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Pick a house, any average American house, and chances are the folks inside will be fans of science fiction. This pretty house in Washington, for example. The family has just had the cable Sci-Fi Channel installed. Mom has been known to try to commune with a dead woman who once lived there. And Dad? He just saw the new alien-invasion epic Independence Day--at home. Dean Devlin, the co-writer and producer, watched Dad watch the film, and Devlin was impressed: "He was whipping off facts about history, talking about social and international issues. But when the movie...
...longer worried about a nuclear threat, the question is, Will there be an apocalypse, and if so, how will it come?" In ID4, it comes to us. Once man, and movies, dreamed of conquering space; then we got to the moon and woke up. Now sci-fi films are passive-aggressive: we wait for the spacemen to drop by. And if the visitors are hostile, we go nuclear on their...
...grand vision, other than the fact that, in this post-cold war era, it looks to outer space to find new enemies worth hating, fighting and blasting into little squishy pieces. "The U.S. is desperately in search of an enemy," says Paul Verhoeven, who has directed some stunning sci-fi (RoboCop, Total Recall) and the equally otherworldly Showgirls. "The communists were the enemy, and the Nazis before them, but now that wonderful enemy everyone can fight has been lost. Alien sci-fi films give us a terrifying enemy that's politically correct. They're bad. They're evil. And they...
...year 2023 still sounds like a sci-fi film to me, and who could ever predict our future whereabouts. I am not deluded by work-free fairy tales, but neither am I dissuaded because they are fairy tales. There is another side to that rainbow. Is it enough for us to prance around a single end with our petty games? Or can we move toward the unprofessional and the unknown? I guess we ll find out at the 25th...
...total # of degrees History 89 Hist. & Sci. 31 Women's Stud...