The background design artists for the movie took a trip to Hong Kong to gather ideas for what they wanted the futuristic city to look like. Certain parts of HK still very much look like this. Especially in the Kowloon area of the city. A lot of HK’s landscape has changed since then but having lived there, this movie always brings back memories for me because of the detail and effort the background team put into their work.
@Ano Nymous They're both beautiful. If you're talking about the manga, then Akira's backgrounds wins hands down. The details are absolutely gorgeous. However, Shirow Masamune is no slouch in the design department either. Even though the original Ghost in the Shell manga was written in the 80s, a lot of his cyber-Japan designs still feels fresh today, minus a few bits like the clothes and some clunky technology (still using CDs for example). Akira on the other hand, is heavily 80s flavored cyberpunk and feels dated in comparison. Not necessarily a bad thing, but you can immediately tell what period it was written in.
I really admire that they animated the man in the red shirt simply stop to enjoy the skyline. Like they didn't even have to do that but his sudden stop and smile are amazing additions.
It is a deliberate directorial choice that has the effect of visually and contextually confusing viewers and making them to wonder whether what the character and the viewers themselves are actually seeing is on the reality or a virtual reality. The odd-sizing aircraft silhouette with a distorted perspective, the disorienting camera rotation, and the echoing background sound of music box are all an ensemble to produce an intended directorial effect. Ghost in the Shell is replete with excellent visual directions of this kind that are heavily relevant with the themes of the film (no need to even bring up the scene at the end of the film in which the tank's heavy machine gun traces the tree of life while destroying its process and eventually reaches the top of the tree), and Mamoru Oshii's directorial skills truly reached his zenith between Patlabor 2 and this film. It's a work of art created by a truly smart person with masterful skills.
In one of the episodes for Standalone Complex they showed the stats for this one uniformed policewoman who had full prosthetics and I did the math; she was 5'2", weighed over 600 pounds and had a fairly average/petite looking physical build. In Ghost in the Shell SAC; the Major is at least 4 inches taller plus her limbs and torso are much more thickly built. So at least in the Standalone Complex timeline she might be even heavier (makes sense once you consider that even disregarding built in armor that Full Cyborgs are basically giant knots of synthetic muscle fibre bundles that let at least some of them jump rooftop to rooftop) unless with her stupendous wealth and resources she can afford top of the line muscle fibres that are not only extremely high performance but use lightweight materials that don't compromise strength and durability.
1:38 This animation lives rent free in my head. The reload, the snap glance behind him, swiping on his invisibility hoodie; I don't know why they animated this nameless thug so awesomely but it's probably the coolest moment in the whole movie for me.
So he was just a garbage man, and he was hacked into believing he had a wife and kids, something to fight for and a false cause. And they erased his childhood memories, his mother's face, and even his name. And Batou's attitude about it is irritation, with the Major's attitude towards him being pure indifference. They've seen so many cases of this to go straight from sympathy to another day on the job where they changed their inability to help him into something else to cope. That's a form of grief. It's a great scene, I think.
Well it's just information, after all. In this film you couldn't even tell if they cared. They're cyborgs. Why would they feel empathy for them? It's just a drop in the bucket. In the postcyber future, nothing is sacred.
@@Nickythepickle I have absolutely no doubts that they care, otherwise there would be no point to even be part of something that is meant to help. But as said, they are merely coping, they can't afford to feel sympathy for all the cases like him if any at all, especially since this doesn't seem like an isolated case at all, it was common, his case just happened to be a notch above.
@@TheZero092 One determinable thing about free will is a fact that there surely is no definition, rather a set of problems. Memory account of personhood is very 17/18th century by the way.
A little? Not even Desert Eagle .50 AE rounds are able to push an entire human body back like that. There had to be some serious supercharged gunpowder in those HVAP rounds.
When Batou is standing in the middle of the marketplace & NPCs- er- tertiary characters- are actually acknowledging that this big ol’ hulkin’ dude is in their way, it was refreshing. Animation doesn’t usually do this.
Honestly one of the best chase scenes in FILM, let alone animation. Rarely do you have a chase/action scene that builds so much character and underlying thematic notes
I was blown away by how good the gun sounds in this movie are, often something that makes otherwise amazing anime fall flat. everything about this movie is perfection
@@ambientvirtual It have mentioned in interviews that Mamoru Oshii took a good number of animators and sound designers to a shooting event early in the realisation of the movie and they talked at lenghts with firearms enthustiasts and even shooted a few guns themselves to get a good feel of the weapons they would recreate for the movie.
Batou is such a cool charachter, especially from a western prespective. His look would make him a villan in 99% of american movies. His gray eyes, and the fact his first line is litterally bragging about having the right to kill (as do all Section 9 members) made me think he was a bad guy the first time I saw him. However he quickly became my favourite supporting charachter. He has some of the most kind-hearted moments in the movie, always trying to re-assure Motoko that she is a real person despite her fully synthetic body.
