I have always been a big fan of science fiction and fantasy. Impossible ideas and stories just hold my attention in a chokehold, and get my imagination running. If I had to describe science fiction in my own words, I would say that it is an untamed creature of the imagination, free to run anywhere on its endless terrain. It sustains itself with both fact and fiction, and is known for dicey adventures in billions of different settings. On an inspirational high, it can produce some amazingly unique pieces of work that both challenge and intrigue the reader. My 9th grade literature class recently spent a good chunk of time studying some interesting pieces of science fiction. We watched Unbreakable, which is a moderately sci-fi film from the …show more content…
Night Shyamalan and released 2000, as mentioned before. It deals with the story two men. One man (David) is literally invincible; the other (Elijah) is extremely weak from a medical condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta. They meet under dire circumstances, and realize that they are perfect opposites. Elijah helps David to realize his power, but in turn David realizes that there is something deeply wrong with Elijah- and it’s not his physical condition. This piece had many original attributes: David’s inability to become ill, which is situational irony, because he can’t be hurt physically, but is breaking down mentally, the idea of Elijah and David being at opposite ends of the spectrum of life (Antagonists,) and Elijah’s comic book fascination, starting with his mother trying to get him more comfortable around people by making him cross the street to get his comic books. The storyline kept the audience paying attention by adding danger to the equation, like when David went into the house at night to save the family being tortured inside. Overall, this piece was well-done. It made the audience think about the mentality of others, like how Elijah was physically weak, but had a strong enough mind to kill thousands of people, and come up with amazing
I do not agree with Richler opinion when he says fiction is a waste of time. Reading a piece of information or any novel contribute to human being educational enrichment, never a waste of time. Fiction movies are entertaining, I enjoy science fiction movies because they are interesting and mostly because they are short and easy to follow.
Some writers would tend to avoid controversy in their writing, to avoid offending or limiting their audience. Many choose to write brilliantly designed worlds, times or characters, that simply take a reader on a journey. They can use traits of realistic, non-realistic, and semi-realistic fiction. An effective storyteller can create plots, characters and settings which involve themes based on historical events, or mythology to present their tale. Classic themes within the science fiction genre; is this classic blending of scientific and technological facts. Then it is their job to take you to a place or time that shows their finely crafted potential situation and events.
Darko Suvin defines science fiction as "a literary genre whose necessary and sufficient conditions are the presence and interaction of estrangement and cognition, and whose main formal device" (Suvin 7-8) is a fictional "novum . . . a totalizing phenomenon or relationship" (Suvin 64), "locus and/or dramatis personae . . . radically or at least significantly" alternative to the author's empirical environment "simultaneously perceived as not impossible within the cognitive (cosmological and anthropological) norms of the author's epoch" (Suvin viii). Unlike fantasy, science fiction is set in a realistic world, but one strange, alien. Only there are limits to how alien another world, another culture, can be, and it is the interface between those two realms that can give science fiction its power, by making us look back at ourselves from its skewed perspective.
become a slave to it. The Village is a film based more on a pitch than
Most book reviews of Stephen King's 1974 novel, Carrie, were generally positive. With Steve Calvert's review, he focuses on the structure of Carrie. These reviews differed in minor ways but overall the reviewers admire Stephen King's work and enjoyed the story of Carrie White.
What if World War II didn’t end in the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the surrender of the Axis powers? What if instead there was a double conspiracy in the works against Hitler that was concentrated coincidentally on an extravagant movie premiere in honor of the efforts of Nazi German soldiers in France at the time? How different history would be. This very plot is depicted in Quentin Tarantino’s World War II movie staring Brad Pitt as Lieutenant Aldo Raine and Mélanie Laurent and Shosanna Dreyfus. Shosanna is a Jewish dairy farmer’s daughter in France at the time of the German take over and is forced into hiding with her family under the floorboards of a neighbor’s farmhouse to elude capture by the searching Gestapo officers. In an eventful encounter with Colonel Has Landa of the SS also happily known as “the Jew Hunter” and her family’s host, Perrier LaPadite, she and her loved ones are given up and open fired upon. All are killed but a filthy bloodstained Shosanna who crawls out from under the house and sprints to freedom with a feeling of panic and despair. Years later Shosanna takes on the name of Emmanuelle Mimieux and owns a small cinema in Paris that attracts the attention of the newly honored war hero Fredrick Zoller who stars in his own movie showing his recent deeds. Zoller requests that the premiere of the film be moved to Emmanuelle’s theater as he falls in love with her and when it is approved she devises a plan to kill the repulsive Nazi leaders that will no doubt be in attendance. Lieutenant Aldo "The Apache" Raine appears in “Chapter Two: Inglourious Basterds” as a brutal leader of this notorious group that has been sent from the United States into France with one objective; “as a bushwhackin' guerrilla army, we're ...
In Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino, Tarantino uses quirky dialogue, vivid visuals, and nihilism to mirror postmodern pop culture in western society in the early 1990’s. The film artfully portrays the 1990’s as a time where action granted meaning instead of performing moral actions; where there was a social hierarchy held by mob bosses to control those who attempted to search for meaning through action, doing outrageously violent and horrible things without the slightest scruples.
