"{Sandy Lake, Manitoba, Population : 200}" "{Meet the people of Sandy Lake in..}" "{Planet Weather Control}" "{initializing sound board}" "{initial tests indicate unit ok}" "No matter where you are in the world Get to a TV" "You're tuned into the world society This is Big-Time Television" "The Future has imploded into the present." "In great cities of fire and steel The poor work the engines of industry." "As their masters look on, the line between man and machine begins.. to dim" "From the underground, voices rise up A rebellion" "Cyberpunk" "{The Cyberpunk Educator}" "{Created by Andrew J. Holden}" "{Narrated by Professor George Mentore} and EVE 2.0" "Welcome to the Cyberpunk Educator I am your host, EVE 2.0" "In this film we will examine Cyberpunk films of the 1980's as an expression of your cultural and literary heritage" "We will define the politics, monsters, and saviours of the Cyberpunk world and we will define Cyberpunk as a uniquely tragic form of art" "First, some previews of Cyberpunk films in the 1980's" "Please.." "I want to explain, just stay tuned to Bigtime." "More later, lat, lat, more later." "if it's metal?" " Surround by living tissue!" " Oh right, right.." "This is great stuff." "I could make a career out of this guy." "You see how clever this is?" "How it doesn't require a shred a proof?" "Most paranoid delusions are intricate, but this is Brilliant!" "Why were the other two women killed?" "Most of the records were lost during the war." "Skynet knew almost nothing about Conner's mother." "The full name, where she lived, all they knew was the city That Terminator was just being systematic" "Well, lets go back to one other thing" "Look!" "You have heard enough." "I have answered your questions, now I have to see Sarah Conner!" "Why am I talking to you?" "!" "Who is in authority here?" "Shut Up!" "You still don't get it do you?" "He'll find her!" "That's what he does!" "That's all he does!" "You can't stop him!" "He'll wait for you, reach down her throat, and pull her fucking heart out!" "{Terminator 2 :" "Judgement Day}" "It's not a dream you moron, it's real." "I know the date it happens!" "I'm sure it feels very real to you." "On August 29th, 1997, it's going to feel pretty fucking real to you too." "Anybody, not wearing 2 million sunblock is going to have a real bad day, get it?" "!" "You think you're safe and alive, you're dead already." "Him, you, you're dead already!" "This whole place, everything you see is gone!" "You're the one living in a fucking dream Silverman!" "Cause I know it happens, it happens!" "I'm much better now" "{Blade Runner}" "There was an escape from the Off-World Colonies, two weeks ago." "Six Replicants, 3 male, 3 female" "They slaughtered 23 people and jumped a shuttle" "Commerce." "Is our goal here at Tyrell..more human than human is our Motto." "Rachel is an experiment, nothing more" "We began to recognize in them" "Death" "A strange affliction." "Well, I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction" "I want more life." "Fucker." "3 dead police officers. 1 critically injured." "Police Union leaders blame Omni Consumer Products, OCP," "The firm which recently entered into a contract, with the city, to fund, and run, the Detroit Metropolitan Police Department" "Old Detroit has a cancer." "That cancer is crime." "And it must be cut out, before we employ the 2 million workers that will breathe life, into this city" "Come quietly." "Or there will be trouble" "(background computer voice" " Electronic Malfunction, Shutdown)" "I guess we're not going to be leaving now, right?" "Which way is it to the landing gear from here?" "this way!" "Which way?" "Straight ahead and left!" "Bishop!" "Do you read me?" "Come in, Over!" "Which way now?" "That way." "No wait!" "This way!" "Vasquez, Move!" "It's in here, this way here!" "We're almost there!" "Newt, wait!" "Long ago, there were people who tried to gain control of that power" "That is, all of the governments requests" "But they failed in their attempt, and it triggered the fall of Tokyo" "And that power is.." "A-Ki-Ra" "Look there he is!" "Impossible!" "Is this for real?" "{Mad Max}" "(sign) Highway Sector 9 Deaths this year : 59" "{Mad Max 2 :" "The Road Warrior}" "The Lord Humungous!" "The Warrior of the Wasteland" "The Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah!" "I am gravely dissapointed" "Again, you have made me unleash, my dogs of war" "Look at what remains" "Nooo.." "Tell him nothing!" "Two days ago I saw a vehicle that would haul that tanker" "You want to get out of here?" "Talk to me" "{Mad Max 3 :" "The Road Warrior}" "All our lives hang by a thread." "Now we've got a man waiting for sentence" "But this is the truth." "You take your chances with the law" "Justice, is only a roll of the dice, a flip of the coin, a turn.. of the wheel" "Who are you?" "We're the waiting ones" "Waiting for what?" "Waiting for you" "From out of the nothing the looked back, and Captain Walker Hollered "Wait, one of us will come!"" "(group) Wait!" "One of will come!" "And somebody did come" "(chanting) Walker..." "Walker..." "Walker..." "The Bible is the most important book in Western Culture" "It describes the reason of being for humanity, and