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film ‘Blade Runner’ questions the idea of true humanity through the style of Film Noir. Based on the 1968 short story ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ by Phillip K. Dick, ‘Blade Runner’ shows the inhumane, dark side of the human race. Scott is successful in catching audience’s interest with the use of Film Noir, showing the dystopian society of Los Angeles, the depiction of gender roles and the shifting views of true humanity between human and replicant. ‘Blade Runner’ follows an ex blade…

android/cyborg films. Blade Runner and Terminator 2: Judgement Day both carry the android/cyborg device which are thematically the same, yet deliver different messages to the audience. Both films use a dystopic futuristic setting where the antagonist is sentient machine who are displayed as hitmen in the films. However,…

Any film that is worth watching has at least one conflict in it. Whether that conflict be between hopes and dreams, commitment and responsibility or self-interest and mortality. Although Blade Runner by Ridley Scott is a motion picture masterpiece, Deckard, a blade runner, is torn between a world filled with both humans and replicants. He must pursue and contend to four replicants who stole a ship in space in order to return to Earth to find their creator. Part of Deckard’s job is not only to…

The 5th Wave Review The 5th Wave, written by Rick Yancy, is a dystopian novel with a female heroine that takes the genre to a new level. Many post-apocalyptic books are lead by the fall of government or destruction of the environment. However, this novel involves a more dramatic factor, the extra-terrestrial. Additionally, The 5th Wave, is cleverly written through two different perspectives, one of them being the strong female lead. In the story, alien intruders, called the “others”, send a…

While the words “science fiction” often evoke images of aliens and galactic monsters in the minds of many people, these one-dimensional stereotypes do not come close to capturing the genuine essence of the genre. Science fiction is unique in its ability to think deeply and stretch the human mind to its full potential, constantly making attempts to understand and make meaning of ourselves and the world around us. Isaac Asimov went so far as to say that "Modern science fiction is the only form of…

Both Authors portray an alien invasion on earth. In both “Zero Hour” by Ray Bradbury and The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, an alien invasion breaks out on earth, however each in their own way with different events that cause massive destruction. In “Zero Hour” by Ray Bradbury and The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, aliens want to take over earth and while this is happening there are people trying to find a way to survive. In Bradburys “Zero Hour” Minks mom says “There, there. We're safe…

Empathy Empathy is a major theme in “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Phillip K. Dick. Dick writes about empathy several times throughout the novel and how both humans and androids express it. In the novel the new Nexus 6 model androids have the ability to vividly express human emotion. Before the nexus 6 model androids, the biggest difference between humans and androids was the ability to care for another living being. Are these new Nexus 6 androids capable of learning and expressing…

The latest broadcast is the eruption of God’s revival and the Aliens take over. The doomsday, without Hollywood glittering effects, erupted the world in flames. God’s voice boomed. Angry. Betrayed. Destructive. How could his people forget his ways? How could they embrace technology and science so readily? And they, the Aliens, questioned the same. How could they? The humans. Embrace such controversial power when science was right in the palm of their hand? Before the world twisted black, I…

In 1977 the American novelist Phillip K. Dick published A Scanner Darkly, a semi-autobiographical story set in the then future of June 1994. Taking place in an anti-utopia Orange County, California, the novel is an all-embracing depiction of drug culture and drug use, both recreational and abusive. The main character and protagonist of the story is Bob Arctor, junkie and drug dealer, who happens to be living a parallel life as Agent Fred, a law enforcement agent assigned to bring down Arctor. In…

‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ is a post-apocalyptic world where the earth has been reduced to a ball of mud and rubble. The radioactive dust rains down, slowly degrading the remaining life. The life that is left has become extremely valuable, and people keep animals as their most sacred possession, those who can’t afford one buy false, electric ones. Almost all of human society has emigrated to the colonies on Mars, and anyone left is forcefully encouraged by government. In the…