Ghost in the Shell

-Year 2029 Japan

-Woman disconnects wires from the back of her neck

    -Thermoptic camouflage - makes her invisible

    -Kusanagi

    -Section 9

-Kusanagi is in a pool of liquid

-Non-human and human emerged as one

-Cyborgs

-Humanity is important

-Puppet Master

-"I hear it in my ghost"

-Hackers

-They are on the trail of the Puppet Master

    -He hacks into the brains of cyborgs in order to gather information to commit crimes

-A guy's memory was erased and he now believes himself to be married with a daughter, and getting a divorce - none of which occurred

-Alcohol can be broken down in seconds for cyborgs

-Controlled metabolisms

-Countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind

    -Memories are unique to her

    -Confined

-Blonde naked woman is hit by a truck

    -She was hacked

    -Built 2 hours prior and escaped

    -There is a ghost present

-Kusanagi is doubting her ghost

    -She thinks she's similar to the blonde woman

-Togusa checks the pressure sensors and thinks there is a cyborg with Nakamura

    -Puppet Master is in the blonde woman's torso

-Project 2501

-Cyborg attacks and takes the torso

-Togusa puts a tracker on the car 

-Decoy car

-Batou chases a car and hits a roadblock

    -Two men inside are killed by a sniper

-The Major's arms tear off while trying to help

    -Wired up to the torso

    -Projecr 2501 speaks through the major

-Kusanagi is in a different body

Star Trek Notes

2009 Movie: 

-Captain Kirk dies and is assigned the role of Captain for 12 mins

        -His son, Jim, is born as he dies

        -He saved 800 people because he stayed on board

-Jim is shown in the next scene as a child

    -He stole a car

-Spock is half human and half Vulcan

    -Bullied because he shows human emotion (his Vulcan race shows no emotion)

    -Enrolls in Starfleet

    -"Live long and prosper" - Spock

-Jim meets Uhura

-Jim gets into a bar fight with members of the Starfleet

    -He is recruited to Starfleet by someone who knew his father (Capt. Pike)

        -Could pilot a ship in 4 years, and become Captain in 8 years

    -He meets Bones on the ship to Starfleet

-Jim beats an impossible simulation/test designed by Spock

    -Gets put on academic probation for cheating Spock's code

-"A captain cannot cheat death" - Spock

-Distress call from Vulcan received, trial ends

-Jim is not allowed on the ship for academic suspension

    -Bones gives Jim a vaccination to cause him to appear sick to get on the ship

-Jim is sedated and wakes up with giant hands

-Jim realizes they're flying into a trap

    -"Lightning storm"

-Kirk reports it to Captain Pike

-Kirk tries getting them out of warp speed but is too late

-Nero sees it's the USS enterprise and that Spock is aboard

-Captain Pike goes aboard the enemy ship (Romulan)

-Those who are trained in intense hand-to-hand combat are sent down to fight

-Spock is left in command

-Kirk is promoted to first officer

-Kirk fights Romulan men with Sulu

-They are creating a black hole on the Vulcan planet

-Sulu falls and Kirk goes to save him but their chutes break

    -They are beamed back onto the ship

-Spock goes down to the surface to save his parents

    -His mother falls and cannot be beamed up

-Nero destroyed the planet and the Vulcan race is endangered as a result

-All remaining federation planets will be destroyed

-Pike is taken hostage and forced to share information

-Kirk was ejected from the ship for questioning Spock's decisions

-Kirk meets Spock from the future and he tells him what happens

    -They meet other Starfleet members who were ejected to this planet for wrongdoings 

-Kirk and Scotty are warping back to the enterprise

    -"Live long and prosper" - Old Spock

-Kirk proves Spock can feel

-Spock resigns from command and Kirk becomes captain

-Kirk and Spock board enemy ship

    -Trying to prevent the black hole from hitting Earth and save Pike, and destroy the ship

-Spock and Kirk succeed 

-Giant black hole is created

-Spock meets future Spock

-Kirk is officially a Captain and is awarded 

-Kirk and Spock are friends

Original:

