{"id":1424,"date":"2008-11-06T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T07:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2008-11-06T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T07:29:36","slug":"chinese-giant-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/06\/chinese-giant-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Giant Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starved for giant robot movies, while we await the arrival of <em>Transformers 2<\/em>? Well, it seems Hong Kong director Jeffrey Lau will begin shooting a <em>Transformers<\/em>-inspired giant robot epic called <em>Robot<\/em> later this month. Fond of including scifi moments into his non-scifi movies, Lau apparently used a spaceship he designed himself in his most recent work, <em>A Chinese Tall Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/chinese-tall-story.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1425\" title=\"chinese-tall-story\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/chinese-tall-story.jpg\" alt=\"A Chinese Tall Story poster\" width=\"349\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/chinese-tall-story.jpg 349w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/chinese-tall-story-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zhuo Shunguo from investing company Le TV.com commented that <em>Robot<\/em> would take &#8220;a refreshing look at Chinese robots for people who are used to stereotypical Hollywood figures like Spiderman and Superman. &#8230; the Chinese robot, in comparison, would feel closer and more human to audiences, as it is the incarnation of Oriental wisdom and strength.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/3086\/2008\/11\/06\/1321s421594.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Crienglish.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/3086\/2008\/11\/06\/1321s421594.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchfilm.net\/site\/view\/jeffrey-lau-to-direct-a-chinese-transformers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitch<\/a> via Kaiju Search Robot Avery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starved for giant robot movies, while we await the arrival of Transformers 2? Well, it seems Hong Kong director Jeffrey Lau will begin shooting a Transformers-inspired giant robot epic called Robot later this month. Fond of including scifi moments into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/06\/chinese-giant-robots\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,3,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}