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Humanus ex Machina

RoboCop (RoboCop)

USA 1987 Director: Paul Verhoeven, writer Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner, Camera: Sol Negrin, Jost Vacano, music by Basil Poledouris, Editor: Frank J. Urioste , Actor: Peter Weller (Alex Murphy / RoboCop), Nancy Allen (Anne Lewis), Dan O'Herlihy (The Old Man / The Oldman), Ronny Cox (Dick Jones), Kurtwood Smith (Clarence Boddicker), Miguel Ferrer (Bob Morton)

Synopsis: not in Detroit too-distant future: the city is sinking into chaos and crime, the police force is overwhelmed. The powerful Group OCP is the solution of the problem in the installation of a police robot, but the wicked technical shortcomings. For a hastily installed alternative project them is the death of a policeman Murphy, who was shot at its first use in the new area, just in time: his memory is erased, he gets a machine body and is as indestructible law enforcement to maintain order in the city. But then the program is the "RoboCop" disturbed by flashbacks Murphys ...


The Outsider : In all its expressiveness, his bombastic soundtrack, his religiously charged images, his naive, brutal violence, his use of music, his acting leadership and Verhoeven his own Grand Guignol staging of ROBOCOP all the ingredients of an overloaded sci-fi violence Opera . This is exactly what it should also claims to be in the movie going through your mind be so they can ultimately be very happy that the government not to one of the many other candidates - is gone, and - including Jonathan Kaplan, David Cronenberg, Alex Cox The director has fully "his" film made. Verhoeven leads us into this world so suddenly, surrendering date ads or other introductory text or Off-commentators and instead presents us with the TV this time. Television acts like a Greek chorus in ancient times and filled with its horror stories from around the world, his macabre and cynical ads and the typical positive "bouncer message" the world of film for the recipient with complexity. Verhoeven is targeted messages to certain dramatic points, usually immediately after or even within highlights and requires the recipient from that, the world put together from individual components.

radio Hundd : Verhoeven is in Indeed, very cleverly before: the scattered scraps of news he saves a long exposure, at the same time he established with them not merely Handlungsort and time, but comments like this too. If the moderators read news of horrific disasters with a smile and then a commercial break on lead is very clear how it is with this world. And on the narrative level of the actual movie ROBOCOP is thanks to these snippets of the faster to the point. On the other hand, Verhoeven's strategy is not only one of the economy, because ROBOCOP is more complex by the many different integrated observer perspectives immensely: television commenting on the events of the story, acts in turn, Murphy / RoboCop as an observer and this is superior to the audience as a kind of other observers instance. Thus, the film viewer is then also a very dynamic process where you constantly have to change planes. This ultimately leads to the fact that observation and interpretation can hardly separated: Verhoeven makes its subtext to the surface feature of his film dealt him explicitly on the content level. One might say that Verhoeven's film embodies what RoboCop must reach in the course of action at all: the unity of mechanized human body and soul. RoboCop is the ally of the audience: his perception of the film is similar to the supervisor - His field of vision is a screen - and how the flow of the film for the audience is disturbed by the insertions, its internal program operation are negatively affected by the interference of Murphy's residual awareness. But in this disorder is also the scientific knowledge base.

A: Let's start at the beginning: Many fears of our time in ROBOCOP has become present reality. The crime records the cities under control, conflict situations in hot spots can also be taken place several times with nuclear weapons, Reagan's dream of a Strategic Defense Initiative has come true and let the corporations billion privatization state institutions are progressing. Capitalist structures have become a principle of life and undermined the society has any humanity. The multi-OCP, which the police want to hear about Detroit, there now take a large construction project, the luxurious city of the future Delta City, in attack, but the criminal conditions prevent this. The police is simply not the master of the situation and so OCP developed a plan to construct a non-human law enforcement. This alone is seen as strongly held in catchment areas has the technology, in which she has absolutely nothing to look. The protection of citizens should be entrusted to a machine, the ED-209-armed combat robots, by its purely mechanical "live" inside is the perfect agents for the route of the OCP Board. A cold, steely machine without disturbing emotions, but without the intelligence and improvisational creativity. Their dysfunctionality for a complex society like ours is right at the beginning at the presentation of the new invention made clear when one of the less important members of the board is shot by her. ROBOCOP is therefore in a different direction, as THE TERMINATOR does. man and machine standing in this yet clear and takes one from the other just enough that it can be compared to destroy effective ROBOCOP sees as an aid against the shattered circumstances to the synergism.