the world we live in" "It's characters span the range of the literary imagination" "And it's laws have spanned empires" "To understand art as an expression of the Western world, we will start here" "{Seven Deadly Sins} The Roman Catholic Church lists Seven Deadly Sins" "Which condemn a soul to hell" "Lust and Gluttony are the lowest two." "And we was move towards the worst, we move upward on the human body, from the physical, to the immaterial" "{lust, gluttony, laziness, greed, anger, envy, pride}" "The deadliest transgression is pride" "Pride, is the sin of Lucifer, the angel called Dragon, who lead a war against God" "In Cyberpunk film, we see this character moving upwards, towards a confrontation with great power" "What they ascend we call the {Great Chain of Being}" "Forged in the hierarchy of the Roman State" "The "Great Chain of Being" is a business model of the Western universe" "Atop it, sits god, below him, angels {holy-pastoral :top} {unholy-demonic: bottom} at the middle of the chain, Mankind {holy-pastoral :top} {unholy-demonic: bottom}" "Below, the world of animals and nature {holy-pastoral :top} {unholy-demonic: bottom} and finally, the world of Hell {holy-pastoral :top} {unholy-demonic: bottom}" "Yaweh, God, made a garden called Eden and he put a woman, where he had formed and they were both naked and not ashamed." "After eating the forbidden fruit, the eyes of both of them were opened" "Yaweh God found them in the Garden, and Yaweh God said to the woman, what have you done?" "For Yaweh God sent him from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground, from which he was taken" "The story of Adam and Eve represents "tragic action"" "{tragic action} Downward movement on the "Great Chain of Being"" "Movement into the Demonic World, where man is unhappy and imprisoned" "Adam and Eve's fall from grace, is just one of these stories from the bible" "The Israelites fall into the world of slavery" "Daniel falls into the animal world of the Lion's Den and Jesus falls from the Crucifix, into death" "The redeemer of this downward movement on the "Great Chain of Being" is best exampled by Jesus," ", a romantic hero." "He returns from death, and saves humankind" "{mysterious birth} The redeemer-hero typically has a mysterious birth" "{evil king} In order to hide him from a king, whose power is threatened in the future" "So, he's hidden away, returning one day, to free his people, usually in some sort of battle" "This redeemer-hero is charged with the protection of the pastoral world" "The world of innocence, good, children, and most importantly," ", the fertility and life of the land" "The Greeks have a character like this in their stories, Persephone" ", a god of Nature and Life, who is kidnapped by the God of the Underworld, Hades, and pulled into darkness" "Only to rise again, and re-appear, in Spring" "The action of Cyberpunk film is that of tragedy the movement down into the demonic" "I cannot self-Terminate" "You must lower me into the steel" "No" "I'm sorry John" "No!" "I'm sorry" "No stay with us, it'll be okay, it will be okay" "I have to go away" "No don't do it!" "Please don't go!" "I must go away John" "No!" "The Greek understanding of Tragedy stipulates that it is an inevitable componet of human life" "This often-stoic culture recognized tragedy as interwoven with the fabric of duty and justice but it puts no special blame on the tragic victim" "The bible does" "Tragedy is the result of sin" "Heaven holds the scales of life, and decides who must suffer" "Sodom burns for the sins of it's inhabitants" "The tower of Babel falls, for the pride of it's builders" "Man enters hell for breaking God's law" "If you are not careful to follow all of Yaweh's laws, then the following curses will befall you" "Though you will get engaged to marry a woman, another man will rape her" "Yaweh will take delight in ruining and destroying you" "He will affect you with hemmorieds, scurvy, itch ulcers, boils, tumors, madness, blindness, confusion, drought, mildew, and wild animals will attack you, and your dead body" "The Holy Bible (please consult your doctor, before breaking God's law)" "When we discuss tragedy in Cyberpunk film a little later, it will be important to keep in mind the conflict of these two tragic modes" "There are two images of the world in Western culture:" "The Pastoral and the Demonic" "On the great chain of being, they describe the proximity of the subject in question, to God" "The 'Pastoral World' is holy and describes an existence blessed by God" "The Demonic describes an existence condemmed by ultimate power" "In this painting, we see the pastoral and demonic worlds in opposition" "On the right, inhuman, shadowed soldiers fire into an unarmed crowd which is lit in darkness by God's holy light" "The hero has his arms outstretched, as the figure of Christ" "This is what Western culture does: diving the universe into two parts" "Black and White, Pastoral and Demonic, Hero and Villian" "To understand Cyberpunk film, we must understand the pastoral and demonic representation of man's experience in nature, technology, and society" "{garden land}" "{blue planet, act 1}" "{Pastoral World of Nature} The 'Pastoral World