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  1. Genre stuff
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  3. Everything can be categorised into groups and subgroups often by comparing and discovering shared characteristics. We divide things based on their age, their appearance, their area of origin or any other thing that stands out. We often look at films this way, with the most common form of categorising being genres. Two films are described as being of the same genre if they share a theme in narrative, visuals, if they conform to a convention set by the movies that came before them. Genres transcend other factors such as country of origin or time period.
  4. Most genres have been established quite early. For science fiction the first feature length movie was Metropolis in 1927. The science fiction genre, as the name hints, is a hybrid between science and fiction, often including elements from horror or action films. Common themes are space exploration (which comes hand in hand with alien interactions), time travel, and futuristic technology. Just like in literature, in film the genre is often focused on exploring the humanity’s sense of importance, mortality or immortality, it can lend a hand with answering social and political problems by removing humans from the real life and asking these questions in a different world.
  5. The genre allows us to fantasise about exploring far beyond our planet and time in ways that are, in reality, impossible. Sometimes it does this by not respecting actual science and creating its own laws and conventions, establishing pseudoscientific tropes that can sometimes become defining for its subgenres. Due to the nature of the genre, which focuses on humbling humans, its movies are often a playground for artists to explore new technology and produce spectacles.
  6. A shot of the moon, half hidden in the darkness, mysterious and grey is the first thing we see as human desires and fascinations are being expressed in Destination Moon (1950). The theme of the movie is easily understood from the name itself. Inspired by a novel Rocket Ship Galileo written The titles are moving upwards over a painting of space, introducing Chesley Bonestell, a famous astronomy illustrator, often described as the father of modern space art, who actually painted the backdrop. He has worked on a significant amount of sci-fi movie, just like the producer George Pal and the composer Leith Stevens. They’ve collaborated with one another on various movies, all three working together again on The War of the Worlds in 1953. This might not be an obvious sign pointing in the sci-fi direction for the common audience member at the time, however these people would later become important in the sci-fi genre and therefore recognisable and a defining characteristic.
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  8. After the titles are over, we are introduced to the setting of a government facility. A spaceship launch test is in progress, the ship is taking off. It looks like it might succeed but then as quickly as it starts it ends, the rocket explodes, leaving the characters in the control room hopeless as they try to understand the failure. Destination Moon was released in 1950, 19 years before the first Moon landing took place. In the 1950 humans were not able to explore the Moon, our technology wasn’t good enough. We compensated in film, producing Moon themed sci-fi, showing off possible and impossible ways to get to the Moon. Spaceships are an icon in sci-fi.
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