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The journey getting back home was fierce for him, every step was like a mountain or endless ravine. He was happy once again, he could not wait to see his commander and report back in, and he probably thought he was dead. “…how long has it been?” he muttered speaking to himself “I can’t even remember” “...Oh man the paper work for this is going to be ridiculous.” He said under his breath as the gunship finally closed its bay doors and begin spinning up. The others on board stared at him, as they…

THE MOVIE “ARRIVAL” AND ITS CORRELATION TO PSYCHOLINGUISTICS Arrival is a science-fiction film with a linguist named Louise as its protagonist. Working together with Ian, a physicist, she has to find a way to successfully communicate with extra-terrestrial beings that have landed on Earth before all hell breaks loose. The film shows several interesting psycholinguistics aspects, with the prominent one being the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis particularly linguistic determinism. The portrayal of the…

Abstract This article analyzes the philosophical subjects of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Furthermore, its film modification, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. All the more particularly, this paper investigates Philip K. Dick’s request of what “What Constitutes a True Human Being?” and “the subject of being human” is shown in both Dick’s novel and Scott’s film alteration. Since Scott’s film is a free adjustment that separates essentially from its source…

The book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was published in the year of 1968 by the author Phillip Dick. This novel was a depiction of a futuristic outcome of androids being created with similarities to humans. Within the book, readers are given a vivid understanding that the main character Rick Deckard is human. Shortly after, readers compare Dick’s book to an adapted version in 1982, of a futuristic film interpretation by Ridley Scott, who utilized the book to call into question the theme of…

Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner is an endlessly fascinating film to dissect. The film while not popular upon it’s initial release has grown a huge following over the years and has captured the minds of filmmakers, students and scholars alike. Even Sir Ridley Scott himself couldn’t stay away from his film as over the last thirty years he has tinkered with and fine tuned his film into what is now known as “The Final Cut”. The 1982 theatrical cut of the film and the subsequent 2007 release of…

of Harrison Ford 's child, Ben Ford, and the taping of new scenes for the Final Cut. As indicated by the narrative, on-screen character Joanna Cassidy made the proposal to re-film Zhora 's demise scene while being met for the Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner narrative, and footage of her making this recommendation is between cut with footage of her going to the later computerized recording session. The Final Cut contains the first full-length form of the unicorn dream, which had never been…

Section A: One of the primary conflicts in Blade Runner is trying to identify real humans versus “replicants” (this is a challenge both for characters in the film and the film’s viewers). Without an identifier or test to determine who is human, how do we determine what makes a human “human”? Or what makes someone inhuman” (a monster)? How do you think Viktor Frankenstein would answer these questions? When we think of replicants, in movies or in books, we make them in our image. We try to give…

The Incompetence of an Advanced Alien Race Dark City is a sci-fi film by Proyas in 1998. The film is about an alien race, the strangers, facing extinction and making one last attempt at survival. The strangers, for some unknown reason, believe that the key to their survival lies somewhere in humanity. In a grand scale experiment they attempt to extract/analyze/duplicate certain traits of humanity only to be thwarted and defeated by an unruly test subject. Good science is hard. Even with a…

trying to find humanity and aliens using humans for repopulation has become classics in everyone’s home. Ridley Scott, the director of the films, is known for his auteur style that has a strong nightmare like feel. Through the analysis of the films Blade Runner (1982) and Alien (1979), Scott embeds his own ideology of our future being ‘grim, dark and polluted’ (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2018) through various film techniques, that expressively show his auteur style. Ridley…

Blade Runner the 1982 movie directed by Ridley Scott and I Robot the 2004 movie directed by Alex Proyas, show how two movies in the same genre of science fiction can explore similar and different themes. The shared themes of creator turning on the creation, technology and the implications on the future and Morality are explored in both the movies, however through stylistic features, plots and dialogue, the films vary from each other. Blade Runner with its dystopian and philosophic charm follows…