Thanks to LuvMyBerry from Twitter for sending me this new find. There was a billboard spotted with a District 9 theme. It is in fact part of the viral campaign. (Please, if you know where the image was taken email me).
The billboard includes a number (as seen above) which you can call, and get a computer operated voice that gives you some options to chose from. Its pretty cool, I suggest checking it out.
A new official image for District 9 was released earlier today. Take a look:
It shows the spaceship on the right, as you can see, as well as some MNU officers patrolling the border.
Also, George from MNUSpreadsLies.com is no longer George. He is going by the name of Christopher, now. Whether its a character change or something to do with the viral is yet to be seen. Some people are throwing out the idea MNU has taken over the blog, but it seems to me like its more of a Sony-young-viral-marketing-experience mistake, unrelated to the viral.
My best guess is the Non-Human in the movie is actually named Christopher, and they originally didn’t want the MNUSpreadsLies character in the move – but later decided he was going to be – so they changed his name (to match the character in the movie). I could be wrong.
So far I would rate this viral at a 3/10. Its been slow and uneventful. I still think the movie is looking good, but the viral isn’t doing to well.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there’s more to this film than just “here’s aliens, here’s us, here’s how we treat aliens and use their technology” – the end. This movie has a deeper message . . . a much deeper message. This film is going to exploit, indirectly and metaphorically, how we as humans treat other humans and the conditions we live in. There’s really no disputing that the aliens in this film actually represent humans.Whether you know it or not, there’s a lot going on Africa most Western cultures don’t realize or at least want to realize. The conditions in South Africa alone, which is one of the better parts of Africa, are poor. The poverty levels in South Africa are extremely high. There are hundreds of thousands of people living in small shacks. So what better place than South Africa to put a “concentration camp” to oppress this Non-Human race – believe me, its no coincidence Blomkamp picked Africa for his short and for District 9.
Neill Blomkamp grew up in Joburg, South Africa and hes even commented on this very subject by saying:
I was a science-fiction nut when I was growing up in Johannesburg. I just wanted to see that kind of imagery in a third world setting with the complex political history of South Africa.
Not only is poverty a problem in Africa, but slavery is too. From what we can tell and what was released in the Rolling Stone interview the Non-Humans are oppressed and forced into a concentration camp style area and are forced to work. In Africa both slavery and indentured servitude are common, at least to what most people would think possible in the 21st century.
There’s a common belief by Western societies that slavery doesn’t exist anymore. Many Americans think that when Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation in 1861 slavery just ended around the world, or at least died shortly after America declared slavery illegal and inhumane. Of course this isn’t true, and some people are just to ignorant or don’t receive the right education to learn otherwise. The fact of the matter is, this is still a big problem in the world.
Image from the District 9 trailer
I doubt this movie will appear political, but I guarantee it will be (but I don’t expect it to be left or right winged). I doubt this movie will directly come out and say “there’s a problem, here’s what we should do”. I think its slowly going to reveal this message indirectly through sly metaphors and with indirect references to the problems Africa faces.
What do you think about the political and social message of District 9? Leave a comment and maybe I’ll add it to the post!
MNUSpreadsLies.com has been updated by George with a new post that contains a trailer which has no blurred face and subtitles. The post reads:
Thank you for the kind messages and worm welcome back. Many of you are curious as to where I have been – literally where “I dissapeared to”. For the past months, I have been held against my will by MNU. I know, its almost seems implausible that they would be able to simply make me disapear but I assure you it happened (and it happens more often to non-humans than you think).
Need proof? Here is video footage of my first interrogation. See the real me. See the real truth.
Rolling Stone magazine had a nice article in the newest issue (featuring Bob Dylan on the cover). They included it in the Summer movie preview. It includes interviews with both Blomkamp (director) and Jackson (producer). To read the article, click the image above.
I would say the most interesting quote is ”These aliens arrived 20 years ago in a dead, derelict mothership, which hovers above Johannesburg. It’s enormous, like the size of 10 football fields. The aliens have ended up in a Soweto-style township beneath the ship. It’s clear that they’re not really integrating into society. They like to scavenge things, rip up train tracks. So the authorities shift them 200 miles away, into the African belt. They’ve built a concentration camp.” Obviously, the concentration camp is known as ‘District 9′.
It also included a new image, as you can see below. I scanned it also, so here it is in a higher resolution.
A new District9News.com Video Update on the teaser trailer before Wolverine and the new post on MNUSpreadsLies.com. Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel.
MNU Spreads Lies has a new post by George, a non-human equal rights advocate. This post talks about how Multi-National United is using alien technology for what he calls “cruel” activities. He talks about how the non-humans have always used the weapons for “peaceful applications” as opposed to the humans who are now using it to “create weapons of devastating power”. The entire transcript is below:
Rest assured, dear reader – I AM STILL HERE. They could not find me, they could not catch me. I am nowhere, but I am everywhere.
I have been connecting with other members of the Resistance and there are things you must know. We’ve all been aware of some of MNU’s inhumane activities, but I dont think any of us ever expected to see just how evil they are.
Out homeland technology is a gift – it blesses us with forms of fuel, energy and protection superior to those found on this planet. Out people have always used tchnology for peaceful applications. But in the hands of the wrong people, this knowledge can be used to create weapons of devastating power.
This is EXACTLY what is happening now. MNU is harvesting our precious technology to create inventions intended to destroy. It breaks our hearts to see the pride of our people being twisted to such cruel ends.
MNU is putting up a front that they are leveraging our technology to make clean forms of energy etc. But this is a sham. Weapons are their only goal. Weapons so devastating that once they are created, MNU will possess technology that could rule this simple human world, ready to sell to the highest bidding country.
They must be stopped. Join me, will you?
Excuse me for any minor inconsistencies between the actual post and this post.
The District 9 teaser was before Wolverine, which was released today. The trailer shows what seems to be a documentary being filmed (much like the Alive in Joburg short film this movie is based off of) in South Africa. The natives are talking about the aliens which now live amongst them, in a society I would call ’seprate but equal’. It shows an alien who’s face is blurred. Its my understanding in the movie, they won’t be.
This movie is said by many to be the big summer surprise. When I saw it in front of Wolverine, people chuckled at it until they saw the “They are not human” text and then the massive craft hovering over the small city, then their faces went to “oh my god”.
For screen caps from the teaser click “read more” below.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there’s more to this film than just “here’s aliens, here’s us, here’s how we treat aliens and use their technology” – the end. This movie has a deeper message . . . a much deeper message. This film is going to exploit, indirectly and metaphorically, how we as humans treat other humans and the conditions we live in. There’s really no disputing that the aliens in this film actually represent humans.Whether you know it or not, there’s a lot going on Africa most Western cultures don’t realize or at least want to realize. The conditions in South Africa alone, which is one of the better parts of Africa, are poor. The poverty levels in South Africa are extremely high. There are hundreds of thousands of people living in small shacks. So what better place than South Africa to put a “concentration camp” to oppress this Non-Human race – believe me, its no coincidence Blomkamp picked Africa for 
