PRAGMATIC LOVE: LESSONS TAUGHT BY ROBOTS
PRAGMATIC LOVE: LESSONS TAUGHT BY ROBOTS
Author(s): Maria GrajdianSubject(s): Film / Cinema / Cinematography, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: live-action cinema; animation; future/reality co-creation; robots versus humans; multidimensional species;
Summary/Abstract: The current analysis centers on the concept of “pragmatic love” and its three core characteristics – compassion, courage, commitment – as encompassed in three cinema productions belonging to the science fiction genre: Blade Runner (1982, director Ridley Scott), Baymax: Big Hero 6 (2014, directors Don Hall and Chris Williams) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017, director Denis Villeneuve). The analytical protocol pursues a two-step procedure: the definition of each of the three dimensions and its subsequent integration within the mediatic phenomenological experience. The three movies were selected due to their subtle, but convincing blending of Japanese and US-American elements (the former two) and the dissolution of these elements into a continuum of futuristic neo-noir aesthetics transcending conventional prerequisites of the prequel-sequel concatenation (the latter one). The conclusion outlines further potentialities of the concept of “pragmatic love” in everyday encounters as well as its ideological extensions into “awe” as both a necessity to action and a state of mind.
Journal: Synergies in Communication
- Issue Year: 1/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 430-442
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English