Avatar. The Avengers. Iron Man 3. Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The Dark Knight Rises.
These are five of the top ten all-time highest grossing movies. Their (arguable) inclusion in the Science Fiction canon begs a question of the genre: is it just the spectacle that we shell out to witness, or is there some more primitive itch that these kinds of events scratch?
This blog is dedicated to figuring out how it is that Science Fiction addresses the problem of defining "human."
Not sure if we were commenting on this just yet or not (seem to have misplaced my syllabus,) but since we saw a segment in class I figured that was something to go off of. If I'm the one goofball who posts this completely out of place... so be it.
Anyway, there was quite a bit to work with in that clip. Those in the video didn't really make things appear terribly "fudged"; there's not a lot of goofy overreaction beyond what I guess one might expect if a bizarre situation like that one were to crop up in real life. I don't want to sound like a pretentious, snidely bloke talking about things he didn't live through, but some of the effects and features of 70's films-- I also take into account the arrival of Funk and Disco, which were the hot new thing in music... think Shaft http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEaRCAcfOEQ-- were kind of hokey. Most movies even now feature over-the-top acting, but the Shaft theme almost says a lot about 70's cinema action and acting. "Who's a bad mother f--" "--shut your mouth!" Shaft! What else was in there...? Something about him being a sex machine? It just had that real over-the-top feel to it.
That was something I didn't get from the video. Sun Ra looked goofy, and they made fun of him. He said he was taking somebody back, in a ball and chain if he had to, which kind of surprised me. A black male... condoning slavery? I imagine there's more to it than what I saw on the surface and quickly made some judgements about, so it's something worth thinking about, I believe.
All that to say this video (obviously not being action-y, either)
Not sure if we were commenting on this just yet or not (seem to have misplaced my syllabus,) but since we saw a segment in class I figured that was something to go off of. If I'm the one goofball who posts this completely out of place... so be it.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, there was quite a bit to work with in that clip. Those in the video didn't really make things appear terribly "fudged"; there's not a lot of goofy overreaction beyond what I guess one might expect if a bizarre situation like that one were to crop up in real life. I don't want to sound like a pretentious, snidely bloke talking about things he didn't live through, but some of the effects and features of 70's films-- I also take into account the arrival of Funk and Disco, which were the hot new thing in music... think Shaft http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEaRCAcfOEQ-- were kind of hokey. Most movies even now feature over-the-top acting, but the Shaft theme almost says a lot about 70's cinema action and acting. "Who's a bad mother f--" "--shut your mouth!" Shaft! What else was in there...? Something about him being a sex machine? It just had that real over-the-top feel to it.
That was something I didn't get from the video. Sun Ra looked goofy, and they made fun of him. He said he was taking somebody back, in a ball and chain if he had to, which kind of surprised me. A black male... condoning slavery? I imagine there's more to it than what I saw on the surface and quickly made some judgements about, so it's something worth thinking about, I believe.
All that to say this video (obviously not being action-y, either)