I obviously ‘publish’ a lot of stuff on my blog. Some of a slightly useful nature, most of it not. The longer writings, that you may be able to actually derive something interesting from, I have gathered here. This is a mixture of old school assignments, rants and extended blog entries, put here for archival purposes.
Have fun, and feel free to contact me if you’re interested in discussing any of the things you find here.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Published online February 23rd, 2003 – Written Early 2001 – 22 Pages
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I translated this from Danish to get it out on the net, my love for both Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick’s works bid me to. Still today I am absolutely gobsmacked when I see Blade Runner. It’s simply a masterpiece of a movie. And Philip K. Dick’s ideas will warp your mind any time of day.
This is not a fully indepth analysis of the movie and the book. It’s as close as I could get under the tight size restrictions I had to keep it within (it was a school paper), so there are a few things that have yet to be put in there, but all the cream should have found its way in there.
Solaris
Published February 4th, 2003 – 14 Pages
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I was absolutely awestruck with Soderbergh’s take on this movie. So much that I spent 6-7 hours writing down my musings on the movie into some kind of coherent whole gathering up my thoughts, impressions and analysis of the movie. I would really like to hear from you if you read through it and have seen the movie.
Note: This essay is slated for an update at some point, as I have discovered new aspects of the movie during my second viewing. Of course I’ll never get around to updating it…
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Published August 5th, 2003 – 8 Pages
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Since I was first introduced to both the Terminator franchice and Cameron’s works through Terminator, I’ve been an avid fan. I consider in particular T2: Judgement Day to be one of the finest action and science fiction movies ever made and its script to be one of the tightest of its kind.
And while I and many others considered the ‘franchise’ to have been closed with the T2 chapter, others didn’t see it this way and elected to again open up the franchise with a new chapter which was released in 2003. I have many quarrels with this new entry into the series.