Last meeting, we watched a documentary about time travel. I actually found the video amazing and interesting because scientists, people who base their beliefs on actual results and experiments, believe that time travel is possible. They believe that this phenomenon would be possible if they will be able to bend space-time using energy or gravity.
However, what intrigues me are the possible reasons people would want to travel back in time. Why would someone want to go back in time? To alter big events in history? To prevent the world wars that happened? To stop dictators from killing millions of people? Or maybe small reasons such as going back in time to perfect an exam? But don't these people know that whatever they change in the past, will alter the present.
For me, we should first think of the possible consequences of time travel before we continue this technology. Is it really necessary for man to be able to control time? Or is it a sign that humans nowadays crave for power that is suppose to be beyond their reach? In my opinion, time travel is not really important because it removes the thrill in our life. We live to experience the uncertainties of life. Why wake-up every morning if you already know what will happen to you on that day? Why walk if you already know where you're going? Why live if you already know life?
Marco Paulo P. Ragaza
2013-59623
STS THX
Monday, January 27, 2014
Cancer Combat
Cancer Combat
Are you really ‘battling’ with cancer? This is the question which lead to an investigation by Andrew Graystone. He discussed his findings and interviews in a BBC podcast entitled ‘The Rhetoric of Cancer’. This was about the language used in dealing with cancer. Metaphors such as ‘battle’, ‘brave’, ‘losing the fight’ and other words and phrases were what they (the reporter and him) discussed and reflected upon.
As I was listening to the audio file, I was in awe of how media can cause a lot of distortions in referring to the actual happenings of cancer patients. It was said in one of his interviews that because of advertisements and the language used to describe cancer, the one who has it thinks of it as an enemy.
Truly, it was a great listening experience for me as my view of cancer changed drastically. I always thought of cancer as a bad thing but Grayston (who is dealing with cancer) helped me realized how life-long struggles benefit those who have them. He also made me realize that we, as people, should live alongside every struggle that faces us, whether it be cancer or sickness or any problem.
However, what struck me the most was the Christian theologian at the end of the podcast. This interview made me jump off my seat and listen carefully. She was talking about angels and demons and how Revelations always emphasize the word battle in relation to these supernatural beings. She goes on to say that grief and death are parts of the journey of every human being. Having cancer was and is a dreadful experience but patients must learn to live with it and embrace it as their sister or brother, for these are parts of their journey. I definitely agree with that for I believe that every struggle or problem we face is either a result of consequence or a trial of our previous actions.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Futurama: Space Pilot 3000 | A World of Tomorrow
Future makes
everyone wonder. What would the world look like 1000 years from now?
Would life be easier? Would there be aliens living with the people?
Would uninhabitable planets be inhabitable? Or, on a serious note,
would humans still exist by then?
Futurama basically
tells the story of Philip Fry, a delivery boy, and his incidental
trip to the future. A series of unfortunate events leads him to a
cryogenics lab, where he falls into an open cryogenics tube and
become frozen. A thousand years later, he’s defrosted. Cryogenics
has been similarly used by several films to initiate travelling to
the future. It involves subjecting a body to extremely low
temperatures to somehow preserve it. At present, it is chiefly used
for medical purposes. It hasn’t yet been proved that it can
maintain a body in its original state over a long period of time.
Space Pilot 3000,
Futurama’s pilot episode, shows a feasible scenario of earth in the
future. Hovering cars serve as primary means of transportation.
Robots become workers for the humans. Odd creatures (e.g. cyclops)
live together with the people. Head preservations of notable people
rest in the museum. Ultra high-tech gadgets and facilities aid the
people’s lives. All of these help in the advancement of the way of
living. However, a suicide booth has been introduced which poses a
critical question on future’s morality.
It’s really not
bad to think about the future, just don’t overthink.
2013-45570
Jennylyn S. Cancejo
Trip to the Moon | Le Voyage dans la Lune
Filmed in 1902 when
space exploration was still just a concept in everyone’s mind, A
Trip to the Moon exemplifies man’s creative imagination. It
captures the idea of the existence of extra-terrestrial life and the
possibility of humans living outside the earth’s bounds.
The first few
minutes of the silent film discombobulated me. I didn’t know what
the men were talking about in the first place. It was just until when
a man drew a moon on the blackboard that I finally started to pay
attention. The film, overall, is quite eccentric and ridiculous;
however, one must take into consideration the year when it was made,
more than a century ago.
If I were one of
the people who watched the first screening of this film, I would have
left the movie house in awe. The film would really make me believe
that there are aliens living in our moon. I would also end up
dreaming of becoming an astronaut someday. The ideas in the film seem
to be silly but seeing it the first time it was shown would make it
surreal.
2013-45570
Jennylyn S. Cancejo
All The Time | Solitude and Loneliness
Devastating, the first word I
uttered after watching the film.
All The Time is about "the story
of a man who seeks salvation in the rubble of a ruined world."
Henry Bemis, an anti-social booklover, finds himself in the middle of
nowhere after an H-bomb from the nuclear war wiped out everyone,
except him, that exists. At first, he’s elated in the solitude that
he has gained; however, eventually, loneliness replaces this
solitude. He comes to a point of committing suicide. As he prepares
the gun he has found, he sees the ruins of a public library. This
gives him a reason to continue his existence. He has all the time in
the world to spend in this paradise of his. But then again, all good
things must come to an end. As he’s about to get the first book
he’s going to read, his glasses slipped off and shattered on the
ground.
