While watching a movie I never really thought about anything other than what was on the screen. I never looked beyond what I was seeing and analyzed the movie. I never thought about what genre the movie was or why the director decided to film from a specific angle. Honestly, I have never been a big sci-fi fan but this class (science fiction) has opened my eyes to the world of SF and has taught me many things. While reading one our assigned books,"Screening Space" by Vivian Sobchack, I found many of her points and quotes from other authors intriguing.
- In both sci-fi and horror, there are films in which it is not so easy to distinguish whether the chaos is moral or civil, whether the order threatened is God given or man-made.
- The creatures relationship to Man is nonexistent; it is an accident, something disconnected from human experience and human intention.
Horror:
- moral chaos
- the disruption of order
- the threat to the harmony of hearth and home
Sci-fi:
- social chaos
- disruption of social order
- threat to the harmony of civilized society going about its business.
Even a man who is pure in heart,
And says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms
And the Autumn moon is bright
-The Wolf Man (George Waggner, 1941)
"We are all potential victims of ourselves, our passions,
our animal lust, our unholy and earthly desires.
We all live as the offspring of Original Sin
and are all Monsters but for the grace of God
which is not logically comprehensible"
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