Carla Gugino

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    Ozymandias

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    The individual, the society, the god The Watchmen is an extremely interesting comic that shows a pessimistic view on society. I think it plays on what of the most interesting topics of morality, which is if morality is subjective, or if there is an absolute morality. One side sees the world as a black and white, his absolute code is unflattering and will never change. Rorschach is the character of extreme moral rigidness. Even when he is confronted with the world returning to war he decides that it doesn’t matter, it is better to stick to his moral principles than to compromise. Ozymandias sees the world threw the mantra ‘the ends justify the means,’ seeing the end product of what he has done more important than the action they got them there. What I think makes Watchmen so interesting is the third point of view, something much less used than the first two. I’ll call it the ‘passive observer’ for lack of a batter term. Dr. Manhattan is the passive observer, looking at the world threw the macro scale. He is similar to how the reader might be seeing the fictional world. He is distant from the concerns of humanity because he has become a being that has transcended humanity. By transcending even time he is able to see the world as a reader reflecting upon the book after reading it. Rorschach is the individual. He sees the world as individual actions, disconnected from the rest of the world. His moral character evolves over time into something complex yet simple, he sees it all…

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    developed by Chad Hodge. This tv series was released in 2015 and only has ten episodes David Lynch’s early 1990s series Twin Peaks was cleary an inpiration for Wayward Pines. Both of the series present their town and uncover mystery bigger than everyone who lives there. Wayward Pines also serves Lost-like plot line. The opening is exactly the same—extreme close up of main character’s eyeball, injured and wears a suit. Not only that, in Lost the group is trapped on an island while in Wayward…

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    In “Gerald’s Game,” the central character Jessie Burlingame (Carla Gugino), and her husband Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) arrived at a remote lake house in Alabama for a romantic getaway. They encountered a stray dog on their way to the lakehouse. Afterwards, Jessie calls out to the stray dog whom she saw earlier and fed him raw meat. When re-entering the house, she leaves the front door open. In an attempt to save their strained marriage, and rekindle their sex life, Gerald suggests that he should…

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    with From Dusk to Dawn. The story focuses on two brothers - played by George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino—fighting off vampires while stuck in a small border town. Rodriguez revisited El Mariachi territory with the sequel Once Upon A Time in Mexico (2003). Around this time, Rodriguez and his wife Elizabeth Avellan started their production facility—now known as Troublemaker Studios—near Austin, Texas. Over the years, he has chosen to work near his home, far away from the Hollywood scene. In…

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