FH: Exactly. The utopia that is the human machine in Verhoeven's film is connected, very clear in the slogan to express the OCP for its urban construction project has chosen: "The Future Has a Silver Lining" . This 'silver sheen' unquestionably corresponds with the exoskeleton of RoboCop. But up to the promised bright future, it is still a long way. The human remains at the core of the mechanical law enforcers must first fulfill its programming, claiming that it restricts massive. Whilst the RoboCop towards a significant improvement the ED-209 is, but his fitness seems to protect the right question: for arrests, he has little interest in the maintenance of law for which it stands, is no different than his failed predecessor synonymous with terror and deterrence. His victims, such as the supermarket robbers left, are injured after a hard day's work at the spot and order the arrest itself must take care of someone else. The cognitive processes that occur in the detection and assessment of potential crime situations seem to downright primitive: One wonders whether the RoboCop complex also grew at first only more problematic situations, or whether he such would not cause more damage than help. The problem is the programming and associated with their decision not to genuinely human "talents" such as empathy. So behind the RoboCop program in the course of the film more and more comes out their corrupt settings, the definition of "law" not on a system of morality, but solely based on selfish motives. The RoboCop turns out to be powerless if he wants to fix the "wrong". The directive comes into force 4, which prevents him categorically out to arrest members of the OCP Group, and introduces the idea of a machine, supposedly objective executive ad absurdum. Verhoeven criticized so of course the fateful intertwining of economic and legal system that is in the U.S. in the form of privatized prisons since the early 80's reality (and not just there: the first part Deutschalnd privatized prison was opened in 2005 in Hessen). But he does not stop there for a long time: In a further abstraction step, he is the belief in an inherently existing law in question.


A: When asked to what extent the RoboCop is more suitable for police service than the ED-209 is basically the crux of the story. A humanus ex machina , which, in contrast to its purely mechanical "colleagues", Qualities such as creativity and spontaneity has to be reduced but by its design engineers through the programming to a minimum. This ensures that only the vestigial remnants left of the biological human being. The brain, more complex than any computer, just supplied by the nerves of the spine is taken as the starting point of a superior bio-technology that can actually understand in its entirety yet, but couples without hesitation to the latest achievements of cybernetics. Accordingly, one might then through the directives that form the legal driving the RoboCop, a separate, much simpler programming than the genetically determined plant. The individual personality is completely erased Murphy: "The rights to his body have been transferred to us. Officially, he's dead, "was the dry comment of an OCP board member, asks as the technical department, what to do with the rescued arm. You pack like the brain and spine in a tank that is similar in its clumsiness of a medieval knight armor so it is made clear already by the mere external appearance of RoboCop, how far the human or to hide in it. Yet this does not work long term. The inscrutability of the brain brings to light the memories Murphys and begins, as you know noted, looking to disrupt the programming. The assertion of the human is the message of hope, which comes in ROBOCOP more psychological than martial. Unlike in THE TERMINATOR is not about the fight on the outside, but inside. Furthermore, the simply designed first directives Serve the common good, 2 Protect the innocent third True, the law, not only simple, but of absolute inner logic. To allow good inferences on the fabric of society in which even the smallest differences can lead to standing on the side of criminals. The world ROBOCOP is divided into two basic camps: the guilty and innocent. One victim, but also a culprit can be in it are very fast, so many people trust at nightfall no longer on the road.

FH : Only so can prove to the reduction of complexity as RoboCop programmed so effective. The criminal practice is no longer in detention, but shoot wildly in the streets around - there is because of the police strike eh no one who could stop them. This over-subscription of real states are known from other films of the time, just think of those of us already discussed DEATH WISH 3 - THE AVENGER OF NEW YORK, STREET FIGHTERS and THE CITY-COBRA, but Verhoeven undermines the reactionary desires and law-and-order-fantasies of his audience consistently, by showing the larger social context. The Verbechen does not arise from nothing, is not an expression of evil reason, but is directly related to the bustle of politics and economy.

A: Interesting you mentioned in the reference films, I find that they contain, as well as ROBOCOP, all the element of repression. The great fear of society or the people in them, is that you can no longer walk the streets without being a victim. So it is pointed out that the regulation of society participating citizens in their homes and dwellings must remain. To lock in to shut out the horrors of the outer streets. This repression is a fundamental part of us so much discussed film decade or more precisely, the fear of the possibility of being able to out do not trust in his own little enclave within an insane world gone was like, illustrated on the one hand threatening conditions to document, to incite fear in the other recipients. But as you said already, a reactionary solution in ROBOCOP rise no more, because the company is itself already seen clearly in the macabre television program in an irreversible state of brutalization. However, is in Street Fighter or DEATH WISH III - THE AVENGER OF NEW YORK also discussed it clear that a reverse or transfer are not in the proper conduct in their cosmos can. Rather, they document the extension of the combat zone. STREET FIGHTERS especially through dialogue (think of the speeches of the character Fred Williamson), or further advanced by the cataclysmic urban warfare in the middle of New York in DEATH WISH III.

FH : This "extension of the combat zone" can be found in ROBOCOP. Note just how the private room marginalized by Verhoeven, is so crowded almost from the imagery of the film. The Detroit of the Film consists of the skyscraper-glass palaces of the economy, a cut-throat inside urban area, reminiscent of American ghettos, and an industrial wasteland on the outskirts of the city that serves as a hideout for criminals. The streets are almost extinct, appear out of place a few passers-by and business owners, like the last incorrigible who refuse to see reality in the face and flee (not unlike the residents of DEATH WISH III). Even the police headquarters tells of a time past, seems rather old-fashioned and raises the legitimate question of how the fight against crime, won with such poor facilities at all should be. Twice only presents us Verhoeven a look into the private room: In the apartment Bob Morton's security, the cold, metallic style continued the OCP headquarters, hence it offers him no protection against the attack by Boddicker, walk into the can easy to kill him . (Even on the refuge within the OCP-building - the company's toilet -. There was Morton previously no privacy, announced his imminent end to already) And as RoboCop Murphy's memories driven seeks its a transparent house, he must move to a suburban idyll that the rest of the imagery of the film has little loyalty. By linking in with the memories of the present Murphy's view Robocops the contrast between the dreamy, idealized past and the bleak present more tangible (the scene together with Murphy's execution, in my opinion the emotional climax of the movie). The former Civil refuge, like the rest of Detroit's already doomed to decay. After the death of her husband, Murphy's wife has taken apparently fled to his heels, is a new tenant or buyer, it is not, the only "residents" of the house is a virtual real estate broker who preaches from a screen already sufficiently known medicinal promise of consumerism. The death has long since taken hold.

