Dystopian films‚ as an artistic medium‚ often convey significant themes‚ which can serve as a gateway for exploring impending issues and fears that society possesses. Alex Proyas’ film i‚Robot is used as an embodiment for this‚ as it depicts the tale of Del Spooner‚ who is trapped in a throw-away society‚ where humans are at a grave danger of being overrun by technological advancements. Throughout the film‚ Spooner befriends a scientist and a unique robot‚ who together‚ work to save society from
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his views of disagreement with pre-Revolutionary War era thinking. His views on how the Puritans thought are carefully displayed in his works. Through his writing‚ Washington Irving demonstrates the power of fiction as he indicates the apparent errancies of the American Revolution. Fiction has the power to subtly infiltrate one’s thinking. Sarah Wyman (2010)‚ an Associate Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz‚ in her article “Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle: A Dangerous
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Released in the 1930s‚ the film serial titled Flash Gordon tells a sci-fi story of a protagonist’s journey within a foreign planet. Throughout the movie‚ many concepts can be noticed within the screenwriting. However‚ these aspects had flaws that weakened the plot in various ways. Overall‚ the film’s screenwriting is adequate as it was biased but still good enough to tell a story when considering the time period. One of the many important elements of screenwriting are the main characters as stories
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authoritarian control over its population. Dystopia’s are often concealed as utopias since everybody appears to be equal and life appears to be fair‚ but in reality freedom is greatly restricted under a dystopia. Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium (2002) is a film that is strongly influenced by dystopic texts such as “Brave New World” and “Nineteen Eighty-Four”‚ and therefore tends to use many of the conventions of the dystopic genre. The head of the totalitarian government in ‘Equilibrium’ is known as the
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Comp Lit/ Dystopian Films Self-Identity Found Within the Masses ideas of how society could or should be have been around forever. Some of the ideas created to show the evolution of a humanistic society choose to show them as dystopias or utopias‚ in which society is meant to be perfect or functional in every way. In many of these representations of dystopian/utopian future societies there are troubles with personal identity and a person’s confusion in a world of logic and the lack of reason
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tame by the horror movie standards of today‚ but back then in 1981 was considered adult enough to get an NC-17 rating‚ when in fact today it might get a PG-13. With that said‚ it’s still in my mind and the minds of others‚ one of the greatest cult films ever
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In this day science has greatly affected and improved our world as we know it. Science does a lot of great things‚ but sometimes it can go too far. Some reasons science can be thought of being used too far are science can be used for dangerous and bad conditions‚ and new technology can replace the job of many people. People should assume that science can be taken too far. To start off‚ science can be used for dangerous and bad conditions. One of the examples of science being improperly used is
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one‚ teens can often relate to dystopian fiction. In the passage “Breaking Down the ‘System’” it states “The system is asking a lot from teens and not giving them much respect in return so it’s no wonder that stories about that system exploding‚ breaking down under it’s own contradictions‚ or simply being overrun by zombies are also beloved of teenagers”. This quote is explaining how the “system” is not showing respect to teens like how in dystopian fiction there is not much respect shown to the characters
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depicted in Science-Fiction The human race has come a long way since the beginning of its existence. Throughout that time‚ shared interpretations and concepts have changed profusely. The genre of science-fiction has been popular in both literature and films for centuries. Science-fiction displays aliens in many contrasting styles‚ but the very idea and wonder of aliens has always been around. The different ways writers and filmmakers portray extraterrestrials in science-fiction novels and films has changed
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“ Does science sometimes go to far?” In this day‚ Science has greatly affected and improved our world. It certainly does a lot of great things‚ but sometimes can go too far. Science can be thought of being used too far because of many reasons. In the short story Flowers For Algernon‚ science’s ability of progressing to far more and even its negative aspects was greatly expressed throughout the course of the story. The story was told by a series of journal entries written by the main character
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