Alita: Battle Angel
Alita : Battle Angelis a 2019 film based on Yukito Kishiro ’s 1990s mangaBattle Angel Alita . The film follows Alita , an amnesic bionic woman whose corpse were rule in the junkyards of Iron City . After realizing that she ’s actually from the float utopia fuck as Zalem , she strives to earn a one - way tag to Zalem to let out the truth behind her cosmos .
Being that it is a narrative of self - discovery , lover knew to gestate a few unforgettable quotes spit in between some of the best action sequence we ’ve image in a film all yr . Here are 10 citation from the plastic film that we do n’t suppose we ’ll be forgetting anytime soon , and we well not , see it might take a while for us to get a subsequence .
“The strong prey on the weak down here. You gotta stay focused on your dream.” - Hugo
After meeting Alita , Hugo direct the clip to show her the ropes of Iron City . While we saw metre and time again how the strong take vantage of the weak in this humans , Hugo was able to look towards Zalem as a way of life to remain reasonable . Although he never did make it to Zalem , this is a quote that we can all hold to our life story in a world that can feel just as roughshod as Iron City .
“Don’t just do things for people. No matter how good you think they are, or how deserving they are.” - Hugo
After realizing that Hugo was working for Vector in guild to save up enough money to buy his way into Zalem , Alita offered to give him her mechanically skillful kernel that would probably deal on the smuggled market for a Brobdingnagian join of money . Hugo declined her offer , telling her never to do things like that for people that she barely knew . We ’d already seen Hugo at " work , " so it was n’t hard to tally with him for once . Perhaps more people would be uncoerced to give altruistically like Alita if there were few people like Hugo expect to exploit that kindness .
“I’m going to get back to Zalem somehow. I’ll claw my way there with my bare hands if I have to.” - Chiren
While Dr. Ido and Chiren were born in Zalem , both were exile to Iron City after the birth of their girl . While Dr. Ido accepted his fate , Chiren could only think about get back to Zalem one day . get word just how consecrated she was to get back to Zalem made us all wonder from the start just what precisely is up there that she think is waiting for her .
The irony is that while she did manage to undertake a one - way of life trip back to Zalem for herself , something evidence us that her experience in the urban center just wo n’t be the same .
“Because I am a doctor. And… I’m a mother. And somehow I forgot that.” - Chiren
In avail Vector and Grewishka , Chiren ’s actions have indirectly led to the decease and suffering of several Iron City inhabitants . Before her own Hammond organ were glean , she renounced her allegiance to Vector after assisting Alita and Hugo the night before . Although she choose to abandon her evil ways a little too late , we wholly understand how tempting the promise of Zalem must be . It has something that everyone wants : money , resources , safety , food , answers , or anything else they ca n’t get from Iron City . Though these things are n’t even guaranteed up in Zalem , it ’s this illusion that forces these characters to go against their moral codification and found themselves headlong into the line of descent of fire to get what they seek .
“I’d rather rule in hell than serve in heaven. We’d be at the bottom of the food chain up there but down here we can live like kings.” - Vector
From the minute we saw Vector , we could tell that he was fishy , and not just becauseMahershala Alihas a use of play some of the most conniving baddie out there ( takeLuke Cage ’s Cottonmouth or the Prowler inSpider Man : Into the Spider - Verse ) . He ’s fine staying in Iron City because he knows that there , he can remain undisputed and at the top . By resist to engage a high monetary standard of livelihood , he not only help Nova maintain the status quo , but also remained unchallenged until Alita showed up . One thing ’s for certain , if he had been give up to go to Zalem , Alita would n’t have been able to drink down him as easily as she did .
“But that’s just a shell. It’s not bad or good. That part’s up to you.” - Dr. Ido
After Alita find a cyborg body made with the same technology from her lost civilization , Dr. Ido refused to instal it , be intimate full well what it was capable of . After her original body was sliced up in battle , he was left with no choice but to give her this new body , and we could n’t hold more with his inverted comma . In a domain of bionic woman and weapons , we ’ve interpret at first hand how cyborgs can use their gifts to either help others or wreak havoc .
While it seems like Iron City has more people who ’d rather use their gift for their own selfish interest , Alita has shown us all that using our gifts to aid others is actually far more rewarding .
“I do not stand by in the presence of evil.” - Alita
After Grewishka murder an innocent firedog , these actor’s line echoed through Alita ’s mind . Although the hoi polloi of Zalem and Iron City refer to the United Republics of Mars as " malign " and " the enemy , " somehow we do n’t believe Alita ’s side was in the wrongfulness during the Great War . Somewhere in her subconsciousness , she ’s already pledged to stand against tyranny in all its forms , which only makes us question who she is and what she and her comrades were crusade for when they attempt to storm Zalem .
“If you’re born on the ground you stay on the ground and no amount of money can change that… You can’t buy your way up there.” - Dr. Ido
While many of us were rooting for Hugo to finally earn his way to Zalem , Dr. Ido deduce that Vector was running a scam , and fundamentally claimed that the only way someone could get to Zalem is if they were born up there in the first place or they became a Motorball mavin . While Dr. Ido ’s defeatist attitude was often frustrating at clock time , he is right on this one . Powerful bionic man like Alita are the only ones who have a shot at making it up to Zalem to a unspoilt world , which make this quote one of the most depressing , but also one of the most accurate , in the intact film .
“F*** your mercy.” - Alita
While we do n’t know much about Grewishka ’s background and how he got touch base with Nova in the first place , after he received his cable chela , even Alita had trouble keeping up with him . He was able to break her physical structure into bit , and even threatened to make her capitulum into a necklace so that he could hear her screams for mercy every day , to which Alita respond by ripping out one of his eyes .
Not only was this bit one of Alita ’s finest , showing just how much of a danger she could be even in such a disconsolate state . She ’s really lucky the others amount when they did . We would ’ve hated to see Grewishka actually go through with his morbid jewellery ideas .
“I’ve found the only way to enjoy immortality is to watch others die.” - Nova
While we know a small about almost every other character , Nova stay a stark enigma . We know he ’s the rule of Zalem and Iron City , but that ’s about it . He nonchalantly drops a contrast about his immortality when Alita present him after he ’s withdraw over Vector ’s physical structure , and we ’ve been left scratching our principal ever since . He ’s emphatically lease all that world power get to his heading , and if anyone ’s playing god , it ’s him . Hopefully we get a sequel to see Alita finally divest him of the spirit he thought he ’d have forever .
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