Blade Runner Notes

-2019 time period

    -Dystopic

-Blade runner performing a test 

-Test to provoke an emotional response

-4 replicants on the loose

-Nexus 6 developed in 2016

    -AI

    -4 year life span

-Test is for replicants

-Rachel is a replicant

    -She doesn't know she's one

    -Fake memories to make her life seem realistic as a human

        -Memories are from the niece of Tyrell

    -Human reactions

    -She has emotion

-Chew designed the eyes of Leon and Roy

-Rachel suspects she's a replicant but she has family photos

-Deckard tells Rachel the truth and it upsets her

    -Interesting how human-like she is

    -Identity crisis (possible theme??)

-J.F. makes his friends - they're toys

    -Genetic designer

-Deckard is looking at some family photos

    -Studies Leon's family picture with a machine

-Deckard tries convincing Rachel to come to the club

-Pretends to be on the Committee of Moral Abuses

-Zhora caught on to what Deckard was doing and attacked him

    -He chases her through the street and guns her down 

-Rachel is on their hit list now too

-Rachel saves Deckard, who was about to be killed by Leon

    -They go back to his apartment

-Sebastian learns that Roy and Pris are replicants

    -Convinced Sebastian to take them to Tyrell

-Roy demands Tyrell to give them a longer life span; he says it is impossible

    -Roy crushes Tyrell's skull and pushes his eyes in with his bare thumbs 

-Deckard gets a notice that Tyrell and Sebastian have both been murdered

-Deckard goes to Sebastian's apartment, which is full of creepy toys and dolls, and Pris disguises herself as one

-Pris ultimately dies after attacking Deckard

-Roy comes and finds Pris dead

    -Deckard tries to shoot him, but he misses

-Roy punches his fist through the wall where Leon is and breaks Deckard's knuckles

-Roy just stuck a nail through his own hand???

-Deckard manages to climb to the rood and jumps over to another building's roof, dangling on

-Roy is scary

-"That's what it is to be a slave" (possible societal theme)

-Roy pulls Deckard up

-Roy's expiration date is coming, his last few moments he tells Deckard of the things he's seen

-The dove is symbolic of the replicant's humanity in some way

-I think the nail meant something too, maybe since Roy's expiration was coming he wanted to feel true human pain

-"It's too bad she won't live; but then again, who does?"

-The rain and darkness of the movie convey darker themes and introduce the theme of the Unknown

2001: A Space Odyssey - Notes

-Opening is similar to that of opera

-Famous movie soundtrack

-Amazing scenery

-I can tell it was made in the 60s because of the CGI

-Foreign object landed in the center of the apes

-One ape learned they could use bones of dead animals as weapons

-Apes realized how they can use opposable thumbs to their advantage

-Establish superiority

-Can now evolve from prey to predator

-Supposed to take place in 2001

-Funny how advanced people believed the 2000s would be

-Airplanes in space??

-Voice recognition 

-Voiceprint identification

-The furniture is interesting

-Hilton hotel in space

-No cell phones but people can “facetime” essentially through airport phone booths

-Charged $1.70 for a phone call to his daughter

-The one thing that isn’t advanced is the clothing

-The daughter was wearing a dress that would only be worn in the 60s/70s

-Women have shorter haircuts (pixie cuts)

-Shows the time period

-No one took into account how much styles would change

-The only styles of clothing that are more “futuristic” are the outfits worn by flight attendants 

-Some of the things in this movie are so far stretched that they forgot to show advancements in the most basic things

-Ex. Clothing, cells phones, how people talk, cameras, politics, computer screen quality

-Interesting how the only people on the council are American, but they’re talking about subject matters for all of Earth

-Shows the time period it was created, again

-What is this food???

-Same foreign object as with the apes

-Jupiter mission

-Hibernation chambers

-This food looks disgusting

-“Foolproof and incapable of error”

-Something terrible is going to happen, naturally

-HAL is definitely going to be evil

-HAL claims to have never made a mistake but just made one, purposefully

-He miscalculated the failure of the ship's antennae 

-HAL can read lips!!!