A : fact illustrates the film is very convincing as far as the whole society of capitalist and criminal structures, which in his opinion, emblems on the same coin, was penetrated. The combat zone is no longer a quarter, but extended to the entire city. The accompanying television news suggest that there are now in all major cities in the U.S. looks the part. The losers are the citizens in this fight, and showed themselves to any of the extreme sides. If, in THE TERMINATOR to overturn all order, which mankind in ROBOCOP is in a social structure, it just makes more and more and now also in its chaos to order (references to the current financial crisis and the neo-capitalism here are probably obvious). A genre development, which reached ROBOCOP in the material world outside its peak and already Murphys crisis gives an outlook on the more identity-seeking figures of science and social fiction film of the 1990s.

FH: Yes, in so far as ROBOCOP reflected a clear break from the fatalistic anti heroes, as he met us in Carpenter's Escape from New York in the shape of the world and world-weary Snake Plissken. The figure of the robot with the human soul, which is fighting against the domination of the computer has long been not only an excellent image for all the internally destroyed, almost stoned soldiers and lone wolves like Rambo or Braddock, the drilled by an inhuman system to the bare functioning, were reduced to muscles and reflexes - without taking into consideration the psychological scars that this drill would leave no doubt. Verhoeven ROBOCOP also shows the way for the individual. The sky-blue eyes seem to Murphy's always something dreamy and full of hope in a more intangible future with confidence. This aloofness from the here and now it can fail as a human police: almost naive, he runs into the death trap the villains. But his vision of a better world can not destroy the attempted extermination of his humanity: Murphy fighting against the appropriation of through the apparatus until the machine obeys the man. No wonder he's the sight that covers its hopeful, dreamy look in his RoboCop-incarnation, the final point decrease, to see through their own human eyes. This adds Verhoeven also a wonderful moment of self-knowledge, the complete process of individuation robocops: He sees himself in a mirror offered by his partner, Anne, recognizes the unity of Murphy and RoboCop. This also described to you by In-the-future-into-designing, "Somehow, to continue" ROBOCOP embodied in its whole structure: in his sudden start, the sudden end and the onset with the anthemic score by Basil Poledouris, the less concludes, but rather opens. ROBOCOP actually deserved it, to have originated at the dawn of a new millennium.

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It took a while, but now the ROBOCOP text almost finished and will be read to be available here. Conceptually, we are on the next topic: We will expand our focus a bit and devote ourselves to a medium that the eighties and had a decisive force shaping "our" genre some influence: the TV series. Four series, we have picked out ourselves, the pilots made an example of us under the microscope. Candidates are:

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To our readers until the publication of our ROBOCOP-text, I have to apply for a small celebration of the underdog and I have the honor to be invited as "experts." For the third time Alex Klotz held in the service area in Aachen the "live audio commentary": together with a guest (and the audience) Alex looks a film that simultaneously live and will be discussed in color. For us he has of course an action movie selected, but will demand of us won anything, partly because this is a typical feature of Cüneyt Arkin-films, partly because the Turkish Exploitationkino not one of our specialties pronounced. We are looking forward to the movie that evening and on what we so give all our listeners for the journey. More detailed information is available at http://raststaette.org , we hope to attract many visitors with Alex. refuel

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While outsiders and should I leave and new energy for the ROBOCOP, we, the first fruits of our incredibly tasty about now two-year harvest: The "star" spin-off forever young at heart "Neon" has voted in the current issue of the "55 fixed stars of the blogosphere." Divided into eleven categories five blogs have been recommended to us was being honored to be counted among the world's five best film blogs on, next Bordwell / Thompson what is actually hardly take into words. I almost feel a bit ashamed that we have been chosen from such a vast mass of blogs. But then it's also a really great confirmation, that we have with such a special and exotic about such success without the lowest common denominator serve us in our work. And so we will go our way. Let's see what the future holds.

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Terminator (The Terminator)
USA 1984
Director: James Cameron Screenplay: James Cameron, Gale Ann Hurd, William Wisher, Harlan Ellison, Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg Music: Brad Fiedel, editor: Mark Goldblatt
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator), Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor), Michale Biehn (Kyle Reese), Paul Winfield (Lieutenant Ed Traxler), Lance Henriksen (Detective Hal Vukovich)

Synopsis : Out of nowhere see two people in the LA of the eighties: Both come from a distant apocalyptic future where machines have enslaved the people, and are looking for a woman. One of them is a machine sent to kill the woman, the other is a soldier of humanity, sent to save them from the machine. For the woman, a mousy waitress named Sarah Connor, will one day bring the man to the world, will lead the human resistance against the machines ...