If I were to make an adaptation of the
story, I would shift it to our situation nowadays. There are a lot of
people addicted to computer games which cause them to shut themselves
from the real world. I would want the main character to be male dota
addict. A bit of romance could be added so as to make the man succumb
to extreme sorrow after all his loved ones die. He would suffer the
same fate as Henry; he would think he found his heaven on earth, but
he’d be mistaken.
2013-45570
Jennylyn S. Cancejo
To
write an adaption of Twilight Zone’s Time Enough at Last to our technology-dependent
world would require one great change – computers instead of books. The plot
would then be altered to the modern setting. All the people in every nation
bury their nose in those tablets, phones, laptops and desktops.
Henry
Bernis say, happens to be a teenage computer games addict instead of a
middle-aged bookworm. His rich parents scold him for being such a scumbag and
a-good-for-nothing lad but he pretends to always hear nothing. They often tell
him to get a life. He wishes to never hear those sermons again and be left
alone with his games and tablet.
He dozes
off in one of his underground vault-like playrooms after spending the night to upgrade
his level in his most prized game. All the while, nuclear bombs are released
and wipe the land surface clean. He awakes with the sound of the great impacts.
The tremors stop. He brings his tablet and checks what is happening above. Finding
that their mansion has succumbed to the nuclear devastation, he searched their
other underground rooms and all the while his only companion is the light from
his tablet.
Unfortunately,
the tablet signals a warning that its battery is running low. Bernis thinks of
putting an end to his life without anyone and anything left he loves. But wait,
in the corner of their underground garage, he found his father’s solar-powered
car equipped with all the latest gadgets and technology. He gleefully drives it out the garage and
plugs his tablet in one of the car’s outlet on the front bumper. He sets out to
fetch his external hard disks he left on the playroom, taking his time to
choose what games he will play first and what will be next.
On his
way back to the car, it starts to rain and though his tablet is waterproof he
raced to its location. Just as he is few meters away from the car, lightning
strikes the car and send his tablet flying. He searches for it but upon finding it, it is
just a useless piece of metal with a dark screen.
He
cries like a scared little boy and wonder out loud how life can be so unfair -
as it is and always will be.
Soliman,Karla L.
2013-09067
THX
2013-09067
THX
Remake: All the Time in the World A Revision of the November 20, 1959 Twilight Zone Episode in a Modern Context of a Blog
Remake: All the Time in the World
A Revision of the November 20, 1959 Twilight Zone Episode
in a Modern Context of a Blog
“Be careful what you wish for ‘cause you just might get it” I should’ve pondered upon this quote before everything happened… before my family died, before I was fired and before I wished that I could have time for myself to do my yoga, cause if I did… I wouldn’t get stuck on this island with this low-batt laptop. I just wanted my life to be peaceful and orderly! What’s wrong with that? I just wanted everything to be quiet so that I can do yoga. No cellphones so that I won’t be bothered by calls, no laptops so that I won’t be distracted by all the work I have to do, no cars so that there won’t be any wooshing noise every time I want to do it at the balcony, no gadgets! Exactly! NO GADGETS! I just wanted a life with no gadgets! but I guess I didn’t wish for it to be temporary, that’s why my imaginary fairy of wishes took it away permanently. Now I’m left with all this regret. Why didn’t I join my family for the plane trip to Hawaii instead of attending the yoga convention? Why didn’t I set the alarm as I was doing yoga during the day of the meeting with those stupid investors? Why did I jump off that unnoticed sinking tow ship and swam all the way here cause I love the scenery and wanted to do my yoga? Why DO I love yoga? Yet yoga’s my life! I can’t do anything without yoga in the morning, afternoon and evening. It gives me strength. It enlightens me. But... but… what is life without people? without family? friends? What is life without love? As I’m blogging this, tears are running down my soiled cheeks as I’m looking at the swiss knife beside me. I want a life with love, a life worth living for. I can’t say that I don’t care what happens then ‘cause right now… I’m alone… in this island with a low-batt la
This is the recovered blog that was written by Kelly Fortunato, a blogger of yoga in Mexico, before she was found dead in the island of Clipperton by a marine biologist on January 7, 2012. It was possibly written around 5:30 in the evening as this was stored in the laptop’s memory. As her body was being scanned for autopsy, it was determined that she died because of an attack of an unknown beast during a mentally-calm state. It was assumed that after her laptop got discharged, she pursued doing yoga because of the scenery of the sunset and was attacked in the evening.
A Trip to the Moon: A Trip to Reality in 1900s
A Trip to the Moon: A Trip to Reality in 1900s
Amazing is an understatement for a film like Trip to the Moon by Jules Vernes! It was ravishly executed with effects that are non-existent to the human mind. The pioneer director Méliès had proven once again that his tricks and illusions play an important role in film-making. Magical tactics such as aliens that are disappearing, a rocket on the moon’s eye (as shown in the picture on the left), and a dozen wizards moving into a perceivingly small rocket ship, were what they used to fully entertain a movie theater packed with hundreds of people.
