Sci-Fi Crimes

Edgar Allen Poe is one of the greatest Sci-Fi/Mystery writers of all times. Two of his most popular poems, “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Pit and the Pendulum” have elements that relate to each other but at the same time they differ. The use of suspense in his poems is proficient, and it makes the readers want to read on because they are intrigued and they want to know what is going to happen next! Poe gives a good example of what an unreliable narrator is in his poems, he shows that sometimes they

Villains in Hollywood Films Alfred Hitchcock once said "The better the villain, the better the film" and this year's Hollywood filmmakers have abided by this golden rule as there was no stopping this year's summer blockbusters from having a whole horde of villainous characters spreading their wings onto the big screen, making the darker side more appealing for audiences. Everybody has gone villain this year, from Tom Cruise to Halle Berry, from the not- so-friendly extra

The classification and cataloging of items seem to fulfill a basic need in human beings, whether it is vegetable, mineral or animal. It seems that this basic need to analyze and categorize items applies also to objets d’art, including film – and the recognition or dismissal of film noir as a genre has been argued since the term was coined. While the term itself is valid, film noir as a genre is a misnomer. More properly, film noir should be considered a style unto itself, but definitively not

Heroism, and the courage are themes that are often explored in entertainment media. In modern times, this means superhero comic books, sci-fi movies, and detective shows. In the era of the Ancient Greeks, these themes were conveyed through epic poems that were performed by traveling bards. Much like today’s detectives and superheroes fight modern monsters, Odysseus fought what was unnatural and evil in his time. To the Ancient Greeks, Odysseus represented all that was ethical, and equitable, honest

program’s pilot does not criticize the technological circumstances upon which the plot is founded. Instead, by blatantly utilizing surveillance, through The Machine, it suggests that hyper-surveillance is a necessary aspect of preventing and fighting crime. It cites 9/11 for

“Golden Age” period until about 1960. Frank Nino, a French film critic, first coined the label film noir, which literally means black film or cinema, in 1946. Nino noticed the trend of how “dark” and black the looks and themes were of many American crime and detective films released in France following World War II. In fact, only French critics used the term film noir in their work until the era of noir was over. The French label did not become widely known until the 1970s. The term film noir is now

In the 19th century the Brothers Grimm fairy tales gave us, sex, vengeance, cruelty, crime and murder. When the Brothers Grimm wanted to get across their morals, they used the sex, vengeance, cruelty, crime and murder. For example, in Cinderella the step sisters, cut off parts of their feet to fit into the golden slipper, and The Little Mermaid died at the end of her story. In the 20th Century, we have more of a sugar coated approach to fairy tales. For example, in Cinderella her step sisters, simply

evolve, it focused more on the future. But even today there is a kind of men who still react as Andrew Harlan did to a woman who loved him, blaming her for attracting him because of her beauty or her fashionable dress-up.And the sequent mistakes, even crimes seem to be reasonable and forgivable. This was a necessary part of the plot for the main thoughts that Asimov

Killing Machines and our use of Autonomous Weapons Science-fiction novels originated with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in the 19th century. Since then, we have upgraded our sci-fi books, from reanimating the dead to killer robots. But are killer robots really fictitious? Science-Fiction author and Ted Talk speaker Daniel Suarez argues that releasing autonomous robots for warfare will revert our nations into governments with centralized power; therefore, we need to ban the use of autonomous weapons

Sebastian Brunner Mrs.Pruett English 1H 3/27/17 Fahrenheit 451 Report In the novel Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) we see many connections to the modern world. Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is set in a dystopian future where the government controlled everything and books are banned. Writing ahead of his time Bradbury was able to predict many things such as the seashells which are earbuds and wall tv’s. He was very accurate in his predictions so it would be wrong to dismiss his motifs as impossible. In fact