radio Hundd : While the influence of eighties classics like Rambo in today's cinema is not quite so present and palpable, it can be the effect of Cameron's first major feature film on the popular Cinema in general and the dark science fiction film in particular hardly deny. The fascinating thing TERMINATOR is not only his film historical importance: Although he is clearly a product of his time, he is also still quite suddenly to the audience. He succeeds with a trick, who missed even Carpenter's Escape from such a brilliant start: A premise of epic proportions - the decision on nothing less than the survival of humanity - is via text display on a single night, and subsequently then a frame compressed three protagonists. Terminator seems at first to represent an exception within its genre. For while other Action films in the course of their more spectacular action and a "broad" are moves to Cameron's film together formally. Basically, he touched it but at the core of action cinema, which is in the midst of the superficial spectacle usually considered to reduce - instead of Americans and Russians, Rambo and Zay fight against each representative. In this respect TERMINATOR is probably just very consistent, in its intimacy, he takes on almost a venue also trains and employs a structure that could be described as a "film noir with the opposite sign. It is the ingenious combination of the noir elements of time travel theme, with Cameron succeeds to touch the deep truth of the action genre and him - ironically, despite his fixation technique, but TERMINATOR lives of its paradoxes - a piece of the return in the eighties buried humanity. In the film noir the protagonists are haunted by the shadows of the past, reaching up to the present. In Terminator, it's the other way around: There throw back a shadow future events through time. The oppressive atmosphere of Cameron's film is due to the well: The fate of humanity is sealed at the beginning of the film, everything that Sarah and Reese can still do to them is the fate of (= The future) to fulfill its intended roles. This is a radical turn in the other action movie hero Genesis. For while all the Rambos and Braddock are fueled by a traumatic charged past, they often unintentionally makes what they are, Sarah Connor designed to predict the future and that with full awareness: she knows what she needs, so is it. This is basically a very eighties-typical pessimistic interpretation of the teachings of existentialism. And drive to the already mentioned paradoxical principle from which the film takes its voltage to the tip, one can reverse the film read as a true noir by Schwarzenegger as a machine woman the real protagonists understand: He is the Private Eye, the problems with getting past. He also has this ideal typical noir scene in the filthy hotel room, come shining through the blinds, the neon lights of LA at night, and in which he then performs the famous operation. The combination of these two against each other and running lines, the interweaving of past, present and future, secure in TERMINATOR from the deep structure of the action film, brought to the surface and openly discussed.

The Outsider: The concentration of a city as a hermetically sealed-off room and one night as a time unit, the search for a woman and her past have not done as well as the Triad, Sarah Connor, Kyle Reese and Terminator, which, despite their closeness has an impact on the entire world order seems to really connect to the film noir produce. The term tech noir - the name of a discotheque in the film - makes this not only obvious but has to technical term for a link between both film noir and science fiction, as established in cyberpunk. Cameron himself is said to have invented the term, as he has hit upon a concept that brings the new, darker style of the decade expressed. And even if TERMINATOR plays not only in a single night, it seems like one. The two days that lie between the nights are barely brighter than a sunset shot and the smog of Los Angeles. The reference to the night and its importance can already see the beginning, when the Terminator in Los Angeles lands of 1984. Gives us the film in the prologue a glimpse into an apocalyptic and destructive future, enslave the machines, the world sees and hears the audience after the opening credits for a brief moment, again a heavy machine, but it is just a car for the urban waste collection, which appears similar monstrous and already the shadows as an omen the future casts. The tautological-reciprocal effect which is then read already on the build of Schwarzenegger's. The time travel concept and its paradoxical (in) are not limited to disentangle the story of the conception of the man who will save humanity, limited, but is already a step that the machines had to go before. Once created as an artificial intelligence of people, they saw them when they began themselves to program as a threat and disposal capability. Well, where is it the people in the future under the leadership of John Connors managed to compromise the machines seriously, they must themselves construct infiltration units
to the people again similar. After man could at last fulfill his Prometheustraum and has thus brought to the brink of extinction, these novel inorganic beings back to a biological level, to become not themselves destroyed. A / Terminator looks so then from the way the cold, steely machine to imagine the perfect "man": a bundle of muscle with an angular appearance, with the strength of a tank and a microprocessor-based brain.

FH: One of many interesting aspects of the film, for here comes the self-reflexive approach of Cameron's movie to carry. Most clearly comes to light that maybe in the Abyss, in which it indeed is not just about the encounter of people with a higher, extraterrestrial intelligence, but also the effect of the audience with a new technology. TERMINATOR is indeed in terms of its effects, now somewhat antiquated, but that's why no less urgently, his relation to the by Cameron himself a few years later established computer effects "imperfect" design lets him today may actually be more alive than the completely in the computer generated films, which only rarely reach the plasticity of a Terminator. The symbiosis of man and machine is the special effects, a mixture of animatronics (Every kind of puppet animation) and stop-motion animation, perfectly implemented. The Terminator becomes the grotesque Klotz, both in the scenes where he by Schwarzenegger, whose inflated body has achieved something Machine (see also our comments on RAMBO II - THE ORDER), is almost ideally stands, and where he of mechanical stand-ins "gedoublet" is. Especially in these supposedly obsolete effect is so perfect, which deformations are expected when machine intelligence tries to mimic the biological life. But this criticism is addressed in Cameron's film, of course, also against the people: their hubris has driven the world so only the abyss. The Machines have only learned from the people.