Still can't believe that this masterpiece got a live-action adaption smh. When are studios going to realize that everything doesn't need a live-action adaption.
Diana Harris she was original, now her opinions are moot because they are not accurate. She wants power in gaming but doesn’t know how to talk to gamers.
This is what I wanted Cyberpunk 2077 to play like. I can only hope some other video game company is able to emulate the feeling and ambience that this movie had and translate it into a game
I been waiting so damn long you could only imagine my disappointment with cyberpunk coming from project red the guys that made the Witcher 3 so unexpected I just want a solid cyber punk game that borrows elements from this and blade runner!
those water drops swirling and flying when Motoko beats the shit out of the guy. I don't even look at the bodies, i just keep looking at the water drops and ripples. Art
1:31 Ya know you're having problems when a dude manages to Swiss Cheese an Armored Car with a Micro Uzi until it explodes. HV Rounds in Ghost in the Shell are nasty. They never showed it as such in any of the subsequent Anime again except a passing mention in Stand Alone Complex season 1 for the episode on the oil rig. Ammo that can basically break a semi-modern weapon after two magazines and push a cyborg backwards that might weigh in at 600-700 pounds from the recoil of one mag dump is insane.
I love the fact that it's a trade-off too. You get the sense that in this world the HV rounds are probably expensive - and probably black market. It also shows that the character never intends to use the weapon unless it's a last resort. He packs the HV rounds knowing full well it'll ruin the gun because if he ever needs to use it he needs to be sure it'll do the job. Batou mentions how he must be an insane to run the rounds through such a compact gun but I'd argue he's well aware of the risk. perhaps a little more daring than most but still - the guy uses the rounds because they're an ace in the hole. And it worked too! The Section 9 guys weren't expecting that kind of firepower when they showed up. A lot of other universes would just say the HV rounds are straight up better than normal ammo, just a bit more expensive. In GitS though the expense and difficulty of acquiring them is just a nuance - the real trade off is usability. Sure you can make your machine pistol hit like a tank, but every shot is less and less accurate until you hit about 30 at which point the thing will just explode. IMO this creates a far better universe where you don't just see rich guys load HV because they can afford it and so all the major bad guys have the HV ammo. Instead it's this more realistic scenario where you'll only see the HV used by guys who know what they're doing or, in this case, guys who need a pocket machine-gun for the quick escapes.
@@daredemontriple6 I gotta lol at the phrase "Well aware of the risk." Dude didn't even know his own name. I'm almost surprised he didn't have a suicide vest, but it would probably be hard to justify that even with a head full of fake memories.
I hate to nitpick but I think using HV rounds on an mini uzi like that straight up won't work. Well at least it won't work with both normal and HV ammo. If it is like the real life micro uzi it would be direct blow-back operation. This means it relies on the weight of the bolt alone to keep the bullet inside the barrel long enough to stop the cartridge from leaving the barrel early and blowing up inside the gun (leads to a jam at best and the gun exploding at worst). Thing is the weight of the bolt has to be matched closely to the type of ammo or it won't work. Make the bullet too weak and the heavy bolt won't cycle properly. Make the bullet too powerful, cartridge leaves barrel early and it'll blow up in your face. Unless they made some mad modifications to the mini uzi and turn it into another gun entirely, the guy can't simply run normal ammo without issue and somehow run extra hot HV ammo without the thing blowing up in his face. If he was using something like an MP5 (uses a roller lock to delay the bolt blowback), or MP7 (uses a gas piston linked further down the barrel to push the bolt) it might make more sense.
A cool minor detail I just noticed was that the hacker's thermoptic coat is not waterproof. Kusanagi may have missed a direct hit, but she splashed enough water to short out his commercial grade raincoat-style thermoptics. She may have even done it intentionally to make it easier to track him. Her military-grade thermoptic gear however is clearly waterproof
@@kalacaptain4818The Commander's flickers when splashed with water but still functions, the hacker's shorts out and completely failed when splashed with water.
4:00 I love how this scene is setup. It transitions from river level to roof top level. Such good use of perspective. It gives the firefight such a full on experience. From everyone's point of view.
I love how calm it is when she beats the shit out of him. It's so weird for a fight scene and really makes this scene stick out and stay in my mind. In most movies the camera would be all over the place with some crazy music. But here's it's this really calm almost trance like music with these nice steady wide shots. It makes it eerie. It also feels like maybe it's from the Major's perspective. Yeah she's fighting a guy with a gun who wouldn't hesitate to kill her but she's so in control of the situation and herself that taking him down is almost an act of meditation.
i'm personally far more of a fan of the anime series, but I still respect the hell out of this gem of a movie and its long lasting ripple effect on cinema history
Yeah once he ran down that alley deep between those decaying buildings it was so imersive. Like the dude could've easily ran to a dead end. The way that jumbo jet's shadow loomed overhead.