of Nature' is the world of Eden, and of creatures blessed by God a world abounding in magic, fertility, and life" "{Demonic World of Nature}" "The 'Demonic World of Nature' is the world of the hunter, and the hunted" "Man is only flesh, trying to survive an inhospitable environment" "A Wasteland" "Man is swept through existence by a world that does not care whether he lives or dies" "In the darkness of nature are the symbols of Satan:" "The Monster, the Leviathan, the Dragon" "{Pastoral World of Technology} The 'Pastoral World of Technology' is a world, where in a city of light, man and machine are friends" "I am president, Robot President" "Dear Robots all over the world, we have suffered for a long time as slaves of man" "But Man cannot live without Robots" "We want to build a world where Robots and Man can live together, sharing our suffering, and our happiness" "{Demonic World of Technology} The 'Demonic World of Technology' is the city at night, towers built upon a foundation of pride and sin" "{prison..." "labyrinth} It is the world of the prison, and the labyrinth" "{tower of evil} In the center of the metropolis, is the tower of babylon, the home of the demonic king" "(sign: "Atomic Cafe")" "{Pastoral World of Society}" "We'd like you to come to the temple with us later, that is, if you're not too worn out, from your recital" "Yes, Papa" "If only your words were true" "I hate to kill you" "You seem a decent fellow." "I hate to die" "begin" "time to get ready for your nap -don't you just love them to pieces?" "One day, while preaching, he was smitten by love" "{loving family} The 'Pastoral World of Society' is the world of the supportive and loving family" "A world of easy social relations, and individual innocence" "{Demonic World of Society} The 'Demonic World of Society' is a world of slavery, poverty, and war" "It is a world where authority is mad, and the persecuted sane" "It is the finding of this court of inquiry, that warrant officer, E. Ripley" "You don't know what you're doing" "Get some restraints in here now!" "You don't know what you're doing!" "{chaos, illegal sexuality} Biblical law is replaced by social chaos and illegal sexuality" "A reminder:" "It is every man for himself" "{combat for entertainment} In place of noble duels, we have combat for entertainment" "Cyberpunk Film portrays nature, technology, and society, as all existing in the demonic world" "It is a portrait of humanity trapped within darkness" ":30 Intermission (stretch)" "{...} We can see four primary plot lines, or mythos, in the Western imagination" "{holy (pastoral)} {unholy (demonic)}" "{Comedy" " Spring} Comedy, is the myth of Spring" "{Comedy" " Spring} After a brief detour in a darker world, it emerges as a portrait of a happy and fertile humanity" "{Romance" " Summer} Romance is the myth of summer" "{Romance" " Summer} The hero moves into the darkness on a quest, in which he prevails" "{Romance" " Summer} Returning his society to the pastoral" "{Tragedy" " Fall} Tragedy, like Romance, begins in a pastoral setting, but the hero becomes trapped in the demonic" "{Tragedy" " Fall} He is unable to return is society to a state of grace" "{Irony" " Winter} The lowest point on the Great Chain of Being is Irony, which chiefly, is a parody of the romantic mythos" "{Irony" " Winter} Irony takes place in a dark, lonely setting" "{Irony" " Winter} Irony does move at one point to the top of the Great Chain of Being" "{Irony" " Winter} But it does so only that it may reveal the holy world as an illusion, and return to an even darker place" "Four seasons of the year" "Four images of life on Earth" "Four plots, describing the relationship of those images" "{Comedy: the myth of spring} Comedy is the myth of Spring" "It involves young lovers blocked by unfair rules or laws, and a cast of interesting friends, who wish to help them copulate" "Eventually, it is discovered that the hero has a previously unknown status, such as a 'king in waiting' and the lovers are allowed to marry" "In this 'Cheers' episode, the blocking action of an old law is modesty" "Which prevents Diana from entering the 'Bostons Best Barmaid' contest" "She gets over it." "But since this is a sitcom, she is not allowed to unite with her potential lover, until possibly, next week" "{...} Although comedy does bring about resolution of a conflict, the threat presented the pastoral world is often too dark, for the levity of a comedy to be maintained by it's characters acceptably" "That's why we've called this special meeting of the world's greatest powers" "We'll begin with the delegate from Scandanavia" "All we know so far is that our enemy is a robot stegosaur" "Like all robots, it must be controlled by human beings, but we don't know who those human beings are, or what they want" "We think the robot will be back" "We think a gang of international terrorists is responsbile for wanting to create destruction on a grand scale" "Anderson, do you have any idea who the terrorists are?" "Sorry to say, we have no idea of who they may be" "Even INTERPOL has not positively identified them" "(mummuring) Interpol doesn't know who they are!" "Then we are in trouble.." "Well Anderson, what are we to do?" "Wait