gordon@bu-cs.UUCP (09/28/87)
In article <4328@spool.wisc.edu> jojo@speedy.WISC.EDU (Jon Wesener) writes: > PS. And don't forget ROBOCOP. >jon wesener Yes, yes, I have been giving some thought to this "nitty gritty world view". As a theme it seems to me to be best illustrated in the contrast between a character's "nitty gritty" environment and an idealized environment which the character has lost or merely dreams about. - "RoboCop" RoboCop explores the empty house where he and his family lived before he was gunned down. - "Blade Runner" The dopey replicant who is so attached to the photographs, to him the photographs represent the human relationships he never had. - "The Fly" Seth Brundle babbles about "Insect Politics" and warns his ex-lover to leave before he hurts her. - "Brazil" The contrast between the protagonist's knight/damsel/monster fantasy world and his real life in the techno-beaurocracy. To sum up, an important element of this genre for me is the portrayal of dehumanizing situations in a world where people are much too naive of, or victimized by, the technology they are living with. -- Gordon Lee Distributed Systems Group Boston University