That brooding chime soundtrack as he jogs through the quiet, wet back alleys really blew my mind when I first saw this in theaters. It hits such a specific, tense tone. I’ve thought about it for years.
yes! and the nods to the old Hong Kong airport with the airplane flying right overhead. the city scenes seems to be directly drawn from real world Hong Kong. it hits the vibe perfectly.
Or you do it like One Piece on Netflix. The people that made the source material are part of the creation process of the adaptation and their input has more impact than some charts on a whiteboard. The focus group says we have to do this, cut this and change that, fuck that shit. Just adapt the game, anime, book and be forever grateful that somebody did the creative process for you, so you can cash in. It's not rocket science for fuck sake.
This scene to just resonates so hard with me. The mega city in the background with foreground being old and decrepit and the music and grittiness of it all. I wish there was more crime/action animes like this. I don’t watch anime at all but this scene is a masterpiece
Watching this makes you realize that the true glory years for anime were the 70’s through 90’s. While the anime industry had its fair share of bad works, the majority were absolutely incredible. Anime used to have a sense of mystery, a sense of darkness and danger and stylishness that Hollywood couldn’t replicate and that attracted you to it. Today its more mainstream and bigger but anime seemingly lost all those things. The sad reality is works like GITS and a lot of the 90’s anime wouldn’t be made today or couldn’t be made without making it too clean or consumable for a mainstream audience.
it is not as apparent in this movie, but in Innocence you can even see, he has literally some "tricks" up his sleeve (shotgun build into his arm) that makes it pretty apparent he is more cyberized than just his eyes. You could be forgiven in the first movie for thinking it is "just" his eyes. Although in the boat scene with the major she says they both have military grade cyberbodies and th at kinda gives it already away.
@@valkrae4876 Not so much an old model as hyper-specialized at the expense of natural appearance. Thats why he's able to see through optic camouflage, among other things. The result of his body being a MilSpec unit.
I love this film, the visuals, the action, the philosophy... all of it. but tbh, I've gotten so used to hearing Mary McGlynn voicing the Major, that it's quite strange to hear Motoko being voiced by Mimi Woods, either way they're both great voices but Mary is definitely the most iconic, but then again she's voiced Motoko in basically all anime adaptions of Ghost in the Shell except for this classic, and the Arise series.
As some one who is really into guns and owns a few I found the concept of there being a pistol caliber High Velocity round that can destroy an armored car absolutely insane considering the chamber pressure would have to be something that would cause any gun I ever shot to explode. The chamber pressure and the material weight and density has to be insane. (think of it in terms of basic physics mass time velocity squared). Batou reactions to me also seems to makes the situation feel surreal, like you little knuckle head you ruined your gun running hot ammo instead of saying that ammo should've killed you.
The first time I watched it, I REALLY LIKED Ghost in the Shell, but I didn't LOVE it. However, after watching the live action version of this scene, there's just no comparison. This scene is gorgeous on every level, animation, sound, backgrounds, cinematography... the new movie is just hideous. I think this is the best scene in the movie and I have a newfound respect for it
3:32 gotta love Batou smacking the shit out of three innocent people to catch his mark. He's so unapologetically crude and clumsy. He also has a knack for throwing away firearms when he's out of ammo. I love that too.
To me Mamoru Oshiis and Kenji Kawais animations are pure cinema. They have a nice "slow" pacing, unbelievably gorgeous backgrounds&cinematography(correct term i think) intriguing writing and plot, unlike todays fast carbage marketed for energy drink sippin youths.
I could watch the majors wheel kick on a loop for hours I swear looks almost mo capped with how accurate it is for all the weird people like me who watch both the ufc and anime gives me flashbacks of edson barbozas famous wheel kick
Rotoscope. Before motion capture there was a device for tracing real footage into animation to get lifelike movement called rotoscope. I wouldn't be surprised if they used some.
The shot of an airplane flying over at 4:53 is inspired by Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong, it's a real sight to behold seeing them flying so close to the ground.
the best part about this movie is the Danish "Frogmen" use similar stealth netting around the head and face. In a sense, Danish special commandos love anime and Ghost in a Shell.
This whole scene is cyberpunk perfection. The active camo, the internal radio link sub vocalizing, the over pressure rounds, the time slowing enhanced senses, IR vision, the guns and armor. So many little details if you look for them. I use this scene as the model for what cyberpunk stories should strive for.
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I could stare at the background art all day. The detailed buildings and sketchy urban jungle aesthetic are mesmerizing.
Handmade.
The background design artists for the movie took a trip to Hong Kong to gather ideas for what they wanted the futuristic city to look like.
Certain parts of HK still very much look like this. Especially in the Kowloon area of the city. A lot of HK’s landscape has changed since then but having lived there, this movie always brings back memories for me because of the detail and effort the background team put into their work.
Seems... peaceful.
A scene so well done it engages all the senses ..