-Future Spock in the movie is the original Spock

-Kirk is still a playboy and is captain already in this

-Crash victims detected on a planet

    -From a missing scientific exploration

    -Distress signal

    -Beam down to investigate

-Vina, a human female, is among the survivors

-Enterprise is being stalked and lured by creatures that can take human form

    -All the victims are Talosian illusions

-Pike resists temptations of Talosian illusions

-Bones falls for who he believes to be "Nancy" but ends up being a Talosian

-Bones kills Nancy (Talosian form) and saves Kirk

Picard

-Jean-Luc Picard produces win and lives in a castle in France

-He is no longer captain

    -Starfleet is not Starfleet anymore

-A girl is shown with her boyfriend (Dahj)

    -3 men attack her

    -Boyfriend dies

    -She is "activated"

-Dahj finds Picard

-People are still after Dahj

-Dahj runs from safety with Picard and calls her mom, who tells her to go back

-She finds him again

    -Romulan's find her

    -She dies??

    -She is synthetic

    -Daughter of Data??

-Picard is shown alone, asking where Dahj went because he saw her die

-Dahj is a twin

    -Soji

    -She knows about being a twin

Discovery:

-"We come in peace"

-Back in time

-Scene changes to two women discussing a drought

    -Vulcan; able to tell how far the storm is away; "Number One"

-"Set a star"

    -Walked in a circle to create a shape in the sand

    -The Starfleet ship was able to find them

-Foreign object in sight

-Michael is going to do a flyby

    -Risky

    -Only able to be out there for 20 minutes

    -The object is centuries old

    -Intricate construction and design

-Klingon attacks Michael

    -Signal disconnected

-Michael is transported back to the ship

    -She warns them of the Klingons

    -They go on red alert

    -Klingon's reveal themselves

-Michael thinks they should attack first

-Additional Klingon ships warp in

Strange New Worlds

-Pike is in a self-imposed exile

-Uhura is missing

-Spock is engaged

    -Michael is Spock's sister

-Pike is back in command to find Uhura

-Pike saw the future

    -He saw and felt his own death

    -Unsure of what to do

-Pike, Spock, and Number One are on a mission on another planet

    -The planet is about to start a civil war

    -Similar to Earth

-Earth had a World War III and 600,000 species (humans and animals) were killed

-Offered to join federation of planets

The Matrix Debate Conclusion

 The phrase "red pill vs. blue pill" refers to the ultimatum Neo is given at the end of the film, The Matrix. Both sides of the debate make extremely valid arguments. Taking the blue pill, you are continuing to live your normal day-to-day life with content. With the red pill, you are told your entire life is a lie and are expected to handle the truth gracefully. The blue side made the point of "ignorance is bliss," which ended up being a huge topic of discussion for both sides. Red pill takers disagreed with the statement, while blue pill takers continued arguing its truth. Taking the blue pill, you essentially are living a "lie," however, the only life you've ever known isn't broken apart. You continue to live your life in comfort and contentment - without fear. The red pill, however, leaves you with constant fear and worry. You don't actually know that Morpheus is telling you the truth and your stability is destroyed. In the end, each side never actually agreed on who technically "won" the debate. From my own personal perspective, I agree with taking the blue pill. I am very content with my current life. To know that every relationship I've ever made, or the entire life I've lived, was not real, I could not handle it. I side with the blue pill. 

Collage Creative Process

To start our creative process, we met up and began to brainstorm ideas. We made a list of specific details from the movie that we knew we wanted to incorporate. After that, we thought of places we could find these items and gathered as many things as we could that related to the movie in any way possible. We thought of ways to enhance our creativity, leaving us with a collage we were all very proud of and had a fun time making. I have to say the most challenging part of this project was making an origami unicorn. I had to watch so many tutorials and almost gave up on it 3 times. I was able to find a tutorial for the unicorn shown in Blade Runner - which I found to be pretty cool. The collage consists of magazine cutouts, stickers, paint, cardboard, duct tape, drawings, origami, and so many more materials. This was a really enjoyable process and I am proud of how it turned out!

