《寶萊塢機器人之戀》是 2010 年印度泰米爾語科幻動作片，由編劇、導演，是《》的首部作品。影片由拉吉尼坎塔、艾西瓦婭雷、、和聯袂出演，AR拉赫曼譜寫。該影片的對白、攝影、剪輯，以及藝術指導則由，、，以及四人分別負責。 劇情簡介 影片講述了科學家瓦西格拉打造的人形機器人經過軟體升級，學會理解和展露人物，愛上了瓦西格拉的女友桑娜，並被反派科學家操縱變成殺人機器，給瓦西格拉帶來困擾的故事。 幕後製作 經過長達近十年的製作困境，影片終於在 2008 年開始了持續兩年的主體攝影。影片是美國公司的首部印度作品，他們負責影片的和發聲機動技術。影片於 2010 年 10 月 1 日全球上映，印地語版片名《Robot》，泰盧固語版片名《Robo》。這部由擔任製作人的影片，當時是的印度電影。 評價 影片獲得不俗的口碑。影評人普遍讚揚拉吉尼坎特飾演的七弟、拉特納韋盧的攝影、西里爾的佈景和的特效。影片位列 2010 年印度電影票房榜第四位，是當年最賺錢的電影。影片獲得兩項印度國家電影獎、三項、七項和兩項。影片的《》於 2018 年上映。 劇情 After a decade of research the scientist Vaseegaran creates a sophisticated android robot with the help of his assistants Siva and Ravi to commission it into the Indian Army He introduces the robot named at a robotics conference in Chennai Chitti helps Sana Vaseegarans medical student girlfriend cheat in her examination then saves her from being assaulted by a group of thugs Vaseegarans mentor Professor Bohra is secretly engaged in a project to create similar android robots for a terrorist organisation but has so far been unsuccessful Vaseegaran prepares Chitti for an evaluation by the Artificial Intelligence Research and Development AIRD Institute which is headed by Bohra During the evaluation Chitti attempts to stab Vaseegaran at Bohras command which convinces the evaluation committee that the robot is a liability and cannot be used for military purposes Vaseegarans effort to prove Bohra wrong fails when he deploys Chitti to rescue people from a burning building The robot saves most of them including a girl named Selvi who was bathing at the time but she is ashamed at being seen naked on camera and flees only to be hit and killed by a truck Vaseegaran asks for one month to modify Chittis to enable it to understand human behaviour and emotions to which Bohra agrees While nearing the deadline Chitti becomes angry with Vaseegaran demonstrating to him that it can manifest emotions Chitti uses Sanas textbooks to successfully help Sanas sister Latha give birth to a child Bohra congratulates Vaseegaran on the achievement and allows Chitti to pass the AIRD evaluation Chitti develops romantic feelings for Sana after she congratulates Chitti by kissing it When Vaseegaran and Sana realise this Sana explains to Chitti that they are only friends Saddened by Sanas rejection yet still in love with her Chitti deliberately fails an evaluation conducted by the Indian Army Enraged Vaseegaran chops Chitti into pieces which are dumped by Siva and Ravi into a landfill site Bohra visits the site to retrieve Chitti which has now reassembled itself albeit in a damaged state Bohra embeds a red chip inside Chitti while reconstructing it converting it into version 20 which is more aggressive and unempathetic It then gatecrashes Vaseegaran and Sanas wedding kidnaps Sana creates replicas of itself and kills Bohra Using its robot army Chitti occupies AIRD and causes mayhem in the city After informing Sana that it has acquired the human ability to reproduce Chitti wishes to marry her so that a machine and a human being can give birth to a preprogrammed child but Sana refuses It eventually finds Vaseegaran who entered AIRD to stop it and nearly kills him before the police appear The ensuing battle between Chittis robot army and the police personnel leads to a lot of property destruction and many casualties Vaseegaran eventually captures Chitti using a magnetic wall and accesses its internal control panel whereby he instructs all the other robots to selfdestruct He then removes Chittis red chip calming it In a court hearing Vaseegaran is sentenced to death for the casualties and damages caused by the robot army but Chitti explains that it was Bohra who caused its deviant behaviour and shows the court video footage of Bohra installing the red chip The court releases Vaseegaran while ordering that Chitti be dismantled Left with no choice Vaseegaran asks Chitti to dismantle itself While saying goodbye Chitti apologises to Vaseegaran and Sana who forgive it before dismantling itself The films setting then shifts to 2030 Chitti is now a museum exhibit A curious school student on excursion asks her guide why it was dismantled to which Chitti responds Naan sinthikka arambichen I started thinking 陣容 Rajinikanth as Vaseegaran and Opening credits from 0100 to 0200 Aishwarya Rai as Sana as Bohra as Siva as Ravi as the traffic police officer as Pachaimuthu as Vaseegarans father as the neighbourhood bully as Latha Sanas sister as Vaseegarans mother as Shah as the police inspector Closing credits in 25505 as the curious student as one of the barbers working at as K Bhajanlal one of the customers at The Park Hotel 製作 源起 Following the completion of his first directorial venture in Hindi 2001 announced his next project