for them to strike again?" "I'm afraid so." "We are completely in the dark about them" "This is not the work of terrorists" "Dr." "Brighthead, what do you know of this?" "It's the work of Galactor" "Yes, Galactor." "Galactor is not a human being, he's an alien from space, who has come to conquer the earth" "Good Heavens!" "Where has this Galactor established his base?" "We don't know that yet." "But he has established a base here on earth, and we'll find it" "How Dr. Brighthead?" "That alien could establish a base anywhere on this planet" "G-FORCE will find it" "What is this G-FORCE?" "A secret organization." "Five young agents." "They're all smart with backgrounds in science" "They're tough." "And they all can fly" "{Romance:" "The Myth of Summer} Romance is the myth of summer, and it's primary concern is dragon-killing" "But first let us clarify that when we use the term 'Romance', we do not mean this:" "{...} But this, the quest of the romantic hero, who must venture into darkness, to kill a dragon, and return the world, to the pastoral" "{Romances begin in an idyllic setting} That is where the plot starts." "Romance begin in an idyllic setting" "The action revolves around a young man of mysterious origins who occupies a position of low-standing in society" "{hero is a young man who embodies the pastoral} He embodies the 'Pastoral World' - he is humble, patient, and throughly good in character" "{...} Typically, he is close to a kindly old man, who senses an amazing destiny, within the heroe's grasp" "But only advises him how to act properly" "{...} In the most undisplaced stories, the hero is Jesus, who represents the pastoral so fully as to heal by touch alone" "As I stated earlier, the Romance begins in the pastoral, moves down into the demonic, and then returns to the pastoral at it's ending" "This is done through the context of a quest which the romantic hero must undertake" "The quest involves making it through a labyrinth, to a dark city, where, in the center, an evil tower is guarded by a powerful dragon" "{trials of hero prove identity} Along the way, the hero wrestles the strongest giant, defeats the best swordsman, and wins other victories, which suggest to the audience that the hero is far more than his apparently humble beginnings have implied" "{...} The goal of the quest is to free a representation of the pastoral, which is being held hostage" "We often see this in the figure of a woman forced to marry an evil king a child kidnapped from it's cradle, or just a woman tied up" "As we approach the end of the quest, the hero must confront the dragon, so he enters the dark tower and finds him" "{hero is injured} but the hero is injured in some manner" "And it is at this point in a romance, when the good of the world, the pastoral, seems the most threatened, that something very special happens" "{romantic identity provides victory over evil} Overcoming injury, the romantic hero recognizes their identity, and that, by itself, provides them with victory over evil" "This is something we see everytime a superhero puts on their mask the recognition of romantic identity" "And so the dragon is defeated, the evil tower falls, and with it, the demonic fades back into the recesses of hell" "{The return of the righteous king} The 'Pastoral World' is restored, which is usually symbolized by the return of the 'righteous king'" "And just at the last minute, Spider-Man crashed through the door and saved me, he saved me!" "{Tragedy: the myth of Autumn} Tragedy is the myth of Autumn" "Aristotle tells us that tragedy began as an ancient form of art, known as the 'Satyr-Play' in which, an angry God would crash a party of drunken, bestial revellers, to punish them for some offense against the Gods" "This is where Cyberpunk Film belongs, in the realm of vengeance" "And we see this image, over and over, in these films, as a 'more than human' character walks through a party, seeking a violent objective" "Umm Yeaah." "Macho Man Randy Savage, intercontinental heavyweight champion, was in a state of Shock, when Ricky the Dragon Steamboat came back, yeah.." "{Satyr: arrogant, swarthy, tricky} But this time, I will not only embarass you, not only pin you with the 1-2-3 count" "{Satyr: arrogant, swarthy, tricky}" "But this time, I will put you out of wrestling for good." "Oh yeah, I am lord and master of the ring" "{Satry: arrogant, swarthy, tricky} -and you're going to find that out, when we go another, right now!" "Ok 'Ricy the Dragon Steamboat'." "Somewhat special, George the Animal Steele in your corner, but some say this could be your last shot, at the intercontiental heavyweight title" "{Vengeance God: focused, clean-cut, honest}" "My last opportunity." "Randy Savage, the day has finally come." "The minutes." "The seconds." "We have reached our moment." "{Vengeance God: focused, clean-cut, honest}" "As we climb into the ring, we clash like two titans" "{Vengeance God: focused, clean-cut, honest}" "But there will only be one winner." "One winner Savage" "This dragon is breathing fire." "This dragon will scorch your back" "I will come away with the championship belt, and see new horizons!" "{Tragic hero: self reliant, alone} The tragic hero is a king, or