@Ano Nymous They're both beautiful. If you're talking about the manga, then Akira's backgrounds wins hands down. The details are absolutely gorgeous.
However, Shirow Masamune is no slouch in the design department either. Even though the original Ghost in the Shell manga was written in the 80s, a lot of his cyber-Japan designs still feels fresh today, minus a few bits like the clothes and some clunky technology (still using CDs for example). Akira on the other hand, is heavily 80s flavored cyberpunk and feels dated in comparison. Not necessarily a bad thing, but you can immediately tell what period it was written in.
I really admire that they animated the man in the red shirt simply stop to enjoy the skyline. Like they didn't even have to do that but his sudden stop and smile are amazing additions.
I love the atmosphere of that scene. It's almost as though you've stepped into the rorld for a few minutes
It is a deliberate directorial choice that has the effect of visually and contextually confusing viewers and making them to wonder whether what the character and the viewers themselves are actually seeing is on the reality or a virtual reality. The odd-sizing aircraft silhouette with a distorted perspective, the disorienting camera rotation, and the echoing background sound of music box are all an ensemble to produce an intended directorial effect. Ghost in the Shell is replete with excellent visual directions of this kind that are heavily relevant with the themes of the film (no need to even bring up the scene at the end of the film in which the tank's heavy machine gun traces the tree of life while destroying its process and eventually reaches the top of the tree), and Mamoru Oshii's directorial skills truly reached his zenith between Patlabor 2 and this film. It's a work of art created by a truly smart person with masterful skills.
Nothing frivolous in this movie, its like there is a good reason for everything
Nothing wasted in this cinema feast!!😮
I love that little detail of how Kusanagi's cybernetic body is so heavy that she actually causes the roof of the building she lands on to buckle.
For real details like that are so dope.
Love that 90s sound design of the leaps! sweet stuff there 2:28!
actually even real flesh body would have done that,imagine 50kg or 70kg landing on that thin metal.
Nah look closely, it looks pretty thick, maybe 1/2in? Even 1/4in is pretty tough
In one of the episodes for Standalone Complex they showed the stats for this one uniformed policewoman who had full prosthetics and I did the math; she was 5'2", weighed over 600 pounds and had a fairly average/petite looking physical build. In Ghost in the Shell SAC; the Major is at least 4 inches taller plus her limbs and torso are much more thickly built. So at least in the Standalone Complex timeline she might be even heavier (makes sense once you consider that even disregarding built in armor that Full Cyborgs are basically giant knots of synthetic muscle fibre bundles that let at least some of them jump rooftop to rooftop) unless with her stupendous wealth and resources she can afford top of the line muscle fibres that are not only extremely high performance but use lightweight materials that don't compromise strength and durability.
1:38 This animation lives rent free in my head. The reload, the snap glance behind him, swiping on his invisibility hoodie; I don't know why they animated this nameless thug so awesomely but it's probably the coolest moment in the whole movie for me.
So he was just a garbage man, and he was hacked into believing he had a wife and kids, something to fight for and a false cause. And they erased his childhood memories, his mother's face, and even his name. And Batou's attitude about it is irritation, with the Major's attitude towards him being pure indifference. They've seen so many cases of this to go straight from sympathy to another day on the job where they changed their inability to help him into something else to cope. That's a form of grief.
It's a great scene, I think.
You: its a great scene, I think
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@@PinkFoxzzz lmao
Well said.
Well it's just information, after all. In this film you couldn't even tell if they cared. They're cyborgs. Why would they feel empathy for them? It's just a drop in the bucket.
In the postcyber future, nothing is sacred.
@@Nickythepickle I have absolutely no doubts that they care, otherwise there would be no point to even be part of something that is meant to help. But as said, they are merely coping, they can't afford to feel sympathy for all the cases like him if any at all, especially since this doesn't seem like an isolated case at all, it was common, his case just happened to be a notch above.
6:19 the way the veil splits and falls is just so beautiful
THAT and the veil splitting at 6:53
Masterpiece of story telling, and artwork.
But not just storytelling ....the definition of free will.
@@TheZero092 One determinable thing about free will is a fact that there surely is no definition, rather a set of problems. Memory account of personhood is very 17/18th century by the way.
Rafał Kierski What ghost in the shell is this?
@@goldenfury8971 A bit of each, but not even one
@@goldenfury8971The 1995 movie that pre-dates the TV series
This animation was ahead of its time. Still holds up today after 25 years.
2:43 you can see her on the roof. i never noticed that before
@DumFukkJuice Look at the center of the screen. She is staying left near the blue banner on the roof and is running to the right behind the banner.
That tells how detailed the whole movie is
@DumFukkJuice shes there top very small. She runs to our right side of the screen towards her left
I mean 2:34 they show her standing right next to the blue banner lol.
Wooahh ! nice
I never notices that!!
Ok I see now they referenced that in the live action version!!