Robot which was to feature Kamal Haasan and Preity Zinta The film was to be produced by the nowdefunct company Media Dreams a division of The film was reported to be a futuristic set in Chennai in around 2200 or 3000 AD Despite the completion of a photoshoot featuring Haasan and Zinta the project was shelved as a result of scheduling conflicts with Haasan Shankar consequently started work on 2003 After Boys Shankar began work on his next feature starring which was initially reported by Rediffcom to be Robot revived but was later revealed as 2005 One month post the release of his action film Sivaji in June 2007 he approached Shah Rukh Khan for the lead in Robot Khan was about to produce it under his own banner but in October the same year the project was officially aborted due to creative differences between the two The project was revived in January 2008 with and the Londonbased production company willing to produce the film The state government of Tamil Nadu granted tax exemptions for films titled in Tamil resulting in the new production being renamed 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 While was originally assigned to write the dialogue for the film took over after Rangarajans death in February 2008 In December 2008 Eros International withdrew from funding the project after financial difficulties caused by the boxoffice failure of 2008 and 2008 with the subsequent departure of Ayngaran International which struggled with the global financial crisis of 200708 The films production and release rights were sold to 選角 In January 2008 Rajinikanth accepted the lead role in the film for a salary of 450 million Indian rupees Shankar rewrote the original script to suit Rajinikanths acting style In an interview with the Tamil channel held shortly after the films release in October 2010 Rajinikanth revealed that Shankar following the release of his in 1996 had approached and pitched three storylines for him to consider for his next venture Rajinikanth was impressed with two of the scripts and agreed to star in the films which became Sivaji and 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 The third script narrated by Shankar focused on an aspiring bodybuilder it eventually became 2015 Although Aishwarya Rai was Shankars original choice for the female lead in 2001 she declined it owing to a busy schedule and was replaced by Zinta When Shankar revived the project with Rajinikanth contenders for the part included Priyanka Chopra Deepika Padukone Shriya Saran and Rai who was ultimately selected and paid 60 million Rais voice was dubbed by Several actors were considered for the role of Professor Bohra including Amitabh Bachchan and British actor Ben Kingsley but it was who eventually received it making 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 his first film in Tamil Dubbing for Denzongpa was provided by Kadhir Comedians and were cast to portray Vaseegarans assistants Siva and Ravi respectively The soundtrack album and background score were composed by A R Rahman and Madhan Karky authored the lyrics for the songs son of filmmaker was signed on to be an assistant director after he approached Shankar Also working as assistant directors were Shree and Karthik G Krish in addition to being the films art director made a guest appearance as Shah an interpreter between Bohra and the terrorist organisation was hired as the cinematographer after and were considered was the films editor Yuen Wooping known for his work in The Matrix trilogy and the Kill Bill films was selected to be the stunt coordinator while a visual effects studio based in the United States were in charge of the and animatronics in the film Munichbased film technical company were responsible for the s The films subtitle captioning was done by Rekha Haricharan 服裝設計 and Mary E Vogt were chosen to design the films costumes Fiftyseven costumes were used for Rai including a Mexican tribal look that she sported during the filming of the segment According to makeup artist no prosthetics were used for Rajinikanth to avoid bothering him by withholding his time on set Additional makeup was by Vance Hartwell an employee of Legacy Effects The visual appearance of Chitti was based on the GI Joe action figures For Chittis villain robot look its hair was spiked and brown coloured lenses were used for its eyes whereas for its good robot look green coloured lenses were used The wig used for Chittis villain robot look had a silver streak in the middle made out of Yak hair while its leather jacket was designed by Vogt To make Vaseegaran look mature the team made Rajinikanth sport an Oakley beard Suits made of copper were used for Chittis costumes 主體攝影 For Sabu Cyrils sets