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THEMES AND MOTIFS IN VICENZO NATALI'S MOVIE SPLICE (2009)Nenad Vranešević, 2013, undergraduate thesis
Abstract: Vicenzo Natali’s movie Splice intertwines science fiction with real science and sends us a message of what are the possible consequences of misusing our knowledge we gain as we walk towards our future. This idea of what can happen when man plays god or uses science for his own devices, without the necessary morality and ethics, has been used and re-used many times. In my diploma paper I will explore the origins of the “Mad Scientist” theme and how Natali reworked the idea to fit it into the modern world. With it I will also show how deeply rooted and wide-spread this theme is, using other authors and works to illustrate my point. Additionally I will focus on another important theme in the movie, transformation. This theme has also been used many times before and has today transformed into many different variations; however, all of them still have the same foundations.
Keywords: Vicenzo Natali, Splice, mad scientist, Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, transformation, Dracula, evolution.
Published in DKUM: 12.02.2013; Views: 1794; Downloads: 120
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