DYSTOPIAN

FICTION
MOVIE ANALYSIS
1984
THEY LIVE
dystopia:
• A dystopia is a fictional society that is the
opposite of utopia.

• It is usually characterized by an
authoritarian or totalitarian form of
government, or some other kind of
oppressive social control.
• The term has been around since the 19th
century; it was coined by English
philosopher and economist John Stuart
Mill in 1868;
• but as a genre of fiction, it really took off
in the 20th century and became very
prevalent in the years after World War
II.
• Dystopian societies are undesirable or
even horrifying.
• Dystopian societies are usually futuristic
and fictional.
• Dystopian • Dystopian fiction
depictions can be comments on our
regarded as own society.
warnings.
• Dystopian and
• Dystopian fiction utopian concepts
is both about today are relative.
and tomorrow.
Keys to a dystopıa:

• Imaginary: dystopian stories reflect, not

depict contemporary society.
• Society: dystopian stories discuss major
tendencies in contemporary society.
• Fear: dystopias reveal and illustrate
potential and more or less plausible dangers.
• Majority: dystopias are positioned in
relation to conventional contemporary
values.
typical features of dystopian fiction:
• A background story of war, revolution,
uprising, overpopulation, natural
disaster or some other climactic event
which resulted in dramatic changes to
society.

1984: regime, war, poverty

They live: uprısıng agaınst poverty
• A standard of living among the lower
and middle class that is generally poorer
than in contemporary society.

1984: Big Brother and the Party

They Live: Factory owners, business men,
media and the people who co-operate
with them
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• Propaganda ıs used to control the
cıtızens of the socıety:
• Informatıon, freedom, and ındependent
thought are restrıcted.
• A fıgurehead or concept
ıs worshıpped by the
cıtızens of the socıety.
• Cıtızens are perceıved to be under
constant surveıllance.
• Cıtızens have a fear of the outsıde world.
• The socıety ıs an ıllusıon of a perfect
utopıan world.
 • A protagonist who questions society, often
feeling intuitively that something

A protagonist who questions society, often

feeling intuitively that something is terribly
• As dystopian literature typically depicts
events that take place in the future, it often
features technology more advanced than
that of contemporary society.

• Usually, this advanced technology is

controlled exclusively by the group in
power, while the oppressed population is
limited to a rather primitive technology.
• Dystopian fiction typically extrapolates
current trends and developments into the
future. It is not enough to show people
living in an unpleasant society.

• The society must have similarities to today,

of the reader's own experience.

1984: government
They Live: media, ads, the rich
• There is usually a group of people who are
not under the complete control of the state,

• the hero of the novel usually puts his or her

hope, although he or she still fails to change
anything.
• If destruction is not possible, escape may
be, if the dystopia does not control the
world.
 CINEMATOGRAPHY
• Extreme Long Shot
• Long Shot:
• Medium Shot:
• Close Up:
Lıghtıng:
 Mıse en scene:

• Torture, anger, questıonıng, dırth, dımly lıt

atmosphere
Fılm analysıs
Mıse-en-scene:
fade ımages of
the buıldıngs,
gestures,
Mıse-en-scene: tents, cold weather, broken
tv, two men watchıng ıt, Nada stops to look
 Sound

• 1984: marches,
• They Lıve: country, harmonıca