-Space is completely silent

-HAL cut Frank’s lifeline

-Frank is dead, floating through space

-HAL killed the men in the hibernation pods

-HAL won’t let Dave back in

-Dave went in through the emergency hatch

-Dave is inside the brain of HAL

-“I’m afraid” (HAL)

-Dave is destroying HAL

-Dave is alone now on this journey to Jupiter

-Made it to Jupiter

-Traveling through some sort of time and light vortex

-Dave is old???

-Reaches out to touch the monolith

-Baby Dave floating above Earth

Craiyon Creation

 

Beyond the Aquila Rift

This short blew my mind. The animation, to start, was phenomenal. It was hard to believe that the characters weren't actually real people, and they were in fact animated. After researching the short some more, I found out that the actors who voice each character do in fact look like the animations. The photos posted with this are of Henry Douthwaite, the voice actor of Thom. I wanted to show a side-by-side comparison of the actor in real life versus animation because it is actually mind-boggling to me how accurate it is. British author, Alastair Reynolds, wrote Beyond the Aquila Rift. The short was published by Gollancz and edited by Jonathan Strahan and William Schafer. The technology in the film was insanely advanced and reminded me of the technology used by Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Being set in space, I saw similarities between the short and Guardians of the Galaxy. The way they were able to use technology mid-air was fascinating. When Thom, Suzy, and Ray went to sleep in the liquid oxygen, it was vastly similar to what happened in a show called The 100. In that show, Earth was apocalyptic and presumed to be unliveable. Later in the series, the characters are in search of a new planet that was liveable for humans. They went to sleep in liquid oxygen and traveled lightyears en route to a new home. Beyond the Aquila Rift is essentially futuristic, however, I don't believe it will happen in the way that the short displayed. It is almost too exaggerated. The future will definitely consist of needing to travel lightyears where you'll have to sleep in liquid oxygen, but I do not think everyone will end up trapped in a simulation where your life is a constant loop. Thinking about this is unsettling. The short foresees a future so overstated that it is hard to believe. I really enjoyed this short because of how unexpected it was. The short was truly insane and I genuinely wish I could watch a full-length movie about it. 

Love Death + Robots Notes

Zima Blue

- Sky versus sea

- The shade of blue is always the same -> Zima Blue

- Blue period

- Zima is an artist

        - Famous

        - Murals typically

        - Underwent extreme biological experiments

        - Skin was replaced with ventured polymer 

- Futuristic

- Zima was always a robot

- The blue comes from the swimming pool he used to clean

- He was created by a woman who was eager to create a robot to clean her pool

        - A base model for other robots

- Zima went back to his roots of being the pool cleaning robot he once was

- Zima = AI

Three Robots

-Apocalyptic world

-Humorous

-Robots exploring earth and humans for the first time

-Confused by the cat; thought it was gonna explode when it started purring

-Humans, essentially, killed themselves

-Talking cat???

-Robots don't know specifics of humans, only what they've been able to research

-X-Box 4000 ascended from an X-Box 3 (video game console) 

Pt. 2 Exit strategy

-Interesting to see the way humans tried surviving

-Rich vs poor

-New civilizations were attempted to be made in the middle of the ocean

-Thought technology would save them

-Robots killed the rich

-Wealthy went to mars

-Humanity had the tools to save the planet but instead, greed took over and caused the collapse of civilization

-Satire and ironic: shows how destructive humanity itself can be

The Dump

-Man that lives in a dump

-Getting evicted due to sanitary reasons

-Otto is a giant pile of trash that came to life

-The inspector was eaten

The Witness

-Woman was killed but looks identical to the woman across the street

-The animation is insane

-Man (murderer) is chasing the main girl

-The main girl is a stripper

-Living in a loop???

-Woman killed the man and then she turned into the murderer

Beyond the Aquila Rift

-The animation is creepily realistic

-Advanced technology

-Liquid oxygen - scientifically accurate

-The people are able to survive because of the liquid oxygen

-Bodies are preserved

        -Similar to a fetus in a womb (amniotic fluid)

-Technology reminds me of Marvel

-Something seems off about Greta

-Greta lied

-Traveled hundreds of earth years

-Suzy knows something is off

-Still asleep??

