'The Terminator': A Hybrid Of Genre

3.6. Frankenstein – Neo as the Monster In the trilogy, we can find some ideas that are similar to the ones present in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. This English novel tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature. In his work Frankenstein dodges bullets in The Matrix, Sam Hartman tries to find analogies between the film and Shelley’s novel.

Artificial intelligence is undoubtedly a widely debated topic in today’s society. Many groups suggest that it could soon enslave humanity, while others proposing that it’s harmless and only here to make our lives better. Mary Shelley’s 1818 Gothic text, Frankenstein, recounts the story of an ambitious, young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who is intrigued by alchemy and natural philosophy. Victor becomes interested with these subjects after beginning at Ingolstadt and eventually executes experiments that bring the dead back to life. He creates a creature who is outcast by society, which provokes it to vow revenge on its creator. The creature sequentially kills everybody that Victor loves and ruins his life (Shelley). Frankenstein has the indisputable theme of creating artificial intelligence that turns bad, much like James Cameron’s 1984 film, The Terminator. In Cameron’s film, humanity creates an artificially intelligent program known as Skynet, which becomes completely cognizant and overthrows the world by initiating a nuclear holocaust. In the aftermath, a group of survivors create a resistance that attempts to destroy the program; however, they are met with Skynet’s cyborg army. Skynet sends a terminator, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, back in time to destroy Sarah Connor before her son, the leader of the resistance, is born. Kyle Reese is then sent after the terminator and, in conclusion, saves Sarah and destroys the terminator (Terminator). This movie and text are closely related in the sense that a character from either the book or motion picture relate to a character in the alternative.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, a sequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre released in 1974, is a 1986 film directed by Tobe Hooper. This sequel is set 13 years after the events that transpired in the first film and follows Lieutenant "Lefty" Enright, played by Dennis Hopper, on his quest to find and destroy the Sawyer family the Sawyer clan did to his niece, Sally Hardesty, and his nephew, Franklin, in the first film of the franchise. Historically, "horror films developed out of the tradition of Gothic novels from Europe by way of Mary Shelley or Bram Stoker" (Dirks 788). Like these Gothic novels, horror cinema highlights the battle between good and evil whether it is between two separate individuals or entities, or a battle within the self. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2's narrative and description of the fight between good and evil allows for the analysis of theories such as isolation, exploration, transformation, and metamorphosis.

On that basis, Film and television play a big role in how we define masculinity. In this essay I will look at how gender is constructed in “The Terminator” and how cultural aspects influence the film. During the late 20th century medias association to defining masculinity became more visible. It was reflecting the current values of masculinity as well as to help shape it into what it would become in the future.

The movie I will write about is the The Purge Anarchy. I would say have more than one genre. I would say that the genres are action, horror and thriller. Action movies are movies that have a tremendous impact, continue high energy and lots of physical activities. Horror movies are unsettling movies designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. These are types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Thriller and suspense films are

Terminator 1 & 2 (1984 & 1991) Another classic series, well the first two installments of the series anyway. This series is centered around Skynet and their use of cyborgs. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a cyborg, T-800, sent back in time to kill the mother of John Connor. In the second movie, he plays the same character but with the exact opposite goal, saving John Connor from the T-1000 played by the talented Robert Patrick.

10 Cloverfield Lane was a highly anticipated film for J.J. Abrams fans once the well-kept secret of its existence was revealed (a characteristic the production company Bad Robot is known for) mere months before its debut. The tagline for the film, “Monsters come in many forms”, as well as the trailer were both very ambiguous in nature and left the viewers with several unanswered questions. It turns out, this was the perfect way to watch the movie, with very little knowledge about it. The film follows the story of Michelle, a fashion design student who, after running out on her fiancée, is involved in a car crash and ends up in

Terminator and The Matrix two of the most watched and futuristic movies. These movies contain artificial intelligence to solve life-threatening problems. In those movies the robot A.I. takes over and becomes the antagonist of the film. New technology that is being developed is not worth all of the critical dangers and risks that come with it such as, rendering the human race obsolete, unintended side effects, and is very harmful.

Genre is an artistic production of characterization and similarities in a compositional style. It also in terms is used to discuss music, art, literature and even film. In particular applications it distinguishes a work within a context of other work. As you are familiar with certain types of genre such as horror, science-fiction, romance, drama, and comedy. “Films in the horror, fantasy, and science fiction categories are among the most likely to cross genres, both with one another and with other genres.

In an increasingly technological age, the defining aspects of the human condition continue to be questioned. The ideas of identity, emotions and mortality encapsulate the quandary of the Nexus-6 replicants’ humanity in the neo-noir film Blade Runner. The film, directed by Ridley Scott, depicts a future in which a genetically manufactured group of beings known as replicants become hunted by humans on earth after a bloody mutiny. Scott’s insight into the development of artificial intelligence is demonstrated through a wide variety of film techniques including lighting, sound, dialogue and camera angles.

Zizek Slavoj ‘’ The Matrix or Malebranche in Hollywood’’ Philosophy Today 43(1999) 11- 26 Proquest Web 17 sept 2014 The idea of The Matrix was to portray an artificial hero by bringing his character into a virtual reality. The reality tends to undermine what’s real from what’s fake. The whole existence of the Matrix was from a make believe place that claimed he had super powers.

The thesis statement, ' Genre is not set in stone' is proven to be true. Although genre conventions do not change, there is quite a lot of room for change within the ideas conveyed. Genre does not refer to a film type but to audience expectations and the speculation as to how the film will end. Media Theorist Fowler says, "One advantage of genres is that they can rely on readers already having knowledge and expectations about the works within a genre", this links back to the definition of Genre as the audience knows what is going to happen in the film. 'Metropolis' (1927) directed by Fritz Lang, 'Blade Runner' (1982) directed by Ridley Scott and 'Children of Men' (2006) directed by Alfonso Curan are the three dystopian films I have studied

Alazae Te Hau Film Genre Analysis – The Matrix This film genre analysis will identify, scruitinies and discuss the various and diverse filmmaking elements of the Wachowski’s Sci-fi/Action epic, The Matrix (1999), and how they demonstrate the typical codes and conventions of the action subset genres, Western and Asian martial arts. Specifically, the climactic scene of The Matrix (01:52:56 – 01:58:49) portraying the film’s main character, Neo’s fight with the antagonistic agent Mr Smith in an underground subway station, will be centred and focused on for analysis of action influences. At the beginning of the scene, Neo finds himself essentially trapped as Mr Smith confronts him in an underground subway station.

We all have preference when it comes to movies. Some may love horror and then some may prefer an action movie or even a comedy. Some may be prejudiced to a movie just because of the genre the movie has been placed. Genre is a classification of artistic composition based upon their style, form, or subject matter. Genre is an important part

Genre is a French word meaning ‘type or ‘kind’ (Genre, 2016). The film industry has been around for at least 100 years. The evolution of entertainment is growing rapidly through the use of media. And as these years go on, films have begun to fit into specific genres, and are important to appeal to the different types of audiences. Films can be described to genre in different types of ways, such as stars, director and narrative to help identify what genre the film is (Neale, 1990, pg. 49). Genre in films has become common because it helps give the audience a different expectation. One specific genre of film is a horror. Horror is a genre that tries to create, panic, dread and fear for the audience.