It was in 1979 that the nightmare began, when the spaceship the Nostromo landed on an unknown planet to answer a rescue message and later explore an abandoned vessel. That’s where the crew met for the first time a creature as deadly as beautiful, the Alien. This creature and it’s environment, created by the talented Swiss artist H.R.
Giger, were the main antagonists from the movie « Alien », directed by Ridley Scott and featuring Sigourney Weaver as the only survivor of the Nostromo crew when the Alien penetrated it. This movie was the first chapter of a cult saga still active these days. From the four movies featuring the
Aliens, the third one is considered as the worst one. Even though it’s visual quality was exceptional, it’s poor scenario deceived most Alien fans throughout the world, leaving not much place for improvement for a forth movie. But most people don’t know that the critically acclaimed cyberpunk author William Gibson wrote an alternative scenario to
Alien³, much more researched, focusing on future technology and human contacts rather than on explosions and gratuitous violence.
Both Alien³ and Gibson’s script have a similar opening, where the audience learns that a Face-Hugger (a crab/spider-like creature whose function is to implement an embryo inside a chest cavity from a living organism) has been able to hide in the Sulaco, the ship with which Ripley
(Sigourney Weaver), Hicks (an injured marine soldier),
Newt (a 12 years old girl) and Bishop (an android seriously damaged) escaped from the Alien colony in the previous movie, Aliens. But this similarity between the to scripts is maybe the only one. From now on, the two stories will take completely different courses. In Alien³, an electric malfunction (usually attributed to the Face-Hugger) causes the ship to crash on a planet called Fiorina 161 containing a disaffected mining colony now used as a high-security prison. This leads to predictable, violent, confrontations between Ripley (the only survivor from the crash) and the prisoners. From now on, the viewers knows that the movie will be based on sexist debates and on useless violence.
However, in Gibson’s version, the Sulaco does not crash on a planet but rather continues on it’s original path but with a small deviation. This deviation makes the ship enter an area claimed by the Union of Progressive Peoples, or
UPP, a somewhat clear analogy to the late USSR.
It is rumored that this similarity contributed to the demise of
Gibson’s script. The presence of a political force in the story would have been the first apparition of any kind of political debates in all the Aliens movies. And at the same time, the audience learns that there’s not only one powerful
Fortunato “takes possession” of Montresor’s arm, for which he suffers (716) in order to carry out his plan. Poe’s use of possession and suffer give the impression that Montresor is being afflicted again by Fortunato. Once Montresor reveals this meeting at this evening is no coincidence by divulging he made sure none of his attendants would be home. By giving the direct orders to be home. Poe shows us that Montresor was not respected or feared by his servants’ actions. The servants’ leaving after being given a direct order to stay does give credence to the fact that Montresor must be very methodical and unyielding to his schedule. Only once Fortunato to the catacombs does he betray his own premise. Montresor refers to Fortunato as his “poor friend” (716). At this point Poe has depicted this instigator of a “thousand injuries” as a drunken jester that can barely catch his breath at this point in the story. Now Montresor is showing some sympathy towards him. At this point the transition is complete. Where the two men stopped at the entrance to Fortunato’s tomb, this is the moment that leaves no doubt that Montresor is the villain and Fortunato is the
In the first 20 minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey you see a group of monkeys going through evolution. The first change you see is that of a leader. In the beginning, each monkey did their own thing, and was not bound to any organization whatsoever. The monkeys did what they want when they wanted. Then the change begins. A single monkey, by himself, rises to the top of a cliff. He stands and screams. The other monkeys notice him screaming and began dancing and rejoicing. They scream and jump around, in what appears to be reverence for their new leader. Stanley Kubrick shows the change very simply, yet its message is still very clear. The monkeys had never shouted as loud or danced as much as they had previously in the film. Their actions confirm that something in fact had changed.
Blade Runner, which is directed by Ridley Scott and is based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, is a Sci-fi Noir film about a policeman named Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford) in 2019 Los Angeles who was contracted to retire four genetically engineered replicants. The four fugitives, Pris (played by Daryl Hannah), Zhora (played by Joanna Cassidy), Leon (played by Brion James), where led by Roy Batty (played by Rutger Hauer) and have escaped from an off-world colony in order to find their creator and oblige him into expanding their pre-determined four year life span. A part of the success that this feature has received can be attributed to the film’s ability to operate on many different levels.
Where the main themes are similar to those which were implied earlier. Americans did not like that there were non-English speaking minorities around. They feared multiculturalism in which immigrant’s minority identity could benefit them in such forms as welfare. They also held a belief that foreigners were a drain on America’s resources. “Weapons for those who wanted foreigners to assimilate: deportation, time limit on naturalization and adoption of the English language, suppression of the foreign-language press, internments, the denial of industrial employment to aliens” (Hingham, 2002). As time progresses we see that these tactics are used on all non-white immigrant minorities, including the one who were later considered
In a movie Monsters University (Dan Scanlon, 2013) the Althusser’s Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses theory can be seen through representing the influence of ideology by Ideological State Apparatus’ institutions that mostly impact on characters rather than influence of Repressive State Apparatus (Louise Althusser, 1970).
