Disposal

pg.19 "Studies have shown that Solanum can still inhabit the body of a terminated zombie for up to forty eight hours. Exercise extreme care when disposing of undead corpses. The head in particular possesses the most serious hazard, given its concentration of the virus. Never handle an undead corpse without protective clothing. Treat it as you would any toxic, highly lethal material. Cremation is the safest, most
effective way of disposal. Despite rumors that a pile of burning corpses will spread Solanum in a cloud of smoking plague, common sense would dictate that any virus is unable to survive intense heat, to say nothing of an open flame."


Upon my reading of this passage, I thought that this author was writing about this topic in such a unique way. I've personally never read a book, like this one, that has been so specific towards the future and how to avoid it/live with it. Max Brooks is giving advice on the most effective way of disposing of a zombie after killing this already undead creature. I believe this falls under biotech/genetics, due to the fact that these creatures were derived from humans through their meddling with science.
The author gets his message across via imagery. His descriptions of the disposal of a zombie would make it seem as if he has experience in this area. Upon further thought, one can realize that Brooks can't possibly have experience in this area, because zombies don't exist. His use of imagery prompts the reader to put more faith in his word and follow his quest through this imaginary world.

Death Race

          
             This movie explores the idea of government corruption. In this movie, criminals are made to participate in lethal races for the enjoyment of the general population. This automatically brings to mind the stories of ancient Rome and the coliseum. In my opinion, if this ever occurs in the future, people will completely lose their morals. In this trailer, the woman says that the death races get more views than the superbowl. This is shameful to society, since these are human beings, who may even be innocent, and that they are deserving of respect and life.
             The director uses imagery to get this theme across. The trailer has this almost gray tint to it. The gray tint contributes to the feelings of melancholy that the audience feel while watching the movie. Also this, combined with the strong images of people dying in car crashes during the death races cause the audience to question their morals and whether they'd actually watch such a program!

Terra Nova

             This TV show focuses on the effects of what happens in a society where the government censors information. In my opinion, censoring is one of the worst things any government can do, because it takes away society's opportunity to fix the government's mistakes. In the show, the world is portrayed as this dim place where humanity has overpopulated and wasted all of Earth's resources. The government figures out a solution, by colonizing a new planet.
             The TV show creator chose a wonderful way to portray the theme n this trailer. This trailer goes from extremely gloomy to hopeful, when the humans get to the new land, to gloomy again, when the new society figures out that the government has been hiding things from them and that they'll have to create a new government. The trailer's way of purging the audience's feelings by giving them hope then ripping them away is genius. This gets the message of government corruption across in a brilliant way. Not only does it capture our attention, but it also keeps it with an extremely interesting storylin .

Wall E

             This film has the idea that humanity becomes so dependent on technology that they nearly disappear as a race. This seems counter intuitive at first, but upon further thought it's logical. It's happening already today! Kids are getting obese younger and spending more time watching tv or playing video games. In my opinion, the message is gotten across very clearly in later scenes were humans have degraded to obese vegetables with no attention spans.
             The director gets this across by using strong imagery in this trailer. The scenes are compromised of pretty much nothing. This vast field that Wall E is shown on is completely empty besides him. This impacts the human mind in a strong way, since we as humans don't want to see our race come to an end. This strong imagery combined with the clearly advanced robot, creates an everlasting impact on our minds.

Jason X

              In this movie, the author deals with the idea of biotech and genetics. Jason is an unstoppable who should've died several times in the movie were it not for the help of technology. I believe that although this movie is completely childish and unrealistic, the possibility of technology that keeps you alive forever falling into the wrong hands is very high. Humanity seems to have a problem keeping anything out of the wrong hands, as shown by situation like the world's atomic bomb ownerships and websites like wiki leaks.
             The director gets this theme across using a lame horror movie as his vehicle. In an attempt to scare the public into not developing technologies that can grant life or protecting them better, the director has made a movie that imposes fear into the audience. The director is, in a way, attempting to scare the public into making sure the circumstances of this film don't occur. The imagery and word choice in this trailer were extremely unhelpful towards getting this theme across. Had the author taken it more seriously or not made something so lame, he would actually have an interesting topic at hand.

Resident Evil

          This movie explores the idea of what would happen if humanity were to change into these crazed creatures. This falls under the biotech category, because these once normal humans are now freaks, because of a freak technological experiment. I believe that the government is too stubborn and greedy to refuse any experiment that promises to yield something extremely beneficiary to society. I believe that they wouldn't even question the health risks or consequence that could come from their decision to do so. I believe this based on several recent events, such as the war in Iraq, where the government so stubbornly stepped into a country that clearly didn't want us there.
           The director's message of technology creating a zombie apocalypse is delivered through the use of imagery. Along with the dark atmosphere, which seems to accompany every futuristic movie, their are also freaky creatures that pop up everywhere. These creatures serve as a warning to humans to not attempt to meddle with their bodies. The question of what it means to be human comes up when watching this trailer. We must learn to accept our own bodies, because when we mess with them, we may get something we really don't want, such as in Resident Evil.

Transformers: The Dark Side Of The Moon

                Transformers explores the idea of robots taking over the human race. This seems generic, but it's actually different than other robot domination movies, because these robots are also aliens. In the movie, these aliens try to take over the human race, while some of the robots protect us. I believe that the idea of our race being taken over is one that has much truth behind it. We, as a whole, are an ignorant and stubborn race. It is likely that when aliens show up in the future, we will anger them with threats or attacks, leading to the enslavement of our race. I believe that we'll never actually reach this point though, because we're wasting all of Earth's resources too quickly to last much longer.
               The director gets the idea of intergalactic war across through his use of imagery. All the explosions and the number of these aliens would cause one to think twice before ever purposely angering these creatures upon encountering them in the future. Even if there were few aliens, the sheer size of them would be terrifying. This serves as a warning to humans, who see Chicago in ruins in this movie. Don't mess with the aliens or they'll kick our butts.