Case Study 3 (Due: January 6, 2011)

Watch at least two of the following movies:

1. Die Hard 4
   
2. Wall e
   
3. 9
   
4. Surrogates
   
5. The fifth element
   
6. The Island
   
7. Babylon AD
   
8. I, Robot
   
9. Equilibrium
   
10. Minority Report

• Make a comprehensive reaction paper for the two movies in no less than 300 words each.
  
• Make a comparative analysis of the two movies you chosen.

I was a bit worried when I first saw this case study, because I am not into movies really. Luckily, I have watched two movies on the list, which are, Wall-E and Nine.


Wall-e is a 3d animation movie that features the wonder of robots. I find this movie really amazing, because even with the slightest words that are spoken by the characters, the movie was indeed very understandable and amazingly heart-warming with Wall-e's eyes. The story was about the earth being abandoned due to the doings of human being. Currently, they are housed on a large spaceship in space. They are indulged with the service of robots that is able to do anything for them. The humans get fatter and fatter that they even find it hard to stand on their own two feet. The Earth was left as a dump site where Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth Class) was left behind to collect scrappy metals and clean the planet Earth. As time goes by Wall-Es had stopped working, leaving just Wall-E and a cockroach. Wall-E likes to collect things and watch romantic musicals just like humans do. One day, Eve arrives and he falls in love. Eve was programmed to be there with a mission. Through out the movie, you will only hear words that are spoken by the characters through the form of Eve, which Wall-e pronounced as Eeeee-vah. Well, this what makes the movie very amazing because even without words spoken directly Wall-e's eyes are enough to express the feelings and emotions on the movie.

The movie was a bit sad upon realizing how human beings are bad enough to abandon their home due to their own doings. Human beings have given so much pride of technology and forgot how the Earth hurts everytime a batch of pollution is exiled from factories to make machines that are able to ease the jobs of human beings. After the Earth has given the people what they need they even have the guts to abandon earth. The beast part of the movie though is when people have come to realize that there is no better place than home. They have come to realize that Earth is incomparable and there is no other planet that is able to give human beings air to breathe to live.

Nine is also a 3d animation film that features robots. The human race was destroyed by robots that was made by the human being itself, well that's karma maybe.

The story was about dolls that are made by a scientist. These dolls was given life through some spells, in which they were tasked to finish a mission, in which to destroy the robot who ended the life of the human race due to its revolt against its maker. The robot is a specialized to to make robots.

The movie begins with an explanation from a scientist, delivering a brief stories about the dangers of man and the progress of technology, specifically robots. Then 9 awakens in a burned out lab, next to the body of the said scientist, his creator and the inventor of the robot. 9 don't have the ability to talk. 9 met 2, another doll, who gives him a voice box so he can talk, and 2 started to tell 9 about what happened and what's happening.

Watch at least two of the following movies:

1. Die Hard 4
2. Wall e
3. 9
4. Surrogates
5. The fifth element
6. The Island
7. Babylon AD
8. I, Robot
9. Equilibrium
10. Minority Report

Surrogates

If we go by the movies, virtual reality and artificial intelligence are the two great progressive leaps that will ultimately destroy the human race. Because of our vanity and our fear, we'll take them to extremes that will eventually enslave us -- mentally, physically, and emotionally. In the world of Surrogates there is little crime, no disease, and no racism. Of course, everyone's surrogates are also model perfect and excessively superficial. Our few glimpses of the real people behind these avatars, hopelessly addicted to their alternative selves, are not pretty. While their highly polished and perfected 'others' live out their fantasy existences, the real citizens of this designer dyspepsia remain holed up in their homes unable to interact on an honest and open level. Instead of being freed, they are even more trapped than before. Still, with intelligent science fiction in scant supply these days and Mostow clearly toning down the hyperactive stunt work to get to the true meaning of his movie, Surrogates acquits itself admirably.

Wall e

Nine is the youngest, probably the smartest, and certainly the most daring, leading the others, against #1's wishes, to poke around the ruins. These look left over from a city from the past, not the future, and a 1940ish newsreel reports on a devastating global war triggered by a Hitleresque dictator. Was the Beast left behind to wipe out any survivors, and assure final victory even in the absence of victors? Such questions, I submit, are intriguing. But the dialog is mostly simplified Action Speak, with barked warnings and instructions and strategy debates of the most rudimentary kind. Since this movie is clearly targeted not at kiddies but at teens and up, is it now Hollywood theory that eloquence and intelligence are no longer useful in action dialogue? One of the benefits of the pre-CGI era was that although action scenes might be manifestly artificial, they had to be composed of details that were visually intelligible. Modern CGI artists, intoxicated by their godlike command of imagery, get carried away and add confusing complexity. If I were pressed to provide the cops with a detailed description of the Beast, the best I could do would be: "You'll know it when you see it. Also, it has a big glowing red eye."