A: ... and then started to program "A completely new intelligence," as Kyle concede with a mixture of awe and disgust must. Interesting during the course of history is the absolute hopelessness of the situation. The apocalypse is coming, which is sealed. The old myth that it is a man is hostile to technology that can not control this is well known. The history gives something very definitive. Within the tautological circle is already arranged everything and can not be broken. It no longer comes to the turning away the Apocalypse, but their mastery. And throw as big events a shadow, to be planted must be performed within the closed circle of time the history of the seeds from the future into the past because the people present (in this case of 1984) are no longer able to to read the signs. Together they dance to punk and New Wave in the fall. The first thing that meets the Terminator, he roams through the night LA, are a couple of punks. Are due to its naked form visibly amused and want to first make a small joke by him into stick a switchblade. These figures, in their fashion and their behavior wear the insignia of destruction with him, although really suitable precursor for what will come only trend puppets. They are so blind that they do not realize how close the times of their own so much publicized 'no future' slogan in the person standing before them. Similarly, the blind society or the system. Brilliant, if Cameron can make the complex machine on the complex system of a metropolis. When the Terminator is after arriving on a viewing platform and look down on the night LA to face the times and systems for a brief, quiet moment. The already ailing city unfolds before him, is vulnerable and the Terminator, who has never seen such a thing, inspected them. If we did not think he has no feelings, you might think he is confused for a moment for him because of the strange panorama.

FH: The significance of the clash of Terminator and punks have you worked out very nicely. Yes, can save humanity in the Terminator not even because she is blind and deaf to their environment-also depicts some of the Walkman constantly supporting Sarah's friend - and it can only have the conditions for life are created, but then no longer is in their hands. There will be no Messiah, to lead us to the Promised Land: Sarah has this Messiah only testify together with Reese, in the knowledge that he can align in the present, nothing will. The feeling of hopelessness that you're describing is, in a scene that are, or appear initially as a writer cliché: It refers to the sex scene between Sarah and Reese, which forms but actually the emotional core of the film and literally in the TERMINATOR its dramatic climax place. The undeniable romance of the situation - a man travels through time to the woman he loves, without knowing them, to witness the child who is the only hope of humanity - is countered by Cameron, by making it a matter of fate and determination in narrowest sense of the word makes. Sarah and Reese together, because they know that they imposed on the history of this relationship. In their union meet future and present together inextricably. Their touch, their connection is so strong that it bends the timelines.

A: Yes, here it is a very system-theoretical arrangement of figures and their self-perception. Cameron manages to make completely believable that Sarah and Kyle are are not aware of. Follow the crucial moment actually her drive and her love. Kyle went to Sarah by the fire of the light which cuts open the space-time continuum and compares this with a new birth. And just Kyle Reese then this affects his behavior so innocent because he is completely pure. When Sarah is then asked how the "girls in his time that way," he deviates only. When he talks about his childhood, there is only darkness, despair, destruction. Reproduction was the people not allowed because they were classified only as a working material for the removal of corpses. Sex plays in this world for people not matter, but only the perseverance. Cameron coupled to the naked will to survive here for the first time in his martial philosophy him TERMINATOR and ALIENS - THE RETURN has been acting so much anger on the part of criticism. In his Idea man must be ready to become a warrior and there is absolutely no sex differences. The girl tells Kyle to answer Sarah's question, are good fighters. Survive, in the dirt to cope, adapt, quickly explore the surroundings, make enemies and to produce the simplest means of weapons: All of it is for Cameron in the first place if humanity is to continue to exist. Kyle is therefore the perfect warrior for the purposes Cameron and when he has managed to defy all the perils of this bleak future, and is even willing to travel back through time and all he knew to give to "the Mother of the future "to save, then he is probably really because the best genetic material to the" savior of mankind to witness. " When Sarah Connor is not as readily identify. For them, the skills with which they will be able to prepare herself and her son, in their complex social system useless. As ADHD children favored initially by the evolution of their aggressiveness, hyperactivity, and cognitive-reductionist thinking were, and they just these qualities in our society of disciplined learning in the way, so is Sarah Connor dreamy slightly, aimlessly drifting woman in a frustrating job as a waitress in a fast food restaurant, without a firm commitment to a man without job. Their only reference point is her mother. Every male is Excludes. Reese also they may fertilize only briefly and then dies. Sarah is with her female primal force, created solely for this purpose, the bear, of course, male rescuers who raise and prepare him. It is a masterpiece, as it succeeds Cameron to make both levels plausible. Through his narrative circular reasoning, the characters and events arranged just have to happen and fateful for the parties and at the same time we believe that it has combined the love of Sarah and Kyle.