Shankar required approximately twice as much studio floor space as for his previous film After rejecting for technical reasons 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 producer took six months to set up three airconditioned studio floors on land in Perungudi owned by Sun TV Network Filming began on 15 February 2008 at in Chennai After the initial stages of filming Shankar and Rathnavelu toured the world for three weeks scouting for exotic filming locations They visited Austria Germany Peru Brazil and Argentina looking for a backdrop to shoot the Kilimanjaro and Kadhal Anukkal segments eventually deciding on Peru and Brazil Kilimanjaro was filmed at the ruins of the Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru with some 100 Brazilian extras It was choreographed by and supervised by Fernando Astete director of the Machu Picchu archaeological park Kadhal Anukkal was filmed in Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in northeastern Brazil The filming for Chittis introduction to the international robotics conference was completed in December 2008 at and where more than 400 students were used as extras Further footage was shot over five days at the on the Mitsui OSK Lines car carrier Neptune Ace An action sequence where Chitti saves Sana from thugs was filmed in Lonavla under the supervision of the action choreographer Scenes featuring Rajinikanth as Chitti were captured over five days at the Perungudi Dump Yard in Chennai Sabu Cyril told Uma Kannan of The New Indian Express that the sets for the climax sequence which was filmed at consisted of a tar road and glass buildings which rose to and that reported to have cost 50 million were also used to design the sets The set for a sequence choreographed by was designed and constructed by Cyril at Ramoji Film City Filming of the number took place over 22 days in April 2009 Junior artists were employed by Rathnavelu to wear masks of Rajinikanth For the sequence entitledIrumbile Oru Irudhaiyam choreographed by and featuring Rai and Rajinikanth as Chitti three different sets were used one of copper one of gold and one in silver The musical number which was filmed in AVM Studios for eight days was the last portion of the films principal photography DSouza incorporated the popping style of street dances but encountered difficulties in performing the dance movements in tandem with the robot and with the restrictions created by the rigid costumes Principal photography ended on 7 July 2010 特效 Impressed with the films script became the visual effects supervisor in December 2007 He asked Shankar to increase the filming schedules by six months to include preproduction requirements Both Mohan and Shankar visited several visual effects companies including the New Zealandbased Weta Digital and the United Statesbased Industrial Light Magic and before partnering with Legacy Effects The original ErosAyngaran visual effects budget was 700 million but after Sun Pictures took over production it was significantly reduced to 200 million As a result the visual effects team had to omit and alter some sequences making Chitti wear sunglasses for most of the film to reduce the cost and difficultly of animating his eyes After a series of tests including a scene in which Chitti jumps on a train to save Sana Mohan eventually decided to use the technique in 40 out of the 60 visual effects scenes featured in the film consisting of 2000 takes Further previsualisation supervision was conducted by P C Sanath of Firefly Creative Studios a visual effects company based in Hyderabad 3D storyboards were constructed using 3D animation programs for every scene in the film and were shot from different angles In an interview with Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu Mohan said that all of the preproduction work took oneandahalf years to complete Rathnavelu used the camera and also wrote a 1600page manual in which he listed all of the possible angles from where he could film the characters Rajinikanth played Legacy Effects and the Hong Kongbased visual effects companies Kinomotive Studios and Menfond Electronics took responsibility for the films CGI work To create the robots with Rajinikanths appearance a complete scan of his face in 3D digital format in all possible lighting conditions was conducted using the Doom Light Stage so that his face could be replicated on the mannequins The technique according to Shankar was previously used in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008 The robot Chitti featured in the film was a mannequin made by a Legacy Effects team of 100 technicians in Los Angeles For every robotic mannequin used six puppeteers were employed to control the