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the most recent example of how Congress or the President has used, justifying its necessity because of this clause. The entire reading can be found at (http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-114_qol1.pdf). Through my research, I stumbled upon a website that detailed the initial tone of the ACA and is a very good example of “Necessary and Proper” language found in the US Constitution. It also demonstrates how Congress and the Supreme Court can make changes in order to facilitate the needs of the law. On Mar 27, 2012 the Supreme Court heard argument on the central issue in the challenges to the Affordable Care Act. The Obama administration consistently argued that the individual mandate is essential to the effectiveness of ACA and argued that if the individual mandate is ruled unconstitutional, then the ban on preexisting conditions, minimum expenditures on health care, and other essential regulatory protections for health insurance consumers must fall with it, as they are inextricably intertwined with the individual mandate. The issue could have also raised fundamental questions regarding our modern federal government. If the Court chose to issue sweeping doctrinal formulations of the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause, or appeals to liberty of contract interests in striking down the individual mandate, the
Stark contrasts exist between the description of the characters and emotional content between the book and the movie. This may be mainly due to the limited length of the movie. In the movie, Rat Kiley who is telling the story seems gentler. In the book they make it seem like everything Rat says is exaggerated, but the movie does not stress that fact. “Among the men in Alpha Company, Rat had a reputation for exaggeration and overstatement, a compulsion to rev up the facts, and for most of us it was normal procedure to discount sixty or seventy percent of anything he had to say” (O’Brien 89). Also, the movie emphasizes the fact that Rat Kiley fell in love with Mary Anne Bell. He himself says he loved her towards the end of the movie. A character that people may tend to have sympathy for is Mark Fossie. In the book, one may not feel for Fossie. The movie shows the character having more feeling especially after he couldn’t find Mary Anne. A third character that is portrayed differently in the movie than in the book is Mary Anne, who is the main female character of the chapter. The movie stressed the fact that Mary Anne wanted to learn more about the Vietnamese way of life. There was a scene in the movie where Mary Anne spent time with the Vietnamese soldiers learning their language and how to cook their food. They also show her going ...
Poe, at a duo of times in the story, demonstrates how a human being can achieve something from someone without even demanding for it. An example of reverse psychology in “The Cask of Amontillado” is when Montresor asks Fortunato to experience Amontillado, but at the same time says,“…I will not impose upon you good nature. I perceive you have an engagement…”
Proper nutrition is important in maintaining a long and healthy life. Most Americans are rushed due to their busy work schedules, and do not take the time to plan their diets properly. Like me, most Americans are unaware of the importance of eating a healthy diet and consume too many foods without the proper nutrients. Throughout my life I have been fortunate. I have not had any major health problems, and have been able to consume most foods without having to worry about gaining weight. These last two years, however, I started to gain weight and have become concerned with my diet. Changing my poor eating habits has been difficult for me, however, having this assignment has taught me that it is not as difficult as I previously imagined.
In Cornell and Harmann’s work (1998), they point out how often these racial categories have changed, allowing new groups to enter and exit each classification with the only fixed truth being that being classified as white was better than being classified as non-white (p. 26). Prior to 1965, a year that introduced new immigration policies, the United States tried to restrict most of its immigrant population to having Northern or Western European origins. Immigrants from other countries were seen as non-white and therefore not desirable. This was the case for many immigrants such as the Irish, Southern Europeans, and Jews (Omi and Winant, 1994, p. 17) and resulted in laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act (“Race: The Power of an Illusion – Episode 1”, 2003). In their article, Barrett and Roediger point out terms that academics have used for these immigrants such as “our Temporary Negros . . . [and] not-yet-white ethnics” (1994, p. 404). These phrases represent the ideas of assimilation that often begin to emerge when one examines the immigrant experience in the United States. During this time period, Gordon’s theory of classical assimilation dominated the way people thought immigrants would assimilate. Their “non-white” classification would only be temporary, since in order to
this one letter in a circle can now sum up his life, that people just
William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 has always been one of my favorite works because of the value he places on love. Although I have read this sonnet many times before, I was glad to see that it was a topic of discussion this semester because I wanted to gain a further understanding of this particular sonnet. This sonnet comes in stark contrast to the first 15 sonnets where Shakespeare insists that the young man should not be wasting away his beauty. Lines such as “Profitless usurer, why dost thou use”, and “For having traffic with thyself alone” (lines 7 and 8) from sonnet 4 suggest a lot about the young man. In an era where getting married and having children at an early age was expected, the young man seems to be doing neither. Rather, as these lines suggest, he is being selfish with his own beauty. Because of this, in the first 15 sonnets Shakespeare is pleading with the young man to preserve his beauty by having
1172), this demonstration shows how summer is one the shortest season just like the young man’s youth. Correspondingly, a theme that is used is sonnet 18 is death, the first way it is revealed is through the young man’s youth is external and it will always live on. Additionally, the theme time and death are in the last two lines, “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this and this gives life to thee” (Greenblatt et al. 1172), this expresses that the poem will live on forever as long there are people alive. Research from “Sonnets of Shakespeare” displays “Shakespeare’s sense of the ravages of time leads him to a second important theme: Poetry, as well as heirs, can confer immortality” (Masterplots, Fourth
William Shakespeare¡¯s Sonnet 18 is part of a group of 126 sonnets Shakespeare wrote that are addressed to a young man of great beauty and promise. In this group of sonnets, the speaker urges the young man to marry and perpetuate his virtues through children, and warns him about the destructive power of time, age, and moral weakness. Sonnet 18 focuses on the beauty of the young man, and how beauty fades, but his beauty will not because it will be remembered by everyone who reads this poem.