Transcript Dystopia
DYSTOPIA FRIDAY - 3/3/2017 FRIDAY – 3/3/17 • Objective: Students will be able to create a presentation or essay that compares a form of dystopian control to a contemporary media example. • Please take a copy of the Dystopia in the Media Project • Complete through Question 12 of the Bell Ringer • Once you have completed the Bell Ringer, please get out a writing utensil and your notes DYSTOPIAS: DEFINITION AND CHARACTERISTICS • Utopia: A place, state, or condition that is ideally perfect in respect of politics, laws, customs, and conditions • Dystopia: A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. • Seen through the lens of an exaggerated worst-case scenario • Making criticism about current trend, societal norm, or political system WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR AND HOW DO WE KNOW WE’VE FOUND IT? Characteristics of a Dystopian Society: • Propaganda used to control the citizens of society • Information, independent thought, and freedom restricted • A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizen of society • Citizens • • • • are perceived to be under constant surveillance have a fear of the outside world live in a dehumanized state conform to uniform expectations. Individuality and dissent are bad • Natural World is banished and distrusted • The society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world WHAT IS BEING USED TO OPPRESS THE PEOPLE AND MAINTAIN THE ILLUSION OF PERFECTION? Types of Dystopian Controls: • Corporate control: one or more large corporations control society through products, advertising, and/or the media • Resident Evil, Robocop, Minority Report, Running Man • Bureaucratic control: society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials • V for Vendetta, Anthem, The Hunger Games, Brazil • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl4Gl33R1vg WHAT IS BEING USED TO OPPRESS THE PEOPLE AND MAINTAIN THE ILLUSION OF PERFECTION? Types of Dystopian Controls • Technological control: society is controlled by technology – through computers, robots, and/or scientific means. • Terminator, The Matrix, I, Robot • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbjX7FwCZa8&feature=youtu.be • Philosophical/religious control: society is controlled by philosophical or religious ideology often enforced through a dictatorship or theocratic government • Delirium, Divergent, Unwind THE DYSTOPIAN PROTAGONIST • Often feels trapped and is struggling to escape • Questions the existing social and political systems • Believes or feels that something is terribly wrong with the society in which they live • Helps the audience recognize the negative aspects of the dystopian world through their perspective MORE EXAMPLES OF DYSTOPIAN MEDIA • Avatar • The Island • Blade Runner • Elysium • The Maze Runner • In Time • V for Vendetta • Dredd • Children of Men • Repo Men • Equilibrium • The Giver • Total Recall • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes • Idiocrasy Even more can be found in your project description! • Robocop