Is there nothing new under the sun?

[reanjr]

Here's a theme I would like to see developed well in a contemporary science fiction or horror film -- security/certainty versus freedom. How do we live in a world where things are so uncertain, where the potential for horror is always out there? Granted, this is not a new theme at all. But it certainly seems to be a pressing issue in our current social environment. And I cannot recall any recent sci-fi or horror films that have really addressed it in the same way that, say, Blade Runner addresses the question of what it means to be a human being. Maybe it's still too close to the event that brought this question to the fore (9/11) to make this kind of art.

Most recent I can think of is Enemy of the State. I think X-Files already did the genre enough that we just don't need any more for a while. Speaking of which X-Files 2 is probably going to be a reality fairly soon, so maybe that will sate you. It's sci-fi, horror, and government conspiracy and oppression.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I agree there is not too much new under the sun, there maybe something but it will not apeal to the general public because it would be a concept too alien to grasp.

 

[Darrin Drader]

The ideas that have not yet become a reality are the ones that could be interesting. Nanotech, cybernetics, and space flight are all things that we may have had just the first pioneering efforts, but are not there yet. The Japanese are advancing robotics at an amazing rate. Computers, cloning, and genetic engineering are now realities. A good part of the issue is that the line between science fiction and reality is moving every year and it doesn't look like that will stop any time soon.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Here's a theme I would like to see developed well in a contemporary science fiction or horror film -- security/certainty versus freedom. How do we live in a world where things are so uncertain, where the potential for horror is always out there? Granted, this is not a new theme at all. But it certainly seems to be a pressing issue in our current social environment. And I cannot recall any recent sci-fi or horror films that have really addressed it in the same way that, say, Blade Runner addresses the question of what it means to be a human being. Maybe it's still too close to the event that brought this question to the fore (9/11) to make this kind of art.

Minority Report delt with security and freedom pretty well, and A Scanner Darkly should deal with similar issues as well. Of course, both of these movies and Blade Runner are based on stories by Philip K. Dick, and freedom and security are pretty big themes in his books. Paranoia about freedom in many cases.

 

[Mystery Man]

[font=COMIC SANS MS, ARIAL][font=COMIC SANS MS, ARIAL] Art is dead! There's nothing left to say. Style is exhausted and content is pointless. Art has no purpose. All that's left is commodity marketing.[/font][/font][font=COMIC SANS MS, ARIAL][font=COMIC SANS MS, ARIAL] ~ Calvin
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[Ruined]

sorry for slight derail, but.

and A Scanner Darkly should deal with similar issues as well. Of course, both of these movies and Blade Runner are based on stories by Philip K. Dick...

Are they making a movie of A Scanner Darkly? Need to go check my movie news. I picked this up a few years back and enjoyed it (other than the occasional nosebleeds it caused).

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Contemplate with me, for a moment: what's new in Science Fiction and Fantasy (movies, books, comics)? Is there anything? Or has everything already been done, and all future generations will simply be adjusting the reflections of all that has come before?

What do you want to see but haven't? What do you want someone to address, but no one has? What's the next big thing? The next small one?

Where will our imaginations take us (or is there no where to go that we have not already been)?

It's all pretty much the same question...but what are your answers? I'd like to know.

What hasn't been done?

I cannot say since I have not read everything out there. I have read things that I thought were highly original, until someone else pointed out what probably "inspired" the work.

Of course if I really knew the answer to these questions, I would not be posting it here, I would be writing and copywriting it.

 

[mojo1701]

[font=COMIC SANS MS, ARIAL]Art is dead! [/font]

Are you the Nietzsche of art?

 

[trancejeremy]

Look at Godzilla. There's probably 30 different Godzilla movies. The same basic story gets told over again and again and again and again.

Yet when they kill him off, people miss him. And so they have to bring him back.

 

[devilish]

Isn't there a popular theory that we can't predict what will be
next because of the dum-dum-DUM! Singularity event?

My enworld-fu fails me now, I can't find where I read it but here is where
they discuss that Science fiction is in trouble b/c of the Singularity.