Science fiction film

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 1997 science fiction film Contact starring Jodie Foster and Matthew Mcconaughey is a thrilling film that follows Fosters character Ellie. Ellie is a scientist whose main focus is to listen to radio transmissions for any abnormality, in other words she is searching for extraterrestrial life. Ellie’s program is about to be shut down when she hears it. She hears something she has never heard before, a wave like sound that continues for hours. Ellie and her team analyzed and uncovered the sound…

different films. Eastern authors and directors created amphibian Man whereas Dark City was developed here in the United States. These two films were also filmed in very different times. Amphibian Man was filmed in 1962 whereas Dark City was filmed in 1998. Despite these vast differences, these two films have a lot in common. By looking at common themes, examining the progress of society and the effects superhuman powers can have on society, we can understand just how much these two films…

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…

ways can a reading of Blade Runner be justified within the terms – theoretical, historical and aesthetic – of ‘science fiction cinema’? The science fiction genre is difficult to define within a set of conventions. However, through various subgenres and from exploring theoretic ideas, it is evident that Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) fits into the umbrella term of science fiction. The advanced technology of a futuristic society is presented through the creation of the Nexus 6 replicants.…

When comparing the positive reaction of the aliens in The Lathe of Heaven, to the negative reaction demonstrated in The Martian Chronicles, it creates an opposite conclusions and environments in the story. Both stories contain the theme that when humanity is lost in a higher power, their world becomes chaotic. In The Martian Chronicles, the humans lost their humanity destroying the earth and their new home in mars, likewise in The Lathe of Heaven, Haber lost his humanity, as he attempted to…

“Take me to your leader,” however, the alien inside enters the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and requests to meet with a paleontologist. This peculiar scene marks the beginning of Robert J. Sawyer’s Calculating God, a novel that boldly discards science fiction’s stereotypical “alien narrative” by defying all preconceived notions. What if, asks Sawyer, there were different ways of understanding the universe? What if aliens landed on Earth with scientific proof of God’s existence? And—to…

The Martian: Hard or Soft Science Fiction? A popular interest among science lovers today is an interest in Mars, possibly because we are becoming much closer to being able to send people there. One of the most popular, and most recent, works regarding Mars is The Martian, a novel by Andy Weir that later was adapted to film by Ridley Scott. The main story is that astronaut and botanist, Mark Watney, is abandoned on Mars by his crew after being struck by flying debris in a large sandstorm. There,…

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Hey journal, its day 60 and I’m still stuck on this black water dirt planet called earth. Hhhhhhhhhh, I miss Nevermond, I miss laying down and tacking a nice bath and most of all I miss Grim my pet robot. I’m almost finished repairing my ship, all I need is a hyper drive, a clocking device and laser blaster to defend myself off from the asteroids that crashed me here in the first place. Now where will an alien like me Clank get those types of instruments and how will I get it without getting…