Notes post class:

It was interesting to see how each group interpreted the assignment. There were many elements from the film that each group decided to point out collectively - like the dove or the unicorn. We were prompted with the question of how the quote resonates with you personally. For me, it was a challenge to respond at first. It is a powerful quote, which is why I struggled to resonate with it. I have been fortunate enough to not experience anyone close to me pass, so I have never encountered death in the ways others have. However, the quote reminded me of past books I've read relating to the afterlife. One book, which unfortunately I cannot remember the title of, shows the afterlife as decreasing in age each year that one is there. The protagonist of the novel is a teenager who learns these things over time while in the afterlife. The quote essentially describes life flashing before your eyes before death. This is shown similarly in so many films. Roy's life is fading away with the raindrops and there is no one left to share those memories. Everyone who shared his experiences have passed. This film was amazing and I really enjoyed interpreting it.

The Matrix: Red Pill vs Blue Pill

 Blue pill pro:

-You live your constant life again

-Your life isn’t broken up

-From what you heard you won’t die taking the pill

-You don’t live a risky life by taking the blue pill

-Ignorance is bliss

-Lives a life without fear

-Live in comfort

-Content with life

-Personally, I am happy with my life and would not want to find out that everything I've ever known has been a complete lie and a waste of time.

Red Pill Con:

-You don’t know who Morpheus is

-Still ignorant

-He just told you your entire life is a lie

-He’s breaking up your stability

-You may die

-Constant fear and worry

-What if Morpheus and his gang are the bad guys and they’re lying

-What if the agents are good guys

-There would be no sequel unless Neo took the red pill. He took it as a director's choice, not because of his own. 

AI/Pinocchio Comparison Notes

 Pinocchio = David

-Both Pinocchio and David do not know how to properly act because they are not actually human

-David has trouble understanding basic human functions (such as drinking coffee in the morning)

-Pinocchio is gullible and does not listen to advice 

-David is fascinated by eating, and Pinocchio is always hungry and wants to eat

-Both are child-like and care for their parents

-Both were designed as toys 

-David wants to be a real boy

           -After Monica read Pinocchio to Martin and    

             David, David romanticized becoming a real 

             boy

           -Ate spinach to try to be like Martin

-David listens to Martin’s bad advice similar to how Pinocchio listened to the cat and fox

-Teddy is similar to the cricket in Pinocchio 

-David was abandoned 

-David wants nothing more than for Monica to love him; Pinocchio wants to make Geppetto proud

-David is searching for the blue fairy

-David sees parts of past Mechas be dumped and meets others like him; related to Pinocchio meeting other marionette puppets like him

-Joe is another bad conscience 

-Innocence is a big theme in both stories

-David and Pinocchio both get tricked into spending their money

-David dives into the ocean to find the blue fairy, and Pinocchio does it to escape which eventually leads to saving his father

Phillip K. Dick Research

Phillip Kindred Dick was an American science-fiction novelist. In his lifetime, he produced 44 novels and roughly 121 short stories. He was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 16, 1928, along with his twin sister Jane who survived only 8 weeks postpartum. Although he was born in Chicago, he lived in Berkeley, California most of his life with his mother. By 1952, Dick became a published author. Dick's most famous works include, the Hugo-award-winning "The Man in the High Castle," "A Scanner Darkly," "Valis," and, of course, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" - which was adapted into the 1982 film, "Blade Runner." Unfortunately, Dick died of heart failure only 4 months prior to the release of the movie in 1982. This film allowed Dick to achieve a significant amount of financial stability towards the end of his life. Prior to the adaptation, Dick was never financially successful as a writer - despite being an accomplished science-fiction writer and award-winning author. Since his passing at the age of 53, numerous other writings of Dick were later adapted into other films. In addition, his unpublished novels have since been published. Phillip K. Dick was one of the most influential science-fiction writers and his legacy lives on.