mannequins movements 主題和影響 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 focuses on the battle between man and machine Despite Shankars claim that 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 was a purely original idea it has been compared to Mary Shelleys 1818 novel Frankenstein owing to the similar personae of Chitti and Frankensteins monster both of which turn against their respective creators K Moti Gokulsing and Wimal Dissanayake in their book Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas noted the similarity between the two works arguing that Chitti was manipulated by Bohra to become a Frankensteinlike figure Writing for The AV Club Genevieve Koski observed The plot of 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 is essentially Frankenstein via Isaac Asimovs Three Laws of Robotics Director and film critic called 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 a superhero film a scifi adventure a triangular love story with a hint of the Ramayana while remarking that 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 similarities to The Terminator 1984 were more than obvious Not just visuallywhere we see the Superstar with one human eye and one scarred metallic eye but also intentionally spelt out when the bad robot announces that he has created Terminators Kamath compared two of the films robots to C3PO and R2D2 from the Star Wars film series which was referenced in 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 when Vaseegaran refers to one of his creations as R2 Although Shankar initially claimed that 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 would be made for all audiences including those lacking computer literacy the film is influenced by and makes references to many scientific principles relating to the fields of engineering computer science and robotics including terabytes and Asimovs laws of robotics Visual references are made to the s A Briefer History of Time 2005 and Freakonomics 2005 In his book Visual Perception and Cultural Memory Typecast and Typecast e ing in Malayalam Cinema Sujith Kumar Parayil notes the similarities between Kalabhavan Manis role in the film to the one Mani played in the Malayalam film 1996 音樂 For 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》s soundtrack and score A R Rahman made use of the an instrument he had experimented with previously in the song Rehna Tu froms drama film 2009 The film also marked the debut of Rahmans daughter Khatija as a playback singer The soundtrack album to 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 was released on 31 July 2010 at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia The Tamil and Telugu versions were released by Think Music while the Hindi version was released by Venus Music Think Music purchased the release rights of the Tamil and Telugu versions of the album for 70 million The album of the films Telugu version Robo was released on 6 August 2010 while its Hindi version Robot was released on 14 August 2010 After the second day of release the albums Tamil version reached the number one position in the Top 10 World Albums chart on iTunes making it the first Tamil album to do so 發行 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 was released on 1 October 2010 in three languagesin Tamil as 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 in Hindi as Robot and in Telugu as Robo The original version was in Tamil while the Hindi and Telugu versions were dubbed The film was released in 2250 theatres worldwide including 500 theatres in Tamil Nadu 350 theatres in Andhra Pradesh 128 theatres in Kerala 23 theatres in Karnataka and 750 theatres in North India With an estimated budget of 132162 billion 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 was up to that point surpassing the Hindi film 2009 which was filmed on a budget of 750 million 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 became the first Tamil film to be released at the a Norwegian theatre complex in Oslo and it was screened at the 21st held in the United Kingdom in 2011 Additionally a version of the film edited to a running length of two hours was released in Japan in May 2012 and later screened at the 24th Tokyo International Film Festival where it won a special award under the section Winds of AsiaMiddle East By public demand the original unedited version was later released in that country 營銷和發行 The first poster for 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 was released on 8 September 2008 The films trailer was released on 11 September 2010 at the theatre complex in Chennai To promote 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 organised a festival from 25 September 