Scenes of bodily transformation in film via Machine?
October 7, 2017 1:44 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for clips or scenes of extreme bodily transformation in science fiction films via machine or a mechanical process. For example: "The Fly."
If you could give a link to the clip that would be most helpful. Thank you!
If you could give a link to the clip that would be most helpful. Thank you!
In the film Adolescence of Utena, a girl is sucked into a gigantic mechanical car wash and transformed into a racecar.
No knowing if anime will qualify for what you want, but it is from the motion picture not the [vastly superior] series, and an example of exactly what you're asking for.
posted by tomboko at 2:46 PM on October 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
No knowing if anime will qualify for what you want, but it is from the motion picture not the [vastly superior] series, and an example of exactly what you're asking for.
posted by tomboko at 2:46 PM on October 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
The surprisingly creepy scene from Superman 3 in which a malevolent supercomputer transforms a woman into a robot.
posted by ejs at 2:49 PM on October 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by ejs at 2:49 PM on October 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
A classic example of this is the transformation scene in An American Werewolf in London.
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 3:17 PM on October 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 3:17 PM on October 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
Ooops except I totally managed to miss the the caveat about changing via machine or mechanical process. Oh well. It's still a great clip!
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 3:18 PM on October 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 3:18 PM on October 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
Leeloo's creation in the Fifth Element
posted by Chrischris at 4:18 PM on October 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by Chrischris at 4:18 PM on October 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
The ancestor of them all, Robot Maria from Metropolis
posted by Pallas Athena at 4:25 PM on October 7, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by Pallas Athena at 4:25 PM on October 7, 2017 [5 favorites]
Rocky in the Rocky Horror Picture Show emerges from a biomedical tank, as does Wolverine in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
In "Alien Resurrection," Ripley's less-successful hybrid clones, found in medical lab devices, beg for death, but I can't find the clip.
posted by Iris Gambol at 4:59 PM on October 7, 2017
In "Alien Resurrection," Ripley's less-successful hybrid clones, found in medical lab devices, beg for death, but I can't find the clip.
posted by Iris Gambol at 4:59 PM on October 7, 2017
Universal Soldier. You can see a bit of the transformation at the beginning of this trailer.
posted by fuse theorem at 5:17 PM on October 7, 2017
posted by fuse theorem at 5:17 PM on October 7, 2017
There's a Japanese sort of cult movie from the 80's called Tetsuo: The Iron Man, which is about a guy who transforms into sort of a partly-mechanical biomechanoid, uh, thingie. For some reason. I don't know, it's been a long time and I'm hazy on the details, but you can see a bit of it in the trailer, which is probably NSFW for phallic placement of power tools, and general weirdness.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 6:37 PM on October 7, 2017
posted by Sing Or Swim at 6:37 PM on October 7, 2017
The video game Quake IV has the "Stroggification" cinematic in which the captive human player-character goes through, in first-person, a mostly-mechanized process of being transformed into a cyborg Strogg, one of the game's enemy troops, but thanks to some intervention by the Good Guys, the neurological enslavement bit at the end doesn't work, and so the player remains in control of his new, more advanced body. It's kinda horrifying anyway. (Cartoon gore)
Along the lines of the reconstruction of Leeloo in The Fifth Element, the character Kruger (Sharlto Copley) has his face substantially blown apart and is reconstructed by machine in this scene, which starts with a very gory view of his damaged face. In the same movie, Matt Damon's character gets an exoskeleton bolted on to his body, but it's humans using hand tools like air-wrenches.
Seconding Superman III. Looks cheesy now, but that scene really upset and disturbed me as a kid.
The movie "Ice Pirates" has this scene in which prisoners endure an assembly line which will transform them into castrated slaves. It starts be being shaven by human workers, an ends with a machine that performs the particular medical alteration but our heros are saved, so we never see it happen on screen (which would take it out of the realm of action-comedy).
Doctor Who's "Cybermen" are made from unwilling subjects; I think I recall there was a factory to turn humans into Cybermen in "Army of Ghosts" (memorable because it had Freema Agyeman, a future Companion, in a bit-role as a cyberman victim).
TVTropes has Unwilling Roboticisation which may be a fruitful jumping-off point. There's also We Can Rebuild Him and Man in the Machine.
The physical transformation from Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader is depicted in SW: Episode III, and it's performed by droids.
posted by Sunburnt at 6:37 PM on October 7, 2017
Along the lines of the reconstruction of Leeloo in The Fifth Element, the character Kruger (Sharlto Copley) has his face substantially blown apart and is reconstructed by machine in this scene, which starts with a very gory view of his damaged face. In the same movie, Matt Damon's character gets an exoskeleton bolted on to his body, but it's humans using hand tools like air-wrenches.
Seconding Superman III. Looks cheesy now, but that scene really upset and disturbed me as a kid.
The movie "Ice Pirates" has this scene in which prisoners endure an assembly line which will transform them into castrated slaves. It starts be being shaven by human workers, an ends with a machine that performs the particular medical alteration but our heros are saved, so we never see it happen on screen (which would take it out of the realm of action-comedy).
Doctor Who's "Cybermen" are made from unwilling subjects; I think I recall there was a factory to turn humans into Cybermen in "Army of Ghosts" (memorable because it had Freema Agyeman, a future Companion, in a bit-role as a cyberman victim).
TVTropes has Unwilling Roboticisation which may be a fruitful jumping-off point. There's also We Can Rebuild Him and Man in the Machine.
The physical transformation from Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader is depicted in SW: Episode III, and it's performed by droids.
posted by Sunburnt at 6:37 PM on October 7, 2017
Aaaand I missed it in the very first comment. Sorry, don't mind me, I'll show myself out.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 6:37 PM on October 7, 2017
posted by Sing Or Swim at 6:37 PM on October 7, 2017
Not sure if this fulfills all requirements but there's the transformation/not a transformation from the end of Altered States.
posted by Glinn at 6:51 AM on October 8, 2017
posted by Glinn at 6:51 AM on October 8, 2017
Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.
We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man.
Steve Austin will be that man.
Better than he was before: better, stronger, faster.
(Actual transformation starts at around 2:00)
posted by Pallas Athena at 7:08 AM on October 8, 2017
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.
We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man.
Steve Austin will be that man.
Better than he was before: better, stronger, faster.
(Actual transformation starts at around 2:00)
posted by Pallas Athena at 7:08 AM on October 8, 2017
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