Films that attack your fears affect the beliefs and motives of the audience.
A brief summary of your topic, and texts covered:
I will be looking at sci-fi/apocolyptic films that are designed around the idea of the end of the world. These films usually contain some sort of enviromental disaster that brings about the end of the world, or some sort of Alien invasion. With the knowledge that the texts have to be contempary the following films are films that I could possible study:
- The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
- Children of Men (2006)
- I Am Legend (2007)
- War Of The Worlds (2005)
- I-Robot (2004)
- Constantine (2005)
- Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)/Resident Evil (2002)/Resident Evil: Apocolypse (2005)
- Dawn Of The Dead (2004)
- 28 Weeks Laer (2007)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) is an apocolyptic science-fiction film that depicts the effects of global warming.
Children Of Men (2006) is a dystopian (a creation of a nightmare world) sci-fi film, the film is set in the future(2027) of the united kingdom the film explores a grim world in which two decades of global human infertilty have left humanity with less than a century to survive.
I am Legend (2007) is a post-apocolyptic sci-fi film, It is the third feature film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 'I am Legend'. Will Smith plays virologist Robert Neville, who is immune to a vicious man-made virus originally created to cure cancer. He works to create a cure while living in Manhattan in 2012, a city inhabited by animalistic victims of the virus.
War Of the Worlds (2005) is a sci-fi disaster film, It is one of four film adaptions of the novel. The film focuses on the attack of America by Aliens.
Theories:
- Reception theory
