Continuing on from the entry about “cyborg babes”. What is the appeal of an android “love machine”? For many they seem the ideal partner, someone who turning on is as simple as inserting a couple of AAA’s and hitting the standby button.In one of the first sci-fi movies,
Metropolis of 1927, a mad scientist builds a female robot, which he makes in the image of Maria, a female underground leader. This machine, often called fake Maria, has no soul and uses her sexuality to bring about a class war, caring little for the consequences of those on either side who she deceives.
A pre-makeover fake Maria from Metropolis looking like C3PO's girlfriend ...
The fake Maria - can't you tell she's up to no good?Ironically as robots have developed in movies we have rarely seen a machine use their sexuality as a weapon. Sure we’ve had many a film with a rogue killer robot, which haven’t resembled people. And we’re had machines like the Terminator 3 T-X which while attractive still boil down to just a killing machines with breasts.
When sex is involved, android females have on the whole slavishly obedient and giving of their sexuality, the perfect male fantasy. This is a metaphor used to look at male expectations and the changing role of women in modern society, one explored famously in the
Stepford Wives, where their husbands replace their wives with compliant, placid androids.
Probably the ultimate in this genre has to be the
direct-to-video movie
Cherry 2000, which is set in an apocalyptic future where a man is looking for a spare part for his perfect sex-droid
(the titular Cherry 2000).And recently on TV of course we have the female human styled
Cylons who seem to be on a mission to walk around naked on their ships, and look for human men to mate with to produce human-Cylon hybrid.
Ultimate male fantasy? Sign me up!
The Crow likes this picture - have you worked that out yet?But interestingly, the idea of the perfect machine lover is not limited to male fantasy.
Data from Star Trek: Next Generation had intimate knowledge of a few women in his time on board (he was “fully functional” you know), and the character had a strong (some might say obsessed) following.
In
Making Mr Right, John Malkovich played an android designed for a deep space mission who develops feelings for a girl he meets when he leaves the lab one day.
And of course in
A.I. there was Gigolo Joe, the android prostitute played by Jude Law -
"Once you've had a lover robot, you'll never want a real man again".
But for now the Crow will stick with the real thing. The fact of the matter with his experience of computers, the constant upgrades they require, virus checks and servicing no real woman can be as high maintenance as a machine!
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