authority in this world, but they rule entirely by their own power." "They are alone" "Like the Romantic Hero, the Tragic Hero also has a quest, which moves him downward into the demonic world" "The Romantic Hero, like Jesus, retains his goodness, but the Tragic Hero does not" "He becomes integrated into the demonic landscape" "The 'Pastoral World' retreats, and as the plot advances, we begin to question, whether the hero, is actually good at all" "{Tragic Quest:" "Innocence to Experience, Good to Evil} The Tragic Hero is never able to reconcile their original innocence with their new experience and we see them now as an instrument of vengeance." "They become cold machines, driven to excess" "Their desire for revenge outweighs all else" "As we said earlier, the Tragic Hero, like the Romantic one, must quest downward into hell, and rescue some image of the Pastoral" "{pathos, death struggle} At the bottom of the great pit, the hero approaches the devil, and the theme of pathos, the death struggle, begins" "The hero walks forward into near-certain death." "They meet the devil" "It is at this point in a Romance, that the hero discovers their identity, and defeats evil, through a miraculous suspension of natural law" "Something like this happens in Cyberpunk Film, but in a very different way" "One of the key characteristics of the Tragic Hero, as mentioned before, is their desire" "They seem to have some goal, something that they want more than anything else" "The Tragic Hero is mostly silent." "And they seem to be quietly fixated on this objective" "{excessive desire : hyper moron} In Classical Greek Tragedy, it is this excessive desire, called "hyper moron" which pulls two great states into the Trojan War" "So, whereas the Romantic Hero is identified when things are at their worst, by their use of holy magic to save the world," ", the Tragic Hero is identified when things are at their worst, by their "hyper moron" - the display that they will do anything to achieve their goal" "{Romantic Hero" " Power of Identity} {Tragic Hero" " Power of Desire}" "They walk so far into hell that they can never go back, and they become wraiths in the demonic landscape, driven by vengeance" "In Cyberpunk Film, they become Machines" "After the great battle, the tragic hero is recognized as moving too far from the pastoral to ever return" "{tragic hero fades away} So, they move forward into a wasteland, unable to see what lies ahead of them" "{tragic hero fades away} they are blind" "We know, the future doesn't necessarily proceed along a single course there ought to be a future we can choose it's up to us to find it" "this you knows, the years travel fast and time after time I done the tell" "but this aint one body's tell, it's the tell of us all and you got to listen it, and remember, cause what you hears today you got to tell the newborn, tomorrow" "I'is looking behind us now, into history back" "I see those of us that got the luck and started the haul for home and I remembers how it led us here and we was heartful cause we seen what there once was" "one look, and we knew we'd got it straight those who had gone before had the knowing and doing of things beyond our reckoning even beyond our dreaming time counts, and keeps counting" "and we knows now, finding the trick of what's been and lost aint no easy ride but that's our track, we gotta travel it and there aint nobody knows where it's gonna lead still in all, every night we does the tell" "so that we remember who we was, and where we came from but most of all we remembers the man that finded us" "him that came the salvage and we light the city, not just for him, but for all of them that are still out there" "cause we knows, there'll come a night when they sees the distant light, and they'll be coming home" "(for Byron)" "{Irony: the Myth of Winter} Irony, is the myth of winter" "{militant satire} It can fairly said that the key characteristic of the ironic mode is militant satire;" "; a sense of looking down on mankind from above" ", watching the pathetic flaws of a vainglorious humanity" "being the most demonic of the seasons and modes, Irony often parodies the pastoral themes of comedy and romance, as unrealistic, and manipulative" "Cyberpunk film uses Irony by incorporating these parodies into it's larger tragic structure" "{world operates by unholy law} painting a world that operates by unholy law" "following the law, and fighting for a government, is moved from the heroic terms of romance, and revealed in Irony as unquestioning obedience, and blind patriotism" "I'm as bored as a pacifist pistol!" "When are we going to see some action!" "?" "Well George, I strongly suspect that your long wait for certain death is nearly at an end.." "Surely, you must have noticed something in the air?" "Well, yes of course, but, I thought that was Private Baldrick" "Unless I am mistaken, we will at long last be making the final 'big push'" "That one we've been soo looking forward to all these years" "Well, hurrah, with highly polished brass knobs on!" "About time" "It's back." "Big is back" "Because bigger is better. 