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Valerian And The City Of Thousand Planets
This movie hit me hard with its deep thought on setting and it still reverberating in my mind . It emphasize a lot about the culture differences and the communication between races which resembles the current state of our country - Malaysia . The story tells about the adventures of two main protagonist Major Valerian and Sergeant Laureline as government agent undergo mission throughout the galaxies .
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Venture into the stories ahead
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Alpha - Home of 5000 Species |
Endless time ahead , Sound of Home .....
The
metropolis they live in has a vast climate and difference landscape in it . To
be more precise , it is not metropolis but a spaceship . As time goes by ,
spaceship docked with one spaceship continuing another . Each
spaceship has its personal climate in it . For an example , marine alien with
its aquatic way of surviving so its spaceship has the climate of complete
moisture and filled with sea . As this happen , different races with different
spaceship connected together . Hence , it became a humongous
spaceship with 5000 different races with the preferences of calling it ' Alpha
' . A name for the large city . The beauty of Alpha is that when you move from
a spaceship to another it became a complete changes of climate , culture and
peoples . In the early part of the story , the black market in a different
planet is introduced in a desert area whereby all is surrounded with sand . The
tourist that visits the place portrayed that they are lightly dressed due to
the dry and humid climate condition . In order to infiltrate , the
protagonist in the movie also blends in wearing light and breezy attire .  |
| Agent Major Valerian & Sergeant Laureline |
Civilization ....
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| Azin Mo |
What makes me overwhelmed is that the races in the movie . The
races is not just human , but also aliens that scatter across the world
seek a place which they would want it to called HOME ' . Over the centuries
,they shared intelligence and cultures among each other in order to find the
consensus between the aliens and the humans . There are few significant one
which are 'Omelite' a race that is
a race that is expert in technology and IT system .
'Azin Mo' a race that specialized in cellular materialization abilities
particularly producing any kind of organic cells . 4999 different
races and human live in one planet is a great setting for the movie . Each
of the races contributes to Alpha in order to maintain order and
peace . For example , the 'Azin Mo' be official doctor of Alpha and 'Omelite'
as the engineer . It portray the vast culture differences and the connection between them
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| The Infiltration |
All's Fair in Love and War . Where there's peace , there's always war follows .....
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society of Alpha is kept in peace and different races bonds together . They -
all races come to a consensus that all should live in harmony in the planet
Alpha . The war started when greed and selfish act of the ruler of Alpha
causing a whole planet vanished and the race 'Pearl' in the planet almost
extinct . Luckily for the Pearl , they managed to escape the near-death
incident . When that happened , the ruler - Commander Arun wanted to
close-up all his wrong doing in the past and tried to wipe off the 'Pearl' in
order to keep himself safe . 'The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the
world he didn't exist 'The
world has changed to a better future but not all the people in it .
What kept the setting astonishing is that the Pearl did not seek vengeance but
seek a new home instead .
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| Doghan Daguis |
In this film , all has his own
freedom . There is no restriction for people who live in Alpha . They can go
anywhere they wish to go except for certain place that a particular races wish
to stay within themselves and not with other races . For the people on Alpha
are free to roam around anywhere , this was demonstrated on a scene where this
race - Doghan Daguis( specialist as a information seller )
walking around the military base which is very peculiar . It portrayed that the
setting for this movie has a minimal law enforcement . As for the protagonist
of the movie , Major Valerian and Sergeant Laureline work for the
government as an secret agent are summoned back to safeguard Alpha -
home to species from thousand of planets . There are also refugee
'Bubble' a shapeshifter entertainer , a survivor of her planet forced to work
in a pub at slum market to entertain guest as a dancer . As we can conclude ,
the background has vast range of social life that are noticeable in the movie
. The setting of spiritual life in this universe is not a major
element as the species that are present are all atheism .
'Love Beyond Everything , It Precipitated The Hatred ' .......
The emotions do play a role in the
movie . The two main protagonist ' Major Valerian and Sergeant Laureline play a love-hate relationship whereby they are
actually in love but doesn't want to admit to it . The setting for this movie
is that there are freedom for emotions and love in this universe and all are
free to express whatever they feel to the world . The love between the two main
protagonist are prominent because that is what drive their will to move forward
, and continue their mission . Even though the story was set in the modern era
but nevertheless the human ethics still stay intact where people still know the
boundaries of good and bad which is portrayed when the
Commander Arun wipe out a whole planet in order
to achive his goals . The beauty of artistry is still present within
the universe where can be seen through the action of the protagonist is having
sunbath and chilling on the beach even though they are weighed with so much of
responsibility of keeping the world safe . Other than that , we can also notice
that they have slum market even in the futuristic world for them to enjoy beer
in the bar , trading and watch people dance
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PRESENT , FUTURE OR PAST , ARCHITECTURE IS STILL CRUCIAL
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| Pearl |
The
architecture indeed play a role in any movie as it helps to create different
atmosphere in different world . One of the illustration can be seen is that in
the planet 'Mul' which is fully beach landscape , the inhabitant's house is
rather short and and light structured . The structure of the
house blends well with the surrounding in term of climate and landscape , the
ventilation is clearly the best when you have a thatch material for a house .
Therefore , you don't need any further controlled ventilation such as fans and
air-conditioner . To emphasize on the society of planet 'Mul'
, the leader of 'Pearl' race live in a bigger house structure than the other
inhabitant in that planet . Some planet like the black-market area is
surrounded with the huge and tall walls to distinguished the holographic areas
that is projected when a person enter the black-market and the vast desert area
. The alpha is also a huge metropolis to begin with , it has different
architecture style in different regions . For instance , in the slum market ,
all the building are tightly binds together as it shape a route rather than
having a wide roads . Even though the story is focus on the adventure of the
protagonist , but the architecture element served as the backdrop in the movie
is also fairly important as it supports well to strengthen the world .
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| Planet 'Mul' |
Every planet
and areas has its certain characteristics of architecture element . Therefore ,
when the ships combine from one to another in Alpha . It became a vast
different of cultures and element which defines its own architecture
characteristics that are present in the Alpha . The metal and steel play as the
main big part of the material in futuristic world assuming that it is the only
material that are easily mined and most available at that time . For example ,
the outer part of Alpha is widely used on steel and metal only . There is also
some raw material which is the stones which is present in the planet 'Mul' .
For conclusion , architecture plays a part in creating a background that
support the storyline which the director wish to portray . It is also easily to
determine the time period by just setting the architecture element in the movie
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