Sci-Fi Genre

Treasure Planet 2002

Treasure Planet 2002

With such a wide array of genres to choose from, our minds are attracted immediately to what we find the most interesting and exciting. New innovations are not only great wonders, but also intrigue us and give us insight on what is yet to come. Hence, that’s why science fiction, or Sci-Fi for short, is one of the most popular and fastest growing genres in the film industry. Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life.

As sci-fi films contain mainly experiments of the future, many movies also merge past experiences with today’s fast growing technologies, such as Jurassic World; a movie which combines the pre-historic times of extinct dinosaurs with the 21st century using new technological advancements. The movie expresses what is known to be impossible, the return of extinct life, through regenerating DNA and creating a world with past, present and even what could be the future.

Jurassic World 2015

When watching a sci-fi movie, you expect to be amazed, intrigued and even astonished with what you have just witnessed, as you see innovations you never thought possible. Sci-fi movies can make you think twice, would there really be a time where we will be able to go to a theme park with actual dinosaurs as the main attraction?

The Matrix Revolutions 2003

Although film-makers do not like to associate their films with one specific genre, the sci-fi genre is not one to be overlooked. It’s noticeably the main theme of any sci-fi film. In the feature-length film, The Matrix, although made in 1999, it evidently shows the possibilities of futuristic developments, through travelling between two different worlds at a specific time, a sub-genre known as post-cyberpunk.

Treasure Planet 2002

Treasure Planet 2002

The film, Treasure Planet, depicts “the future from an 18th century perspective” (Ron Clements, 2002). Treasure Planet is an ingeniously innovative, nevertheless faithful adaptation of Robert L. Stevenson’s literary classic, Treasure Island.





Instead of roaring waves and forceful swells, the ship is hit by space storms, cosmic debris and a black hole. Rather than a peg leg and an eye patch, John Silver sports a mechanical leg, cybertronic eye and a right arm that functions like a high-tech Swiss army knife. Therefore, by altering a classic 18th century story of adventure to a modernized, steampunk world gives writers limitless possibilities.



Blu-Ray Disc, Treasure Planet 2002 by Disney Pixar Studios
DVD, The Matrix Revolutions 2003 by Warner Bros.
Screenshots from Jurassic World Trailer, Youtube.
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