Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film

On first glance Turtles can Fly might seem as a movie that will either pit you against the American invasion of Iraq or for it. You want to be for the American Invasion because the Kurdish people are looking forward to them taking the power from Iraq, one of the places that has been oppressing them. The people in the camp also hope that the American’s will help them set their national identity in stone. When they invaded at the end of the movie, the Americans took Saddam Hussein out of power and disarmed Iraq, however, they just drove through the small refugee camp of Kurdish people. In all actuality this movie is about a “stateless” group of people, The Kurds, trying to find their national identity. Turtles can Fly is a film about a group…

The protagonist the Queen is a powerful personality who has individual concept of life. The Queen becomes the most admirable character in the play because of her logical argument and her equalitarian approach. She is ‘imaginative’ and ‘sensitive’, firm in her faith and commitment, but she is a conscious woman of her place in the royal family and as a queen in the society. The dramatist has evolved her character from her childhood days to the present state of act. She is courageous, persuasive…

out is that he uses slight satire to make the reader see how ridiculous their counter arguments are. When talking about readers doing their fair share he makes a comment that it would be “taking fairness too far” and that Bob was “unlucky” to have such a difficult situation. He also satirizes the reader’s reliability by saying he “trusts that readers will pick up the phone and donate”. Readers will remember phrases like this because they want want to prove him wrong. He also makes claims that…

pieces come together to create the film, and if any of the pieces are missing the film fails to have an impact. So, which piece has the most importance? Well it’s simple, it’s cinematography. Cinematography by definition is the art of motion picture. However, there’s a lot more to cinematography than what it is defined as. It’s…

Jediism a new religious movement especially based on a science fiction movie (Star Wars), it may sound hilarious or ridiculous to explored, but it’s still consider as a religion because they share a variety of other religious perspectives, like Taoism, Shinto, but Daoism and Buddhism are the main influence. After exploring this religion by searching for some essential substances that sustain any other religion like, how does ritual function within in it, how does the Jediism meet the definition…

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…

Prior to the 20’s, film had slowly expanded from an experimental technology to a widespread form of entertainment. Thomas Edison’s assistant William K.L. Dickson was the inventor of a motorized camera that could record motion. Once he tested it and finalized it in 1892, Edison began setting up parlors where interested viewers could pay to watch 20-30 second videos, mostly of dancing groups and battle scenes. Inspired by this, the European film industry began with Auguste and Louis Lumiere. The…

Books are often made into movies with the same titles and relatively the same plots, but it is rare to find a novel and a movie with completely different plots with so many similarities. Wall-E, an animated film about a robot, and The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel about a society where women are going sterile, can both be classified as having dystopian societies. In fact, they have many characteristics of a dystopian society in common. A few of these similarities include living in a dehumanized…

Andrew Niccol is a New Zealand-born director who has created futuristic films in his writing and directing career spanning 20 years. Some characteristics of his directorial style are colour and positioning to symbolise characters and themes in his work. These factors are highlighted in the opening scenes in Gattaca (1997) and In Time (2011). Each film parallels each other specifically through camera work and colour, helping the audience to have a clear understanding of Niccol’s directorial…

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…