Word: dystopia
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...MOSES IN DYSTOPIA And when he wasn't at home in the past, he was a voyager into the future. For a while in the late 60s and early 70s, Heston owned the upscale science fiction genre. As the stranded astronaut on the Planet of the Apes, he was the ultimate loner: the only member of his species in a world ruled by monkeys. Heston had caught a cold on the shoot, but director Franklin Schaffner insisted they keep filming, because the new gruffness in the star's voice lent a desperate urgency to his lines, from his first words...
...Christmas, he has another one-man dystopia drama. It's I Am Legend, directed by Francis Lawrence, the Viennese director of music videos who made his feature debut with a good science-fiction film, Constantine, and written by Akiva Goldsman, based on Mark Protosevich's script for a 1999 I Am Legend project that was to be directed by Ridley Scott and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. As in I, Robot, Smith has seen the future - and it sucks...
...escapist fantasies. Full-page photographs of empty highways ending in mist and deserted rest areas blend in with the barren landscape: you can almost feel the wind whistling in your ears. On closer examination, however, Brouws, far from endorsing the dream of travel, in fact denounces the dystopia of the American Dream and its obsession with mobility of all kinds.Though Brouws’s social criticism is effective without being heavy-handed or militant, it is not immediately comprehensible to a casual viewer. Brouws recognizes this in his concluding essay, written precisely because of this ambiguity: “Beauty...
...demographic. The crossover hasn't always worked: Baby Bob, a talking-baby sitcom based on an ad, was insipid. But Max Headroom, a black-humored sci-fi series based on a Coca-Cola campaign itself based on a British TV show, was brilliantly subversive, set in a media-saturated dystopia in which it was illegal to turn...
...addressed Sydney's Centre for Independent Studies, whose spiritual core revolves around free markets and individual liberty. He took a cudgel to the think tank's idol, Friedrich Hayek, and his "intellectual creature" John Howard for what he termed their assault on social justice. Rudd described a modern dystopia of debt and high interest rates, materialism, childhood obesity, time pressure on families and societal anxiety about the future. "The dilemma for the political right is that, in John Howard's Australia, it's not supposed to be like that," Rudd argued. "The white picket fence and all it stands...