I just wanted to say, I really liked this film, but I thought the title was entirely unrelated :/ Couldn't it have been titled better?
shareI find the title quite well represents the idea trying to get across. While Proteus is not a "real" demon, he represents a state of evilness beyond what is human, and yet is born out of humanity. As well the story mimics legends and old superstitions of witches being the portals through which the devil (a non-corporeal entity) could physically manifest itself on earth through offspring. Look at early films such as Haxan. Or even more recent ones such as Rosemary's Baby or The Seventh Seal, for similar stories but maintaining the religious theme. Demon Seed brings this idea to a modern setting in which the power of the technology we create is the new evil. Fear of technology was strong at the time because of fears born out of the Cold War. I think the title may seem silly in comparison to the way films are titled today, but for its time I find it quite well-suited.
sharePersonally I prefer the title R-O-B-O-F-U-C-K.
But that's just me...
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yeah, he was not evil at all. He was reasonable. He cares more so about the earth and it's many creatures than humans tend to do. If he was evil, he would have forced himself on her much more than he did and he wouldn't say please when he asked her to stay. haha
I think equating him with a Demon shows how silly we as humans can be in this new age of technology, that we are still occupying ourselves with imaginary things- like demons, and angels and pure evil vs pure good. We've had the science for a long time to push such irrelevant mythology where it belongs, but there is so much ignorance holding on to it. I always hope that sci fi films can rise to a level above religious connotations, but even if it doesn't people try to find some meaning to relate to Jesus or whatever. It's exhausting.
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Foreign releases titled this film "Proteus Generation" which sounds more literal than "Demon Seed" does, the latter intended to be more figurative.
shareIts always easy ripping on things in hindsight. It may not be a great title but I would love to see you come up with something better after all a film that is basically about a computer keeping a woman captive and then raping her so as to have its child is probably one of the more difficult screenplays to slap an appropriate properly title on. I think Demon Seed is perfectly fine.
shareThe title, "Demon Seed," is symbolic, poetic and expansive. Do movie titles have to be literal? Is there no room for creative expression and thought-provoking, unobvious word usage [anymore]? --"Proteus Generation" practically gives the entire plot away in two words. "Demon Seed" works well. "Demon" can have multiple meanings and so can "seed." Imagination and language are beautifully flexible living things. Let's keep it that way.
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First, it was taken from the literal title of Dean Koontz's book "Demon Seed".
Demon doesn't always refer to the religious supernatural being as we know it.
Its a descriptive term sometimes, used to describe an intense, otherworldly evil.
Not necessarily a separate being, such as demons from the Bible.
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