Differentiate Science Fiction (Si-Fi) and Fantasy genre is always huge challenge for audiences. Subgenres Si-Fi fantasy movies, a deliberately blended genres of magic and sciences, is confusing audiences to differentiate Si-Fi and Fantasy. For examples is The Avengers (Joss Whedon, 2012). Si-Fi is enhancing the current scientific trends or defines future but Fantasy is not based in reality presupposing that magic and mythical/supernatural creatures exist. In The Avengers, IronMan is a hero who armed by high-tech weapon, but Thor is hero who actually a mythology characters. Mixture of cyborg (subgenres of Si-Fi) and Heroic fantasy (subgenres of Fantasy) blended for enhancing the entertainment to audiences. However, it did bring argument to film makers in differentiate films such as Avatar (James Cameron, 2009), The Lord of the Rings; The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001) and etc.
Although Si-Fi Fantasy is confusing, but according to quoted by Miriam Allen deFord (by Aldiss and Wingrove, op. cit.) "Science fiction consists of improbable possibilities, fantasy of plausible impossibilities." Confusion is reduce and cognitive is more clear.
Bibliography:
Science Fiction, (N.D.) Retrieved from http://www.treitel.org/Richard/sf/fantasy.html
Julie E. Czerneda, (May, 2006), Retrieved from http://www.czerneda.com/pdf/Science%20Fiction%20and%20Fantasy%20Workshop%20for%20Librarians.pdf
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