FH : I can add very little. I'm just not sure if I agree with you is that Reese and Sarah about the consequences of their actions - are not aware - that their act. At least Cameron turns on this crystal clear out of his icy production for the audience: we see that the fact of love in this moment is really secondary. That's also not right somehow tangible perversity of this and other Cameron movies. The recognition and literal embrace of loss are styled as an almost aesthetic act of fatalism is commemorated with an icy expression. End of the world predisposes the coming of the Messiah (the Initials of Sarah's future son are obvious: "JC"), commencing in the face of loss can occur the sacred. The character of disposition of the two protagonists, you brought perfectly to the point, prevents the act not for affirmative Tearjerker degenerates. Both figures are essentially destined to be unhappy: their carnal connection is also their death as individuals. You are now history, whose interests they have to meet. We know that from this point can only go downhill - a line of dialogue from ALIENS - THE RETURN describes it perfectly: Cameron "We're in to express elevator to hell, going down!" exploits the writer convention of the sex scene, which is always dramatic pause, caesura, is a brilliant way: Here, both figures, the first and only opportunity to stop before nothing will be as it was. Nevertheless, one can understand the critics in a way that would have seen fascist ideology. The Stoic fatalism of his protagonists, the monolithic character of the whole film, hinwegwalzt a chain with the power of a futuristic vehicle and crushed our skulls, is nothing that warms the heart: TERMINATOR is icy and ruthlessly. Nevertheless, the critics overlooked that in Cameron's film the Archimedean Point is not, from which it can fall or retaliation justified. From the circle there is no Aubsruch. The Cameron makes explicit in T2, Sarah Connor in the mutated into a bitter, hateful monster is, the teaching of a machine from scratch, which means humanity in the core.

A: In the noisy brutality of the formal shell may be lost on the idea that love is the central point for Kyle and Sarah's, but when Sarah is in the final scene with her unborn son, it is most important to him assure that they are, even if they only had this one moment, loved like a lifetime. The Terminator has it and the audience a view of Cameron's vision for the future given. His rampage in a police station caused the largest mobilization California police forces in the history of the state. No wonder, the complete annihilation of this bastion of the rule of law even the first baby step on the Apocalypse. To understand the police that they would not get at the terminator by conventional means, can he have been able to blow up a nuclear power plant. If they have a fight cell in such a regulated system already swirling mess can, as it looks to the future? The final scene of the film takes the nuclear winter that represents only the first stage, thus symbolically anticipated. We know what is coming. We can stop it does not.

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Escape (Escape from New York)

USA 1981 Director: John Carpenter Writer: John Carpenter, Nick Castle, Camera: Dean Cundey, Jim Lucas, music by John Carpenter, Editor: Todd C. Ramsay
Starring: Kurt Russell (Snake Plissken), Lee Van Cleef (Police Commissioner Bob Hauk), Ernest Borgnine (Cabbie), Isaac Hayes (The Duke of New York), Donald Pleasence (The President of the United States), Harry Dean Stanton (Brain), Adrienne Barbeau (Maggie)

Synopsis: 1997: Towards a major summit at which a possible nuclear war is to prevent the Air Force One is hijacked by terrorists and crashed over Manhattan. The New York City now serves as a high security prison after the United States could be a crime not unlike Lord, those who land in Manhattan is a prisoner, never back out on the streets of the metropolis ruled by law of the jungle. To the President and save the world with him, the former elite soldier and current prisoner Snake Plissken is lured by the pardon and sent to Manhattan. The catch: Plissken has only 22 hours before exploding a bomb he injected ...

The Outsider: THE RATTLESNAKE times we try to contextualize in its time of origin or to declare it in this context. The second half of the 1970s developed by their political and social histories, a new climate of disillusionment and despair. After a failed peace movement, a failure for the Americans, Vietnam War, which you - especially Socialists - is representative seen a failure of the "capitalist system", Watergate, energy crisis, SALT II agreements while NATO Double-Track Decision for the retrofitting of nuclear weapons, a growing radicalization of terrorist elements against the Democracy, skyrocketing crime statistics, the Pope's assassination, the invasion of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, as well as various other events which led to a decade previously expressed wishes and hopes ad absurdum, felt the company in many respects to a disillusioned endpoint. Direct response to these courses was to be developed since the mid-1970s punk, zero-block, and no future movement of youth and young adults. Many progressive directors have discussed this at this time in films such as LQ Jones YOUNG AND HIS DOG, George Miller Mad Max and its sequel, George A. Romero Zombie, David Cronenberg's RABID - the roaring DEATH or even Hollywood directors such as Phillip Kaufman's remake of the Body Snatchers. What is 20 and even 10 years ago could not be, was now celebrated directly in the mass medium of film: the end of the world. (Noteworthy here is that Jones, in his THE BOY AND HIS DOG the exploding atomic bombs not at the performance in 1976, but with the re-release in 1982 incorporating). A fascinating thing about these dystopias is above all that, unlike in previous doomsday scenarios, these present as close to the current events, most lying in the presence of the production of the film or just a few years in the future. The event was fetched for the recipient similar tight as society at that time had felt and feel. Such a compression of the surrounding reality and the viewer of such a celebration just a little further thought in popular cinema, it was rare. According Carpenters are concentrated points: totalitarianism USA, maximum security, President kidnapping, impending nuclear war, a man goes in. Conceptually, therefore, a typical Carpenter.

RADIO HUNDD: Correct: Escape is an absolutely remarkable thematic and directorial density. The succinctly outlined by issuing text insertion dystopia, which is the background for Escape would be an only enough material for several films and fascinated with her trenchant shortage, which raises the unthinkable in a few words to the sober fact. Against this background Carpenter moved far stretched but then almost in counterpoint to a story that does not push in width, but inward, to the core: a shrunken Manhattan to the interior, 22 hours, a man, a job. And the impending nuclear war, we know nothing about the causes of floats, as a latent, vague threat of the event. This trick makes the end of the film a movie here and now. loses with every minute that Plissken, pressure is growing, which seems to manifest itself in every picture. A pressure transmits to a loss on the viewer, because the usual minimalist score composed by Carpenter himself, the seconds can elapse audible and each image contains an entire world. THE RATTLESNAKE told in principle an infinite number of stories: the visible to the audience is only one of them.