-Thom is now a lost soul, trapped

-Living in a loop

Pop Squad

-Prosecuting the parents

-Did he shoot the kids????

-They can live forever

-No kids in this future

-Some sort of serum makes them stay young

-Dinosaur is haunting Briggs

-Breeders = parents

-Been alive for 218 years

-Overpopulation issues I assume

-Briggs ended up dying

Automated Customer Service

-Laziness reminds me of Wall-E

-Robots becoming evil

-Purge mode

-The fish literally exploded 

-Thank god the dog survived

Metropolis Notes

- The introduction slides describing the making of the movie describe the marvels of technology

- Shift change = emotionless

- The above and below the Earth’s surface show the difference between high society and the poor

- It seemed like the two separate societies do not know a lot of each other as Freder was shocked when he saw the girl

- Workers are seemingly being sacrificed

- Metropolis is very futuristic. I never realized that even in the 1920s people were fantasizing about the future in the same way that we do today. The scene at 19 minutes shows an amazing overlay of the city - the planes, cars, trains, formation of the buildings, etc.

- It seems like Freders father is aware of what happens in the underworld while Freder is completely shocked

- 24:20 super interesting shots of the city

- Freder is shocked that his father says the people belong in the depths

- Freders father, Joh, has uncovered a secret plan by the workers and makes Josaphat go to work in the depths

- The depths are so depressing that Josaphat almost kills himself over it

- It looks like the depths and the workers are the people keeping the upper world lit up

- Freder is given a hat with a number signifying the workers of the depths are the only numbers to Metropolis

- The inventor is trying to revive Hel, Freders mother

- Using technology, the inventor invents the Machine-Man

- Freder finds one of those secret plans

- Joh finds out the drawings are plans for 2,000-year-old catacombs underneath Metropolis

- Freder and all the workers go to the catacombs and in the center of the room is the woman that he was searching for

- 53 minutes is showing the creation of the Tower of Babel

- The construction process is like the depiction of the pyramids

- Freder is chosen as the mediator between both worlds

- Joh asked the inventor to turn the Machine-Man into the likes of Maria

- Maria is trapped by the inventor

- Freder searches for a monk

- The machine man is tasked with destroying the city

- The real Gregory is captured for Freder

- Josaphat still works for Metropolis

- Maria is captured

- 1 hour 23 minutes Maria is being experimented on by the Machine Man to get her face

- The portrayal of the robot Maria was fascinating

        - Undereye makeup

        - Smirk

        - Evil

- Freder goes to Joh to see Maria and experiences extreme visions/hallucinations

- 1:31 in an exhibition the evil Maria is shown off to the rich of Metropolis

- The machine maria is displayed as the apocalyptic page in the Bible foreshadowing the apocalypse

- Fights start to break out in Metropolis

- Maria is found with the Inventor in a cell

- In the depths, the Machine Man is spreading rebellion to destroy the machines

-Freder breaks in to tell the workers it is not the real Maria, but they do not listen and start attacking him

- The workers take to the city and destroy the machines, 1:48

- The workers start destroying the heart machine, which unknowingly will destroy their homes, 1:55

- The children are rushing to the center of the city to avoid the flooding

- Freder finds Maria

- Everyone is rushed to the air shafts as the city is flooding but the doors are locked

- Freder unlocks the doors, and the kids rush inside

- The workers are freed from the Machine Man, and realize they flooded their city

- The workers go to find the witch/Machine Man but find Maria instead

- The people of Metropolis burn the Machine Man

- The inventor takes Maria who he thinks is Hel

- Freder fights the inventor for Maria while the who city and the people of the depths watch

- Freder wins and finally gets Maria

- The workers want to work with the people of Metropolis and Freder “The Mediator” shows them how to work together

Class notes:

- Rich do not equal poor

- Uniforms

- Choreography

- Religious references

        - Maria <=> Mary (Bible)

- Timing of the film (1920s)

- Maria is incredibly sexualized

- Institutional racism - similarity when flooding occurs

- Evil camouflage

        - Imitation

- Gullible and influential

- Dehumanization