Comparison
The two movies I chose are typically acted with different aspect of human robot. These movies were created in a different plot but with the same main point which is the reality of technology as it changes time by time. As it passes time by time, disadvantages and advantages takes place .

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Wall-E- is a 3D animation movie in which there is garbage collecting robot called Wall-E left in the earth. People left the earth and lived in a space ships where they became lazy and everything they want are sustained by robots. Eva, a robot is sent to the earth to check if the earth can be livable. Wall-E saw Eva and he fell in love with her. When a ship is coming to get Eva, Wall E hitched a ride on that ship and Wall E saw the people with very fat bodies and very lazy. That time, Wall-E and other robots stage a mutiny and the people came back to earth.

The moral story of the movie is to be responsible on the things you do. Do not depend on others so much because if they are gone you might not survive.



9- is a 3D movie about a doll called 9. After the battle between human and machines, 9 is chased by a machine called the beast. 9 saw other dolls named from 1-8. The beast get 2, and the dolls rescued 2 from the beast. After beating the beast, 9 put a machine that serves as a heart for a machine called brain. Brain is more powerful than the beast. 9 and the other dolls, defeated brain and killed him.


The moral story of the movie is to face your fears to save others.

Among the ten (10) movies listed to be watched, I did only "The fifth element". So, I need to watch another to be compared of. I chose "The Island".

"The fifth element(1997)"

When I first heard the title which is "The fifth element", I find it an interesting movie which keeps me thinking the whole time as I'm watching the movie what's the fifth element. I can't figure it out until the end. This movie is a sci-fi adventure in which whom can see this will get a lesson. I'm amazed of how the technology brought into the lives of people. The story is extremely imaginative; the flying cars, the aliens, the spaceships which is very elegant. Very futuristic movie.A mixture of action, comedy by Chris Tucker, suspense and romance. For me, it is one of the best movie and I'm sure the director is very proud of his/her product. The visual effects are very excellent that its like a real boom. Mila Jovovich who played the role of the perfect being named Leeloo is a great actress. She played it perfectly for me. In general, I like the movie very much which gives me no boring scenes. I enjoyed watching it .

"The Island(2005)"

This movie gives me no idea of what is this really about. Though I have in mind an idea upon hearing the title for the first time but my idea doesn't coincide as I'm watching it. As I watch along the way, I still can't understand why that certain scene happened. I keep questioning myself. As the story near to its end, I kind of figuring it out and understand why that happened. The clones are told that the outer world is contaminated and that the only safe place left is "the island". The only way to get to the island is through random lotteries where the lucky winner is whisked away to their new paradise. One of the clones played by Ewan McGregor as Lincoln started to ask questions. And while wandering around, he discovered that they were being lied. So, upon discovering what it is all about, he started to escape with his closes friend named Jordan two delta played by Scarlett Johansson. Its a good movie for me. Another sample of high technology development. Of what a technology can do with the lives of people. The visual effects are realistic. The actor and actress greatly played their role. I like them being teamed up. They have chemistry. In general, the movie "The Island" is another great movie that can be proud of by its director.

Comparing the two movies, they have differences and similarities. In a similar way, both were in the advanced technology or high tech world which uses devices that are futuristic. They are different in the way that have different high tech devices. The common to both of them is the sense of technology advancement that can happen in the next generation.

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These movies selected were Wall-E (also show in Disney Chanel last Jan 1) and Equilibrium.


This movie Equilibrium is more on suspense, drama and sci-fi combination which relates the modern Nazi world. This resembles the World War 2 scenario in which the leader is the same as the attitude of Adolf Hitler and the attitude of the people is the same as North Korea which they live into restrictive confinement and no contact with the outside world. The Workers and Contraband handlers kept underground in order to prevent them from being caught. The swastika sign from Nazis is the T sign from this movie.
The setback of this story is after the death of his father, his son, named Preston, did not accept that he was not succeed his rule which causes pain and suffering including his son’s wife sentenced with summary combustion, which resembles cremation. The weapons and martial arts going more accurate and even faster even their have emotions to each other. Every violation is subjected to death which it is inhumane. They have schools and even tall buildings were employees work in their offices with restrictive spaces.
The problems within this society are the discrimination among classes of people and too much discipline involved in this movie. Avoid contact with the offenders since these people get shot on sight. People get indoctrinated with laws brutally. The members of the resistance army are kept underground to avoid getting killed by the people. Anyone contacting with them resulting to execution though summary combustion.
This movie discovers drug that injects to the neck though his gun-like syringe. This will prevent emotions and revelations which come to the people’s mind every day.
Upon the death of the wife of Preston, he was arrested and betrayed that his best friend is a leader’s right hand and ended in a combat. Eventually, the leader’s right hand has been killed by a sword and facing the leader and lead to freedom when the leader has been shot by Preston.


