The movie we screened in class last week, THX 1138, is a very a good example of how conservative ideas are expressed in movies. George Lucas portrays the world that the movie takes place in as a technology driven and that humans are stripped from their individualism, freedom, and family. Everyone in the society is placed at the same class. Everyone dresses the same, does the same work, wears the same clothes, and is suppressed from their problems from medication given by computers. This idea of conservatism in this film also shows the division between nature and technology as Ryan and Kellner discuss in their article. The ideas of technology and the natural are clearly separated in early movies in the 60’s and 80’s. Again referring to THX 1138 the audience is able to see how technology is running and ruining peoples life in the society and that the natural or human life is what the society wants. Compared to radical science fiction films were conservatives views are throw out, like Terminator and Blade Runner, technology and nature seem to blend together more than in movies like THX 1138. In the 80’s we start to see robots and replicates taking human forms and qualities. In the film Blade Runner Roy Baty status towards society in the movie is undetermined, so there is a boundary between human and replicate. Roy is a replicate that gives him the human form. This allows audiences to view how nature and technology are combined together to give sci-fi films a new edge compared to the conservative ideas.

301 Alex Moehn