Left to his own devices and without Stanley Kubrick’s collaboration, Clarke’s story featured much more dialogue. (The book also included entire chapters about a rival Chinese mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, and David Bowman’s journey.) Peter Hyams wisely chose not to try to copy ...
I had expected to fill out plot diagrams and learn the proper way to punctuate dialogue. However, every day we would be given a different writing prompt (提示词) and then, if we wished, we could share what we had written with the class. I remember sitting and listening to others read ...
The new political theology of obedience to the prince which was enthusiastically adopted by the Church of England in the 1530s was essentially founded upon Luther's new interpretation of the fourth commandment. It was mediated to an English audience by Tyndale, but his ideas were not officially ...
I’m ok with contrived or forced dialogue (or rather monologue) if the ideas are well thought out and believable. But it was pure pink unicorns fantasy-land, naive to utmost degree take on human nature, human society. To me it was not science fiction (as in, based in science, even if...
Put aside the false claims of H-bombs in Pyongyanet al. If stating falsehoods was enough to fail a Turing Test, you’d be able to count the entire sapient population of the Internet on your fingers and toes— and besides, the whole point of deepfakery is to sheathe lies in an aura ...
Sora no daikaijû Radon: Directed by Ishirô Honda. With Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Akio Kobori. A mining engineer investigates the deaths of his colleagues, discovering prehistoric nymphs and a creature capable of flying - and wre
Did it stand in the way of your appreciation of the story, or enhance your enjoyment of the book? If poetic, did the characters speak in vernacular language, or in the poetic language of the author? Was the dialogue realistic sounding? Was there a rhythm to the authors style, or anything...
The title is as revelant as the show caring for its characters. The problem with the show isn't the surreal elements or its stupidity; it's more the fact that it can't embrace the premise enough and doesn't develop its characters. Most of the jokes are lazy and rely on them saying...
and value impact of design in the industrial field have further been expanded and deepened in the direction of systematization and digitization. The worrying reflection on the “human-machine relationship” has also prompted the ...
Beautifully shot, as you would expect, and with some (welcome) moments of humour amongst the gore, this is a very very fine film. Miss it at your peril, because when those little golden men are being handed out next year in LA, I predict a lot of them will be going to this film....