From Garbage to Living Earth, that insides this movie, Wall-E.
This movie and the robot also mean Waster Allocation Load Lifter, Earth Class. This robot’s job is to clean some scrapes on earth and creates brick from these trash. Though this movie was started when Earth was turned into wasteland and only robots like Wall-E are present here. Collecting scraps segregate materials to be needed including TV and others.
The objective of this movie is to find the life forms located on earth and bring it to the space in order to return the space cruise ship to the earth. But after the launch of this space cruise, many people have died and the remaining there are robots which cause the earth to be polluted, and turns a city into a wasteland surrounded trash around the city. When Wall-E collected these life forms, it was placed in an old shoe but suddenly, a spaceship come and there is a robot named Eve (pronounced Eva) whose mission is the same as Wall-E did which creates harmonious relationship to them.
When Wall-E enters the cruise ship, the people and the robots inside found to be contained contaminant when detected. The people also started this cruise as normal humans, after years of stay in this ship, they turned to be fat. Everything is provided inside this ship even schoolchildren also get fat.
The climax of the story is the control robot commanded this control center and ended up into a almost deadly scenario when Eve commanded to get the life forms which it was fall from Wall-E. The obese people, who relying on lying on their beds, have the stand and help them get the life forms and Eve finally passes this form into a chamber leading to their return to earth only that Wall-E got destroyed and Eve fixed it resulting in a stronger relationship in two robots. And the people who arrived from earth now have a new life.

• Both two movies have the same goal: Save More People from Danger.
  
• The environment is different. In the movie, Equilibrium, it shows the modern Nazi-like environment in which the resistance is not welcome there. People are lived in hatred and numbness. Wall-E, in the other hand, shows the two environment: the Earth turned wasteland and the ship full of fat people.
  
• The morality too is different: The former involves violence, death, hatred and disrespect. Though the technologies also involves speed and accuracy. The latter one is more on environment, lifestyle, cooperation and luxury. Both involves discipline and law too. Though the scenes of both movie and the attitude inside was also happened in real world and even in the World News nowadays.
  
• Both movies have different but a successful ending. The former ones lead to freedom from these place when the dictator was shot and the resistance retaliates in order to achieve it. The other one is the people have the stand and arrived safety to the earth to rebuild what it is called wasteland.
  
• Both movies involves the use of TECHNOLOGY to solve problems but also endangers people and compromise for the environment which it is the price for this abuse.

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Watch at least two of the following movies:


• Make a comprehensive reaction paper for the two movies in no less than 300 words each.
• Make a comparative analysis of the two movies you chosen.


My chosen Movies:
Wall e
9


One of the movie that I have watched is Wall-E .Wall E is a animated movie that talks about a robot that help people to realize that they the worth of earth and they should take all work in computerized way.
This movie makes me fascinated since it is a animated and the story is amazing. It is all about a robot named Wall-e, who is a designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth. The Earth for that days is just intend to be a trash can of all defective metals and wall-e is there to clean . Wall –e Found out a plant and bring it at home .As people found out that the earth produce plant ,they design Eve to examine ,where does it that planted. As Wall-e found out Eve in the earth, he had fallen in love right away. As Eve brings the plant to ships where people are living, wall-e follows her. In that he found out how people depend on a new technology. They don’t know how to stand, work and even eat using their hands.
With those memory that Eve has realizes humanity must return to restore their home. The captain wants the plant to die but Wall-e protected it. Since Wall-e is a defective robots, it is hard for him to do task for the best of the community. People that time doesn’t know how beautiful is the earth but then when eve and Wall-e put the plant into the holo-detector to activate the ship's hyper jump back to Earth. People realize how beautiful does the earth and how much the value of plant in living.
After that Wall-e’s is repair but memory had gone but then, Wall-e and Eve live happily and join people and robots in building up again the earth.

The next movie that Ive seen is Nine ,this movie is all a animated movie that talk about saving the earth, the movie entitled 9.

9 is a 2009 American computer-animated science fantasy film. It is about a 9 rug dolls that invented to restore the life in earth. These dolls were design to fight such Fabrication Machine which turned on mankind and used its machines to wipe out all organic life with toxic gas. One of these dolls is named as 9. He was awakening alone in a place but then he is found by the other 8 rug dolls. There story is evolve on war with fabrication machine that the earth is became lifeless. They had fought them and many lives of dolls were gone but then 9 found the way to destroy their enemies. He went back to the place where he awakens. In that place he found a video telling the tactics to destroy those machines. After that they bring out the life of earth.


