Shakma: Shakma

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Grabbing the screenshots for this death really made it clear how badly this movie was spliced together. Even forwarding the "action", there are endless static scenes of a corridor, or toilet stall etc, with nothing happening except screams off-camera.

It isn't done with any kind of Hitchcock style either, it's just damn cheap!

Being one of the few people to have watched this film, i have to say that my sympathy was with Shakma. After all, he was probably so violent because, having escaped, he was not prepared to go back to an existence of animal experimentation, where the rules and regulations governing the lab were questionable to say the least!

Let us also be clear, there is no real explanation that the work the lab is doing is contributing to science in any way, shape or form. It seemed it was designed purely to torture monkeys (oh, and to play live action role playing games in).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/21/2006 05:24PM by Mr Mouseburger.

How'd you get the grabs from a VHS?

SHAKMA RULES!!!!

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Bruno! Yes, yes, Lovely to hear from you too! No, no, ze vitness? Do not worry! I haff taken care of ze vitness. Yes, yes. Shoot him? What, ar-are you stupid? No, no I am not going to blow ze plane up! I... haff put snakes... on ze plane.

> How'd you get the grabs from a VHS?
Aha, my DVD was bought as a gift for me on eBay, but I strongly suspect it is a pirate copy. There are two reasons for this. One is the poor transfer quality, that definitely looks like VHS, and the other is the shoddy packaging ("there are spelling mistakes like "aggresive".

Four other things, "Mirrors" and "Not Quite Dead" could apply, "Drugs" shouldn't, Shakma is played by a chimp named "Typhoon", and although he may have been mistreated, he is most definitely not ambivalent.

I'd be fine having a pirate copy .

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Bruno! Yes, yes, Lovely to hear from you too! No, no, ze vitness? Do not worry! I haff taken care of ze vitness. Yes, yes. Shoot him? What, ar-are you stupid? No, no I am not going to blow ze plane up! I... haff put snakes... on ze plane.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 09/22/2006 12:34AM by Mr. Briggs Inc..

> "Mirrors"
Doh! I'd completely forgotten about this rare category (shameful as I was the one that added it) - thanks.

> "Not Quite Dead"
Borderline, but I don't think it qualifies. There is no evidence that the electricity injured him in any way (he just shrieks off camera but is fine).
Also, although he is knifed, he dies very shortly afterwards. Not quite dead is really meant to highlight deaths where characters take implausible amounts of damage and carry on fighting.

> "Drugs" shouldn't
Why not? If he hadn't been drugged he would never have gone mad and would therefore not have died.
> Shakma is played by a chimp named "Typhoon"
Cheers, entry updated.

>although he may have been mistreated, he is most definitely not ambivalent.
I thought about this, but I think there is a definite argument to be said that the baboon isn't evil. For a start, he's just an animal, and therefore can't be judged as a human. But more importantly, the only reason he wants to kill things is because he's been abused in the laboratory with a cocktail of drugs designed to make him insanely violent. It would be easy to rewrite the film from the perspective of Shakma, and turn it into a moral tale of righteous vengeance against people who are cruel to animals.
Considering all this, I didn't have the heart to label the poor fellow as a "baddie".

I love how the Amazon ads are all for Shania Twain. Because when I think of a two-foot baboon, I think of Shania.