1:31 i love the shot where he fires the gun and it pushes him back a bit
I expected that part in the live-action, I was so disappointed.
damn that's a powerful ass gun!
@@Gadget-Walkmen allow me to say this lovely... High-Velocity weapons are top notch! Yet, jams like a tommy-gun like wearing it out pretty hard
A little? Not even Desert Eagle .50 AE rounds are able to push an entire human body back like that. There had to be some serious supercharged gunpowder in those HVAP rounds.
@@GreyWolfLeaderTW minigun
The animation is way too inhumanly smooth and detailed. How in the world was this possible?
@@Feroce things the today's animation is mostly lacking, sometime we have pure jewel but they're too much rare.
Passion.
It was the 90s and it was painstankenly drawn. All of it.
@@brotheralaric7177 isnt anime more popular than ever, shouldnt there be way more money going into this things now a days.
I'm thinking they put in more frames than normal.
When Batou is standing in the middle of the marketplace & NPCs- er- tertiary characters- are actually acknowledging that this big ol’ hulkin’ dude is in their way, it was refreshing. Animation doesn’t usually do this.
People be like ; who tf that dude
I loved the little touches in animation like that.
Also it seemed to me that Batou was punching people out of the way. L
nice detail.
I really miss artworks like this.
Man ain't that the truth
It looked much more………….realistic, and much more expressive. Not like most of cringey anime nowadays.
Cel animation, sadly an extinct artform
@@Slychosis.I’ll bring it back someday
@@minixlemonade oh yeah? I have a similar dream
Artwork and Sound is phenomenal
Still one of the most beautiful ever
The 90s was the golden age of anime, specially in OAV and movies...
Anime movies at least. Pretty sure it’s because it was the peak of hand drawn animation, it’s beautiful
Disney 2d animation as well
@@TheCoppoy Go away, along with your Disney crap lol
@@brianflynn5355 is Beauty and The Beast crap? Aladdin? Or maybe The Lion King?
"aww, out of ammo....?"
Very underrated and iconic line
Hands down one of the best anime sequences ever.
Honestly one of the best chase scenes in FILM, let alone animation. Rarely do you have a chase/action scene that builds so much character and underlying thematic notes
@@ambientvirtual Even Roger Ebert praised this work of art. I'm glad he discovered & appreciated anime as a cinematic medium before he died.
5:21
Cool touch that he actually spends only the 8 rounds shown in the magazine
4:04 god I love that gun sound xD
I was blown away by how good the gun sounds in this movie are, often something that makes otherwise amazing anime fall flat. everything about this movie is perfection
@@ambientvirtual It have mentioned in interviews that Mamoru Oshii took a good number of animators and sound designers to a shooting event early in the realisation of the movie and they talked at lenghts with firearms enthustiasts and even shooted a few guns themselves to get a good feel of the weapons they would recreate for the movie.
wonder what kind of real life sound gun is that!
Can we just talk about how badass this random criminal is loading what's the equivalent of a Anti - Material round into a fucking Uzi lmao.
Yes! I also love how he adjusts his footing to brace for the recoil. Just a level of detail you don’t see a lot these days!
"He's insane!"
@@jpjones1186 Hell, it was rare to see in the 90's.
Not just an uzi. A micro-uzi at that.
Batou is such a cool charachter, especially from a western prespective. His look would make him a villan in 99% of american movies. His gray eyes, and the fact his first line is litterally bragging about having the right to kill (as do all Section 9 members) made me think he was a bad guy the first time I saw him. However he quickly became my favourite supporting charachter. He has some of the most kind-hearted moments in the movie, always trying to re-assure Motoko that she is a real person despite her fully synthetic body.
They even added a cat running on the roof at 3:39, awesome scene
One of the most brilliant soundtracks for a fight scene ever.
Still can't believe that this masterpiece got a live-action adaption smh. When are studios going to realize that everything doesn't need a live-action adaption.
They are too greedy
kinda glad it did, because I wouldn't of found out it existed otherwise
Alita Battle angel got a lot of good ratings but that's because it was accurate to the original story.
Diana Harris she was original, now her opinions are moot because they are not accurate. She wants power in gaming but doesn’t know how to talk to gamers.
Cryptosporidium 137 No I meant Alita not Anita
This is what I wanted Cyberpunk 2077 to play like. I can only hope some other video game company is able to emulate the feeling and ambience that this movie had and translate it into a game
I been waiting so damn long you could only imagine my disappointment with cyberpunk coming from project red the guys that made the Witcher 3 so unexpected I just want a solid cyber punk game that borrows elements from this and blade runner!
at least on the environments side of things Stray is looking really good, so is ghostwire tokyo
I feel like if you add the music from Ghost in the shell to cyberpunk and a few filters you could switch the vibe up real fast
It got close every now and again.
