Week 9

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 This week, along side carrying out more genre research, I decided to explore one of my favorite film genres, sci-fi/adventure by watching 5 films in that genre, looking at the story line and identifying and exploring the different themes and images:

  

Movie

Description

Rating

Themes and Images

Ready player one

The protagonist, Wade Watts, is playing a worldwide virtual reality game where the players are attempting to find an Easter egg that the creator left behind in order for the finder to inherit the game. A large organisation opposes him and he joins forces with other gamers to find the egg.

8/10

Reality vs Illusion

Obsession and power

Underdogs

Individuality vs collective power

Inequality

Utopia and dystopia 

Ender’s game

Ender Wiggin, a brilliant young strategist, is recruited by the International Military to lead the force defending Earth from a genocidal alien race bent on annihilating humankind.

8/10

Love and empathy 

Virtual reality

Survival

Leadership

The 5th wave

Cassie Sullivan is forced into the wilderness when aliens called ‘the others’, who are disguised as humans, and cause different waves. As she searches for her brother, she meets one of the aliens and works with him to find her brother before escaping with other children..

6/10

Manipulation

Warfare 

Identity 

Perseverance

Change

Mortality

Alita

Alita is a cyborg who was rebuilt with no memory and unique and deadly fighting abilities. She has to navigate her new life with the doctor who built her constantly shielding her and a new friend who tries to trigger her memories and begins to understand her past.

7/10

Desire and how that breeds evil

Death

Liberty

Rebellion

Violence

Battle

X-men: First class

Looks at the past of Charles Xavier and Erik Lensher along with their opposing ideologies surrounding humans. A group of mutants are assembled to defeat Shaw, a power hungry mutant who wants to start a nuclear war.

9/10

 Power and tyranny
Moral beliefs
past and memory
Collective power
Misfits

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