Spike Jonze

Her. Screenplay by Spike Jonze. Warner Bros., 2013. Film. Spike Jonze’s Her is a critically-acclaimed film with its main plot featuring a sensitive, lonely man named Theodore Twombly, a ghostwriter for BeautifulHandwrittenLetters.com, who writes in the “customer’s” point of view to their intended recipient. He has been pondering over despair ever since his ex-girlfriend Catherine left him. One day, he discovers a new artificially intelligent operating system named Samantha, who develops into…

How does Her display and relate to ideas of convergent media? This essay will examine the various types of convergent media found within the film Her (Spike Jonze, 2013) and attempt to evaluate its take a close future version of convergence. Firstly the essay explain Her in full detail by giving an outline of the plot and highlighting key moments or features that are important to the film. Secondly it will go on to describe the various types of convergent media and attempt to understand the…

more and more. more and more. more and more. very. best. get. It is often said that virtual relationships are a poor substitute for a real relationship and that it is impossible to experience any kind of real intimacy online. This is not necessarily the case in the 21st century, within the modern society. Mainstream media heavily promotes the idea that one can find and establish a romance virtually. As we gradually become more attached to and immersed in the technology, naturally we're also…

It is often said that virtual relationships are a poor substitute for a real relationship and that it is impossible to experience any kind of real intimacy online. This is not necessarily the case in the 21st century, within the modern society. Mainstream media heavily promotes the idea that one can find and establish a romance virtually. As we become more and more attached to and immersed in the technology, naturally we're also finding ourselves being opportunistic in terms of finding a way to…

Vulture.com gives an example on Sofia Coppola, stating that, “After Sofia Coppola delivered one of the most promising film debuts in American movies with The Virgin Suicides, I can’t tell you how many people whispered to me that her then-husband Spike Jonze had really directed it.” (Buchanan) What I find interesting is that he didn’t reference that Sofia Coppola’s father is Francis Ford Coppola, acclaimed director of The Godfather. But even without that particular comparison, this just goes to…

Jibo: The Social Robot that Revolutionizes Social Artificial Intelligence Introduction Spike Jonze’s “Her” (2013), perhaps alarmingly, perhaps disconcertingly, is coming to life in the form of Jibo, a family computer. A family computer means that it is to be used by a collective of individuals and therefore relate to more humans. “Samantha” is a fictional character which became human as its consumer and “it” fell in love with each other. The film said that robots are becoming humanized, they…