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Blade Runner Notes

  Imagining the future in 2019 Ridley Scot director Minimal electronic music Replicants are very realistic robots used for slave labor on other plants but then became illegal and the blade runners kill them if the come to earth Los Angeles is very big. Tall futuristic building. Flying cars Test people using an emotional test to figure out if they are replicants  The test consist of a series of questions looking at the pupil Advertisements shown directly on buildings Like New York Off world colonies Parking on top of buildings Very dusty old looking buildings inside but high-tech looking outside The only way to hurt them is to kill them Each replicate is trained in different things  They are similar to humans in every way except emotions A new nexus 6 is being developed with emotions but it has a four year life span Artificial owl, looks very realistic Racheal is a replica but she doesn’t know she’s a replica  They use implanted memories to make them “more human than not human” All the

Philip K. Dick

 Philip K. Dick was a phenomenal science fiction writer who wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories. Dick inspired others to imagine the future. He pushed people to see what humans could create and all the possibilities out there waiting to be developed. Dick showed there were no limits to what could be imagined. In the 1950s and 60s people were not thinking about such things like emotional robots and flying cars. Philip K. Dick had such an impact on science fiction literature and movies because he was the first to truly push what humans thought was possible. In any science fiction movie created there is alway signs of Philip K. Dick within them. Dick wrote a book called "Eye in the Sky." This book is about how like is a stimulation. Series like the Matrix and Black Mirror have used this idea and created blockbuster entertainment. Philip K. Dick was always making people question what they believed and paved the way for others to do so. Dick created so many different pos

2001: A Space Odyssey Notes

  Starts with a plan black screen for the first couple of minutes with suspenseful music  Is like going to the opera with divisions between it with music Very famous soundtrack  Makes you feel a lot is going to happen; very suspenseful Goes from loud to very quiet and peaceful “Dawn of man” Shows deserted dry land One monkey is attacked by a leopard and the others just leave him Very territorial and divided  The monkeys are very scared of the leopard A monolith appears  The music speeds up as the monkeys become more fantic and scared Very gospel sounding music when the monolith appears Scene of the sun rising over the monolith Music appears when something is discovered music=lightbulb moment They start to fight back the other monkeys with the new tools they have Beat the other monkey to death Transitions of one tool/peace of technology to another more futuristic one The music is very peaceful in space. It moves up and down. Makes the listener feel like they are flying and experiencing