![]() Massive dehumanization, totalitarian government, rampant disease, post-apocalyptic terrains, cyber-genetic technologies, societal chaos and widespread urban violence are some of the common themes in dystopian films which bravely examine the ominous shadow cast by future. There have been a surprising number of excellent science fiction films to come about in the past decade that do this and do this well. It is not the gizmos or the distopian aesthetics, that have brought Science Fiction into the new millennium, but the questions it asks of people or society in a future time or place and how they reflect on our own times. Even moving from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s, nobody makes DeLoreans (although they occasionally sell on Ebay), but cloning and tablet computing (as promised by Star Trek: The Next Generation) have more or less come to pass in this century. But instead we have looming energy crises, endless middle east conflict and more disappointing, we have no flying cars, Heck, for all the bright and clean future promised in 2001: A Space Odyssey, none of the real companies used as brands in the film even exist anymore. (Hat Tip: Jelinas) Here is a List of Movies Cited in the Above Video 0'00 - Roxanne, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Gleaming the Cube, The Princess Bride, A Fish Called Wanda, Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, Casino, Three Amigos, A Clockwork Orange 1'05 - Dolemite, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bad Santa, The Witches of Eastwick, The Big Lebowski, In Bruges, Full Metal Jacket, There Will Be Blood 2'05 - Toy Story, Casablanca, Encino Man, The Women, Predator, Army of Darkness, They Live, Uncle Buck, Big Trouble in Little China, New Jack City, Billy Madison 3'00 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Departed, Carlito's Way, In the Loop, Glengarry Glen Ross, Stand By Me, Grosse Pointe Blank, Duck Soup, Caddyshack, Planes Trains & AutomobilesĪ decade into the 21st Century and we have arrived at the future. As always, his videos need very little introduction. The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time: The Video | Pajiba: Scathing Reviews, Bitchy Peopleīy Harry Hanrahan | Guides | Ap| Comments (0 View hh - the man who brought us The 100 Cheesiest Movie Lines of All Time and Get Out of There! The Video - is back with another fantastic video today. ![]() ![]() Film theory Language Montage Criticism Crew History In the mid-19th century, inventions such as the phenakistoscope and zoetrope demonstrated that a carefully designed sequence of drawings, showing phases of the changing appearance of objects in motion, would appear to show the objects actually moving if they were displayed one after the other at a sufficiently rapid rate. The name "film" originates from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. The individual images that make up a film are called frames. The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession. A vintage Fox movietone motion picture camera A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon.
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