How Terminator Two Satisfies the Science Fiction Genre The film, ‘Terminator’ is part of a trilogy; Terminator 2 is the sequel to the first terminator film- Terminator 1. The auteur, James Cameron, produced the first terminator movie in 1984; and because the film was a big success with a range of viewers- the majority of different genre lovers- , James Cameron had decided to create a sequel, which was produced in 1993. The big screen had cost a huge budget in Hollywood, WarnerBrother’s (a franchise, film production business). This may have been due to the special effects, and casting of the characters. Special effects in the film were very realistic and state of the art for its decade. The special effects include C.G.I, (Computed Generated Images); these images were iconic and were there to impress the audience. The computed generated images were usually based upon the actions and the appearance of the two terminators featured in the film, T-800 and T-1000. The generated images consisted of the terminators morphing and the big explosions. The characters in the play were very lifelike, however, the anti-hero terminator, and the pure evil terminator were the life of the science genre. In the movie there were four main characters, they were, anti- hero terminator that was played by Arnold Schwarnegger, mother of John Conner played by Linda Hamilton, John Conner the future leader of humans was played by Edward Furlong, and the pure evil T-1000 terminator who was played by Robert Patrick. Terminator 2 contains many elements that are not typical of a science fiction gene, suc... ... middle of paper ... ... sci-fi film, usually there would not be issues of gender and race appearing in the film. Yet, in T2, these issues do appear. These issues revolve around two questions. Gender: How are woman presented in the film? Ace: How are black people represented in the film? Overall, I think that the movie, Terminator 2, does not conform to the conventions of the science fiction gene. This is because the conventions are not as traditional as they are thought to be. What I mean is that before the film had been viewed, I had expected it to be set on a miśe en scene of a sciece fiction film, i.e. a distant planet or a far way planet that is yet to be discovered. In addition, the movie seems too more realistic, even though in the essay I mentioned an overview of the elements that make Terminator 2 a typical sci-fi movie.
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Beginning the mid 1920s, Hollywood’s ostensibly all-powerful film studios controlled the American film industry, creating a period of film history now recognized as “Classical Hollywood”. Distinguished by a practical, workmanlike, “invisible” method of filmmaking- whose purpose was to demand as little attention to the camera as possible, Classical Hollywood cinema supported undeviating storylines (with the occasional flashback being an exception), an observance of a the three act structure, frontality, and visibly identified goals for the “hero” to work toward and well-defined conflict/story resolution, most commonly illustrated with the employment of the “happy ending”. Studios understood precisely what an audience desired, and accommodated their wants and needs, resulting in films that were generally all the same, starring similar (sometimes the same) actors, crafted in a similar manner. It became the principal style throughout the western world against which all other styles were judged. While there have been some deviations and experiments with the format in the past 50 plus ye...
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The Singularity. It sounds like a cheesy eighties sci-fi flick starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carrie Fisher, complete with one-liners and a cult following that survives till this day. However unfortunate it may be, that’s not what the Singularity refers to. It refers to the greatest paradigm shift in humanity’s history, and it would alter our understanding of the Earth in an unimaginable way. It refers to the point in time where Artificial Intelligence (AI) will become so intelligent that they will out perform humanity and gain new knowledge at an exponential rate.
Blade Runner as a Classic Film Noir and a Science Fiction Film Blade Runner, a well known 80’s science-fiction film, begins in 2019, set in the industrial city of L.A., the scene lit only by the many neon lights and molten guisers. We draw in from a panoramic long shot to Deckard, ‘ex-cop, ex-killer, ex-blade-runner’, who is at the heart of this film. Blade Runner is, definitively, a science fiction film, but the traits of Film Noir are the bread and butter, bringing it the dark, desperate atmosphere that is the very beauty of the film. Ridley Scott plants shrapnels of Film Noir throughout, from the subtle (cigars), to the downright blatant (the washed-up cop of main man). The genre itself developed in the post-war era, thriving upon the depression that had settled upon the world, and the new technology.
The films “Bladerunner” and “Fahrenheit 451” are similar in the way they show emotions in their depictions of distopias. The emotions shown are not normal to us, but are controlled by the government. The inhabitants of these worlds are being persuaded that emotions are bad, unhealthy. However, some do break free from the system. The cases in these movies are not of really living at all, but just of going through the motions of life.
Forbidden Planet (1956), directed by Fred Wilcox, is the first science fiction film to take place on an exoplanet. The film is about a military class vessel and crew dispatched to investigate the status of a scientific exploration team on a planet in the Altair system. The captain and crew of the investigating team is surprised to find only one original crew member remaining on the planet; furthermore, the investigators find out that all the other crewmembers of the science team were viciously attacked and killed by a mysterious, unseen entity. Many elements present in the film inspired later films and shows that were of a space exploration, science fiction type. The inspiration is strongly visible in Roddenberry’s Star Trek series. One of the most interesting facets
Although this gave away the plot of the film it did not make the film
When speaking of movies today, mise en scene is a well-used term. If you want to translate it, I think the best translation would be “put in the scene”.
Prometheus begins with the depiction of some unknown planet, panning across uninhabited landscapes and remote locations as slow tempo orchestra music plays over the shots. It eventually pans up to show some sort of circular disk hovering ov...
that a film can be just as or better than the novel it is based on.
What makes people fascinated and amused to watch movies? I think all kinds of movies are, in there own way, great. Practically the excitement of horror movies, and science and technology of science fiction movies, and action and enthusiasm in the action movies are some credits that makes people’s engrossment. Even so could all movies create an entertainment and make people experience their thoughts of imaginations in the real world. What are the most interesting things about these film genres, which could establish a fantasy world for their fans to escape to their imaginations and live with it? Participating in suspense, adventure, mysteries, and discovery amuse audiences every time they watch films. There is specific film genres that have most of this attraction to the audience, which make them most likely to have all secretes of attraction in it. These films genres have changed our out look and make us thinks better, because it provides us with a source of leisure; these movies are horror movies, science fiction movies, and action movies.
what had just seen. My expectations before I saw the movie were that I was going to see
The movie is more glamour than thought. In the movie your mind has more free will so therefore this is