A: Yes is fascinated by Escape like no second film Carpenters. Since you also like to forgive, that the production here is not always so close and intense appears as in his reference films ASSAULT - ATTACK AT NIGHT OR HALLOWEEN - THE NIGHT OF THE GRAY. The film is laid out like a tableau. It is noteworthy that each scene for you alone works, strengthened by a respective, just for this scene composed and only in this scene played piece of music on the synthesizer, and still creates an integral impression when viewed. It is striking that Carpenter has many a time his troubles with the substantive connections - but the exchange between Cabbie and Romero is very far-fetched - but Escape is replaced, not least because of the musical composition, something very symphonic. A film that is felt and assessed only in second place after his narrative approach. The different moods or scenes-establish from the beginning to the initial situation. After brief introduction, the camera moves over the prison wall and we look up the now pitch-black New York City skyline. A composite assembled from plastic bottles to float serves two refugees Überruderung of the Hudson River. After backtracking a warning shot from a helicopter onto the raft and the prompt, without enough time for Back Row remains the same fired a second shot, and the fugitives explode along with her homemade boat together. The intransigence of the prison regime and an American administration, the so-tolerated, action in their own country, even encourages, is only one thought further step to Guantanamo Bay.

FH: I can only connect your proposal and would like to polarize thing: If you wanted to accuse Escape from evil, you could say, he promised more than he ultimately redeeming. What Carpenter us about life behind the prison walls as the expected, compared to what one imagines as a spectator after the input text where harmless. It can, however, almost the entire work Carpenter observed throughout: His films always a bit of a break if he has done building. In Escape from the impact but not negative (as in other later films Carpenters), on the contrary: viewers imagination runs as a constant Latency in addition to the film here and evaluates what is visible on the first. One could say that refers to the Carpenter extradiegetischen room in his production with the same one. Striking at what I have called "slump" in Escape is that it is accompanied by two breaks on the narrative level: the brief disappearance of Snakes, who is recovering from an injury away from the action, and the coming of the day. We have to do so with a pronounced night film, the more important seem the few minutes that the audience Carpenter begrudge the brightness. The sky over Liberty Iceland, where is the control center from which the actions of Snakes Hauk is monitored by a ice-blue, entirely clear, but acting dead sky covers. This sky really is all that you get to see of the U.S. outside the prison walls, and it's enough just to illustrate the state of the country. There is a kind of eternal winter, the cloudlessness can not hide the approaching Apocalypse, but already her messenger. The inside of the prison, which is to be actually the "other" America is in fact identical with that already. This is one of the findings, the Snake in the end be persuaded to bring about nuclear war: there is nothing to prevent, because the proverbial "day after" in the form of the Manhattan Prisons already a permanent presence.

A: fascinating in terms of those of you so beautifully described artistic aesthetics and vision is the fact that we managed Carpenter, a world similar to creating an action comic, without that the production of characters and locations would seem less organic. Besides the part of joke, but basically still more marked by gloom backdrop, we are dealing with figures, all speaking names, just like a comic book have. There is the President of the United States of America, the only just, "The President", the eternally chirpy Cabdriver "Cabbie," the inventor "brain" that remain from Falk face Lee Van Cleef plays Police Commissioner Bob Hauk, which conspicuously "Hawk" means, etc. However, they are people of flesh and blood, after which the solidified final in the iconicity "Snake" Plissken at end appeals. He demanded in the course of the film again and again the use of his nickname, one he says at the end of the film, which is equivalent to the end of the world to Hauk ". My Name Is Plissken Snake Plissken, the anti-hero of the late Westerns , the untouchable strutting through the eschatological setting of a ruined Manhattan and himself in the fight scenes have barely move. When the amount of exciting gladiator fight in the Grand Central Station, where it can finally come to a systemic analysis, since each system has proven its fighters - the U.S. government Plissken, the prisoners of New York a 2.10 m wide Goliath - has not long Plissken on and rams - the clear superiority of his opponent - thus the brand-stocked first-leg in the soft tissues and finally in the back of the head. to take the dramatic 'break' Plissken for some time from the action and to play the movie for brief moments during the day, becomes a reference to the fact that in Escape from the world only a little bright moments knows and the day will need a temporary displacement of the night actually. The same we shall see in THE TERMINATOR.

FH: Exactly. It is very obvious that the day within the prescribed period of just under 22 hours is too short really. Also, it is distinguished from the symbolic charge of the movie: The night is the picture for the state of emergency, which houses the U.S.. But I would like to return to the character of Snake Plissken. His anti-hero status puts Carpenter actually very clever. It is before his first appearance of the security guards according introduced as an icon than a real security risk. If he shows up then, turns out He seems to be justified as a scruffy bum, to which the security apparatus no really. This continues later in the movie: Everyone knows him, although he's not a celebrity in the strict sense, but only a former soldier. This is based on the one worked out nicely at your comic thesis: In comics, as in the myth is indeed the size of the associated always with celebrity. Anyone who does something or represents is automatically known. The tricky at the rattlesnake is not to say that is exactly what this power is Plissken. What makes him ideally suited to the hero, which makes the anti-heroic from him? Snake has killed a tyrant, decided not to battle, and no Comrades rescued, but rather a crime, namely treason, committed. That makes him one of the most feared criminals in the U.S., but because it is these United States to a system of injustice, while a hero. A parallel open for other dystopian action film of the eighties, to Paul Michael Glaser 'RUNNING MAN.

