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Chopper, Image Entertainment ; First Look Pictures ; Australian Film Finance Corporation and Mushroom Pictures present ; a Pariah Film production ; produced by Michele Bennett ; written and directed by Andrew Dominik

eng

videorecording

MPAA rating: Rated R

Chopper

48255650

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000

Image Entertainment ; First Look Pictures ; Australian Film Finance Corporation and Mushroom Pictures present ; a Pariah Film production ; produced by Michele Bennett ; written and directed by Andrew Dominik

90

"I'm just a bloody normal bloke. A normal bloke who likes a bit of torture," says Mark "Chopper" Read. Read is one of Australia's best-selling authors, in part because before he became an author, he was one of Australia's most brutal stand-over men. "Chopper" tells his story with a kind of fascinated horror, a study of the mystique of criminal notoriety, and portrait of a cunning, ruthless killer who is a legend in his own mind. In prison, Chopper is a composed, dynamic, lean survival machine. Out in the real world, Chopper is a going-to-seed paranoiac prone to uncontrollable rages. But this enigmatic criminal exudes charismatic bravado as he plays the raconteur, and the larger-than-life anti-hero he imagines himself to be. If it seems like the universe of "Chopper" Read is the wrong way round, it may be because the film does not designate a point of view from which to observe him. Celebrity, killer, or maniac--it's your call

Main titles/Freak show -- Done himself a mischief -- Wack -- You're going to kill me, right? -- Victim of crime -- Show pony -- Hacked off -- Given up crime -- Welcome home -- Bojangles -- Who are you kissing? -- Now loot what you have done -- No cash -- Put it away -- I don't bloody bite -- Do I look like Mother Theresa? -- Whose team are you on? -- Cuck, cuck, cuck! -- Scallywag behavior -- Tourism Victoria -- Self-styled crime commando -- End credits

adult

live action