Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film

Introduction The Time Machine and the Sound of Thunder are both science fiction stories. Their central plots are about Time Travel. Compare and contrast these two stories. This assessment has asked me to compare and contrast the stories of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. In this assignment the differences in language and characters will be compared and contrasted. The genre of the short story will be contrasted with the short novel. The different ways the…

Nethergrave and Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder follow science fiction wholeheartedly, from Nethergrave's digital facade, to A Sound of Thunder's time traveling, and chaos theory. However, looking past A Sound of Thunder's summary, stands the differing contrasts of each of it's characters, and the conflicts of morals. As for Nethergrave, it only properly characterizes the main character, often leaving the others in vague light, and it's science fiction elements are left feeling improbable;…

The subject of the movie can be Superhero vs. Archenemy, or how two people can be complete opposites. As said in the movie, you have Elijah one side of the spectrum an David on the other side. Elijah can get sick and get hurt, partially because of a disease he has, whereas David has never gotten sick or injured. This is the first example of how the movie shows us how they’re opposites. The film’s first scene starts with a mom and her newborn baby. The mom has just been told that both of her…

In Tezuka Osamu’s Astro Boy series, there are many scenes where violence is inflicted upon either a machine or human character. Oftentimes the character escapes without a scratch, due to the “elastic” nature of physics in the manga format. However Astro Boy shows a clear divide between the impact of violence as well as the methods of recovery for humans and machines. Throughout Astro Boy, Tezuka Osamu shows that even though machine bodies are stronger, sturdier and repairable, human bodies are…

Films throughout our history have been used to drive how we think. One film type that is genius at portraying these topics is science fiction. From this genre, there has emerged one film in particular that has and will continue to influence America’s behavior—V for Vendetta. Together, I will show how science fiction and V for Vendetta were strengthened in the technical aspect, how they have been influenced by American culture, and how, in turn, they have influenced American culture. Science…

roles in science fiction films. Films are a big part of the culture here in the United States. Today superheroes are the common films made today but it is slowly starting to shift to science fiction and horror films. Many fans of the superhero movies look up to the heroes in the films and want to be just like them. Depending on the gender the viewer their hero most likely the same. There have not been many female heroes in the past films but have becoming a popular theme in the newer films,…

which created tons of social, economic and ethical conflicts. The pivotal role is Wikus Van De Merwe, who is an agent accidently exposure to the alien biotechnology and becomes the only person who perfectly combined the alien genes and human’s. In this film, the settings are creative, the aliens become the disadvantaged party due to illness, and human beings become the privileged party who is trying to exploit them and utilize their technologies, especially the biotechnology weapons. Hence, lots…

explores the significance of the affects that science fiction movies have on society. Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that typically deals with the imaginative concepts of futuristic science and technology such as time travel, parallel universes, space travel, and extraterrestrial life. The author states, “science fiction films are not about science; they are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. In science fiction films, disaster is rarely viewed…

of the movie taking place in the United Nations building in New York. The main character Lily Jacobs is a secretary in the United Nations, but this isn’t made explicit until well into the movie. Indeed, the audience doesn’t even know it’s in a science fiction movie for the first act, as it’s setup as a straightforward romantic comedy with only scattered hints of the truth. Lily is harassed by her male coworker Daniel, and feels alone being the only female in her workplace. When the aliens…

first chapter, we are introduced to our main characters. Arthur Dent, whose house is to be torn down today to make room for a road and which he only finds out then the demolition team begin the process that day. Then, there is Ford Prefect, Arthur’s best friend, who turns out to be an alien. Where things get truly bizarre, in just the first chapter, is when we discover Ford is an alien because that is where we are introduced to the Vogons, an interstellar race who has come to Earth to destroy it…