Kudos to the veteran writer Jules Vernes for creating the storyline of this masterpiece, for the book was quite distinct in its content. Thus, the young director Georges Méliès executed the content in a successful and innovative way. By using music to exhibit the nature of the whimsical film, it highlighted major parts of its content. The musical score added to the effect of humor and craziness it wants to depict as shown in some scenes where the wizards literally slept on the moon, and when they battled the Selenites. However, there were some occasions when the music was not in sync with the scenes, nevertheless it was still a magnificent work of art.
If I were to be a famous movie critic or an ordinary lady in the 1900s, the aforementioned paragraphs would have been my opinion of this piece. Without the knowledge of modern technology and science, I would have marvelled at the works of the then famous Georges Méliès, for it was, in that era, a breakthrough in the world of movie theaters. Now that I think about it, I realized that without these simple-looking films of black and white or technicolor, we would have not experienced the deeper, logical, and technical aspects of technology in this era. Without their primary hard work of innovation, especially that of Méliès, we would have never achieved the modern films with special effects and CGI.
All the Time
Time enough at last generally is about a bookish little man, Mr. Henry Bemis, whose passion is reading printed pages. His wife and boss were both complaining since he was spending more time and attention in reading than those more important stuffs he should be working through. One usual day, he had a chance to read in the bank's vault wherein no one would disturb him. Moments after he sees a newspaper headline which talks about a bomb capable of total destruction, an explosion happened which ruined everything. Realizing that the vault saved him from death, eventually he felt depressed for he is the only one left in the world. When Mr. Bermis was about to kill himself, he saw the ruins of the national library and found all the books he wanted. He was so happy that he finally found a reason to stay alive. He piled up the books he's going to read for the rest of his life when his eyeglasses fell on the ground and broke into pieces leaving him blind, surrounded by the books he could never read.
It I would update the story, I would like to make Mr. Henry Bemis Found another pair of eye glasses so that he could continue his passion in life. New hope and happiness in spite of being alone in the world. Simple ending, yet more inspiring for the viewers.
And if I were going to write an adaptation of the story, I would still rely on the same theme, emphasizing a great passion and both general and specific interests.
John Erick D. Penetrante
2013-00847
A Trip to the Moon
A Trip to the Moon- the story is about the adventures of scientists who traveled to the moon. They first used a ship which was sent to the moon by means of a canon shooter. And as they landed to the moon, they came to fight the aliens which are the inhabitants of it. They fight with all their might and won at the end. But when they got back to the Earth, an alien was accidentally brought to our planet and the crowd was shocked to see it.
This movie, for that time, was I guess a good one. They tried to put a twist on a simple black and white film by means of coloring each slide to make it a colored ones. And its good that they put a music to accompany the slides as it play so that the audience will not get bored. Another thing is that, I noticed their idea with the moon. I think its too fictitious for there were aliens inhabiting the moon and having their own civilization. And another one is that, I think its too impossible for them to have a trip to the mean by just only riding on a spaceship which was sent to the moon by means of firing it with a canon. Another is that the characters can breath air while they are in the outer space without the aid of any breathing apparatus.
But in all in all, I still like the wholeness of the body and specially the effects rhe producer had used. Its quite good though. So its a two thumbs up for me! :))))
John Erick D. Penetrante
2013-00847
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
A Trip to the Moon
If I had been present during the first screening of Georges Méliès' film A Trip to the Moon in 1902, I would definitely have been delighted and amazed by the technological innovations of his work. 1902 is only a few decades off from the invention of the camera, and even less time from the invention of the motion picture film. Although Méliès' work seems today a pedestrian, almost laughable example of early film special effects, to an audience during that time period it was the height of inventiveness and skill.
I would have been awed by the use of color in the film, having been used to seeing-- if at all-- daguerrotypes and movies in black and white. Comparatively, I would have found the colors lush and realistic, given that color film hadn't even been considered a possibility at that time. The acting I would have found delightful; never having had the privilege to watch a film with actual sound and dialogue, I would be more used to the exaggerated movements and facial expressions of the silent era. The special effects Méliès used, such as the cutting and pasting together of sequences to make it seem as though a person had disappeared and suddenly reappeared, would have seemed to me the height of movie magic. Even the fanciful depictions of life on the Moon, and of the "alien people" living there, would have been accepted by myself as, if not the absolute, then at least a likely truth.
Given the technological and scientific advancements of that era, Méliès' work was the pinnacle of filmmaking and special effects achievements. Even today, with all of our high-definition films and 1080p resolutions, it is still possible to appreciate the innovations and creativity that Méliès brought to filmmaking. His work is still somewhat timeless, and is delightful even 110 years later.
Luisa Narciso
2011-02507
I would have been awed by the use of color in the film, having been used to seeing-- if at all-- daguerrotypes and movies in black and white. Comparatively, I would have found the colors lush and realistic, given that color film hadn't even been considered a possibility at that time. The acting I would have found delightful; never having had the privilege to watch a film with actual sound and dialogue, I would be more used to the exaggerated movements and facial expressions of the silent era. The special effects Méliès used, such as the cutting and pasting together of sequences to make it seem as though a person had disappeared and suddenly reappeared, would have seemed to me the height of movie magic. Even the fanciful depictions of life on the Moon, and of the "alien people" living there, would have been accepted by myself as, if not the absolute, then at least a likely truth.