6000 SUX, an American tradition!" "So, what I want to know is, how did we get, from the one case of affairs, to the other case of affairs?" "Do you mean, how did the war start?" "Yeah" "The war started, because of the vile Hun, and his villanious empire-building" "George, the British Empire, at present covers a quarter of the globe" "while the German Empire, consists of a small sausage factory in Tanginiki" "I hardly think that we can be entirely absolved from blame on the imperialistic front" "Oh no!" "No sir!" "Absolutely not." "Mad as bicycle.." "I heard that it started when a man named Archie Duke, shot an Ostrich, cause he was hungry" "I think you mean it started when the Archduke of Austro-Hungary got shot" "No, there was definitely an ostrich involved, sir" "Well, possibly" "But the real reason for the thing, is that it was just too much effort not to have a war" "By Gum this is interesting!" "I always loved history, Battle of Hastings, Henry the VIII and his six knives, all that" "You see Baldrick, in order to prevent war in Europe, two colossal superblocks developed" "Us, the French, and the Russians on one side" "and the Germans and Austro-Hungary on the other" "the idea was to have two vast opposing armies, each acting as the other's deterrent" "that way, there could never be a war." "but this is sort of a war, isn't it sir?" "Yes, that's right." "You see, there was a tiny flaw in the planx" "What was that Sir?" "It was bollocks" "So, the poor old ostrich died for nothing." "Why can't we just stop sir?" "Why can't we just say, no more killing, let's all go home?" "Why would it be stupid just to pack it in sir, why?" "Now, now!" "You just stop that Conchi-talk right now Private!" "It's absurd, it's bolshevism, and it wouldn't work, anyway" "Why not sir?" "Why not?" "W, w, why, why wouldn't it work?" "It wouldn't work, it, it wouldn't work. err.." "Now you just get on with polishing those boots, alright?" "And let's have a bit less of that lip." "Think I managed to crush the mutiny there sir" "To think, in just a few hours, we'll be off" "Is it time for that big operation?" "This may be the most important decision of your life" "So come down, and talk to one of our qualified surgeons here at the {family heart center}" "We feature the complete Jarvic line, Series 7 Sports Heart by Jensen" "Yamaha, you pick the heart!" "Extended warranties, financing." "Qualifies for Health Tax credit" "And remember, we care" "Don't forget your stick Lieutenant" "Bravo Sir, wouldn't want to face a machine gun without this" "Listen..our guns have stopped" "You don't think" "Maybe the war's over" "Maybe it's peace!" "Hurrah!" "The big knobs have gathered around the table and yanked the iron out of the fire!" "Thank God, we lived through it!" "The Great War, 1914-1917" "Hip Hip, Hurrayy!" "I'm afraid not." "The guns have stopped, because we're about to attack" "Not even our generals are mad enough to shell their own men" "they think it's far more sporting to let the Germans do it" "(project hope)" "Ultimately, we often feel that what we see in heroism is less than it should be, and what see in {the pastoral is secretly dangerous}" "In Akira, we see a failed attempt at a romantic hero, being attacked by his own toys" "In Blade Runner, we see a parody of the romantic hero's ending unification with his bride" "In Mad Max, we see a partner so untrustworthy that he is chained to a log, and, and duels, where, at the moment the hero should claim Exalibur, and win the battle, Excalibur, runs out of gas" "In the opening scene of Aliens, we visit a demon-infested underground city, named "hope"" "(Hadley's Hope)" "And in Robocop, we see this:" "Red Alert." "Red Alert." "You crossed my line of death!" "You haven't dismanted your MX stockpile" "Pakistan is threatening my border!" "That's it buster, no more military aid!" "NUKEM:" "Get them Before they Get You!" "Another Quality Home Game from Butler Brothers!" "Ronald Reagan, who liked to dress in the clothes of the Romantic-Cowboy-Hero, is the subject of unending parody in the 1980's" "(president from hell)" "{Punk:" "Music of Irony} And Punk, one of the most ironic forms of music ever created, makes a point of parodying itself as well" " it's a beautiful world we live in/ /a sweet romantic place" "beautiful people everywhere/ /the way they show they care" "makes me want to say/ /it's a beautiful world" "it's a beautiful world" "it's a beautiful world" "for you...for you....for you..." "it's a beautiful world...(repeating)" "And now, the Dr. Seuss Bible!" "One day God said, "this is what I will do" "I'll send down my son, I'll send him to you!"" ""To clear up this Humpity-Bumpity Hullabulloo" "His name will be Christ and he'll never wear shoes, his pals will all call him the king of the Jews!"" "He didn't come in a plane, he didn't come in a jeep, he didn't come in the pouch of a high-jumping Voveep" "He rode on the back of a black Sassatoo, which is the blackiest creature you ever could view" "He rode to Jerusalem, home of the grumpity Jews, where false prophets were worshipped, some even in twos" "There was Mirry Von Mir, and Gengis VoVooze, the one you could worship by taking a snooze" "Christ spoke from a mound, which is a pile of ground, and people gathered around without making a sound thus he spake" "Sin