Antiquity And Modernity In Film Analysis

Antiquity and Modernity in Cinema & Television

These days more and more audience like to see their beloved actors and actresses portray superhero or heroine figure in spandex suit blasting laser beam from their eyes, turn into fire then fly away to outer space, or even a scientist who turn into a huge, green, car-throwing, head-smashing monster with indestructible pants when he transforms. But not small amount audience like films with classical-antiquity geographical and timeline set such as Ben-Hur, 300, Spartacus, etc. Antiquity and modernity always be an important part in filmmaking, whether in its screenplay, set design or character design. In some movies these aspect can be shown separately or combined in sort of a new way in filmmaking.
A combined example of these two aspects can be seen in the Avengers: Age of Ultron directed by Joss Whedon. Thor, Norse

The story can be placed in present day, near future, or 5000 years later. The way character behave according to the change of norms and law in the future, their social life, what is their habit, we can watch how people can change from time to time. Popular trends will always be a part of this modernity. The way they speak change as time and social trend goes, and if we talk about movies we can get a lot of examples according to this matters. 2001: A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick and Interstellar directed by Christopher Nolan tell us a story about future man-kind travelling on a journey in outer space, or we can look at some television series and movies that show us modern drama which story revolves around present time, and it is also about human race struggling to fit in modern society, abiding the modern laws and social norms and try to follow modern trends in their society without leaving their cultural backgrounds