Given the technological and scientific advancements of that era, Méliès' work was the pinnacle of filmmaking and special effects achievements. Even today, with all of our high-definition films and 1080p resolutions, it is still possible to appreciate the innovations and creativity that Méliès brought to filmmaking. His work is still somewhat timeless, and is delightful even 110 years later.
Luisa Narciso
2011-02507
Over the Moon
The
theatre was filled to the brim once again, as expected. Hushed whispers can be
heard as the audience waited excitedly for another masterpiece of none other
than the well-known producer, director and actor, Monsieur Georges Méliès. The film started to roll so the mesdames in front of me ceased their animated
conversation to concentrate in the projections. In fact, I felt that the whole
place had suddenly fallen into silence that you may hear a needle drop to the floor.
The
relatively fast projection speed of 12-14 frames per second soon revealed the
title of this new work of art - Voyage dans la Lune,
A Trip to the Moon. The film paved way to an assembly of some sorts though what
enchanted the viewers the most was that the film was strikingly in full color.
Monsieur Méliès surely had outdone himself this time! I could only imagine the
difficulty he and his crew had endured to hand-paint each frame.
The
plot went on with the assembly devising a plan to travel to the moon. Though a
ridiculous idea since it is downright impossible to do so, I fancied the idea
to venture on the beautifully mysterious satellite revolving our world. However,
I changed my mind when the film introduced how dangerous those hostile lunar
inhabitants may be.
Everyone
let out the breath they had been holding back as relief washed through the
faces of the audience when the men have returned to Earth sparingly scathed.
The room burst into joy and cheers as people joined the festive jubilee of the
successful moon travellers in the film. A round of applause and appreciation was
heard throughout the theatre as the film come to its end.
It
was so great that I and the rest of the audience were moved with the plot and
all the reactions of the actors in addition to the brilliant color scheme.
Truly, A Trip to the Moon is Monsieur Georges Méliès’ chef-d’œuvre.
As the audience started to disperse still in awe of what they viewed, it was
evident that we are all over the moon with the film.
At
nights when I observe the sky and the moon in its fullness dominates the
blanket of stars, I imagine a spaceship landing on the moon’s eye and always make
me smile.
Soliman, Karla L.
2013-09067
THX
Time Enough
'All the Time', also released as 'Time Enough At Last', is an episode in the well-known television series The Twilight Zone that depicts the hapless situation of a bibliophile in a world that seemingly isn't made for him. Henry Bemis is a bookish, awkward bank teller whose favorite pasttime-- and indeed, his only pasttime-- is reading. This creates a lot of friction between him and other people in his life, such as his boss or his wife, who don't understand his obsession with the written word, and constantly prevent him from sitting down and finishing a good book. When a nuclear attack leaves him as the only survivor, he is first overcome by despair and loneliness-- that is, until he realizes that he has all the time in the world to read what he couldn't before. However, just as he's sitting down to do it, his glasses fall and shatter, leaving him nearly blind and unable to do the one thing that could have made life as the last man on earth bearable.
Adapting this kind of situation to the modern age would be a little difficult, but not impossible. While certain contexts may change-- for example, the fear of nuclear attack, while not unfounded, is still less prevalent in this day and age-- it is possible for the story of this episode to make the transition into the contemporary era without too much difficulty. If I were charged with the task of adapting this to the present day, I would first of all keep the character of Henry Bemis. Although the traits of introversion and bookishness (translated into nerdiness in the present) are not considered the norm, the wealth of information about them in the present means that they are, if not wholly accepted, then at least tolerated. However, despite this tolerance, the fast-paced, self-centered world of today still makes it difficult for people like this to interact comfortably.
Using that nerdiness as a jumping-off point, I would then transform Henry Bemis from a bookworm into a more contemporaneous comic book geek. He would have first-edition comic book issues in mint condition, and an almost encyclopedic knowledge of all the Marvel universes and DC character reboots. I would still make him a bank teller, as the increased focus of today's world on money and profit and fast exchange would make life for an introverted comic book nerd pretty difficult. He would be prevented from reading his beloved series perhaps by the need to sell his collection, due to the economic downturn. The nuclear attack, while still feasible, is not nearly as frightening as, say, a contagious disease caused by the mutation of bacteria in the meat supply. Henry Bemis, who given his obsession with comic books would have already read material on the apocalypse several times over, would grow more afraid not because of the sudden loss of people, but because of the slowly escalating extinction of humankind. This would create a dangerous environment for him: a quiet, unconfrotational person, would now be faced with the stragglers of his species and the collapse of society.
Finally, as the last man on earth, he would eventually have the opportunity to go through now-abandoned comic book stores and try to replenish his collection. He could spend years searching for those lost issues, thinking himself to be the only person immune to the disease. And as he finds the last issue he needs, he would eventually discover that the disease had simply been incubating all that time, and that despite finally achieving his wish of a complete collection, he was already slowly dying.
