How home conveyed in Gravity?
The 2013 movie Gravity brings simple themes and characters most can relate to, but it brings it to a challenging and abnormal environment. The main character, Dr. Ryan Stone, the mission specialist on a trip to the Hubble telescope on the space shuttle Explorer, explores her relationship with her home and challenge that many of us face here on earth to find a home; the only difference. Gravity uses a wide array of cinematic techniques to explore the challenge to find a place where one can feel like they belong, a home.
Gravity was only possible thanks to the CGI and new technology used to make it. Using the newly invented technology, it allowed shots to be almost 15 minutes long without any cuts. These very long shots allowed the audience to feel immersed in the film, by making them disoriented as the camera constantly rotates, but at the same time gives viewers a sense of connection
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Ever since that day Ryan just drove, not to anywhere in particular, just listening to the radio, not sure where home is or where she can go to feel at home. She explains that she came to space to get away. Her sense of loss made her feel like her only connection to her personal life was destroyed. Her decision to go to space was not only to get away, but to also give herself a sense of meaning again instead of just aimlessly driving around to try and forget the past. Ryan feels like she is not sure where she belongs, by forcing her to find her own way in space she realises that she has had a home the entire time. As Ryan reaches the ISS there is a single shot that symbolises the point of realization. Ryan is symbolically re-born. She is shown to be back in a womb, back to where every human’s first home is. This shot shows how far humans have evolved, and at the same time how much we rely on the environment we need to
For a short while, all of mankind was transported to the moon. Not literally, of course, but with the help of television, every human felt as though they were sitting next to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on that lunar rover. Lock taps into that feeling by having the man on the moon represent how every human with a television was feeling: hands on knees, sitting forward in excitement, nothing else but the images of the television in their eyes. The emotion is clear: unbridled excitement, a sense of possibility, amazed
“Interstellar” a great science fiction story with so various elements. It takes us traveling through wormholes, into planets in other galaxies, and black holes. The characters keep colliding into the effects of relativity, which is well explained in numerous scenarios. It’s also a story about love and family, but there is a villain, whose actions result in shocking consequences for the other characters. There is a great deal of emotion expressed by the character, which makes a great impacted on how the movie is viewed. The movie will take place sometime in the future where the earth is slowly becoming uninhabitable because of a global crop plague and a second dust bowl occurring. The science fiction movie “Interstellar” does an excellent job portraying advancements in technology, astrophysics and real-life issues that could eventually happen, such as, food scarcity and catastrophic natural disasters.
Society is constantly changing to make the world a better place to live in. This is why we need to be informed regularly of the issues we have in the world. A lot of issues are not really being discussed in print media therefore these issues are presented to the society through other mediums such as films, documentaries and even television series. The movie John Q, directed by Nick Cassavettes, and starring Denzel Washington, is a movie that makes us, the audience, realise the terrible life that one has to go through because of this holes in this modern society. The movie tells how a father, John Archibald, with severe financial problems goes through many challenges to tackle the uncompassionate hospital administrators in order to save his one and only son, Michael, from dying of an enlarged heart. The movie has been presented in a way that is not only gripping and entertaining but also in a way to position the audience, to relate and sympathise with the characters of the movie using film techniques such as shot size, lighting, music and dialogue. The movie reinforces the importance of families during tough times and makes us consider the issues that arise within the film such as one-sided and money driven health care system, badly managed employer controlled insurance and the way that different social classes are not being accepted equally in the society.
The following paper will analyze the movie, “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick” and “The Centinel” by Arthur C. Clarke. Although there are many themes present between the story and the film, the following are the most dominant. I will be discussing Scientific themes, Religious and Moral Themes, and Clarke’s development of the short story into a full-length film.
Alfonso Cuaron is seen through the American public as the creator and mastermind behind Gravity, he is one of the most talented foreign directors worldwide but is never truly recognized for his other amazing works. Cuaron is the Dante Alighieri of long shots in editing, he is often praised through his attention to detail, and the interaction between a character his environment within the realms of each shot. Along with his partner in crime Emmanuel Lubezki, the cinematographer, they are well acclaimed free-thinkers and celebrities in the realm of fantasy and science fiction. In 2006 their collaboration created one of the most underrated films of all time, and one which is still all too relevant to the world we live in today. Children of Men
In 2013, Alfonso Cuarón released his science fiction film that was nominated for 10 Oscars and won 7, including best sound mixing and best sound editing. Gravity is about a woman’s struggle to return home and find her will to live. Gravity revolved around Dr. Ryan Stone, a scientist who lost her daughter and is still recovering. During her recovery process, she is sent on a mission into space and catastrophe strikes when a space station is hit with a rocket, sending debris into the orbit around Earth. The theme of Gravity is that our will to live can be found within other people and that you can’t get through life alone.