I feel like cp2077 is like this. Check out phantom liberty
those water drops swirling and flying when Motoko beats the shit out of the guy. I don't even look at the bodies, i just keep looking at the water drops and ripples. Art
7:03 he puts his jacket on her 🥺 i can and will die for batou
Background and environment art is amazing.
1:31 Ya know you're having problems when a dude manages to Swiss Cheese an Armored Car with a Micro Uzi until it explodes. HV Rounds in Ghost in the Shell are nasty.
They never showed it as such in any of the subsequent Anime again except a passing mention in Stand Alone Complex season 1 for the episode on the oil rig. Ammo that can basically break a semi-modern weapon after two magazines and push a cyborg backwards that might weigh in at 600-700 pounds from the recoil of one mag dump is insane.
I love the fact that it's a trade-off too. You get the sense that in this world the HV rounds are probably expensive - and probably black market. It also shows that the character never intends to use the weapon unless it's a last resort. He packs the HV rounds knowing full well it'll ruin the gun because if he ever needs to use it he needs to be sure it'll do the job. Batou mentions how he must be an insane to run the rounds through such a compact gun but I'd argue he's well aware of the risk. perhaps a little more daring than most but still - the guy uses the rounds because they're an ace in the hole. And it worked too! The Section 9 guys weren't expecting that kind of firepower when they showed up.
A lot of other universes would just say the HV rounds are straight up better than normal ammo, just a bit more expensive. In GitS though the expense and difficulty of acquiring them is just a nuance - the real trade off is usability. Sure you can make your machine pistol hit like a tank, but every shot is less and less accurate until you hit about 30 at which point the thing will just explode. IMO this creates a far better universe where you don't just see rich guys load HV because they can afford it and so all the major bad guys have the HV ammo. Instead it's this more realistic scenario where you'll only see the HV used by guys who know what they're doing or, in this case, guys who need a pocket machine-gun for the quick escapes.
@@daredemontriple6 I gotta lol at the phrase "Well aware of the risk." Dude didn't even know his own name. I'm almost surprised he didn't have a suicide vest, but it would probably be hard to justify that even with a head full of fake memories.
@@scottdick296 well I mean either he is, or the guy who hacked him is. Presumably he's no use dead to the guy who hacked him right?
Must be ++++++P or some shit to do that.
Or as the boomers in the gun shop call them “Pissin hawt loads”
I hate to nitpick but I think using HV rounds on an mini uzi like that straight up won't work. Well at least it won't work with both normal and HV ammo. If it is like the real life micro uzi it would be direct blow-back operation. This means it relies on the weight of the bolt alone to keep the bullet inside the barrel long enough to stop the cartridge from leaving the barrel early and blowing up inside the gun (leads to a jam at best and the gun exploding at worst). Thing is the weight of the bolt has to be matched closely to the type of ammo or it won't work. Make the bullet too weak and the heavy bolt won't cycle properly. Make the bullet too powerful, cartridge leaves barrel early and it'll blow up in your face. Unless they made some mad modifications to the mini uzi and turn it into another gun entirely, the guy can't simply run normal ammo without issue and somehow run extra hot HV ammo without the thing blowing up in his face.
If he was using something like an MP5 (uses a roller lock to delay the bolt blowback), or MP7 (uses a gas piston linked further down the barrel to push the bolt) it might make more sense.
A cool minor detail I just noticed was that the hacker's thermoptic coat is not waterproof. Kusanagi may have missed a direct hit, but she splashed enough water to short out his commercial grade raincoat-style thermoptics. She may have even done it intentionally to make it easier to track him. Her military-grade thermoptic gear however is clearly waterproof
Hitting water was on purpose
@@xmanreturn You see his shadow at one point.
She literally gets splashed and her camouflage fails
@@kalacaptain4818The Commander's flickers when splashed with water but still functions, the hacker's shorts out and completely failed when splashed with water.
@@Platonicgryphon Her thermoptic fails by the end of the scene, its obviously better than the ghost hacked guy but still has its flaws.
6:07 that kick has 4 shots 🤯 from different angles ❤️❤️❤️❤️
4:00 I love how this scene is setup. It transitions from river level to roof top level. Such good use of perspective. It gives the firefight such a full on experience. From everyone's point of view.
One of the best sequences in all of cinema.
I love how calm it is when she beats the shit out of him. It's so weird for a fight scene and really makes this scene stick out and stay in my mind. In most movies the camera would be all over the place with some crazy music. But here's it's this really calm almost trance like music with these nice steady wide shots. It makes it eerie. It also feels like maybe it's from the Major's perspective. Yeah she's fighting a guy with a gun who wouldn't hesitate to kill her but she's so in control of the situation and herself that taking him down is almost an act of meditation.
One of the best scenes in movie history.
Period.
You may stay.
i'm personally far more of a fan of the anime series, but I still respect the hell out of this gem of a movie and its long lasting ripple effect on cinema history
This dub is still fantastic imo. Epcar was phenomenal as Batou here.
