The Science Fiction film “Ghost in the Shell” is a complex movie, which at times one may find it difficult to follow. This may be because before this film was created in 1995 there was a manga series that provided some essential background knowledge of what was going on and why. Watching the film could be like watching Pokémon movies without watching the series’. First, you would be confused as to why Ash, the main character has a particular interest in re-catching Pikachu. But like most movies you eventually start to get a feel as to what is going on. Ghost in the Shell takes place in a futuristic Hong Kong, where technology is so advanced that mankind is able to create a whole new species of humans known as cyborgs. Cyborgs are …show more content…
He was seeking asylum and had a peculiar interest in Major, leading him towards Section 9. Major was also very interested in the Puppet Master as she saw a mirrored self in him. She was so eager to connect with him for the opportunity to understand where she came from (they were both made by the same company). The Puppet Master’s Plan to receive asylum failed, so he convinced Major to merge with him as a form of reproduction. They were connected and emerged in to the same shall right before her own shell was destroyed by section 6. In the final scene Major was replaced in a little girl’s Body and found herself accepting this new identity of a merged Puppet Master and old Major.
This movie portrays cyborgs as both good for humanity and dangerously bad. Starting with the Puppet Master being a deadly threat to humans not just violently but also in other ways. His greater threat he presented was his highly advanced hacking skills. He had the ability to hack in to people’s ghosts, one of the hardest areas of the brain to reach. He was able to creat fake memories and erase the ones they originally had. This is more than a physical danger to humanity but a danger to the integrity of humanity as a whole. Imagine if the hacker decided to hack in to someone with extreme power, such as the president. The hacker would then be able to control the country to its violent end.
Black Fish is a documentary film about a famous and well known corporation called SeaWorld, corporations like SeaWorld have impacts towards culture, people and business. There are few corporations like SeaWorld in the entertainment/amusement park industry that are profitable, such as Disney and Six Flags, who make millions to billions of dollars every year. People love entertainment and are willing to spend lots of money to acquire it; this is why entrepreneurs who developed these different forms of entertainment are successful. Black Fish is an evidence revealing documentary that breaks down the flaws and issues associated with SeaWorld. The work and success of the filmmakers are well acknowledged, impressive and can relate to a cultural theory stand point.
The client is a 26 year old, single, male, African American. He is an active duty ship’s serviceman seaman serving in the United States Navy, aboard the USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3). Seaman (SN) Fisher is residing on board the USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) that is permanently stationed at San Diego Naval Base, 32nd Street in California. SN Fisher was given orders to report to Navy Mental Health Services Department on base as Involuntary Command Referral for diagnosis and treatments, to get an evaluation and expert psychiatric recommendation about whether the service member is mentally fit to stay in the United States Navy. SN Fisher is unwilling to begin counseling,
In the movie, Lady in the Water (2006), an assembly of residents of an apartment complex called the Cove, managed by a handyman, Cleveland Heap, collaborate to assist a water nymph, Story, return to the Blue World after she meets with the “vessel”. This vessel is an author, who will write a book, which will inspire the mind of a future American leader, who will use the change the world’s perception on politics, cultural issues, and leadership. In order to accomplish this task, they must find the author, a symbolist, the guild, a guardian, and a healer. Their plight is to discover their roles and leaders must rise in order for these tasks to be accomplished.
The following paper will analyze the movie, “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick” and “The Centinel” by Arthur C. Clarke. Although there are many themes present between the story and the film, the following are the most dominant. I will be discussing Scientific themes, Religious and Moral Themes, and Clarke’s development of the short story into a full-length film.
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Japanese anime has been a focal point of artistic expression in eastern culture since the 1950s. By utilizing a combination of action sequences, vivid imagery, and compelling narratives these forms of art reveal the artists cultural influences as well as serving as a medium for the artist to convey his social and political beliefs. Mamoru Oshii 's Ghost in the Shell, is no exception. Ghost in the Shell is a cyberpunk version of a near future Earth where society is completely reliant on technology and cybernetic humans depend heavily on the software used to create them. Within this narrative we see a cybernetic female that exists as two cohesive entities, a cybernetic shell in which she was created into, and a ghost, a concept that serves the purpose of acting as a human conscience. Using this technological dependent reality, Oshii creates a visual masterpiece that acts as a battleground for conflicting representations of power within the concept of gender as well as representing a desire to liberate ourselves from the self-imposed gender constructs that we adhere to.