Comparison:
The two movies are really a futuristic movie, really fascinating to watch since people made this movie is really good .They use a high tech equipment to produce the quality that the viewer be captivate. Both movies shown that how important of the earth. Because of that it can be live by the people and by the robots. It tells that people should not relay their future on robots only but instead, they should do it by their own.

REACTION

Wall E


9

Surrogates

Surrogates is a fictional movie about robots and human interaction. It is played by Bruce Willis as the main actor of the movie. To give an overview about the movie; the robots replaced the real man. They are controlled by human being through the use of a device that commands the machine to do the things usually human does like partying, working, guarding, cooking and etc. The robots are called surrogates. The movie is emphasizing about synthesizing humanity. The technological advancement showed in the film is very amazing. The modified human hides the disability of a man through making a mere representation of a perfect person he wants to be. The movie shows how a man gains confidence by making himself as perfect as what the world perceives a perfect being, which is not a good thing because it’s living on the shadow of somebody else. It is one of the negative effects of having a world that is so empowered with technology – being too relying on its work thus human tends to forget his true self.

The surrogates’ faces were made perfectly flawless and beautiful which makes the woman’s beauty surreal and is more likely a living puppet – emotionless and pale. The true beauty of a woman is not solely shown on a flawless skin or perfect facial features instead it could be found also on her personality and even simple acts like smiling.

On the contrary, though living like a surrogate is living in lies, when there would come a time that there would be war, the surrogates would replace man’s role on the battlefield. No more lives will go to waste. When a surrogate would be destroyed during the war, it will be replaced there and then.

Understanding man’s obsession of perfectness becomes the reason of his weakness. The surrogate makes the body rotten and weakling and it also invalidate the significance of man’s existence and it is as well an act of disobeying the natural law and philosophy of human life. When this event may come to reality, it will make the world dull, emotionless and machine-dependent. People will care no more about self-improvement, social relationship and spiritual devotion because they felt that they had achieves their perception of being perfect. The perfectness and flawlessness which the machines give to the working life cycle blinded the man his true purpose of living and being a living creation. The machine becomes the man’s representation of him which is living in fraud. The man is totally looking to be perfect in all aspects but always forgets that the best thing in life is having shortcomings and overcome them than having none. Life would be boring and not worth living without someone to love, to care and to live with, it is so surreal as if merely manipulated.

The Fifth Element

The Fifth Element is the movie played by Bruce Willis and Mila Jovovich. This movie is about extermination of all life forms in Earth. The Fifth Element is the light or the savior of mankind is a girl who possesses the ultimate power to stop the extermination. The movie involves aliens- the good and the bad one. The movie’s relationship about future technology is somewhat beyond today’s discoveries. Alien’s nowadays is considered fictional because their existence is not yet proven. The special effects in end part is very superficial and beyond the truth. Sorcery powers are not a science based discoveries and teachings.

The mechanical machineries and high technology advancements supported in the movie is very good, I like the life reviving machine system the most. The reviving machine would be an amazing discovery if it is really exist. All lives can be restored as long as there’s a lived piece of living cell of your remains. The machine rapidly restructuring perfectly the bones, then body cells and body tissues, and make the organs and muscles, and the most breath-taking is restoring the life. Life restoring is like modern God way process of making man. This life reviving phenomenon is a mere fiction and impossible. Machines cannot regenerate cells through one’s remains. If this would happen in reality, man’s life never ending life or immortality is achieved at last (just if ever). If this will be proven it will destroy the natural world balance and all living forms will become an experimental avenue of man’s greatest discovery. When equilibrium is lost catastrophe will prevail. Significance of one’s life will be no more.

Another mind-boggling technology featured in the movie is the flying car. The sky becomes the super highways of the world. While it is really wonderful of having a flying car, well I know it is near possible because of the air vehicle concept.

All these things is created because of man’s ultimate ambition of having a never-ending life that is impossible because the life that is lost will cannot be restored nor created.


Comparing both movies it simply tells that technological advancement is aiming towards this fictional world. Both movies show the people interest of to having a perfect life and perfect world. People continually search and discovery things to achieve this high tech life which is Impossible for now but we don’t know, this might or not be happened no one can tell.

Fifth Element


These movies made me think of these things:
- that all forms of life are important than time, triumph, wealth, and anything else;
- that innovation is best only when it protects life and not the reverse;
- that oftentimes human are fools that they create things and then destroy them;
and,
- that I am blessed enough with the healthy life I am living now.