Laurie MacDonald. The movie stars Tommy Lee Jones as Kevin Brown, also known as Agent K and Will Smith as James Darrell Edwards 111, also known as Agent J. The move grossed over five million dollars. The film is about a secret agency that hunts down aliens and then after finding them, keeps them in check to keep the human population safe, they are referred to the “men in black”. Ultimately, the agents have all of their former identities erased and retired agents are neuralyzed and given new identities (Men in Black, 1997). The movie Men in Black two was released July the third, two thousand two. It is a sequel to the film Men in Black that was released on July the second, nineteen ninety seven. It is a science fiction action film, directed …show more content…
It is the third sequel in the Men in Black series. It is a science fiction action film, directed by Barry Sonnenfiels and produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald. It stars the same two main Characters as the previous movies, Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K and Will Smith as 111/ Agent J. The move grossed over six million dollars and grossed more than the other two Men in Black movies. The plot consist of an alien criminal, Boris the Animal, which escapes from a prison on the moon. He is set on taking revenge on Agent K, because he shot off his arm and captured him in 1969( Men in Black, 2012). Although, I am just comparing the film Men in Black, all three of the Men in Black movies touch on memory eraser by using a once thought of science fiction only tool the neuralyzer. As stated in the article “ Of all the cool gadgets in science fiction, one of the niftiest is the memory-eraser stick that Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones wield in the movie Men in Black. Now such a thing is a step closer to reality. Researchers at UC Davis have successfully erased specific memories from the brains of mice…by using beams of light. Yes—light—just like the “Neuralyzer” tool in that 1997 sci-fi comedy”( “Scientists are a step closer to creating the memory eraser from “Men in …show more content…
He compares the memory alternating technology in the film “Men in Black”, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, “and “Memory Hackers.” He also touches on how he is concerned that theses technology has not only great potential to do good things, but also how it could be used to do evil things (“Not Just a ‘Men In Black’ Thing Anymore,”1). All three of the movies Men in Black reveals more good reasons not why memory erasure should not be utilized by portraying how sinister the world could get by neuralyzing or erasing others minds. The new Nova documentary, “Memory Hackers is a film that is extremely intriguing, it introduces a scientific breakthrough research that scientist has been working on for over seventy years. This film will also help the public to have understanding of all the effects of the long-term memory. It will also touch on the fact of how long-term memories are created, stored, and brought back to life ( PBS Public Broadcasting Service,
Black Robe" is a 1991 movie starring Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young and Sandrine Holt. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and adapted from Brian Moore's 1985 novel of the same name. It was produced by a “Joint Film Production of Australia and Canada”. The movie lasts about one hour and forty-one minutes. The movie was named "Best Canadian Film" at the 12th Annual Genie Awards, with August Schellenberg also taking home the "Best Supporting Actor" trophy. (Epinions, 2004)
For my final I have selected Omer Fast - CNN Concatenated and Gary Hill – Incidence of Catastrophe from the videos screened in class this semester. The experience from watching both Fast & Hill video was very interesting in the way how memory was mediated. These two videos used personal, and recollection of memory, but both very far apart in how memory is conceived in their work. I will give my views on how each video artist applied their problem of memory in the following.
The hero, who has the thankless name Johnny Utah, is played by Keanu Reeves as a former Rose Bowl star with a bum knee, who joined the FBI and has been assigned to Los Angeles. A series of bank robberies is frustrating the bureau. Four robbers who call themselves the Ex-Presidents, and
The film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind focuses on the interesting topic of memory. The film follows two main characters, Joel and Clementine, who have both chosen to erase part of their memory. What both characters, and other characters in the movie, find out though is that our memory is complex and very flexible to what we make of it. The film reflects the tendency that we have as humans, to think that we are in control of our memory. The truth is that our memory is not like a video tape of the events in our lives nor is it a library of the knowledge we have collected. As I watched the movie, I couldn’t help but think; our memory is more like a ball of clay. Our minds can take the clay and make it into a shape and we can stare at that shape and know that shape but our minds will play with that clay and mold it into something different eventually. The idea portrayed in the movie is that no memory is safe from our meddling minds.
Men in Black (1997) is the first installment of a what is currently three total films, with a possible fourth in the making. Since it is a part of a franchise there is a lot of groundwork laid in this first film. We’re introduced to the main Leif Motive, or theme, for the Men in Black agency. What’s interesting is how we are kind of thrown into this film, with minimal background to what is going on. Overall this film has a unique style, a good integration of the soundtrack elements, and places the viewer in this different world where aliens exist.
Making and storing memories is a complex process involving many regions of the brain. (3). Most experts agree that we have two stages of memories - short-term memory and long-term memory. Short-term memory is the immediate memory we have when we first hear or perceive someth...
Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Prod. Stanley Kubrick, Victor Lyndon, and Ken Adam. By Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, Gilbert Taylor, Anthony Harvey, and Laurie Johnson. Perf. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, and James Earl Jones. BLC, 1963. DVD.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a comedy action movie starring Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore. While the first movie was a homage and throwback to the classic, old school British spy genre, the sequel, Kingsman:The Golden Circle crosses more into the sci-fi territory with its exaggerated gadgets and technologies. With a current and still ongoing box office of three hundred and twenty-six million dollars and mostly positive reviews from the critics, this film has been proven to be a commercial success.
The first issue that needs to be addressed however is what exactly is memory? “ Without memory we would be servants of the moment, with nothing but our innate reflexes to help us deal with the world. There would be no language, no art, no science, no culture. Civilization itself is the distillation of human memory” (Blakemore 1988). The simple interpretation of Blakemore’s theory on what memory is that a person’s memory is at least one of the most important things in their life and without it civilization itself could not exist.
Dir. Julie Taymor. Perf. Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. Fox Searchlight Pictures, 1999.
John Q. Dir. Nick Cassavetes. By James Kearns. Perf. Denzel Washington. New Line Cinema, 2002. DVD.
...pporting details. At the conclusion of the article, the authors share their thoughts on how it might be virtually impossible to determine when a memory is true or false. I also like their willingness to continue the investigations despite how difficult it might be to obtain concrete answers.
Memory is the tool we use to learn and think. We all use memory in our everyday lives. Memory is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences. We all reassure ourselves that our memories are accurate and precise. Many people believe that they would be able to remember anything from the event and the different features of the situation. Yet, people don’t realize the fact that the more you think about a situation the more likely the story will change. Our memories are not a camcorder or a camera. Our memory tends to be very selective and reconstructive.
In theory erasing a memory could help solve PTSD, as well as any mental illnesses stemming from memory based trauma. But, as I began watching the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind my opinion quickly changed. Erasing a traumatic memory in one’s life would be more destructive than beneficial. In the movie, Joel, the main character played by Jim Carrey and his love interest, Clementine, played by Kate Winslet, both go through a memory erasing treatment to forget the
Learning and memory are fascinating. The world could not function without either. They both are used in many different fashions in a wide variety of places. Learning and Memory have been carefully studied by professionals but are also well known and used by the common people on a daily basis. I am one of those common people, a student who is constantly learning and making the most of my memory. Since enrolling in The Psychology of Learning and Memory class I have come to the realization that I encounter situations in my life that exemplify the very concepts I have studied. I have also learned that it is beneficial to apply the lessons learned in class to my everyday life. Positive reinforcement, learned helplessness and serial recall are a few among many of the learning and memory models that have come to action in my life and in my final reflections surrounding the course.