Sagan then transitions from a human based standpoint to a broader point of view in order to acknowledge humility from understanding that we are not what we think we are, in the geocentric theory. Eventually Sagan explains the history of space travel and exploration in our solar system, because this type of exploration and science...
A common theme in science fiction is outer space. Many of Bradbury's stories take place there. As critic Wayne L. Johnson observes, "For Bradbury, space is not merely a stage upon which stories of the future are played, it is what the Great Plains were to the pioneers, not just a frontier but a symbol of the future for the human race" (49). If space serves as a symbol of the future for the human race, the story "Kaleidoscope" has a large amount of symbolism. In this story, the crew of a spaceship is shot into space. "The first concussion cut the rocket up the side with a giant can opener. The men were thrown into space like a dozen wriggling silverfish. They were scattered into a dark sea; and the ship, in a million pieces, went on, a meteor swarm seeking a lost sun" (Bradbury The Stories of Ray Bradbury 143). The view expressed in "Kaleidoscope" is that although people come from one original being, they grow apart all the time. This divergent evolution is clearly expressed as each member of the crew, although separated for a short time, changes their view on the situation. The crewmen being hurled at the sun has a happy attitude, while the ones being hurled into darkness are engulfed in it. Bradbury might have not intended the reader to find this theme in the story, but it shows how creatures adapt to their environment.
The essay “Homeward Bound” By Janet Wu reminds us that we can have feelings towards people who we are so different from us, also it shows us the importance of having this kind of relationship no matter the contrast. Wu talks about her and her grandmother. Her father was separated from his family in the 20th century, which made him move to the US. But her father has tried to contact his family for 30 years, until he came to know that his mother and brother were alive, so the first thing he did was to gather his family and go to China. When Wu first met her grandmother, they both had feelings towards each other, Wu says “And yet we communicated something strange and beautiful. I found it easy
The film is about, Chuck Noland, a man caught up in the busy details of his career and life. He is seemingly addicted to time management and he even has to schedule time for his girlfriend, Kelly. After surviving a plane crash over the Pacific Ocean, Chuck is marooned on a small, deserted island with little chance of rescue. He spends the next four years on the island trying to survive physically and emotionally.
Interplanetary travel is explored in 20th Century Fox’s Avatar and Warner Brother’s Interstellar. One tells the story of a conquest of an alien planet to gain their wealth, whereas Interstellar is set in a dystopian society where food is scarce, so they go elsewhere to look for a planet that could be inhabited by mankind. These two significantly different films, utilise their film trailers to express the grief, greed, and above all desperation that is experienced by primary characters in unique, yet similar ways. Through the use of cinematic techniques, exclusive to film trailers, the effectiveness of each trailer will be thoroughly explored.
The film takes place on both a ravaged Earth, and a luxurious space habitat called Elysium. It explores political and sociological themes such as immigration, overpopulation, health care, exploitation, and class issues.
The success of Space adventure films have grown tremendously in the last twenty years, mainly because of all the advancements in computer generated images, and the advancements in the film industry. “Space adventure films have excellent graphics and color schemes, including visual effects, special effects, and being culturally, and historically significant.” It’s amazing how much the film industry has grown in a short period of time, with the impact of imagined innovations in science, technology, imaginary elements, and science fiction. There growth and advancements have helped the film industry grow and maintain its fan base for many, many years.
My favorite place is my living room not only because it’s the place where I can relax from all the stress of the day but also because the background to just about every warm family moment I’ve had four the past four years. There is no carpet anywhere in my house; it’s all beige tile that is cracked in some areas. Our house is much older than others in our neighborhood, and for some reason the heating vents downstairs are on the ceiling, which means it gets frigid in the fall and winter and it feels like stepping on ice cubes.
The movie Gravity, a sci-fi movie, was out in 2013. It was produced by Alfonso Cuaron and David Heyman. The movie is about astronauts in space who are in trouble because of space crash. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney were the protagonists in the film. Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), a brilliant medical engineer, is being accompanied by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) on her first spacewalk. The film depicts the astronaut’s attempt to return to Earth. The cinematography and the design of the film makes viewers feel like it was genuinely shot in outer space. The movie won many awards in the Oscar and the Golden Globe. Its revenues reached $700 million worldwide. In the meantime, Steven Price received the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Gravity. Indeed, the success of the movie not only stems from the exciting story and greatly visual effects, but also from the film score. There are sixteen tracks in the film composed by the English composer, Steven Price. Every track helps scenes in the movie look more real, exciting and emotional. “Gravity” and “Don’t Let Go” which are one of the remarkable tracks wonderfully construct the narrative.