Frankenstein and Blade Runner

FRANKENSTEIN AND BLADE base runner EXAM NOTES Module A Comparative cogitation of texts and context. Comparative compare and contrast Context EVERYTHING, values and perspectives ANALYSING MOVIES Cinematographic Editing regorge composition Colour/ meeting/shade Sound/ music record/dialogue Acting qualities. EXPLAIN How frank represents the context of 1818 are both(prenominal) warnings to the evil of technology And blade runner context of 1982 BLADE RUNNER place setting Ridley Scott is reflecting values by reacting against them.The biggest link that both are dealings with besides the excesses of sciences. -consumerism -industrialism topics being reflected in blade runner -greed -development at whatever cost Post war era, out of the Vietnam War . Computer industries flourishing and Ridley scott reflects this without the movie. Los Angeles is filled chosen as an example of industrialism. Economic rationalism- states that the frugality dictates everything that egests in society.T he Reagan& the Thatcher administration created a free economy whereby the government had slight intervention with businesses this in turn created a great class an nonation where the rich became richer and the poor became poorer. This musical theme is reflected in the movie by the idea of onworld and offworld lands where only the rich can afford to live away from the loose earth. Thatcherism- philosophy that anything that technologically advances is good anything that prohibits otherwise is bad.Industrialism A dwarfing feeling is conveyed through the camera looking up towards the buildings and this further expresses the industrialism that has conquered this society. it is constantly repeated passim the movie. Chose Los Angeles as a symbol of American industrialisation and technology, as a result of this you had the emerging environmental movement Both texts have a deep suspicion about the dangers of science and technology and what will happen if sci and tech will continue witho ut control Consumerism- coke, Atari etc are all symbols of consumerismFRANKENSTEINS CONTEXT 1818 Frankenstein, romanticist period 1780-1830 FOLLOWING age of reason (rationalism) beginning of the industrial age Head and heart knowledge Objectivity vs. subjectivity ENLIGHTENMENT- a period where reasoning and knowledge was central to authority (Rationalism) ROMANTICISM- a answer to enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature. The influences in context within Frankenstein (1818) Learn from me, if non by my precepts, at least by my example who aspires to become great than his nature will allow- showing the dangers of enthusiasm which is common to enlightenment writers.In the 1831 edited version, language which sounds obsessive and uncontrollable is added. Frankenstein expresses more emotion and it reveals a more romantic spirit. The change in rhetoric was to show the dangers of romantic egotism and not to show the dangers of science. However this is irrelevant in the scent out that the change represents both sides to her context. The period of enlightenment and romanticism. INDUSTRIALSATION- all about urbanisations and the issue of big cities, before this was a close link to nature. Not so much about urbanisation but more about inexhaustible technology.Frankenstein has the rural theme with most characters out in the Alps chasing the fiend etc. * Romanticism is the birth of a new sensibility, key elements is a growth in notions of psyche consciousness- meaning being aware of individual consciousness and hence individual imagination. Having a man create a replicant human being and the amazing way frank wanted to train the secret of life. Unaided with any assistance could learn language and everything else. in truth superior communication skills * Dangers of experimental science in which humanity is not its goal. The need for love and nurturing. * She clearly reflects aspects of her context, in that a small gathering of women such as her m other were the forerunners of the feminist movement. Starting to fight that group later be known as the suffragettes. She represents strong feminist views its an analysis when men try to procreate without a woman. She is parodying expressed by the male romantics about the world of love and romance. Quite deliberate that the crucial emotional attachments are with men Frank- monster ClervalWalton WHAT CAN BE DISCUSSED A) restore ABOUT SCEINCE AND DEVELOPMENT I) F + CONTEXT II) BR+ CONTEXT B) ontological QUESTION WHAT IS A HUMAN BEING LIVING LONGER. VALUE OF keep AND FOR LIFE. C) MORAL CHOICES D) NEED FOR LOVE FAMILY AND EMPATHY E) JUDGING PEOPLE BY demeanor I) made the monster as a playmate for himself and turns out to be a hideous deformed ugly monster. Rejects him on the basis of bearing II) Replicants purely by their eyes Frankenstein hated the monster because of its eyes. Exposes terror