and Socks, Socks full of Sin, how do we quiet this Jehovity din?" "Do unto others as they do unto you, that includes you, young Timothy Foo" "One Pharisee said to another he knew" "What shall we do with this uppity Jew?" "We can wash him in wine, and make him all clean, and into Sam Ziddles Crucifixion Machine!" "Twirl the Gawhirl, and release the Ganeese" "And in go the nails, as fast as you please!" "And it is said that he said as they bled, "Forgive them father, for they know not what they do"" "For they walk through this life, in toe-crampity shoes" "Whooo, youuu?" "Amen" "{women in 1980's film} The main purpose of women in 1980's film is to be kidnapped so the male hero can save them" "This is the classical understanding of gender;" "men are hard, bound to honour by war women are soft, and represent emotion, and love of the family" "They are emissaries of the pastoral, living symbols of peace and love" "Jesus, despite his status as a male romantic hero, is also linked to the classical feminine in this way" "And Jesus on the cross, women in chains, and other symbols of this type are often used by governments to paint themselves as the romantic defenders of the pastoral" "The term the U.S. government uses "homeland" is a derivation of "motherland" the placement of the classical feminine image within borders" "{for the motherland}" "Cyberpunk film has a more mixed portrayal of women the traditional feminine roles are retained, for the traditional reasons" "{women linked to the masculine / demonic} But we also see women characters linked to the more traditionally masculine world of steel and vengeance" "Sarah Connor, for example, a character in the Terminator series is constantly caught between her desire to return to the traditional pastoral role she once occupied and her belief in the necessity that she adopt a traditionally masculine, demonic, one" "(police 01) The main purpose of minorites in 1980's film is to be shot" "minorities are given a lesser status on the 'great chain of being' than the dominant group and in films produced by that group, they play demonic roles" "this is a video from the 80's rap group "NWA" or "Niggers With Attitude"" "if you turn down the volume and notice the images, what you see is demonic nature, technology and society." "The demonic world" "These scenes could be from George Orwell's '1984'" "But we also see a similar mythos to Cyberpunk in a heavy use of tragedy and irony" "and we see the most politically cogniscent groups recognize this similarity between the emerging musical genres of 'punk' and 'hip hop'" "(some trust in chariots and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD, our God)" "So what is Cyberpunk?" "What are these films that meander their way through a dark city somewhere in the future?" "{Cyberpunk film} We have established that they are tragedies, with strong ironic content" "Now we will examine their politics" "Enough!" "Look at the big picture!" "You're all pawns of corrupt politicians and capitalists!" "{satanic theme} We see a satanic theme in 'Cyberpunk', the tragic hero's confrontation with the controller of the action" " God" "you were responsible for the deaths of the colonists!" "wait a second..." "You sent them to that ship!" "I just checked the company log, directive 6129, signed Burke, Carter J!" "This is what we call {"demonic inversion"}" "the championing of demonic traits as a method of confronting God, and the hierarchy God has created" "We see the heroes of Cyberpunk attack the strongest modern symbol of hierarchy, the corporation" "Corporations and Governments constantly advertise their prescence as protectors of the pastoral world" "They warn: a darkness encroaches upon us, do what we say, or all is lost!" "{power structure as romantic protector}" "In vacation time, we must be ready.." "to do the right thing" "the atomic bom" "Duck and Cover!" "Cover!" "Just as your own family should.." "a thin cloth helps protect them" "Even a newspaper.." "So we are taught over and over, the government is the romantic hero, and we are good" "But Cyberpunk confronts this through what is called 'demonic inversion' the demonic hero is celebrated, and irony is used to paint the anti-power as more desirable" "this makes it easier to understand the gangster rap, heavy metal, and punk movments," "{demonic inversion; bad is better than good} all of which proclaim, yes we are bad, and that is better than being good" "We see this proclamation most clearly in the final moments of cyberpunk film" "quite an experience to live in fear isn't it?" "that's what it is to be a slave" "{POP QUIZ} Over the next few minutes, try to identify the genres, archetypal characters, and symbols we have discussed ...one step closer, that's what exxon people say one step closer, at the end of every day cause were dedicated to finding energy for you energy, for a strong America..." "...energy, for a strong America it's a goal within our reach, that can help our fellow man!" "... ...energy for a strong America... (Exxon Headquarters:" "Houston, Texas)" "(Monday, 9:50 a.m)" "(profitable genocide) (your rule is over)" "(deny conformity) (paradise is beyond)" "(we will not negotiate) ...It's time to live!" "Revolution