Homework due Tuesday 5/19

What does the film say about the role of scientific elites in society? Why? What scenes demonstrate this?

When watching The Thing I noticed how each "elite" such as the military and the scientist thought that their way of doing things/ solving problems were better. The movie to me showed that scientist thought they were better because they had more knowledge and that the military thought they were better because they had more authority. Although the military and scientist thought they would do a better job at getting rid of "The Thing" they could only do this if they worked together.

There were times in the movie that represented anxiety over science/ science getting out of hand. Such as when one of the scientist was willing to die just to keep some secrets.