Back to the Future: The nostalgic yet progressive appeal of wizards, hobbits, and Jedi knights. This is a fun article on the role of fantasy in our culture.
The nostalgic yet progressive appeal of wizards, hobbits, and Jedi knights
i want to eat your brain. i bet it would be delicious. pretty girl with brains. i’m in like.
http://www.conscious-shell.com/blog
I was thinking the other day that these movies and others like them (e.g., Matrix) are really about the tension between power and time. At some level, power=preparedness. But being prepared takes a lot of time. There is great frustration and impatience caused by that simple fact. In all three of the movies surveyed in the article, the main character traverses the span between ordinary existence and extraordinary power in a relative blink of an eye, with only a minor nod to the work it takes to make such a jump. So these are speed movies, it seems to me.
I was thinking the other day that these movies and others like them (e.g., Matrix) are really about the tension between power and time. At some level, power=preparedness. But being prepared takes a lot of time. There is great frustration and impatience caused by that simple fact. In all three of the movies surveyed in the article, the main character traverses the span between ordinary existence and extraordinary power in a relative blink of an eye, with only a minor nod to the work it takes to make such a jump. So these are speed movies, it seems to me.