ARE YOU FCKIN JOKING MATE?
Epicar I5 BATOU. 4nd always will be.
@Mark Patino Mimi Woods wasn't the best. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is the definitive Major.
He still is btw, the most recent Ghost in the Shell was probably some of his best work in years.
@@aaron.davies4127 fuck subs
Anyone else love the ominous music in the chase and water scene! everything looks gorgeous.
Yeah once he ran down that alley deep between those decaying buildings it was so imersive. Like the dude could've easily ran to a dead end. The way that jumbo jet's shadow loomed overhead.
That brooding chime soundtrack as he jogs through the quiet, wet back alleys really blew my mind when I first saw this in theaters. It hits such a specific, tense tone. I’ve thought about it for years.
yes! and the nods to the old Hong Kong airport with the airplane flying right overhead. the city scenes seems to be directly drawn from real world Hong Kong. it hits the vibe perfectly.
Beautifully made, incredibly detailed, mesmerizing soundtrack (try it on a rainy day walking on the street at evening time). A piece of art.
The movie didnt do this any justice. Thankfully we will always have this masterpiece.
Remake wasn't that bad that's my opinion
They should just re-run the this at the movie theatre instead of making live action.
The live action was decent with gorgeous visuals and aesthetics that combines CGI and practical effects brilliantly!
Both are a different take, they can co-exist alongside each other
your wish has been granted
Saw it and was totally worth it
Or you do it like One Piece on Netflix. The people that made the source material are part of the creation process of the adaptation and their input has more impact than some charts on a whiteboard. The focus group says we have to do this, cut this and change that, fuck that shit. Just adapt the game, anime, book and be forever grateful that somebody did the creative process for you, so you can cash in. It's not rocket science for fuck sake.
the car driven by Batou is clearly inspired by the Alfa Romeo SZ. Unconditional love for this anime!
6:55 when you wake up and realize you slept through your graduation exam.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
I have seen drunk people waking up among absurd places (like drains, pipelines etc) like this scene😂😂😂
Oh cmon, the quality of the animation is far beyond of anything that we got these days
The artwork looks way more real than the actual world, something which current "animes" lack by a long shot !!
The anime of the 90's captured an essence that you don't see in anime nowadays. It feels so nostalgic and immersive.
5:07 He rans through that maze of decaying alleys and to that waterpool spot. A sigh of relief lol.
I love that this fight is slightly recreated in Cyberpunk 2077 as one of the cyberpsycho fights.
Batou is my favorite character every single aspect about him I like and find interesting
This scene to just resonates so hard with me. The mega city in the background with foreground being old and decrepit and the music and grittiness of it all. I wish there was more crime/action animes like this. I don’t watch anime at all but this scene is a masterpiece
Always found this scene really cool.
THIS is what animation's capable of. More movies need to contain beautiful worlds and stories like this one.
1:29 sound design here
2023....STILL looks better then most current anime.
tal cual...podrías pensar perfectamente que esta producida en 2023...
Hands down the most beautiful anime ever made.
4:13 I firmly believe that shot is straight up a actual photo, it looks too real
Watching this makes you realize that the true glory years for anime were the 70’s through 90’s. While the anime industry had its fair share of bad works, the majority were absolutely incredible. Anime used to have a sense of mystery, a sense of darkness and danger and stylishness that Hollywood couldn’t replicate and that attracted you to it. Today its more mainstream and bigger but anime seemingly lost all those things. The sad reality is works like GITS and a lot of the 90’s anime wouldn’t be made today or couldn’t be made without making it too clean or consumable for a mainstream audience.
If there's a way to go beyond this movie, it's not by making it live action, it's by going beyond the work of the animators.
Stand alone complex was the true beyond to this even tho its a different universe
the final battle in this movie is absolut stunning
This animation is just phenomenal. I’m just so distracted by it including the overall amazing sound design.
4:40 It’s the little details like actually checking your ammo count that make it work
3:04 How big is Batou? He is at least twice as broad as anyone else in that crowd!
Prosthetic body
@@toyswithamotion9559 dame I always thought his eyes were only prosthetic.
it is not as apparent in this movie, but in Innocence you can even see, he has literally some "tricks" up his sleeve (shotgun build into his arm) that makes it pretty apparent he is more cyberized than just his eyes. You could be forgiven in the first movie for thinking it is "just" his eyes. Although in the boat scene with the major she says they both have military grade cyberbodies and th at kinda gives it already away.
@@harpseal9234 His eyes are an older model, I think. That's why they're so obvious.
@@valkrae4876 Not so much an old model as hyper-specialized at the expense of natural appearance. Thats why he's able to see through optic camouflage, among other things. The result of his body being a MilSpec unit.
