For a project I'm currently working on as part of my graduation in Graphic Design, I wanted to compile something like an atlas of fictional cities. These may be from books, legends, stories, video games, advertisements, comics, really whatever... Even "real" cities but alternate versions, imagined or in some way deviate from their real counterpart are valid.
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posted by ahtlast93
on May 18, 2013 -
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I'd like to compile a list of sympathetic monsters/villains, portrayed in any medium--film, fiction, art, music, myth.
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posted by ifjuly
on Mar 18, 2013 -
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I'm looking for examples of visual timelines in movies, video games, or fiction. Scenes where a span of time is represented metaphorically, preferably as a physical object, diagram, or action. A good example is
this scene from
Me and You and Everyone We Know in which two characters use a street as a visual metaphor for their potential relationship.
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posted by oulipian
on Nov 13, 2012 -
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What novels or movies have a vivacious, charming person drop in and change everybody's perspective or shake the place up?
posted by Fairchild
on Nov 9, 2012 -
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Looking for instances, whether fictional, religious or otherwise, of the idea of the "double".
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posted by Lorin
on Sep 30, 2012 -
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I need suggestions of fictional or non-fictional books or films that deal with illness or dying in relation to humor/the absurd.
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posted by Felicity Rilke
on Sep 19, 2012 -
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What are the realistic odds of a movie studio buying rights to fiction? What steps could one take to even attempt this?
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 6, 2012 -
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Transfer, the 2010 German movie: questions! (big spoilers inside; avoid if you haven't seen this awesome movie)
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posted by lorimer
on May 25, 2012 -
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What's the best mobster movie for every country (other than America) that's ever made a mobster movie?
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posted by Afroblanco
on Sep 21, 2011 -
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Looking for books and/or movies about fiascos and disastrous but avoidable situations
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posted by reenum
on Nov 22, 2010 -
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You know how in movies when the two (heretofore antagonistic) main characters are arguing bitterly, and in the heat of the moment one of the them reaches out and grabs the other in frustration, which leads to an abrupt and pregnant pause, and then all of a sudden they're making out? Yeah. Does that happen in real life?
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posted by gavagai
on Apr 14, 2010 -
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Help with my homework filter!! I want to compile a list of time travelers from literature, television and cinema. I am looking for a couple specific attributes.
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posted by Ambrosia Voyeur
on Mar 9, 2009 -
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Recent dramas have used (without ambiguity) the name and image of real living figures and events in fiction and film. How this is legally possible? Is it covered by
Fair Use?
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posted by Hugobaron
on Nov 5, 2008 -
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I'd like to broaden my horizons by getting a better understanding of life in different cultures and time periods. Please recommend great books or films (fiction or non-fiction) which paint a broad, immersive, reasonably accurate picture of a place and time.
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posted by MetaMonkey
on Jul 12, 2008 -
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Trying to make a list of fictional drinks.
For instance: Clementine mixxes up a couple of "blue ruins" in
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Silver Jews' song
Buckingham Rabbit makes reference to "shattered dogs on the rocks."
What other fictional drinks can you think of?
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posted by es_de_bah
on May 4, 2008 -
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I'm looking for fictional intragenerational incest narratives -- books, film, television, etc. -- in which the relationship is presented as a tragic love, doomed to failure. I'm not interested in the probably more common (and more realistic) pure trauma narratives. The relationship need not necessarily be physically consummated.
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posted by nobody
on Mar 25, 2008 -
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I'm doing research (for a writing project) into Film Noirs and Mystery Pulps, and I'm looking for good selections of a certain plot type: the "missing person" scenario.
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posted by SmileyChewtrain
on Mar 11, 2007 -
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Fiction usually comes in two flavours: 1st person narrative or 3rd person description.
What short stories or novels have been written in
2nd person perspective (i.e. from the reader's viewpoint)? Also, are there any movies shot entirely from this angle?
posted by 0bvious
on Jan 17, 2006 -
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I'm looking for book or movie characters and/or plots that follow this particular scenario: A prisoner or potential rescue victim are told that salvation (being broken out, being rescued) can come only if the person agrees to have all prior memories and events that make up their personalities wiped out, leaving only a blank, but functioning, 'consciousness.' Any ideas? Specific quotes?
posted by slow, man
on Oct 4, 2005 -
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