Luisa Narciso
2011-02507
Adapting this kind of situation to the modern age would be a little difficult, but not impossible. While certain contexts may change-- for example, the fear of nuclear attack, while not unfounded, is still less prevalent in this day and age-- it is possible for the story of this episode to make the transition into the contemporary era without too much difficulty. If I were charged with the task of adapting this to the present day, I would first of all keep the character of Henry Bemis. Although the traits of introversion and bookishness (translated into nerdiness in the present) are not considered the norm, the wealth of information about them in the present means that they are, if not wholly accepted, then at least tolerated. However, despite this tolerance, the fast-paced, self-centered world of today still makes it difficult for people like this to interact comfortably.
Using that nerdiness as a jumping-off point, I would then transform Henry Bemis from a bookworm into a more contemporaneous comic book geek. He would have first-edition comic book issues in mint condition, and an almost encyclopedic knowledge of all the Marvel universes and DC character reboots. I would still make him a bank teller, as the increased focus of today's world on money and profit and fast exchange would make life for an introverted comic book nerd pretty difficult. He would be prevented from reading his beloved series perhaps by the need to sell his collection, due to the economic downturn. The nuclear attack, while still feasible, is not nearly as frightening as, say, a contagious disease caused by the mutation of bacteria in the meat supply. Henry Bemis, who given his obsession with comic books would have already read material on the apocalypse several times over, would grow more afraid not because of the sudden loss of people, but because of the slowly escalating extinction of humankind. This would create a dangerous environment for him: a quiet, unconfrotational person, would now be faced with the stragglers of his species and the collapse of society.
Finally, as the last man on earth, he would eventually have the opportunity to go through now-abandoned comic book stores and try to replenish his collection. He could spend years searching for those lost issues, thinking himself to be the only person immune to the disease. And as he finds the last issue he needs, he would eventually discover that the disease had simply been incubating all that time, and that despite finally achieving his wish of a complete collection, he was already slowly dying.
Luisa Narciso
2011-02507
All The Time (...to play)
If I am going to make a modern adaptation of All the Time in the World, I am going to make the main character a teenager, a teenager who loves playing video games. However, everyone around him, especially his family wants him to stop playing because they want their son be sociable and more physically active. Until one day, instead of going out with his family on a Saturday night, he stays at home and continues to play with his consoles. Then suddenly, he finds out that everyone in his community vanished because of reason that he really did not want to know. The teenager is so happy that he can already play all games anytime, anywhere. However, something awful happened. There was a total blackout.
I decided to use these elements for the modern adaptation because of multiple reasons. One of these is that people nowadays use technology not just for research but also for entertainment, and most people see this as something negative. A lot of people will agree that playing game consoles is "dangerous to your health". That is why I put the negative reputation of video games in my story. Another theme that I included is the idea that technology, no matter how powerful, also has its limitations. In my adaptation, this technology is the electricity. We just don't realize it, but nowadays, electricity is our source of life. Without it, everything will shut down.
What will happen to a teenager if there is no electricity? To be continued...
Marco Ragaza
2013-59623
THX
I decided to use these elements for the modern adaptation because of multiple reasons. One of these is that people nowadays use technology not just for research but also for entertainment, and most people see this as something negative. A lot of people will agree that playing game consoles is "dangerous to your health". That is why I put the negative reputation of video games in my story. Another theme that I included is the idea that technology, no matter how powerful, also has its limitations. In my adaptation, this technology is the electricity. We just don't realize it, but nowadays, electricity is our source of life. Without it, everything will shut down.
What will happen to a teenager if there is no electricity? To be continued...
Marco Ragaza
2013-59623
THX
All
the Time
All the Time, a film depicting the story
of a bibliophile, was a actually a typical movie picture showing the
possibility of getting the thing you truly want in exchange for communication
or even interaction with other people. In this case, the protagonist want is to
have a lot of books that he could read all day long. However, the down side of
this is that he was the only person left in the place.
Considering
science, technology, and the type of society in that age, I would say that the
film is almost reflective of what was happening in those days. The only thing
that seems to be not in its appropriate place is the type of vault that saved
the man from the bombs.
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Al Francis Masallo
Class THX
Trip to the Moon
If I was already alive and present during the first screening of this film, I would actually be impressed and surprised. Nowadays, everything you see in the cinemas and televisions are high definition. A film is great as long as it has realistic effects and good quality for video and sound. However, during their time, videos were not yet discovered. Therefore, if I was there during the first screening of this low-tech film, I will already be impressed because it would be the first time that I am going to see moving pictures of real people. At the same time, I will also think that this film is already "high class" because it's colored and it contains effects such as colored smoke.
If I was already alive and present during the first screening of this film, I will be very proud of us humans because of what we've achieved. This film is not just a film about people reaching the moon. This is a film about people creating their first step towards advancement.
Marco Paulo P. Ragaza
2013-59623
If I was already alive and present during the first screening of this film, I will be very proud of us humans because of what we've achieved. This film is not just a film about people reaching the moon. This is a film about people creating their first step towards advancement.
