Katherine Carr Beauty And The Beast

Throughout history, the use of subliminal messaging has been highly prevalent within various forms of media consumed by the human race. Using it allows authors to influence their political or societal viewpoint through implicit methods. Even stories as rudimentary as those produced for the entertainment of children, contain hidden messages deeply imbedded within them. Marxist theory, the analysis of the role of politics, money and power within literary works, allows readers to examine principles promoted by the author; these can be especially demonstrated in Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont’s Beauty and the Beast. These themes are exemplified through the bourgeoisie mindset of the elder sisters, the proletariat mentality of Beauty and the direct influence of wealth on the prominence of the merchant.

In today’s Australian society it has now become almost commonplace for us to question our beliefs and what it means to be an Australian. We have always turned to consider our cultural aspects and how they determine a strong Australian identity. The voice of a hot climate, the tone of the red sand, the indifference of man and woman and even the lifestyle of the Australian people all play important parts within our community. However to be an Australian is truly shaped by the kind acts of mateship that we possess within our relationships with friends and family. The mateship of society should not be affected by gender but really truly lie upon the relationships in our lives, which is why I have chosen Priscilla and Red Dog,

The story of the Beauty and the Beast is well known amongst all ages. Though the story they portray in the Disney version is much different than what they have portrayed it in France. La Belle et la Bête has been produced twice, once in 1946 and again in 2014. These two movies tell the same story but in very different ways. The perception of this story has changed between the different time periods.

The movie ‘Her’ is the story about Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who develops a relationship with Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), an intelligent computer operating system personified through a female voice. At the beginning of the film, Theodore is completely inept when it comes to how to make relationship with person, specifically women. However, after he gets to know Samantha, an OS program, a feeling of true love develops inside of Theodore’s mind. Then he realizes how he was fatuous in his past. Throughout the film, the director (Spike Jonze) uses five distinct color schemes to correspond Theodore’s feeling and situation.

Throughout their lives, women of all ages are constantly being bombarded with advertisements convincing them they must meet an ideal of the perfect body image. This is all thanks to companies that share a common goal to influence the mainstream population into believing they need to purchase certain products in order to compare to the impossible standards set by the beauty industry. In Dave Barry’s “Beauty and the Beast” he displays that it is planted in young girls minds that they need to look, dress, feel, and even act a certain way. However, men aren’t as affected by these capitalistic marketing schemes. In short, the media has affected the way women think of themselves.

The story of Sleeping Beauty has evolved over time and has been changed slightly throughout the different versions. It has changed in order to fit social norms for the time and context has been altered to appeal to the current audiences. The three main versions of Sleeping Beauty are the Charles Perrault in 1697, which was adapted from the original fairy tale Sun, Moon, and Talia by Giambattistas Basile in 1634. Perraults version was a tale of rape, adultery and cannibalism. The Brothers Grimm interpretation, from 1812 that made the story more tame and the Walt Disney version from 1959 that was drawn mainly from the St. Petersburg Ballet version of 1890 and the Grimm Brothers

I selected this play mainly because I love the way Thornton Wilder chose to break the fourth wall. The fourth wall is the space that separates a performer or performance from an audience. The Skin of Our Teeth doesn’t just break the

This idea is presented much in the same way as Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, through allowing the audience’s voices to be heard empowering them and creating a sense of community. This breaking of the fourth wall, allows the actor to talk directly to the audience, creating more of a conversational atmosphere. This helps to reinforce to the audience that what they are watching is real and they are encouraged to form opinions about what they are seeing. In Run Rabbit

Linda Seger's hero myth from her publication "Creating the Myth" is very thorough in the steps involved in creating a hero of a story. All ten steps are very common to a typical hero story. However, there are some gaps in her theory. An example of a story that does not fit Seger's theory is the Disney version of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. This popular cultural phenomenon has within it an atypical hero, one who pokes holes in Seger's hero myth theory. This atypical hero, simply named Beast, does not fit all ten of the steps in a typical hero story.

Flick by Abigail Tarttelin is described as a "a modern-day Romeo and Juliet about sex, love, and growing up", but instead I found it to be rather dull and one dimensional. I had a really hard time understanding half of what was happening, both because of the heavy use of slang and the fact that the main character was completely high or wasted most of the time. I was really excited to start this book, I thought it sounded interesting - but after the first few pages I found myself becoming increasingly uninterested and bored. I don't usually have that problem with books, even if I find myself not liking it right away I give it a chance to get better - but for me, Flick never did. Now, you all know I hate bad reviews. Bad reviews suck, and sometimes

The first character to be discussed is Belle, in the original book. An author online even states “The original Beauty and the Beast Story is not what you expect” ( S. Paul). What is unique about Belle in the book is that she is the youngest of six children, which is never shown in the movie. Her father is not an inventor either, but is a very wealthy merchant who loses his fortune. The whole family in the original was forced to move to the country, where they had to live much more simple. Belle is a very special girl though, with very jealous older sisters of her beauty but also the fact that she is able to not be miserable in such a simple lifestyle.

“Beauty and The Beast” is a classic well known romantic Disney movie that depicts the gender role of men and women in society. The film is based upon a smart young female protagonist named Belle who is imprisoned by a self-centered young prince after he has been turned into a beast. They both learn to love each other in the end and throughout the film there are several examples shown portraying the roles of gender. In the film the main characters Gaston and the Beast portray themselves as rude, conceited and more important than the woman even though the main character Belle is a woman whom is considered odd, yet smart, and unrelated to most women in society.

In Undertale, a Role Playing Video Game, Toby Fox deploys one very underutilized element in current popular entertainment, he breaks the fourth wall. The “fourth wall” is an old theatre term for the unrecognized, invisible wall that lies between a performance and the audience. Toby Fox does this in order to create a stronger connection between the player and the characters within the game. The NPC’s, non-player characters, in Undertale are some of the most imaginative and charming characters in any recent game around, whether it be Sans the lazy skeleton, or his brother Papyrus the flamboyant and confident skeleton who believes in nothing other than the good in people. These characters with their unique and quirky attributes bring a certain level of relatability, as everyone can find a character that they sympathize with, and breaking the fourth wall is just one way that Fox really

Beauty and the Beast is done in third person where as Beastly is done in first person, it is from the beast’s point of view. This gives you more information of how the beast is feeling and thinking and reveals more of his personality. Most stories are either done from the beauty’s point of view or an omniscient view. In some cases the omniscient view tells you things that the character would not and helps clarify the story. Beauty and the beast is an omniscient view which is why it is easier for younger children to understand. Beastly is done in first person who lets the person watching it know more about him and how he is feeling and what he wants.

I listen to the audio of the movie “Beauty and The Beast.” Having the topic being about sound, this type of movie would be an example, for there are more technical obligations to take care of than those of realistic movies. The movie is about a prince who was curse and turns into a beast, in which a woman has to fall in love with him in order for the curse to be lifted. Throughout this movie, there were many sounds effects including fairy dust sound that represent magic. Additional sound effects include swooshes and roars represent the sound of the beast. Other sound effects would be the thunder and rain, in which represent the darkness. In the beginning scene, the movie introduces Belle, and the village she lived in that’s filled with the sound effect of rooster crowing and birds flapping their wings, in which represents peacefulness accompany by happy singing. From watching Foley video, it shows how the Foley artist used a bundle of plants rubbing against each other to create thunder sound. Another example from the movie includes using a pair of boots to make the sound horses jogging.