That report said Ninja/Waddy was such a pain that Blomkamp went so far as reducing his role and writing him out of scenes to keep him off the set.
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His characterization of Ninja being a general pain in the ass and telling the other actors how to act does dovetail with a South African tabloid report from about a year ago that was initially denied by the associated spokespeople. But the kind of tension that we had off set was great for the film.” I did, very much so, I was very excited to meet the guy, I was a massive fan of Max Normal, but… you know, when somebody comes and feels that they have the right to tell you how to do your job? Yeah, it became an issue. I don’t care much for his band, I don’t care much for anything that he does. “Everyone knows the relationship that I have with Waddy. Auret’s attempt to self-censor was palpable in a recent interview with The .za, during which he nonetheless said: It’d be like if Short Circuit had cast an actual rap group called “ Los Locos” as themselves just to see what would happen.Īt least according to actor Brandon Auret, who has worked on all of Neill Blomkamp’s films so far, working with Ninja, aka Watkin Tudor Jones, the male half of Die Antwoord, was no picnic. But for Chappie‘s filmmakers and other actors, obtaining that novelty value required spending hours on set with two people who were not only not actors but unpredictable people.
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This has been corrected.Casting everyone’s favorite wait-are-they-actually-serious? Afrikaans rap duo Die Antwoord in Chappie certainly adds a level of novelty value to a movie that already looks like a South African remake of Short Circuit where the robot throws ninja stars.
The original described the culture as "zed". This article was amended on 17 November 2010.
As a one-off experience, however, Die Antwoord are hilarious. The bubblegum Beat Boy suggests a potty-mouted Aqua, while the staggeringly puerile Fish Paste features a Boer playground chant for a chorus.Īs Ninja raps Evil Boy, in which he claims to be "hung like a fokken horse" before a giant pink proboscis emerges from the fly of his Y-fronts, it is clear these arch satirists rank alongside Tenacious D and Goldie Lookin' Chain as a musical joke that may not repay repeated telling. The songs are cartoon rants punctuated with guttural expletives. They rap in both English and Afrikaans about getting wasted, getting laid and their own dumb magnificence. They have plenty to gawp at.Īs Hi-Tek glowers behind the decks in a cowl and horror mask, the gangling Ninja bares his torso and a riot of (possibly temporary) tattoos, while his tiny sidekick Visser, squeaking from her romper suit, resembles a hyperactive toddler on a sugar rush. The joke has grown, and the Scala is rammed with cognoscenti who are in on the trio's ironic vulgarian shtick. None have travelled outside of his homeland, but this year the release of the shock-horror video for Die Antwoord's first single, Enter the Ninja, has attracted more than eight million views on YouTube. The band's co-founder and frontman, Watkin Tudor Jones, aka Ninja, has previously appeared in a host of similar conceptual art-rap projects and situationist pranks. This over-the-top South African rap-rave trio, comprising rappers Ninja and Yolandi Visser and a hulking DJ called Hi-Tek, purport to represent "zef", a strain of working-class/underclass Boer culture that perhaps most closely equates to our own pejorative term "chav". I f Die Antwoord are a joke, they're a painfully acute one.
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