In The Heat The Night Analysis
The android, Ash serves his mistress, Mother, as Ian Nathan notes
Mother in turn serves her masters, the company, Wayland-Yutani, a corporate entity with an agenda that supersedes the morality of its crew. As Mother’s computer read out reveals Roger Luckhurst writes
This whole concept of corporate mistrust highlights social commentary of the time, the United States political scandal of Watergate, during President Nixon’s term of the 70’s. This was the big contribution from script revisions by producers Walter Hill (Director, The Warriors, 1979) and Gordon Carroll (Producer. Cool Hand Luke, 1967). Ash embodies the urgency of societies mistrust and understanding of capitalistic misdoings facing the 70’s. Ash (android), Mother (computer) and Wayland-Yutani (the …show more content…
Whilst Dallas is the guy in charge, a guy who doesn’t really want to be where he is and in so becomes a captain with little authority, reflecting the undermined authority of British politicians.
Popular cinema often reflects on social and cultural class. One theme being ethnicity. Sidney Poitier’s performance in In the Heat of the Night (1967. Norman Jewison) exemplifies the social and cultural issues of the time in U.S. history. The main theme of the film is racism that is so fierce and perverse it highlights the time perfectly in US history and the Civil Rights Movement.
In 1968 racial tensions in society would again be reflected on, and have its boundaries pushed in popular culture. Star Trek’s television episode Plato’s Stepchildren (1968. David Alexander) would indeed embody Star Trek’s tag line with the first televised interracial kiss between Nichelle Nichols character, Lieutenant Uhura and William Shatners, Captain Kirk, albeit to the sensation it would stir in the Southern Bible belt counties of the United
Mother in turn serves her masters, the company, Wayland-Yutani, a corporate entity with an agenda that supersedes the morality of its crew. As Mother’s computer read out reveals Roger Luckhurst writes
This whole concept of corporate mistrust highlights social commentary of the time, the United States political scandal of Watergate, during President Nixon’s term of the 70’s. This was the big contribution from script revisions by producers Walter Hill (Director, The Warriors, 1979) and Gordon Carroll (Producer. Cool Hand Luke, 1967). Ash embodies the urgency of societies mistrust and understanding of capitalistic misdoings facing the 70’s. Ash (android), Mother (computer) and Wayland-Yutani (the …show more content…
Whilst Dallas is the guy in charge, a guy who doesn’t really want to be where he is and in so becomes a captain with little authority, reflecting the undermined authority of British politicians.
Popular cinema often reflects on social and cultural class. One theme being ethnicity. Sidney Poitier’s performance in In the Heat of the Night (1967. Norman Jewison) exemplifies the social and cultural issues of the time in U.S. history. The main theme of the film is racism that is so fierce and perverse it highlights the time perfectly in US history and the Civil Rights Movement.
In 1968 racial tensions in society would again be reflected on, and have its boundaries pushed in popular culture. Star Trek’s television episode Plato’s Stepchildren (1968. David Alexander) would indeed embody Star Trek’s tag line with the first televised interracial kiss between Nichelle Nichols character, Lieutenant Uhura and William Shatners, Captain Kirk, albeit to the sensation it would stir in the Southern Bible belt counties of the United