Ocean’s Eleven is an American heist film (first of the trilogy) and a remake of the 1960 version which features an ensemble cast of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia and Julia Roberts. For the most part there are three elements to a heist film: Assembling the crew and setting up the scheme, the break in and looting, and then the escape. Ocean’s Eleven covers all of those elements plus more. The plot of the film wasn’t just about robbing the casinos for money for the most part.
Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite in the documentary, Blackfish (2013), argues that captivity triggers aggression in killer whales. Cowperthwaite supports her argument by demonstrating shocking footage and emotional interviews to present a convincing case against keeping these animals in captivity and for human entertainment. The author’s purpose is to show the problems that are caused by captivity in order to aware the audience that keeping killer whales in captivity affects their behavior mentally and physically. The author writes in resentful tone to Sea World, the people who visited Sea World, and those who were present during the killer whale incident. Gabriela Cowperthwaite argues that keeping killer whales in captivity at SeaWorld affects their mentality due to how they are being treated. She makes this argument by applying pathos, ethos, and logos.
The dramatic and uplifting movie “Radio” starring Cuba Gooding JR. and Ed Harris, is based on the true life story of James Robert Kennedy, a k a Radio; a mentally retarded young African-American who spends his days pushing a shopping cart around the streets of Anderson, a small South Carolina town, collecting junk and old radios.
Released in 1988 by director Giuseppe Tomatore, “Cinema Paradiso” follows the life of a young boy in Italy who dreams of being a filmmaker. The road the boy, who eventually becomes a famous Italian film director named Salvatore Di Vita, takes to reach his goal is difficult and includes many sacrifices and trade-offs. Today, the film is widely regarded as one of the most popular foreign films ever to be released in the United States. Given that foreign films are fairly common in America, it is fair to consider why “Cinema Paradiso” received such critical acclaim, as well as relative mainstream popularity. “Cinema Paradiso” received critical and popular praise because the film includes several timeless themes
It is common practice to own a cyberbrain; an artificially augmented brain that allows connection to the internet and other networks. Public security agency Section 9 is searching for a mysterious hacker known as the ‘Puppet Master’. The hacker is able to alter the memories of individuals with cyberbrains, leaving the Section 9 investigator, Motoko, wondering if her memories and feelings are real. It is later revealed that the hacker is a secret project created by Section 6.
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In terms of plot, the movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline is extremely true to the source material. It still tells the story of a young girl who grows unappreciative of her real family and finds a magical door in her new home that leads to a better, fantastical version of the family she has now. The creepiness and scary moments are also true to form, with this world being only a copy of the real world, created by the Other Mother in an attempt to trap Coraline forever. The quest to rescue the three ghost children is almost exactly the same, with two of their souls being found in Miss Spink and Forcible’s theater and Mr. B’s circus. But since the movie added a scene in which an enticing garden is used as an item to gain Coraline’s trust in the Other Mother’s fake world, one of the ghost souls was placed in this location instead. Another major difference between the book and the movie is the addition of the character Wybie. He acts as a source of inside knowledge about The Pink Palace and helps kill the Other Mother’s hand at the climax of the movie, while in the book Coraline gathered her information about her home from her parents as well as Miss Spink and Forcible, and killed the Other Mother’s hand by tricking it rather than crushing it. The use of stop motion animation was also a benefactor in bringing this terrifying story to a visual format, as stop motion tends to look uncanny and unsettling at times. Both works are masterpieces of writing and storytelling, and
In the movie, "A Beautiful Mind", the main character, John Nash, is a mathematician who suffers from schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is actually the most chronic and disabling of the major mental illnesses and it distorts the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, interprets reality and relates to others.
Trainspotting presents an ostensible image of fractured society. The 1996 film opens, famously, with a series of postulated choicesvariables, essentially, in the delineation of identity and opposition. Significant here is the tone in which these options are deliveredit might be considered the rhetorical voice of society, a playful exposition of the pressure placed on individuals to make the "correct" choices, to conform to expectation.