Sci-Fi Similarity
One silly but amusing thing about futuristic sci-fi movies is that, even though its set 200 years in the future, or some alternative universe, etc… the people in it act just like people now, with the same accents, mannerism, etc. They often have more or less unchanged gender roles from now, the same sense of humour, the same cross-generation problems, the same macho images, etc.
Of course the whole idea of these things is fantasy, silly, inconsistent. Humans that fly, some huge death star, pointed eared logical aliens, etc. But as they create pretend consistent worlds, we can say some words about the silly inconsistencies in this pretend consistency!
For example, Luke Skywalker had exactly the same haircut as the average teenager in the USA in the mid 70s. Then, in 2002 when episode 2 came out, the teenage Annakin Skywalker miraculously had a haircut of that time too. What are the chances, huh?
Of course the reasons are so that the ‘normal’ young people of the movie audience can relate to the characters. If the long haired kids of 1977 saw Luke Skywalker with a teddy boy 50s haircut they would have laughed.
Another silly thing, they often have new words, like ‘lightsabre’, but they almost never have any new phrases, which is very odd. for example the phrase ‘tell it to the hand’ - if a person from, say, 1817 heard that they would be completely baffled about the meaning. so, if there is some sci-fi future world of 2217 they would definitely have a whole load of phrases that are baffling to us now, even if they are using English.
For example, there could be some scene where character A is planning some important mission to planet X and they say to character B just before they leave that ‘The eye is getting bigger’. And character B replies ‘Yeah. but the ground is still wet.’ We, watching this would be reacting: ‘Huh! what the hell does that mean?’ We would be confused. In fact if we watched a sci-fi movie or read a sci-fi comic from 2217 and the characters in it spoke with realistic language change factored in we would be confused by half of what they were saying.
One silly but amusing thing about futuristic sci-fi movies is that, even though its set 200 years in the future, or some alternative universe, etc… the people in it act just like people now, with the same accents, mannerism, etc. They often have more or less unchanged gender roles from now, the same sense of humour, the same cross-generation problems, the same macho images, etc.
Of course the whole idea of these things is fantasy, silly, inconsistent. Humans that fly, some huge death star, pointed eared logical aliens, etc. But as they create pretend consistent worlds, we can say some words about the silly inconsistencies in this pretend consistency!
For example, Luke Skywalker had exactly the same haircut as the average teenager in the USA in the mid 70s. Then, in 2002 when episode 2 came out, the teenage Annakin Skywalker miraculously had a haircut of that time too. What are the chances, huh?
Of course the reasons are so that the ‘normal’ young people of the movie audience can relate to the characters. If the long haired kids of 1977 saw Luke Skywalker with a teddy boy 50s haircut they would have laughed.
Another silly thing, they often have new words, like ‘lightsabre’, but they almost never have any new phrases, which is very odd. for example the phrase ‘tell it to the hand’ - if a person from, say, 1817 heard that they would be completely baffled about the meaning. so, if there is some sci-fi future world of 2217 they would definitely have a whole load of phrases that are baffling to us now, even if they are using English.
For example, there could be some scene where character A is planning some important mission to planet X and they say to character B just before they leave that ‘The eye is getting bigger’. And character B replies ‘Yeah. but the ground is still wet.’ We, watching this would be reacting: ‘Huh! what the hell does that mean?’ We would be confused. In fact if we watched a sci-fi movie or read a sci-fi comic from 2217 and the characters in it spoke with realistic language change factored in we would be confused by half of what they were saying.