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Tag Archives: Mythology
Weekly Mini-Review: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Story: In a society of limited birthrate, a couple whose son is in a coma adopts the first robot child ever designed to feel love. When the couple’s son reawakens, the robot boy (guided by a literal belief in fairytales) … Continue reading
Posted in Review
Tagged Action movie, Androids, Critical Analysis, Kubrick, movie, movie review, Movies, Mythology, robots, Sci-fi, Screenwriting, Spielberg, Thriller
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Weekly Mini Review: The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
Story: A young martial arts movie geek finds that he’s destined to save ancient China as its savior. Basically, The Last Starfighter with Kung Fu. Review: Those who watch this just to see Jackie Chan perform his usual stunning choreography … Continue reading
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Tagged Action movie, Critical Analysis, Martial Arts, movie, movie review, Movies, Mythology, Superheroes
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Weekly Mini-Review: Avalon High (2010)
I’m going to break with precedent here and forgo the screen grab because the phrase “Da Mouse is litigious” has been ground into my subconscious. Story: A girl with King Arthur scholars for parents finds herself attending a conveniently named … Continue reading
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Tagged Disney, feminism, girl power, movie, movie review, Movies, Mythology, television, TV
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Weekly Mini-Review: The Color of Magic (2008)
Story: A failed wizard is forced to guide a guileless tourist through a magical land, during which time they meet ridiculous versions of familiar fairytale characters/creatures, save the world(s), and come out as better people. Review: Judging this as a … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, Critical Analysis, movie review, Movies, Mythology, Screenwriting, television, TV
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Socio-Political Symbolism in Dracula
Robert Sklar said the horror movies of the 1930s, like the 1931 film Dracula, expressed the public’s “fear for the survival their society and pleasure at seeing someone… vent his rage at it” (179). Rather than venting rage, one could suppose that it was more along the premise of seizing personal power over society Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis
Tagged antihero, Bela Lugosi, Critical Analysis, Critical essay, Dracula, film, film noir, film student, Film Theory, Mythology, Screenwriting, Thriller, Vampires
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Film, TV, & Modern Media as the New Mythology
In the 1988 mini-series “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth,” one of the ideas Campbell explores is that fictional media (TV, radio, movies, etc) have taken the place of traditional mythology (religious texts/rituals/verbal histories) in the American culture. He further posits that this new mythology is insufficient to support the American psyche in the same way as ancient religions. Is this so? Continue reading
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Tagged Critical Analysis, film student, Film Theory, Movies, Mythology, Religion, television, TV
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