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Phillip K. Dick is well known for inspiring some of the greatest story worlds ever put on screen, and Minority Report is no exception. But the design of the technology isn’t the most important part of the story world. The concept of Precrime—arresting people before they’ve actually committed a murder—is the important part of Minority Report’s story world; the futuristic cars, jetpacks, and illogically transparent screens are just cool. In this video we compare three versions of this story—Philip K. Dick’s original short story from 1956, Jon Cohen’s 1997 script, and Scott Frank’s final script—to explore how each tries to establish the philosophy of the story world. We look at how they attempt to persuade the audience to believe in the system of Precrime, and examine how the story world itself becomes the antagonist of the story. Let’s take a look at Minority Report.
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Of course I have free will, I wasn't given a choice.
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There’s an aspect to the film’s end that never sat right with me. The problem with pre-crime wasn’t about free will, but what they did with the attempted murderers. They put them away for crimes they did not commit. Considering at that point in pre-crime, almost all murders were crimes of passion, the perpetrators could instead be given some extensive counseling (and would probably be grateful that they were stopped in time).
That only leaves one ethical matter left: is it worth drugging and enslaving a few gifted kids to save hundreds or even thousands of lives?
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The gaping hole I never understood about this story, was the idea that if pre-crime could not be seen to work 100% of the time it should not be used at all for fear of punishing the innocent.
Sure that makes a sense....but why not keep pre-crime running....but just remove the punishment element of the system?
so you still get to intervene and potentially save lives... but no one ends up sleeping there life away for a crime they didn't actual get round to committing.
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The feeling u get when u see a new lessons from the screenplay is indescribable
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The concept of "pre-crime" reminds me of a series of anime that I enjoy very much, at least the first and third season. It's called "Psycho-Pass", and it takes place in a future where a system that can read the mental state of people has been established. Every person gets assigned a "hue" and "number" (called a "crime co-efficient") that may change depending on the circumstances. A person that somehow gets over 100 in "crime co-efficiency" is to be stunned and transported away on sight, while people over 300 gets marked for immediate execution by "Enforcers" and their "Dominators".
In this world, the future is not preordained, but the concept of "pre-crime" still exists. I can highly recommend the first season of it.
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I randomly watched this movie 2 days ago. I think I willed this video into existence.
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On your point of delivering exposition, I think Annihilation does this brilliantly. For example, when Natalie Portman's character is being interrogated by Benedict Wong, he asks her how her and the group stayed in the shimmer for so long despite the amount of food not being enough for that time period. This single line tells us how long the characters stayed there and that time and space works differently in that area. Even Natalie Portman's reply, that she doesn't remember eating, tells us a whole lot of the effects of the shimmer. I find it to be brilliant writing.
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Severely underrated Cruise, Spielberg, and sci-fi flick
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This movie is so underrated. The first 15 minutes (not to discredit the rest) is so well shot and choreographed and entertaining and, I mean, damn...
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Love Minority Report, feels strangely underrated these days
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i watch videos like these when i want to feel good about procrastinating
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The concept of exposition In movies always fascinates me. Do you have a favourite exposition scene Michael?
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The precogs knew Burgess was going to kill himself; they lied about it so they'd be set free.
We saw that the precogs had abilities way beyond predicting murders... I like to think they set up John Anderton and caused all the events of the movie.
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Hello Michael. There's a compelling alternate theory that I came across on IMDb many years ago, and not only does it change everything, but also shows Spielberg's having his frequent sentimental cake and eating it too:
When Anderton is about to be placed in cryogenic suspension and asks "Will I dream?", the caretaker answers "In here, all your dreams come true".
After that point, every one of Anderton's urgent wishes come true and all conflicts are resolved. Too neatly in fact, including a reconciliation between Anderton and his estranged wife, which makes it highly plausible that this all occurred in his dreams, not unlike Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) at the end of Brazil. Except that unlike Terry Gilliam, Spielberg never quite broke the poker face, didn't blink although he did slightly twitch with that exchange between the caretaker and the too-tidy-for-comfort ending.
The ending, the REAL ending, might be much, much darker, but we are still following events from Anderton's perspective, and he's out cold for who knows how many years, while pre-crime has become national policy. Yikes.
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The universal message of Minority Report is a great one - a group of people will defend anything if it is successful for them. Anderton only questions the system when it turns on him. Channels Roald Dahl’s, “The matter with human beans is that they is absolutely refusing to believe anything until it is in front of their own schnozzles.”
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Colin Farell could be in a Mission Impossible
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Phillip K. Dick’s conceptual work is amazing — so happy you took the time to deconstruct the various improvements in the narrative’s evolution from one story channel (novel) to another (screenplay). As always, top notch work, Michael!
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Such an under-appreciated film. I’m thankful you’ve brought this sci-fi classic to a new audience and reminded those of us who like it that it’s a film worth revisiting.
Great work, as always. You talent, you!
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Man, I love getting notifications for your videos!
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4 years ago
Minority Report asserts that humans have free will—what do you think?
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