I love this film, the visuals, the action, the philosophy... all of it. but tbh, I've gotten so used to hearing Mary McGlynn voicing the Major, that it's quite strange to hear Motoko being voiced by Mimi Woods, either way they're both great voices but Mary is definitely the most iconic, but then again she's voiced Motoko in basically all anime adaptions of Ghost in the Shell except for this classic, and the Arise series.
As some one who is really into guns and owns a few I found the concept of there being a pistol caliber High Velocity round that can destroy an armored car absolutely insane considering the chamber pressure would have to be something that would cause any gun I ever shot to explode. The chamber pressure and the material weight and density has to be insane. (think of it in terms of basic physics mass time velocity squared). Batou reactions to me also seems to makes the situation feel surreal, like you little knuckle head you ruined your gun running hot ammo instead of saying that ammo should've killed you.
I think Batou's "He's insane!" implied that the hacker's gun could have turned to shrapnel at any second.
The first time I watched it, I REALLY LIKED Ghost in the Shell, but I didn't LOVE it. However, after watching the live action version of this scene, there's just no comparison. This scene is gorgeous on every level, animation, sound, backgrounds, cinematography... the new movie is just hideous. I think this is the best scene in the movie and I have a newfound respect for it
It's insane the amount of videogames this movie has inspired over the years.
Nothing better than the spray of a P90
It´s not a P90 =) You see it clearly a minute earlier as she is loading the gun.
@@heardistance It was based off the P90. It was just bullpupped, it's unique to the movie.
6:06 she did the solid snake 1-2 kick combo
I swear Batou is the Clint Eastwood of anime
Saw this in the theatre as a kid and it singlehandedly got me into the classic anime films
I got that round-house kick as a metal poster, so badass.
I love how that guy plants his feet like his shoes are designed to absorb the insane recoil from his crazy ammo
“Next time use the back door”... That’s what she said
That's actually what her father said.
Then he beat the shit outta me.
Good advice tho.
ITS A BARGAIN AT TWICE THE PRICE
3:32 gotta love Batou smacking the shit out of three innocent people to catch his mark. He's so unapologetically crude and clumsy.
He also has a knack for throwing away firearms when he's out of ammo. I love that too.
90s anime was so fucking beautiful man
This is Art. ❤
To me Mamoru Oshiis and Kenji Kawais animations are pure cinema. They have a nice "slow" pacing, unbelievably gorgeous backgrounds&cinematography(correct term i think) intriguing writing and plot, unlike todays fast carbage marketed for energy drink sippin youths.
what game is your pfp from, i played it a while ago and can't find it again
@@utterpreshure8468 It's from sega CD version Snatcher. Hideo Kojimas cyberpunk detective game. Gillian Seed character.
@@humanafterallTF2 danke
This is the greatest anime I've ever seen, I've watch many anime since a kid, this is an icon
This scene remind me metal gear solid, Gray fox entrance in the corridor before you fight him.
Right?
Wait wait wait, you're saying quality art holds up after a decade? 🤯🤯🤯
I love the detail of her shadow in the water and the wave breaking around her ankles
I could watch the majors wheel kick on a loop for hours I swear looks almost mo capped with how accurate it is for all the weird people like me who watch both the ufc and anime gives me flashbacks of edson barbozas famous wheel kick
Rotoscope.
Before motion capture there was a device for tracing real footage into animation to get lifelike movement called rotoscope. I wouldn't be surprised if they used some.
The best Anime film all time.
This was my first anime film. I happened to see it 2 months before the Matrix was released.
The invisible fight remind me of patrick hitting himself lol
The shot of an airplane flying over at 4:53 is inspired by Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong, it's a real sight to behold seeing them flying so close to the ground.
A great movie, along the rest of the movies and anime episodes in this franchise.
Now i remember
Cyberpunk used to be a cool genre
for 7 minutes they were the world's most dangerous garbagemen
But apparently an easy arrest for the "natural" of the unit.
this is so great. this reminds me about how far we have fallen in the last few decades. we have to get back to this level. i'm in. :)
英語で聞くと、よりそれっぽい雰囲気が出るな
English being spoken made it more real than Japanese.
Everything about this chase scene is so on point.
the best part about this movie is the Danish "Frogmen" use similar stealth netting around the head and face. In a sense, Danish special commandos love anime and Ghost in a Shell.
I love the following scene with the chief after this, surveilling another puppet
1:50
I'm guessing this is how the Codec system works in Metal Gear Solid
6:08 Anime is kicking his But and kick your OVA manga does fan how to teach a fighting and Martial art like anime fight.
This and akira. I can't think of any other anime that has the same level of colour and urban jungle
What's the name of the music/song that starts at 4:12 ?
This whole scene is cyberpunk perfection. The active camo, the internal radio link sub vocalizing, the over pressure rounds, the time slowing enhanced senses, IR vision, the guns and armor. So many little details if you look for them. I use this scene as the model for what cyberpunk stories should strive for.
Batou - the best cop buddy you can ask for
I imagined that at many points in the film, Motoko thinks as much.