Neo-Hollywood : a broken utopia erasing the human spirit

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Authors
Stratton, Ty
Advisor
Dalton, Elizabeth
Issue Date
2020-05
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Thesis (B.?)
Department
Honors College
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Abstract

The questions tackled in this film script deal with those concerning representation and how fragile the barriers between reality and an act really are. In this thesis I wrote four scenes of a dystopian film and analyzed the fallout of a film-icon obsessed world. The script follows main character and actor, Gunner, who runs away from a Hollywood he no longer understands in 2090. Leaving could mean freedom, but the risk is that he dies at the hands of a disillusioned population who are incapable of viewing celebrities as people. At the same time, he runs from a cult-like troupe of actors who are ensuring his safety in a compound hidden from the rest of America. Inspired by Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, I continue his postmodern comments on representation and how meaning is steadily being dissolved from the human spirit.