Blade

In the movie Sling Blade, the main character is Karl, a developmentally disabled gentleman that has been in a state run psychiatric hospital for killing his mother and her lover when he was a young boy. The day of his release, he is interviewed by a college newspaper reporter, to which he recounts the brutal murder of his mother and her lover with a sling blade. He goes on to explain that he killed the man because he thought he was raping his mother, but when he figured out that was not the case…

The Cinematography of Citizen Kane and Blade Runner Though Blade Runner and Citizen Kane were made many years apart from each other and set on completely different timelines with completely different story lines, there is a lot that a viewer can appreciate from both of them and how these films give a reflection on our society. Both movies have earned its fair share of rewards throughout the years for its cinematography and visual effects and has left an impact on how movies are created today.…

Science fiction films like Blade Runner (1982) present the beliefs of the general political and societal voice during the time in which they were made and released. The film radiates the fears that China and Japan would soon become the dominant superpowers in the world, taking control of Western countries and marginalising its culture. Initially this is shown in the film in the form of the marginalisation of Western people. We see a largely Asian community when first introduced to Deckard at a…

child care type of role they had. St. Paul wrote 14 letters and one common thing they had would be that Paul did believe and wanted women to have equal rights as men. As well as Eisler in “The Chalice and the Blade” was explained how there are two models contributed to the Chalice and the Blade. And not to mention the important findings that Elaine Pagel’s point out about Mary Magdalene. Although a women did not have an important role in Christianity that changed in the Roman Catholic and…

Originally, Blade Runner uses a dark and distant prediction of 2019 which seems impossible to happen to get viewers into the theaters, but today, given the impending arrival of year 2019, more and more viewers realize that some of the situations depict in the movie came true. For example, in the trailer, severe pollution and overpopulation have transformed Los Angeles into a depressing megacity. And regarding 2019 is only three years away, we consider that the situations of Los Angeles in 2019…

Blade Runner: Cops and Monsters After thoughtful consideration and research, I can call Blade Runner a [year] masterpiece. The movie definitely sets itself apart from other films of the time not only because of its particular story and eccentric characters, but also because it aligns in its composition two distinctive types of genre, Science Fiction and Film Noir. After watching the movie and discussing it in class, what caught my attention about the film was the fact that its composition and…

Razer Blade Topic This is my personal essay of why I believe should receive a Razer Blade Pro for either my birthday or entering my Freshman year in high school. These reasons are the two laptops available to me now are barely functioning pieces of technology, this is the best laptop available for work and gaming, and it has the best technology for that price, or for really any price. Firstly, I love the idea of school being computerized. The only problem is that the computers that the…

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…

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…

In his novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Ship?” an American writer Philip K. Dick takes aim at what it is to be human and how to recognize one among androids. Dick introduces the Voigt-Kampff machine to serve as an interrogation tool to distinguish humans from androids. By examining the depictions of various characters – humans and androids, we can see Dick is arguing that Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test is implausible and doesn’t make any sense from the humane and ethical perspective. In general,…