2010 until its release date in which they screened popular films of Rajinikanth at the companys theatre in In Coimbatore the printed 100000 post cards advertising the film Sun Pictures invested a total of 500 million on promotional activities Advance bookings for the film began two weeks before the release date in the United States In the Jackson Heights neighbourhood in New York tickets were sold out within ten minutes of going on sale In Kerala the distribution rights were sold for 50 million while in Karnataka they were sold for 100 million The distribution rights in Mumbai were sold to Shringar Films In the United Kingdom 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 was released by Ayngaran International while Robot was released by DVD marketing in India was handled by Ayngaran International released the twoDVD set of the film in early 2011 抄襲指控 The novelist Aarur Thamizhnadan made a complaint with the against the filmmakers in November 2010 stating that the producers plagiarised his 1996 novel Jugiba Thamizhnadan demanded 10 million from the director and producers for damages and filed a case against Kalanithi Maran In June 2011 the dismissed the case after a petition filed by Maran denying the allegation was approved 發行 票房 The daily newspaper reported that 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 grossed 580 million from all versions in the opening weekend and The Economic Times stated it netted 117 billion by the end of its opening week According to a February 2015 report by Hindustan Times the film has grossed 256 billion worldwide in its lifetime IndoAsian News Service stated in July 2015 that the film grossed 290 billion from both its original and dubbed versions 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 became the topearning Indian film of 2010 ahead of My Name Is Khan and and became the highestgrossing Tamil film of all time at that point As of January 2018 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 is the fourthhighestgrossing of all time after S S Rajamoulis twopart historical fiction films Baahubali 2 The Conclusion 2017 and Baahubali The Beginning 2015 ands Kabali 2016 Box Office India estimated that 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 netted 195 billion across India with the Tamil version netting 120 billion the Telugu version netting 530 million and the Hindi version netting 220 million The website estimated the overseas earnings of the film including its dubbed versions at approximately 12 million as of November 2010 with the Tamil version grossing 11 million and the remaining 1 million coming in from the Telugu and Hindi versions 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 collected 105 billion in Tamil Nadu alone a record it held for seven years before being surpassed by Baahubali 2 The Conclusion 2017 which grossed 1526 billion 專業評價 印度 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 received positive reviews from critics in India with praise particularly directed at Rathnavelus cinematography Cyrils art direction Srinivas Mohans visual effects and Rajinikanths performance as Chitti Aniruddha Guha of Daily News and Analysis gave the film a rating of four out of five stars and believed it had the best special effects ever seen in a Tamil film and that it was one of the most entertaining Tamil filmsacross all languagesever made Both of The Times of India and Kaveree Bamzai of India Today rated the film four out of five stars Kazmi called it the perfect getaway film Bamzai praised Rajinikanths acting in the film and said Rajni tells us why robot sapiens are superior to homo sapiens Both of NDTV and Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediffcom gave 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 a rating of threeandahalf stars out of five Chopra criticised the films portions in the second half describing them as needlessly stretched and cacophonous but concluded her review by saying Robot rides on Rajinikanths shoulders and he never stoops under the burden Aided by snazzy clothes makeup and special effects he makes Chitti endearing Srinivasan however said that Shankar strikes the balance between science fiction and masala quotient She concluded that Whichever way you look at it is one of those rare films that give you just enough material to pull you in and enjoy yourself of CNNNews18 gave a rating of three out of five stars and said In the end its the fantastic special effects and an inspired performance from that keeps the film fresh writing for Hindustan Times rated it three stars and said Leave aside jokes running on the Internet This film just a few feet too long is fine entertainment by itself Malini Mannath of