Escapism

The painters Nicholas Poussin and Clade Lorrain were French painters that began the inclusion of landscape genre painting in France. Both artists took landscape painting and treated it as historical and moral lessons because of their religious focus, and emphasis on a more fantasy setting. Poussin with Landscape with St Matthew and the Angel demonstrates this idea in its most basic form as Matthew sits with an angel helping him read, in an open-air environment. Elizabeth Cropper states, that…

Markus Zusak’s novel ‘When Dogs cry’ and Sean Penn’s film ‘Into the Wild’ explore the protagonists journey through self discovery by utilising a range of narrative and film techniques expressing key concepts, conveying the adolescent's thoughts and emotions their character development. Both texts dysphoric perspective/ negativity/ lack of confidence and character Mental illness has become relevant to adolescents due to the increasingly apparent pressures society can easily inflict upon…

What might a person carry throughout their daily routine? A woman may carry her purse and a man may carry his wallet and phone. These objects are physical items which a person can carry, however, one may not think of the emotional or psychological burdens a person carries throughout their daily life. The stress of paying the bills is what someone can figuratively carry. So as the day goes by, in the back of their head they are thinking of the long hours they need to work in order to pay their…

Superhero films are based on adventurism and escapism that pertains to classic storytelling traditions and mythology. Most popular superhero films are built-in mythologies involving quests and special destinies for people who thought they were just ordinary people, and a consistent theme of a need to put faith in something larger than yourself. For this reason, I believe Wonder Woman is a great example of a superhero that is classified as contemporary mythology. Aside from Superman and Batman,…

At first, I wasn’t sure why golden light was coming through the two upstage doorways. As discussed in class, however, I thought that it was the outside world having some kind of hope or escapism from the decay of the family and careers. Specifically, people would leave to escape their family, meaning they were better off way from them. Furthermore, this justified their self-medication of alcohol not working for any of them. Finally, at the…

SA Swallows and Amazons, 1930. Up until the start of World War 2 England still had very rigid class structures, whereas the middle and upper classes were seen to be superior. They were better educated with clear social hierarchies. website 45-75 Paperbacks had still not been published. This fantasy book is about a holiday tale filled with the adventures of two families of children, holidays at this time would have been only accessible to the middle and upper classes. Both families appear to be…

Universal distribution chief Nikki Rocco had spoken out about the success of the original film which drove them to take on a follow-up film. "'Dumb and Dumber' was a beloved film on home entertainment, and people wanted to be entertained. It's escapism," Rocco explained. Narrowly prevailing over former box office top spot holder 'Big Hero 6', the PG-13 comedy film is a direct sequel to the first movie 'Dumb and Dumber' in 1994. While Carrey and Daniels have reprised their roles, Laurie Holden…

. In comparison to Dick, Perry is illustrated as weak and less masculine. Perry lies about his killings and power to build up his character to be as worthy of Dick. All Perry wants is for Dick to see him as equally “hard, as much the ‘masculine type’ as he considered Dick to be” (Capote 112). Similar to Joel and Idabel’s relationship, Perry seeks self-identification from Dick. Overall, all three characters are lost souls who struggle to find their place in the world. Additionally, Capote…

Today, television is an incredibly large part of basic American culture, with many people’s lives revolving completely around the little screens, or sometimes large, that dominate nearly every single living room in the modern family’s home. But, in the late 1940s, when TV was first introduced, this wasn’t the case. Television has always been on a rollercoaster between fads, and new technologies introduced throughout the decades. But one of the overall most influential decades for the television…

If comedy can predict the future, it just foretold Hollywood’s futuristic contraption to sit next to the Disney vault, move over Netflix. Two comedians just found a way to fictionally re-enjoy our favorite movies. Matt Braunger and Ron Funches star in the twelve-minute-long 2015 film Movie Mind Machine. Directed by Maureen Bharoocha and written by Eric Cunningham. Here lays a film which serves viewers a little bit of satire, culture, and some questionable but funny science. The plot of a Movie…