Ex Machina
What is the name of Nathan's company?
Bluebook
What is Lacie's plan in going to Naomi's wedding?
To get her ratting up so she can get into a new place.
What is Rhetoric
The art of persuasive language. Using rhetorical devices and figures of speech to convey a meaning or message.
The heptapods say there are here to give weapon, what do they actually mean?
Give tool/language
Name all the characters in soft rain.
The House, the dog, the mice....
Turing test - to tell if you can tell that AI is a robot or not
What rating does Lacie need to get into her new apt?
4.5
The combination of two ideas or 'voices/sources'
Louise and Ian introduce themselves to the heptapods, and they learn that they have names too. What do they call the two aliens from that point on?
Abbott and Costello
There Will Come Soft Rains was Published what year? What likely inspired it?
1950 - the Atom Bomb
How does Ava talk to Caleb without Nathan watching?
She cuts the power.
Ret Thermostat has?
Blue Thermostat has?
Red - Whiskey
Blue - Coffee
What are Ethos, Pathos, Logos?
Credibility/character, emotion, logic
What is Dr. Louise Bank's profession? (Hint: it is why they hire her to try to communicate with the heptapods.
Linguist - Professor of language/English
When is Soft Rains Set?
2026 - August
What was Ava's real test all along?
To see if she could manipulate Caleb, lie, and demonstrate true consciousness through finding a way to escape.
Name of the Lacie's teddy bear that Naomi helped her make?
Mr. Rags
TEA structure
A way to organize/structure each section or paragraph. Topic/transition, Evidence, Analysis
When Louise goes to the shell to converse with the aliens, we learn that the flashbacks in the beginning are not memories, but something else. What were they?
Visions of her future
Describe the plot of Made of Meat?
Aliens come, probe a person, decide it is not worth it to meet meat - too fragile and temporary
We discussed ways this film could be viewed as feminist or not. Explain both arguments.
2. Portrays a woman who escapes her male captors through successful manipulation.
Why did Naomi really want Lacie to speak at her wedding?
It would play well for her rating to have a low 4 there as a close old friend.
What is the Bechdal test?
One test to see if a film or book is feminist. Created by cartoonist Alison Bechdal and applied to comics. The usual criteria of the Bechdel Test are (1) that at least two women are featured, (2) that these women talk to each other, and (3) that they discuss something other than a man
What does Louise tell General Shang over the phone to make him change his mind about the attack?
What is the translation of the words?
wife's last words - "In war, there are no winners, only widows".
Who wrote the poem that the house reads outloud? What is the poem?
Sara Teasdale -
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.