Science Fiction Films. Science fiction movies tend to visualize things that could occur in the future or scientifically created creatures or catastrophes or foreign planets the possibilities are endless.

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If you're anything like me, you'll have found yourself--all too often—enjoying television shows and movies that try to include science or technology in the mix and wondering where did those roots come from and how did science fiction as a whole come to be?  It seems like an impossible thing to find out as the history of science fiction as the possibility of its origin is endless. However, exploring the history of science fiction movies is more like examining the fears and the hopes of the human race. Science fiction movies tend to visualize things that could occur in the future or scientifically created creatures or catastrophes or foreign planets the possibilities are endless.

Moreover, Science fiction have interested filmmakers since the earliest days of motion-picture making and until the 1970s, science fiction was preoccupied with unnatural creatures of various sorts that gave birth to a subgenre commonly referred to as horror or monster movies. In addition, the movies that had come before the 1970’s where part of the silent film era. In the silent film era, films were typically 1 to 2 minutes in duration and were shot in black and white, with some colour tinting. These films usually had a scientific theme and were often intended to have a funny feeling. An example of one short was Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon), created by French filmmaker and magician Georges Méliès in 1902 and is often considered to be the first science fiction film as it drew upon Jules Verne and H. G. Wells in its depiction a spacecraft being launched to the moon in a large cannon. As well another example would be….

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Since the 1970’s till now, science fiction movies have taken a newer perspective, as advancements in technology of changed the film industry. Now, film makers no longer have to fake effects and objects, instead they can cheat it by using computers to make something impossible, possible. An example of this would be the movie “the matrix”, in which they cheated the laws of physics by using technology as an tool to make the things in the movie look possible. In addition, the era of manned trips to the moon from previous years interested film makers from the 1970’s to 1990’s ...

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