Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Returning From A Walk To Mars




In the second Transformers movie, Revenge of the Fallen, when the beautiful evil robot Alice (Alice has appeared here before in One Quick Megan Fox Moment) chases the heroes, for some reason that’s never explained the heroes run and hide in the college library. Alice follows them and, of course, destroys the library. End of scene.



In Scream 2, when Sidney tries to use a computer in the college library to access some database, Cotton Weary confronts her, forcing the plain clothes cops to arrest him. End of scene.



Two popular movies with scenes set in college libraries.

Although neither scene involves books.

Sam, Mikaela and Leo only go to the library to hide from a beautiful evil robot, and Sidney goes to the library to use a computer.

I guess you can say, for what it’s worth, in both scenes there are at least books visible on screen. In one scene the books get blown up and in the other books are just background props to people using computers. But there are books visible on screen. No one reads the books, but the books are there. Books exist.

I guess you can say, too, for what it’s worth, that both scenes associate libraries with bad things: An attack by a beautiful evil robot, and a confrontation with a possible serial killer.

But both scenes do at least show books.


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I haven’t studied it scientifically
that is I don’t have exact numbers for this
but I think in general movies depict
libraries more frequently than they depict
characters playing musical instruments
but like musical instruments books in films
aren’t things people spend quality time with.

Movies have movie music but they don’t show
characters sitting around making music.

And movies show libraries but they don’t show
protagonists sitting around reading books.

I read at some obscure blog that the premise
behind the Thematic Apperception Test
is stories derived from unclear images
mean more than the unclear images themselves.

Is anything more unclear than modern films?

Movies have movie music but they don’t show
characters sitting around making music.

And movies show libraries but they don’t show
protagonists sitting around reading books.

Somebody’s telling somebody a story.









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An Unclear Story About Walking To Mars
























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