When Ralph Waldo Emerson self reliance meets Ridley Scott in the "the Martian"

Abstract EN

By dint of the prompt advancement in the cinematographic sphere, it becomes an exigency for most of all filmmakers to create new audio-visual effects which make all their allure.

the new achievements in that field were attained thanks to previous literary basics novels that were deemed as the first reportative story-telling procedure including several brilliant artistic works.

science-fiction is indeed that specific genre where all those literary or cinematographic works converged.

one noteworthy sci-fi work is entitled the Martian of Ridley Scott which its basic themes are identical to Emerson's transcendentalism tenets and precisely that of his famous essay self reliance.

so the main objective of this research is to determine the relationship between Ridley Scott‟s film and Emerson's ideas and to figure out how these emotional themes and thoughts are mirrored through motion pictures.