Well, there’s no need to worry, as we have you covered. With over 1,000 episodes and 15 movies under its belt, it can certainly be confusing for new One Piece fans to follow the right order. While almost all One Piece movies are non-canon, they have manga-canon moments from time to time. And because of its monumental success, several One Piece movies have been released to expand on existing plotlines or set the stage for new adventures for the Straw Hat Pirates.
The anime has already established itself as one of the greatest ever created. (5) The film also came at a time when conservative politicians, Christian lobby groups and the Office of Film and Literature Classification (now the Australian Classification Board), under the watchful eye of John Howard's government, were particularly keen to make their mark on the nation's film culture its release was sandwiched between a spate of controversial works that were banned, or came close to being banned, like Lolita (Adrian Lyne, 1997), Romance (Catherine Breillat, 1999), Baise-moi (Virginie Despentes & Coralie Trinh.As most of you might know, One Piece has become a worldwide phenomenon among anime enthusiasts. He'd been stuck in production limbo for seven years, (4) somehow struggling to convince investors that there was an appetite for a film about a celebrity criminal who'd had his own ears amputated and claimed to have been involved in the murder of nineteen people (later downgrading the tally to 'about four or seven, depending on how you look at it', a few months before his death). (30 No, Read isn't demystified Chopper makes its titular criminal's myth visible and palpable.ĭominik can be forgiven for spinning his own intentions. The scene practically renders its protagonist superhuman, elevating him alongside those awe-inspiring screen villains who just can't seem to be killed-an ocker and more down-to-earth Michael Myers, Terminator or Anton Chigurh.
When Chopper eventually lies weakened from his wounds, it feels like a detail included begrudgingly-not out of any respect for reality (Read lost part of his bowel and several feet of intestine from the incident (2)), but only to prevent the film from tipping over into fantasy. 'What's gotten into you?' he asks after the third plunge of the knife into his belly, as if to a misbehaving pet dog then, following a fourth stab, he offers his anxious assailant a hug.
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On the whole, he's portrayed as very much human: full of contradictions and hang-ups, some more convincing than others.īut is he demystified? It's difficult to take Dominik at his word when we see Chopper rooted in place as he's stabbed half a dozen times by his prison-mate Jimmy (Simon Lyndon), showing no trace of pain or fear on his terrifyingly stoic face. 'I just wanted him to be a human being-sort of demystify him, in a way.' (1) Chopper's Chopper (Eric Bana) is a violent character, to be sure, but he isn't supernaturally evil, nor does the narrative give any ideological justification for his actions.
'So often, in movies, violent characters are portrayed as supernaturally evil or there's ideological justification for everything they do,' suggested director Andrew Dominik prior to the release of Chopper (2000), his debut film about the notorious Australian criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read. THE FILM ALSO LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK ON LOCAL CINEMA, OFFERING A TEMPLATE FOR A QUINTESSENTIALLY AUSTRALIAN TYPE OF ANTIHERO AND A GRIMY, 'AMORAL' AESTHETIC FOR LATER FILMS ABOUT SHADY CHARACTERS, WRITES KENTA MCGRATH AN INVENTIVE TURN-OF-THE-MILLENNIUM SCREEN WORK STRADDLING THE GENRES OF CRIME, NEONOIR AND BIOGRAPHY, CHOPPER-ABOUT TITULAR UNDERWORLD FIGURE MARK 'CHOPPER' READ LAUNCHED THE CAREERS OF DIRECTOR ANDREW DOMINIK AND LEAD ACTOR ERIC BANA.
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