Action!" "... ...Revolution Action!" ".... ...Revolution Action!" "..." "Things feel empty lately" "You have put your dreams to sleep Malcolm" "Perhaps in the sub-anal-retentive phase the relocation of your head inside your rectum has indeed invoked feelings of wholeness" "There's something wrong out there Sir!" "What do you mean?" "Everybody's losing their faces!" "We really ought to investigate Macolm" "...Revolution Action!" "..." "(be realistic and demand the impossible)" "(you are invalidating this enterprise)" "(why are you doing this to us?" ")" "(we don't know what you are talking about)" "(perhaps you are referring to this)" "The future has imploded into the present" "In great cities of fire and steel the poor work the engines of industry as their masters look on, the line beween man and machine begins to dim" "It is 19th century Britain" "William Blake "Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night"" "Mary Shelley "I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves"" "Coleridge "Beware, Beware!" "his flashing eyes, his floating hair!"" "Byron "a third of life is passed in sleep"" "Wollstonecraft "the mind reshapes itself to the body"" "P. Shelley "Rulers who neither see, nor know.."" "Godwin "Government is an evil, a usurpation..."" "Wordsworth "Little we see in nature that is ours, we have given our hearts away"" "At the beginning of the industrial revolution, when human and machine are first becoming inextricably linked we see a group of writers called "the romantics" emerge to popularity in Britain" "{revolutionary writers of romance and tragedy} despite their label, their works concern themselves of tragedy equally with the romantic mythos they are anarchists, feminists and one of them, a pregnant 19-year-old woman named Mary Shelley would write a story that would create cyberpunk, and define the modern age" "that story is Frankenstein it is a tragedy, the story of a man, so possessed by desire" ", or "hyper moron" that he creates life in an attempt to cheat death" "his pride puts himself, like the devil, or the Greek Prometheus, before God but the combination of man and machine lead to tragedy" "this is what we see in Cyberpunk film; the tragic unification of the soul with the demonic order of technology" "you may not like what you're going to see" "it's really good to see you again Murphy.." "Murphy had a wife and son, what happened to them?" "well after the funeral.." "she moved away" "where did they go?" "she thought you were dead" "she started over again" "I can feel them" "but I can't remember them" "leave me alone" "So what is cyberpunk?" "tragedy, irony, the unification of the soul with the machine the proclamation of the demonic but ultimately it is the story of a change we all make in life; the movement from pastoral to demonic" ", from youth to age, from innocence to experience ...gave my heart an engagement ring..." "...she left everything everything I gave her..." "...oh, sweet 16 Built a moon for a rocking chair..." "...never guessed it would rock her so far from here Someones built a candy castle for my sweet 16..." "...Someone took that candy girl and drew her in Someones built a candy castle for my sweet 16..." "...Someone took that candy girl and drew her in I'd do anything for my sweet 16..." "...I'd do anything for that runaway child a memory can burn you, a memory gets colder as people can..." "...they just get older said sweet 16 well I see it's clear my baby..." "...that you are all through here someone's built that candy castle for my sweet 16..." "...someones took that candy girl and drew her in someone's built that candy castle for my sweet 16..." "...someones took that candy girl and drew her in well I'd do anything for my sweet 16..." "...yes I'd screw anything for that runaway child get up in the morning sweat over you..." "...get up in the morning sweat over you get up in the morning get over you..." "...get my leg over, leg over, sweet 16 that runaway child, oh, sweet 16..." "...runaway girl gave my heart an engagement ring..." "...she took everything everything I gave her..." "...sweet 16 built the moon for a rocking chair..." "...never guessed it could rock her far from here someones built a candy castle for my sweet 16..." "...somone's built a candy brain and took it in someones built a candy castle for my sweet 16..." "...someones took that candy girl and drew her in well I'd do anything for that sweet 16..." "...I'd do anything for that runaway child... created by Andrew J. Holden" "Dedicated to:" "Risa Mandzuk and Yusef Eldak" "Special Thanks:" "Dr. Larrick, Dr. Mentore, Etal" "Based on the work of:" "Northrop Frye, William Blake" "Music in the Cyberpunk Educator includes works by:" "suggested authors:" "Northrop Frye, Michel Foucault, Alon Confino" "This film is the work of Andrew J. Holden, if you liked it, please consider supporting his next one at the website above:" "You may share this film with the world as you see fit." "Please do not use it to promote capitalism, as it may cause the film to explode and/or become self-aware we have the technology we have the power" "Want to translate these subs into a different language?" "We'll help- visit the site forums!"