Marco Paulo P. Ragaza
2013-59623
Trip to the Moon
On the assumption that I know little about space, I would
probably find the film generally interesting and captivating. It showed
numerous observations, although different from what science tells us today,
worth exploring such as the possibility of going to space without the help of
space suit that protects us from radiation, and walking normally on the surface
of Moon. In addition to that, the film implicitly showed that humans can go
outside the earth without the need for oxygen tanks. This gives me an idea that
the outer space, just like the earth, is abundant in Oxygen and that it is,
therefore habitable. My conclusion that space is habitable is strengthened by
the illustration of the director that lunar species do exist.
Although
some of the things that happened in the film contradict the ideas we know today,
the film actually created notable scenes such as the appearance of Big Dipper,
comets, and even the ringed-planet Saturn. These beautiful yet not absolutely
identified things in the film encourage me to inquire more on my surroundings. As
a regular viewer who might know little yet sufficient information about space,
I could say that even if the plot is a little bit comical, it is still a good film
showing the potential of humans in unravelling the properties of universe –
which is what science is generally about. Indeed, Trip to the Moon is a good film because it was able to reflect the
beliefs of people that time regarding life beyond Earth.
Al Francis Masallo
Class THX
Future Venture
“Welcome
to the world of tomorrow!”
Indeed,
Matt Groening’s and David Cohen’s Futurama
has succeeded in presenting what future our scientific and technological advances
will lead us while placing emphasis on how science and technology affects the
society in its pilot episode, Space Pilot
3000.
In reference
with time travelling, Futurama featured in this episode the passing of time as
the main character, Philip Fry, a delivery boy accidentally fall into an open
cryonic tube only to be defrosted a thousand years later, into a highly technologically-advanced
future.
At
first, Fry was delighted that in this future for he would have a second chance
for a better life and have a career far respectable than a delivery boy.
However, to his horror, this short-lived dream was crushed with a computer
program assigning him as still a delivery boy. He reasoned that having the
intellect and freedom to choose sets people apart from others so he would not
accept his assigned career and fled.
Great futuristic
advances were also shown such as automatic doors, flying cars, transportation
tubes activated via voice orders, head preservations, lightsabers, spaceships, independent
interactive robots, and interaction with alien life forms. They are all very
useful and help in the progress and betterment of the society.
Perhaps,
the only negative advancement presented in this episode is the suicide booth
since advances were made to make life easier and more comfortable, and not to
be accessed to bring harm to people especially to oneself. Advantages and
disadvantages of inventions and formulas must be thought thoroughly before
introduced to the people.
Lastly,
I think Futurama reminds us that happiness and fulfilment cannot be satisfied
with all the advance technology and dreams of higher social status, but of
contentment alone.
Soliman, Karla L.
2013-09067
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A Trip to the Moon in the 1900s
A Trip to the Moon, a silent film in
1902 about a group of people traveling to the moon using a spaceship
that was blasted to the moon by a cannon. When I watched it, at first
I was like “huh? What's happening?” Then as the story goes on I
understood the connection of the title and the film. The film
conveyed the writer's curiosity about the moon. He wanted to travel
to the moon to know what it is like and/or what is in there.
The film is very entertaining for me as
a 21st century student, it was humorous and the characters
were like crazy people. But for someone living in the 1900s, it's a
show that awakened people's curiosity and mind. It became people's
inspiration to go and explore the moon which already happened in 1969
with Neil Armstrong and the Apollo11. The film, A Trip to the Moon,
is a way to open people's minds to new ideas and imaginations which
were thought to be impossible but then achievable.
Flores, Frances Marie
2013-49177
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
"Got nothing but Time"
How to spend time when we have all the time in the world except that we had lost everything, and got nothing but ourselves in a middle of nothingness?
Well I've been asking that to myself a few more times now after seeing "Twilight Zone: All the Time". At first, I thought that it will turn out just like one of those ordinary movies, having a nagging wife and all. But as the movie goes on, i became more confused and curious as to why the wife doesn't allow her husband, the protagonist, to read books. Then the bomb incident happened, leaving no one but the protagonist. He then found a library, piled and sorted books scheduling what to read on what month. But then his eyeglass got broken preventing him to read anything, leaving him lonely and heart broken.
The story is good, though if i were to make some changes or have my own version of it. Well first, considering the period we are in now, i believe no one can survive the bombs of today but for the sake of a having a story, let's say this one lucky guy was able to survive because of his weird fondness of reading books in which he happened to privately read in the most safest place in the world. Though, before anything had happened, unlike in the original, the first part should have a clear presentation as to why the guy is so fond of reading books, like showing some clips of a childhood him who was prohibited by his parents to read, resulting for him to go in this one place that in the present he will use to read privately because history repeats itself through her wife's disapproval of him reading books. Then a bombing event happened, leaving him the sole survivor. Then i just want the ending of the original story to be retained, though i prefer happy endings but the original ending gave a lot of impact to me so I'll just leave it like that, giving the audience the question of their lives.
Jessa Ann F. Belderol
2013-26908
Reaction Paper on Trip to the Moon
(backtracking... sometime in 1900s)
First screening, yes, here I am!
The film "Trip to the Moon" is a work of an art.
Indeed, a very unique way of presenting such films adding also its unique topic. A one of a kind film, I
haven't seen for many years. It caught the attention of many individuals
especially the story itself. It had been a major step to actually open the eyes
of the people of the possibility of life on moon or just to navigate and land
foot on it. Silly as how events happened in the film, we can't deny it's a
first of many modernized technology we currently have.
