This weekend the only horror movie I saw was the movie Fido. This is a movie about zombies but the story is not necessarily what you think it would be. Like all zombie movies, the zombies are undead creatures that are hungry for human flesh. However, in this movie, rather than killing all the zombies, the humans have found a way to contain them using some type of color. This gives the humans complete control of the zombies and instead of humans fighting zombies, they keep the zombies as pets or servants. The story is about a boy named Timmy who gets a zombie and falls in love with him like a boy falls in love with a dog. He names this zombie Fido and does everything with him but when the zombies color malfunctions, Fido eats the next door neighbor and Timmy has tries to do everything to keep him.
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If I were in the world with some type of apocalypse going on, it would definitely be a zombie apocalypse. I'm not sure how the zombie outbreak would happen though. Maybe a science experiment gone wrong or some kind of mutation of swine flu probably. In this world full of zombies humans are scarce but there are still a good few left, just spread out and not all together. I see me with a large group of my friends. We wouldn't just sit around and wait to die either, my friends and I would be the ultimate survival machines that sought out to unite the few remaining humans and form a resistance to rid the world of any remaining zombies.
This future is quite different than the one that Philip K. Dick came up with. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep there are definitely no zombies. There are, however, androids that sometimes attack humans so it is kind of similar. Also, even though there are a lot of humans left, there are very few left on Earth just like there are few humans left in the future I have imagined.
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In this scene in Blade Runner the costumes, and dialogue play a large part. The costumes almost make you already start to believe that Rachael is an android. Deckard is wearing normal clothes that any guy would wear on a daily basis. Likewise, Dr. Tyrell is wearing clothes that look very familiar to today's wardrobe. Rachel on the other hand is wearing something that looks odd and almost fake. Just as her clothing looks fake, she too is in fact a fake (an android). The costumes may not be enough to make you think she is an android but that along with the dialogue makes her an unmistakable android. During the entire scene, the tone of her voice does not change once in the entire scene. Deckard's and Tyrell's voice changes and expresses emotion with what they say but Rachael's remains cold and monotone just like that of a robot. Along with the costumes and dialogue, the lighting seems to play a part as well. Although I am not quite sure what that part is, it is clear that the dim lighting along with the bright sun outside is meant to play some role in this scene.
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In the last scene, the dialogue, sound, and music are made to make the audience start to feel sympathy for the androids. The dialogue is sad and the sounds of the rain hitting the ground mixed with the music change the audiences thoughts about the androids. Up to this point they were thought of as villians but now all the chaos is over and there is peace. There are no loud, alarming noises, just the soft pitter patter of rain and the light sound of the music in the background. This along with Roy's sad thoughts of being forgotten make the reader think of Roy as human instead of inhuman/android. And just like the audience, Deckard starts to feel empathy for the android now as well. The line that says Roys memories will be lost like tears in rain makes Deckard realize that there is value in the life of an android and they play their own role in the world just like every other living thing.
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Rick Deckard's future in Blade Runner does not look to pretty. Although he is with the one he loves, he will be hunted by other blade runners due to the fact that Rachael is an illegal android. He will have to spend the the rest of his life running from the law. He will not be able to live a normal life because not only will he constantly be on the run, but he is also in love with an android. As everyone in the story knows, androids have a short life expectancy. He will never have time to spend with Rachael because they are always in danger and then, before he knows it, she will expire and die. Even after she is dead, he will most likely have to continue running from the police due to the fact that he aided an illegal android and there will most likely be a warrant for his arrest. By this point, he would have traded his entire life for a few years with someone he hardly got to spend quality time with. This sounds like an absolutely terrible life to lead.
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So far, my researching is going fairly well. I am finding a lot of information about the downsides to text messaging when dealing with one's social life, education, and safety. I have also found a little about the benefits of texting. The question I am posing is whether or not using text messaging is a good or a bad thing. So far, many of my sources lead to it being a bad thing. I have found that texting can greatly increase the chance of a fatal accident while driving, cause formal writing skills to lessen, and cause less desire for face to face relationships. The only problem is that I have not found many options for solutions. There is the obvious choice of getting rid of texting altogether but a more reasonable way of solving this problem might be to limit texting to a certain amount rather than just having unlimited.
