After Effects "All You Zombies"
Sharlene
•
1m 0s
A recent project using Adobe After Effects, inspired by the title of Robert A. Heinlein's most amazing short story, 'All You Zombies'. "
All You Zombies" © 1959, originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1959.
The story also inspired an awesome film starring Ethan Hawke. Predestination (2014) is a stylish time-travel movie exploring the paradoxical nature of time travel. http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/ethan_hawke/filmography.html
"This short time travel story of Heinlein’s appeared some 18 years later than 'By His Bootstraps' with which it bears much in common. It is considered by many to be the ultimate in time travel stories.
"A young man who appears to be feeling very sorry for himself tells his life history to a bartender. He started out life as a homely girl, (yes I said girl), growing up in an orphanage and vowing never to have children out of wedlock and abandon them as she apparently had been. In spite of her good intentions when she grows up she succumbs to seduction by a young man waving around $100 dollar bills and who promptly leaves her behind afterwards. Unfortunately, she has become pregnant and in due course gives birth to a baby girl. The baby is kidnapped and disappears forever or so she thinks. To compound her problems, the doctors who delivered her baby finds out that she has both sets of reproductive equipment, the female parts of which have been pretty well ruined by the pregnancy and so they remove these and turn her into a man. The man becomes a writer of women’s confession stories and some years later finds himself in the bar where he tells his story.
"The bartender is more than he appears to be. He is an agent of a time traveling service and is there to recruit this young man into the same service. He baits him by offering to find for him the man who had been the cause of his/her 'ruination'. He gives the man money, and takes him back in time leaving him there to find his quarry. The bartender then goes ahead a number of months and kidnaps that same month-old baby. He takes her back 19 or so years and leaves her on the doorstep of an orphanage. The baby, of course, subsequently grows up to be the girl/man of the later story. The bartender then returns to where he left the young man and finds him to pick him up. The young man is in a state of shock basically since he now knows that not only that "he" was the man who had seduced himself when he was a girl, but that the bartender is also a much later version of himself. The bartender then takes him into the future where he is left to be recruited into the organization. The bartender returns to his own base and reflects on all of the events in his life." http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/works/shortstories/allyouzombies.html
"With its intricate chronology of events, this cerebral sci-fi thriller navigates through multiple twists of fate as the story’s tragic key character is gradually revealed to be self-created entity trapped within a closed loop in time. Written and directed by the Spierig brothers, Predestination stars Ethan Hawke as a temporal agent who stops crimes before they happen, Sarah Snook as an androgynous writer known as 'The Unmarried Mother', and Noah Taylor as the Temporal Bureau’s mysterious boss Mr Robertson." http://www.astronomytrek.com/predestination-2014-explained/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/predestination/
Here's a couple more films starring Ethan Hawke that I've enjoyed:
The Purge (2013) http://www.aceshowbiz.com/movie/purge_the/
Lord of War (2005) http://www.aceshowbiz.com/movie/lord_of_war/
Gattaca (1997) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
Dead Poet's Society (1989) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097165/
Up Next in Sharlene
-
After Effects "Lights, Camera, Shadows"
FITV 2040 After Effects Lights, Camera, Shadows
-
The Donor (2015)
A short film created for the UCD Theater, Film and Video Production program https://vimeo.com/cudenvermedia; the short film features the multi-talented Sisters Ullom - Sarah, as Dr. Sarah Summers and Tatiana, and Elle, as Annie. Tyler M. performs the role of Annie's husband, Ted. Many thanks to S...
-
Sandy Hook & Aurora Shootings in Dark...
Bizarre evidence that the Sandy Hook massacre in Connecticut may have been staged has surfaced in the form of YouTube videos which point out the words “Sandy Hook” were written on a map that appeared in the most recent Dark Knight movie, a startling revelation given the deluge of mysterious coinc...