Though, (fast forward.. sometime in 2014)
it's
incomparable of today's advanced technology, still the film is an eye opener to
all that we can make something thus arriving to what we currently have now
because of pursuing the best of the best of something. Though at first I got really confused as to what they're actually doing adding the fact that it's pure music, no dialogues involved. But I think, these weaknesses are of utmost important in arriving such spectacular films of today.
Jessa Ann F. Belderol
2013-26908
All the Time
This film
made me feel frustrated. Reading has always been my favorite hobby and people
around me lecture me about it too as if it is a crime. His situation is worse
though because his wife messes with his books. When he is the only man left
alive, he finds that he has all the time to read every book in the public
library. I knew then that there will definitely be a catch here. Unfortunately
for him, I was right. If only he had been more careful, he would have been
happier for a longer time.
If I were
to make an adaptation of the movie, I would tone the events down a little to
make it somehow more plausible. It would be about an eighteen year old student
named Nika who loves writing. Her parents wanted her to be an overachiever that
they were against the idea of her writing since it might affect her studies.
Nika is very understanding about it because she is an only child and her family
is not really well-off but there are times when she needs a break from all the
pressure that her parents are giving her. It is at those times that she writes
because this is how she escapes the real world, where she is in control of her
own time. Nika strived to get in a university far from home to be able to live
in a dormitory and write anytime without feeling fear from getting caught. She
enjoyed her life in the dormitory and was able to make short stories. She even
started making her own little novel to bring home to her parents to try to
change their minds about her passion. On one particular night, she was supposed
to go home for the weekend but decided to postpone it since her novel is not
finished yet. Imagine her surprise when she comes home the day after to find
her whole house in ashes. As it turns out, her parents were up all night waiting
for her. A lit candle left unguarded unfortunately burned her whole house down
with her parents who were totally unaware because they were deep in sleep. She
is left with regrets. Even though she is now in charge of her own time, she
realizes that she will have to work for herself from then on. It seems like
there is even lesser time for writing than before.
BALIGNASA, Catherine S.
2013-19732
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Le Voyage dans la Lune
A Trip to
the Moon a.k.a. Le Voyage dans la Lune was certainly an entertaining film, even
for someone like me who is watching it in the modern period. At first, there
was a lot of confusion for me and it got me a bit troubled since I could not
follow what the story was all about. I did not understand what those men were
doing until someone pointed the man beside the blackboard who was making a
drawing of a moon and spaceship for me. The planning scene felt too long for me.
There were silly scenes in between, some funny and some weird. Finally, the
scene that piqued my interest was the actual "going to the moon"
part. Seeing that bullet-shaped spaceship landing on the moon made me remember
the film Hugo as well, adding to my interest in the movie.
If I were one
of the audience on the first screening of the film, I would be amazed at the
very idea that someone in that certain time had thoughts of actually going to
the moon. It may even had me excited, waiting patiently for new ideas regarding
travels to the moon. Having those weird costumes, backdrops that looked like it
was painted hastily, strange set preparations, and some unique props may even
look amazing and beautiful for me at that time. To the modern viewers, the film
may be purely for entertainment but maybe in 1902, it inspired most of its
audience and helped them aim higher.
BALIGNASA, Catherine S.2013-19732
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Monday, January 13, 2014
Futurama: Space Pilot 3000
Future.
Something we can change, a time so flexible and dependent that
whatever our choice in life is would affect what would happen to it.
It is something that we see as advanced and full of high-tech gadgets
and things such as flying cars (or hovering cars) and time capsules.
As of our time today, it is not yet made possible, but with the show
Futurama it is possible and has already happened.
Futurama is a cartoon show that portrayed science and technology as a
use for the advancement of the technologies, gadgets and way of life.
The show also portrays that because of science and technology we can
already communicate with aliens and other creatures. They also made
robots, something that people are in the process of doing right now
for the betterment of our future lives.
The
show's first episode entitled Space Pilot 3000 started in December
31st 1999 with the delivery boy Fry, the main male
character, delivering a pizza to a lab only to find out that it was
a prank call then accidentally getting inside a time capsule and
travel to the future a thousand years later on the same day and month
but year 2999. Time travel is a way for us to travel time in a very
short period of time using a time capsule, a capsule shaped machine
big enough for any person to fit. Futurama showed how the time
capsule can and will be used in the future. It also shows that in the
future, we are going to be very advanced in technologies and that we
can already time travel to any time we want, be it in the past or
future.
Futurama
tells us that becoming advanced in technologies and other aspects can
be possible and that it will not stay as an imagination or dream.
Science also plays a big role in our future. It is the reason that we
can make technologies and make them better than before.
Frances Marie G. Flores
2013-49177
Frances Marie G. Flores
2013-49177
Reaction Paper: Futurama
In the pilot episode of Futurama, Space of Pilot 3000, shows how Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy, accidentally fell in the cryogenic tube which made him frozen and was set to defrost after 1000 years. He wakes up in New New York City on December 31, 2999. He realizes that he is already in the future after he saw flying cars. He also befriended aliens, a cyclops and a suicidal robot to be exact. He also meets his nephew Professor Famworth, who created an intergalactic spaceship which helped the three of them to evade the policemen.
