Posts tagged VIDEOGAMES
Episode 124 - Free Guy (Shawn Levy, 2021) (with Mark Bould)
Episode 124 - Free Guy (Shawn Levy, 2021) (with Mark Bould)

The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998) meets They Live (John Carpenter, 1988) in Shawn Levy’s science-fiction comedy Free Guy (2021), which marks the director’s first collaboration with charming Canadian Ryan Reynolds and is a film that confronts head-on contemporary anxieties around technology, choice, security, and artificial intelligence. Joining Chris and Alex to separate out their NPCs from their AI engines is Mark Bould, Professor of Film and Literature at the University of West England, and author of a number of books on the aesthetics, politics and philosophy of science-fiction storytelling.

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PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantHOLLYWOOD, DIGITAL, SPECIAL EFFECTS, VIDEOGAMES, LABOURComment
Episode 15 - Tron (Steven Lisberger, 1982)
Episode 15 - Tron (Steven Lisberger, 1982)

In episode 15, Chris and Alex log on to Tron (Steven Lisberger, 1982), a watershed moment in the history of computer animation and one that taps into the early electronic spectacle of digital visual effects within a Hollywood context. Representing the wonder of - if not the cultural anxieties surrounding - the newness of computers and virtual reality (as well as the growing popularity of videogames), the film reframes cyberspace as a complex three-dimensional fantasy world.

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PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantSPECIAL EFFECTS, DIGITAL, COMPUTER ANIMATION, TECHNOLOGY, VIDEOGAMESComment