A: Here is also a recurring theme at Carpenter and, like the non-hero to anti-hero we understand it today though. Although the definition of "hero" or "heroism" may be culturally different, they all have in common is that the hero at the right moment the right thing is doing and that it is characterized by skills, predestined him to others. This must, as in the case of Snake Plissken, optically not have to be seen, but a much more elemental side effect that can be found in all epics, whether it is the muscle-bound Samson or the diminutive David, is the resistance against authority. Whether the command of a sergeant in the battle, seen as senseless, to the defiance of the gods, that is the absolute only highest conceivable instance, the "hero" has a problem that, at least in the long term or until a certain point achieved is to subordinate himself. Significantly is the dry Response of the Captains in Carpenter's ASSAULT - ATTACK AT NIGHT, when the main character Ethan Bishop flirted so at the first night like trying to play the hero: "There are no heroes anymore. Only men who commands. "A time in which there are no more heroes or can not give, because everything, as in the totalitarian system of the rattlesnake," was brought on line, "is a dark time. Significantly Plissken is not locked up because of the refusal of the military command, but because he has tried to penetrate to a depot for nuclear weapons. A clear reference to the destruction that is inherent in the figure, and the end of the Film. Plissken has been against the system and, like all dissenters, he is also transported into the gigantic prison New York. The impotence of the system to think differently and acting is evident not only in that small lapses lead to life in exile, but also that the consequently large number are left to be offenders themselves. A structure and order they will no longer be constrained, a rehabilitation is impossible. Let them see for themselves how to cope. It guarantees them survival by case of periodic food in Central Park and backing up the outer walls by heavy military equipment. But did it, just as the people now is to own time, generates its own structure inside the prison walls. A colored man, in America, the eternally oppressed ethnic minority, is now the "Duke", who controls everything. Those who do not transition to the Dukes heard is either someone who belongs to a large mass of people who somehow have to see how they survive (like our middle class) or is the absolute last pack. The lower layer is in this world actually gone into hiding. The Crazies, feral cannibals living in the sewers, and sending one to everybody, even mighty destruction, fear.

FH: This anarchic, archaic element is one of the defining characteristics of the end film and combines it with the post-punk attitude of the New Wave of the eighties, which, as you have already said, not least by himself to the Third World War expanding threat of the Cold War were marked. This turns out in the back of the head of the apocalyptic end times film as anti-authoritarian pillar of action cinema of the eighties: Snake Plissken a John Rambo is diametrically opposed, despite many similarities. Where one seeks the home that is ready to receive him as a son, the other has long been accepted that there is nothing to find more. Plissken lives only in the moment. The apparent fear of death by injection, which he will miss the beginning gives way, within seconds of the willingness everything and everyone, including himself, to send to hell. And unite as the will to survive and longing for death in Plissken, rebellion and fatalism are the end times film right next to each other: In Escape from prison there is this state within a state in which there is the law of the jungle. Outside - but we can only guess - probably there is a similar sadness, at least, the state acts not as a sympathetic and humane in appearance. In contrast, however, established a literal subculture within the prison walls, just think of the vaudeville performances, events, the prisoners in an abandoned cinema. And as bleak and depraved the street canyons and their ruins are, they also act more alive than the symmetrical high-security wings of Liberty Iceland. As in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome is shown, it is more likely to believe that the archaic and bustle of Manhattan once gives rise to a new society, as the rigid and aseptic apparatus that surrounds it and simultaneously includes and excludes. That there will not do, of course, marks the dystopian elements of the film. The belief in a peaceful revolution of the 68s, which also belongs to Carpenter, at least ideologically, inspired, in Escape from a bitter resignation has given way: the weary hero, the world is shit, because a nuclear war, the situation can not much worse: More likely he has the opportunity to make a fresh start. Perhaps thanks to an idea that Snake's trip to Manhattan and encounters with people like Cabbie or brain has. His selfless heroism at the end is in any case is to seal the end of the world. But he does so well with humor.

A: A fascinating idea, and really the absolute epitome of the philosophical statement that is intrinsic to the genre of action movies. The (anti) hero is celebrating his selfless act in which it will send the world into hell. Through a reorganized structure will make this worry. Kurt Russell is leaving the scene right out of the image detail as possible to symbolize the saying, 'After me the deluge. And this will come. So amusing, so too loud laugh suggestive is the end of the rattlesnake, when the talking in a serious voice president of the United States will be connected via video conference on the Hartford-summit to the Russian and Chinese delegates via tape cartridge with the observations of scientists through the terrible audition effects of a nuclear war, so bitter outweighs the knowledge that the sudden from the cassette player urgent swing jazz, Cabbie has heard so much, the delegates will be little irritating laugh. At the petrified face of the President can see what has struck the hour. On the other hand, there is also the question of what a world, the fate of only a few makes dependent on a conserved tape, scientific explanations, even still has a right to exist?

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