Be Human
A coming of age short movie script that focuses on the process of humanizing androids through the Turing test
Be Human is an coming of age movie script, which was created as a fun side project after I finished my Science fiction narrative elective course.
The project is a script that showcases one scene from a movie short. Be Human was created using the Celtx script writing tool.
My roles in this project included: Writer. You can read Be Human here!
Synopsis
Dr. Seismal brings his newest android creation into an interrogation room, and begins conducting verbal tests. Dr. Seismal begins asking probing questions to the android, trying the find the humanity that this android has. The conversation between Dr. Seismal and the android Reilla unfolds the morality, convictions, and values that the android has.
Inspiration - Turing Test
The main inspiration for this script is the Turing test. The Turing test is a real experiment that is conducted to see whether or not a computer is capable of thinking like a human. The test consist of a human and a computer having a conversation, and if the computer can genuinely convince the human that they are also a human then that computer passes the test.
The narrative in Be Human is the opposite of the Turing test, where a human is trying to convince an android that they are human. I wanted to explore this idea because of the possibility of humans creating intelligent life that could one day live by us. The narrative shed a positive light on the possible behavior that intelligent life could have in the future, the story tries to reassure the reader that androids are people.