Little Terror with a Dose of Awe Looking at the movie The Village, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, there are four pieces of criteria that I used; audience’s feelings, audience interest, originality and genre to decide if this movie was worth others seeing. When looking at the genre, I wanted to see how well it lined up with the movie’s preview. The feeling of the audience is also important because that is what makes the lasting impression. Feeling the emotions the character faces, anger, sadness, suspense, or shock will ultimately determine if the movie is great enough to leave a lasting mark imprinted in the viewers’ brain. Movies have to be able to capture and hold the audience’s interest by giving plot twists.
The central drama and point of conflict in any love story is the obstacle between the lovers. In the best known tragic love story in Western history, Romeo and Juliet, the obstacle is their feuding families; in the classic film Casablanca it's virtue and in Brief Encounter, it's the marriage of one of the lovers. This is a story of unfulfilled love in Wyoming. Ennis and Jack, a ranch hand and an aspiring rodeo rider, work together as sheep herders in the summer of 1963 on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming. When both drunk in one cold night, they raised their friendships to a new level of intimacy. They tried hard to hide their loves behind the social society because they wouldn’t be accepted in those conservative days. But their loves still were alive. They spent over 20 years stealing moments to affair. Brokeback Mountain becomes their dreams in their minds, which they never fulfilled in again.
Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film Inglourious Bastards entails a Jewish revenge fantasy that is told through a counterfactual history of events in World War II. However, this story follows a completely different plot than what we are currently familiar with. Within these circumstances, audiences now question the very ideas and arguments that are often associated with World War II. We believe that Inglourious Basterds is a Jewish revenge fantasy that forces us to rethink our previous understandings by disrupting the viewers sense of content and nature in the history of World War II. Within this thesis, this paper will cover the Jewish lens vs. American lens, counter-plots with-in the film, ignored social undercurrents, and the idea that nobody wins in war. These ideas all correlate with how we view World War II history and how Inglourious Basterds muddles our previous thoughts on how these events occurred.
Mythical creatures were a big hit during the Gothic era with the science fiction that the literature included. People were intrigued with the science fiction because it was unusual for the time period. The monsters and events that took place attracted attention because it was something different from the romance and wars that books were usually written about. The science fiction allowed for people to have more vivid imaginations and to think outside the norm. Without the dramatic scenes and characters, the gothic era would not be as successful as it was. Today, science fiction continues to be popular. Science fiction allows for writers to write about anything that they can think of; the options are endless. The readers fantasize, create their own world, and get lost in their thoughts. The existence of the unexplainable keeps readers guessing and not being able to predict what is going to happen because in fantasy and science fiction, anything is possible (Lake 2008.).
King’s popularity is based on his skill of create interesting characters, to make a realistic plot, and on his intense awareness of what terrifies his readers. King often talked about the experiences in his own life that have led to this awareness, including being abandoned by his father as a young child (Kraft 3). As a result of his great storytelling abilities, King has become one of the bestselling authors of all time and has made a big influence on the development of popular literature (Kraft 2).
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) initially received quite a bit of negative criticism. The film irritated many Stephen King fans (and King himself) because it differed so greatly from the novel. The Shining also disappointed many filmgoers who expected a conventional slasher film. After all, Kubrick said it would be "the scariest horror movie of all time."1 Kubrick's films, however, never fully conform to their respective genres; they transcend generic expectations. In the same way that 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is not just another outer-space sci-fi flick, The Shining is not a typical horror movie. The monsters in The Shining originate not from dark wooded areas, but from the recesses of the mysterious human mind-in broad daylight, at that. Perhaps Kubrick said The Shining is "the scariest horror movie of all time" not because it offers a bit of suspense, blood, and gore, but because it shines a light on the inherently evil nature of humankind on psychological and sociological levels.
I spent a lot of time considering what movie I would watch to write this essay. I listed off the movies that I would like to watch again, and then I decided on The Notebook. I didn’t really think I could write about adolescence or children, so I thought that, maybe, I could write about the elderly. The love story that The Notebook tells is truly amazing. I love watching this movie, although I cry every time I watch it. The Notebook is about an elderly man that tells the story of his life with the one he loves the most, his wife. He is telling the story to his wife, who has Alzheimer’s Disease, which is a degenerative disease that affects a person’s memory. She has no recollection of him or their life together, or even her own children. She wrote the story of their love herself, so that when he read the story to her, she would come back to him. There are three things that I would like to discuss about this movie. First, I would like to discuss their stage of life and the theory that I believe describes their stage of life the best. Second, I would like to discuss Alzheimer’s DIsease and its affect on the main character who has it and her family. Third, I would like to discuss how at the end of the movie, they died together. I know it is a movie, but I do know that it is known that elderly people who have been together for a long time, usually die not to far apart from one another.
Science fiction deals with the impact of actual and imagined science on society or individuals. It mostly speculates the technological advancement that may be obtained in the near future. Although most of the story is based on fiction, different elements of science that exist in the real world are also depicted in it. Some schools show science fiction movies to the students to enhance the learning process, while others only rely on text books. Not all classroom materials can be covered by science fiction narratives. However, making this genre a part of the education system can help students learn better and become more enthusiastic about any subject matter.