The New Indian Express noted 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 for having An engaging script brilliant special effects and a debonair hero who still carries his charisma effortlessly Karthik Subramanian of The Hindu observed that actors tend to get lost in special effects movies Subramanian believed it was not the case in 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai carry the movie on their shoulders and considering the fact that much of the acting must have been in front of green screens one has to say that nothing looks artificial right through In contrast Gautaman Bhaskaran of Hindustan Times rated it two out of five stars writing that Shankars work slips into a loud overdramatic and exaggerated mess 海外 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 has received a rating of 67 on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on twelve reviews with an average rating of 56210 Lisa Tsering from The Hollywood Reporter said Rajinikanth is such a badass that Chuck Norris is afraid of him She praised the filming locations especially the Kilimanjaro song sequence but criticised the length of the films climax portions Genevieve Koski from The A V Club believed that 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 was pretty good and concluded that if you prefer elaborate costumes and dance music mixed in with your killerrobot action expect to enjoy up to an hour of 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle called 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 the best apocalyptic scifiromcommelodramadanceoff date movie of the year Roger Moore writing for the gave a mixed review evaluating it as a melodramatic kitschy Indian musical about a robot built for national defense but who discovers his human side Following the films screening at the American film director Oliver Stone praised 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 originality Conversely of Variety believed that Shankar riffs on everything from Frankenstein to The Terminator but suggested that the film was an overwhelming mashup of Americanstyle fxdriven scifi spectacle and a Bollywood musical 獎項及提名 At the 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 won for and It won in three categories at the for and Best Costume Design At the it was nominated in fourteen categories and won in seven including and for Rajinikanth and At the the film won awards under the and Spectacular Cutting Edge Technology categories 遺產 影片上映後，導演給影片導演尚卡爾寫了一封私人感謝信，稱他是印度的詹姆斯卡梅隆，形容影片是印度的《阿凡達》，太陽影業是印度的米高梅。影片是網際網路電影資料庫 2010 年 50 強電影榜單上的唯一一部泰米爾語電影。印度管理研究所亞美達巴德分校的研究生選修課 當代電影工業：商業角度 將影片列為研究案例。 影片的諸多段落，尤其是最為人知的 害群之馬 段落，被後來《》（2011）、《》（2011）、《》（2013）和泰盧固語電影《》（2011）和《》（2011）模仿。 影片中，七弟自己介紹時一般會提到自己的中央處理器時鐘頻率是（1012 赫茲），隨機存取儲存器上限是 1 澤位元組（1021 位元組），對白為 你好，我是七弟，速度速度 1 太赫茲，記憶體 1 兆位元組，流行一時。七弟也亮相了 2011 年科幻片《》。 On Rajinikanths 64th birthday an agency named Minimal Kollywood Posters designed posters of Rajinikanths films in which the Minion characters from the Despicable Me franchise are dressed as Rajinikanth The digital art was hand drawn on a digital pad by Gautham Raj One of the posters depicted a mutated Minion reminiscent of Chittis villain robot look in 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 In March 2015 Kamath in his review of the science fiction film Chappie compared its eponymous lead character to Chitti in terms of learning human emotions Joe Russo who codirected Avengers Infinity War 2018 said the sequence in 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 where numerous clones of Chitti come together to form a giant snake inspired a similar scene in Infinity Wars predecessor Age of Ultron 2015 where the titular antagonist Ultron and his clones come together to form a gigantic version of himself but that the scene was cut from the final version of the film to accommodate its runtime 續集 In September 2015 writer announced that the preproduction stage of a sequel to 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 was going on in full swing and that principal photography would commence once Rajinikanth finished filming for Kabali by the end of that year would be the cinematographer and A R Rahman would return as music director while Muthuraj would handle the art direction The sequel would be shot in 3D unlike its predecessor which was shot in 2D and converted to 3D in postproduction Titled 20 the film entered production in December 2015 and was released on 29 November 2018 Rajinikanth reprised his role as Vaseegaran and Chitti with the additional cast played by Akshay Kumar and Amy Jackson 註解 參考資料 延伸閱讀 外部連結 《寶萊塢機器人之戀》 at Box Office Mojo Category 泰米爾語電影 Category2010 年印度電影作品 Category 人工智慧題材電影 Category 印度科幻動作片