He witnessed the vast improvement of the technology from his time to that of the year 2999, where different life forms came to inhabit the earth. With the flying cars, microchips which will determine the career a person may have, an intergalactic spaceship, other lifeforms from another planet inhabiting on Earth, head museum which holds tubes with alive heads and a machine which can easily determine whether the two persons came from the same family, we are able to foresee the possible technology of the future.
He was able to travel to the future because of the application of cryogenics. Without it, time travelling wouldn't be possible.
Jessa Ann F. Belderol
2013-26908
He witnessed the vast improvement of the technology from his time to that of the year 2999, where different life forms came to inhabit the earth. With the flying cars, microchips which will determine the career a person may have, an intergalactic spaceship, other lifeforms from another planet inhabiting on Earth, head museum which holds tubes with alive heads and a machine which can easily determine whether the two persons came from the same family, we are able to foresee the possible technology of the future.
He was able to travel to the future because of the application of cryogenics. Without it, time travelling wouldn't be possible.
Jessa Ann F. Belderol
2013-26908
Futurama: Space Pilot
December 31, 1999-the last New Year's eve ofthe 20thcenturyand the startofthe 21stCentury, a hopeless delivery boy namedPhilip J.Fry orsimply Fry was asked to deliver a box of pizza and beer to a man named I.C. Wiener. He was so despised with his life for he had to deliver the pizza without pay, his girlfriend left him and started to date another man his bike was stolen by someone. After he arrived at the cryogenic lab, the place indicated on the address, he realized that it was just a prank call. So he just drunk the beer and blows a noise-maker, which make him fall to the open tank and started to freeze. The tank was set to a thousand years of being frozen. When he woke up, he saw flying cars wjich made him realize that he was in the future. He befriended Bender, a suicidal robot. He also met his nephew Professor Famworth. He also befriended Leela, the one he tried to escape from for Leela wanted to implant a chip that will make him a delivery boy forever. Fry with Bender and Leela became job deserters and being wanted by the police. With Prof. Famworth's inter-galactic ship, they evaded the police. The three of them became the crew of the ship.
In Futurama, we were able to foresee the possible future of our civilization. There are museums with tanks containing heads which can talk, cryogenic tube which can help you travel to the future, the flying cars which are the primary transportation and the microchips being implanted which will dictate the career you will have. It also shows us that other lifeforms like cyclops may inhabit on our planet.
The bottomline of the first episode is thatCryogenicswas beingusedtotravel tothe future.Our bodywillfreeze becauseofthe absenceofheatwhichwillpreserve our body. And when the time comes for the it to defrost, that's the time for the consciousness of the man to come back and continue his life as if there's nothing happened. And I think that this might really be a possible way of travelling to the future.
Sources:
Space Pilot 3000 - Episode - Season 1 - Ep. 101 | Comedy Central
John Erick D. Penetrante
2013-00847
Space Pilot 3000
On March 28, 1999,
"Space Pilot 3000" was aired on Fox. This is the pilot episode of
Futurama, written by David X. Cohen and Matt Groening. The story revolves around a New York pizza
delivery guy named Philip J. Fry, or simply, "Fry" who is also known
as the "shut up and take my money" meme. Fry despises his life and on
New Year's Eve of 2000, he is finally given a chance to get a new life. A new
life in the future, 1000 years after, to be exact.
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After being trapped in
the cryogenic freezer for a thousand years, Fry steps into the 31st century
without knowing exactly what happened to him. He realized it only after he saw
the most famous indicator of "stepping into the future": flying cars.
Then he meets a purple-haired cyclop who
tries to embed a microchip into his hand to designate his career. He becomes
very upset at becoming a delivery boy yet again and runs away from her. This
leads him to a suicide booth which he thought was a phone booth and becomes
friends with a robot after barely escaping their doom. He finally reaches his
nephew, Professor Farnsworth, who is also the only living relative he has. All
of them are unemployed and branded as fugitives of the law which forces them to
ride Professor Farnsworth's spaceship to escape the police on their tails. The
episode ends with Fry becoming a delivery boy as his career again...and he took
the news with a big grin on his face.
Futurama also shows
glimpses of different futuristic equipments: heads who could talk inside jars,
intergalactic spaceship, and the public transportation called ET3 (Evacuated
Tube Transport Technologies) which are vacuum tubes found around the city and
gets you in places much faster than subways or cars.
Futurama portrays a
future where humans can enjoy different kinds of technology. Regarding the
method used for time travelling, the cryogenic freezing is definitely the best
one out there. Cryogenic freezing has been said to be the "real" time
travel method as it has been experimented on some animals, most of which were
successful. If we wait long enough, we might not even notice that we have
reached "the future."
Work Cited:
Work Cited:
Space Pilot 3000-
The Infosphere, The Futurama Wiki. n.d. (2014, January 13). Retrieved from The Infosphere,
The Futurama Wiki:
http://theinfosphere.org/Space_Pilot_3000#cite_ref-com-mg-timemachine_0-0
BALIGNASA,
Catherine S.
2013-19732Section: THX
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
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