Marco Polo Perez HON 255

     Michael and I had decided to work on The Iron Giant , not only because it was Michael's childhood favorite movie, but because the movie was symbolic to encompass a tale for anti-gun violence, as well as to illustrate the negative prejudice we--as a society--have towards AI, robots and technology. The Iron Giant , inspired by Ted Hughes's book-- The Iron Man-- is also a story that illustrates societal integration on the lens of a machine/robot who's trying to become humanized and disregard the nature behind its destructive logistics. Brad Bird, who directed the movie, designed The Iron Giant based on the following question: "What if a gun had a soul and didn't want to be a gun?", which for me, truly encompasses David's characterization in AI  about how he was just a robot, but didn't just want to be a robot, since he wanted to become a real boy. In this sense, not only The Iron Giant becomes a symbol of breaking the negative prejudice behind destru...

      I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and realism behind the state of gaming , where I found Virtual Reality to be quite an enjoyable experience, despite its dystopian nature within the film's universe. VR is the present and the future that will impact many people's lives (people use VR chat and sometimes talk to bots so that they won't feel alone), which I think has its positive and negative aspects in the long run.     For this project, Michael and I decided to play Call of Duty: Warzone and talk to players. It took us about 4-6 hours to finally interact with a good, unselfish player, such as Joseph (alias GrilledCheez923), who is a young streamer based in Florida who wishes to enlist in the military when he graduates from high school. He had told me, through a consensual interview, that he wanted to be what he saw on the screen: a soldier, a man who can take care of his country and defend it. The experience to get an interview was long, since many people eithe...

      The movie overall was a bit corny and bad (for my taste), but Milla Jovocich performance, as well as the design of the  Mondoshawans and the sequence of the opera scene were outstanding in my opinion. Luc Besson's cinéma du look  is very clear with the fashion behind the designs of the characters' outfits, which illustrate a certain hierarchy within the film's universe and character relationships (clerics, mercenaries, politicians, the rich, the underground, etc.).     For this assignment, my group and I had to create a couple of fashion designs (upcycle or through recycled materials) that were influenced for the movie. As soon as this was tasked to us, we came with the idea of seeing what materials people had in order for our outfits to be cohesive and follow a cohesive theme. I knew who my model was going to be, as my professor had already predicted, which was my girlfriend. She had a purple Taylor Swift swimming outfit that glowed, and it remi...