO SHUT UP.
Co Attican said:
Read the Manga, watch the series.
August 22, 2007
Mira Firefly said:
PAWN, nobody was insulting anybody. It is cyber-rage like yours that makes me question the validity of my perception of real depth in online interaction. Do us all a favor, drop the elitism and calm down.
SFAM said:
I’m a bit late in getting to comments on this one, my apologies. To echo Mira’s comment, the upper case thing is a bit odd, Pawn. As an aside, I’m not quite sure who you are “raging” at as none of the comments, nor my picture captions above deal with your rant. Was this related to the first page of the review?