Adam Susan and “Big Brother” (assuming “he” actually exists), and their team of top party members are ideologically similar. Both Orwell and Moore have based their novels on alternative outcomes of wars they have seen in their lifetime, with Orwell dealing with an alternative outcome of World War Two and Moore dealing with an alternative path to the Cold War, while both set their narrative frames within the aftermath of nuclear wars. A similar feature of both the novel and the graphic novel is that the main oligarchic parties have distinct mottos: for IngSoc, they have: "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength”, all of these being paradoxical statements that hold hidden truths about the world in the novel. In parallel, the Norsefire party use the slogan: "Strength Through Purity, Purity Through Faith", which highlights Norsefire’s “pure” society, which is void of people of different races, sexualities, religions and political leftists, the most notable victims of this prejudice being Valerie, who was imprisoned at Larkhill for being a lesbian, and Evey’s father, who was arrested and executed for being: “in a socialist group when he was younger”. Both totalitarian governments have similar
RELS 218-‐ Religion in Popular Culture Assignment 3-‐ Critical Film Review Alison Drager AU ID: 3073530 08/25/12 Religious Symbolism in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back The Empire Strikes Back, the fifth movie of the Star Wars saga, follows the journey of Luke Skywalker, the messiah figure and protagonist of the story in his fight to save the galaxy from the oppression of the Galactic Empire. The Empire Strikes Back contains many elements of religion, specifically Taoism, Buddhism and Christianity, while creating a fictional world that addresses the journey of man and the mysteries of life. The Star Wars saga plays on the popular themes of good versus evil, temptation and the supernatural powers of the “Force”, appealing to our current society and the desire to understand the realm of the unknown. By noting these similarities, the philosophy of the Jedi can be better understood and can provide a deeper understanding of the classic science fiction story. The film begins “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” on the icy planet Hoth, where we are introduced to the ongoing battle between the forces
The Odyssey vs. The Batman In a 2002 Vanity Fair article, James Wolcott commented that "pop myth adapts, rewrites its own history, reflects contemporary values in an enlarging mirror, and, like Greek myth, cloaks human fears and desires as godly forces and supernatural feats." This holds true for both The Odyssey and the comic book Batman. The narratives are mutually situated in remote places, with parallels and differences between the two, which provide evidence of universal traits within the tales. The Batman, created by Bob Kane, emerged for the first time in Detective Comics #27 and defined a new type of hero in American culture; just as Odysseus entering into an Illiadic world revolutionized Greek heroism.
Elise Brewer 4th Period Honors Morals and Ethics Dr. Piel 5 March 2014 Worldview Points in Jurassic Park The character of John Hammond in Jurassic Park is presented in such a way that he does things without considering the consequences first. That’s what I originally thought when I first saw the movie. However it’s only because he sees the world in a totally different worldview perspective that he acts in such a way. While all the other characters have a naturalistic point of view, John shows the New Age worldview. I believe that both the author of the book Michael Crichton and the director of the movie Steven Spielberg wanted to critique the new age by using John Hammond’s personality.
These themes are the most interesting because they offer a view of what could have been, or even what could be in our own society, allowing us a level of introspection we could not have imagined on our own. Critically acclaimed as the best Star Trek episode ever, The City on the Edge of Forever (1967) demonstrates the dangers of a theory called “The Butterfly Affect.” The Butterfly Affect arose from a notion prompted by Henri Poincare dating back to 1890, which is defined by wisegeek.com as a “theory to describe how small changes to a seemingly unrelated thing or condition (also known as an initial condition) can affect large, complex systems.” This takes place when Kirk must follow his head rather than his heart and keep himself from saving a girl he loves in order to preserve the history of the Earth as it was. This theory is interesting because although the girl Kirk loved was not significant to the time (great depression United States), Spock develops a device that informs him of an extremely dismal future for planet Earth would result from her death, showing Kirk just how far saving her could affect the future. Furthering one’s curiosity for parallel universes, the episode “Mirror, Mirror” (1967), Roddenberry takes viewers into an alternate universe in which the federation is a dangerous and deceitful
To what extent has your comparative study of Frankenstein and Blade Runner revealed a change in values over time? It is the comparative study of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s 20th century film Blade Runner (Directors Cut 1992) that reveals that issues at the core of humanity remain universal and relevant despite time, however, the values remain the same. Shelley’s novel critiques the Enlightenment philosophy that progress is inherently good and reflects the Romantic elements of her context, whereas Blade Runner questions and challenges mass industrialisation of the 20th century. Each text acts as a cautionary tale in relation to scientific endeavour being unchecked by morals and ethics. The film is, is in fact a response to societies failure to heed Mary Shelley’s original warnings about scientific pursuit.
I am going to try and keep the general ideas of the films intact. Enjoy! Cast Obi-Wan - Ewan McGregor Anakin - Kellan Lutz Qui-Gon - Viggo Mortensen Padme - Emma Stone Darth Maul - Ray Park Darth Sideous/Palpatine - Micheal Caine Mace Windu - Chiwetel Ejiofor Prologue Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of planetary governments has led to hostility and to the cusp of war. A patrol of Republic Guard has been lost on a small moon outpost near Alderaan, a system that has had long standing disputes with the republic.
Rhetoric in Movies 21 June 2011 Rhetoric in Movies Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a 2008 documentary film, hosted by Ben Stein. Stein provides narrative commentary throughout the film and is depicted as visiting a sequence of universities to interview both proponents of intelligent design who claim to have been victimized and evolutionary scientists who are presented as atheists. The film makes considerable use of vintage film clips, including opening scenes showing the Berlin Wall being constructed as a metaphor for barriers to the scientific acceptance of intelligent design. The film takes aim at some scientific hypotheses of the origin of life, and presents a short animation portraying the inner workings of the cell to introduce the intelligent design concept of irreducible complexity, the claim that such complexity could not arise from spontaneous mutations. The intelligent design supporters shown include Richard Weikart, who claims that Darwinism influenced the Nazis.
How successfully do the composers of these three texts represent conflicting perspectives of assassinations of the great? Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar (1988), Garland’s book Celebrity in Antiquity (2006) and Louw’s photograph (1976) all represent conflicting perspectives of assassinations of the great in distinct ways and with varying levels of success. Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Garland’s Celebrity in Antiquity are similar in that they present two opposing views. However, the views expressed in Julius Caesar are more comprehensible, while the perspectives presented in Celebrity in Antiquity are more ambiguous and indirect. In contrast Louw’s photograph only presents one negative perspective.
That's when Darth Vader (imagine James Earl Jones' voice) tells Luke Skywalker: "No. I am your father." Of these various points, the most important by far, and the one that can be taken to stand for the whole, is that Lucas decided only at a relatively late stage that Darth Vader is Luke’s father. The "I am your father" moment—which will play a large role in this review, and which has analogues in many fields, including law—is one in which Lucas took Star Wars on a fresh narrative path, one that fit well (enough) with what had gone before, but that cast an entirely new light on it, and that was essentially unanticipated by Lucas himself. So how does this mesh with constitutional law?