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 -
43 answers
I've always thought King Missile's
Failure was a pretty good depiction of the kind of intrusive, self-defeating thoughts that characterize depression. The recent FPP'd game
Depression Quest does something similar. What are some other works that are reminiscent of the
experience of having depression or another mental illness (as opposed to depicting characters with the illness?)
posted by kagredon
on Mar 9, 2013 -
14 answers
What was produced at the factory at the beginning of Michelangelo Antonioni's
Red Desert?
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posted by Egg Shen
on Sep 26, 2012 -
2 answers
Looking for good depictions of people or characters with truly foreign, alien, or mutually irreconcilable views of the world.
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posted by Bufo_periglenes
on Feb 14, 2012 -
29 answers
I'm looking for
visual conventions for portraying a scene (e.g. in a movie or comic) as imaginary, dreamed-up or "all in the head" of one of the characters.
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posted by nebulawindphone
on Jan 4, 2012 -
20 answers
Looking for something to watch online. Qualifiers: beautiful, no plot, no script, more than a clip.
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posted by letahl
on Nov 13, 2011 -
19 answers
I'm really good at predicting the end of most movies and books. I easily see foreshadowing, symbolism, and archetypes. How can I parlay this skill into a creative job?
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posted by dchrssyr
on Oct 2, 2011 -
27 answers
Some of my best memories, when I think back on them, become more cinematic than linear, more musical than factual. They are a flowing montage of events, energy, motion. Often the memory is of an adventure or journey. Why does this happen? Who has written or made art about the capacity for our memories to be transformed in this way?
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posted by victory_laser
on May 27, 2011 -
1 answer
What are some examples of movies that open with their concluding scene or climax and then work backwards from there?
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posted by cymru_j
on Sep 16, 2010 -
62 answers
What are the best movies or documentaries about modern art??
posted by mortaddams
on Apr 25, 2010 -
27 answers
Help me find art that resembles scenes from movies or evokes the idea of "a movie".
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posted by rocco
on Apr 3, 2010 -
17 answers
Looking for a sci-fi, fantasy, art film I saw as a child, it must have come out in the 80s, I remember watching it at an inappropriately young age and I was born in 82.
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posted by madmamasmith
on Dec 31, 2009 -
7 answers
In what cartoon does Foghorn Leghorn say, "Kids coming up nowadays don't even know how to tie down their pumpkins"?
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posted by Joe Beese
on Dec 3, 2009 -
2 answers
Where can I find
this HBO poster? I've seen another one online (a photo of the actual people, which is also pretty cool) but not this one. It's not on HBO's site. Thanks
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posted by luckyveronica
on Mar 9, 2009 -
1 answer
So a common subplot in a lot of movies is that the protagonist has a dull life and suddenly a romantic partner sweeps in and changes EVERYTHING. It spans genres from
The Mask to
Stranger Than Fiction (and of course the romantic comedy / chick flick industry would go broke without it.) I guess Cinderalla is the archetypal story here. I'm sort of curious about what larger connections there are to this thematic convention—like has anyone written about it, maybe focused more on Cinderalla and gender studies or psychology etc.
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posted by Firas
on Jul 13, 2007 -
8 answers
Searching for famous scenes from movies where the camera pans out across a vast distance in a single shot...
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posted by Gankmore
on May 16, 2007 -
31 answers
Movie posters normally carry images that look
hand-drawn. Even
'real' landscapes, or
people, are frequently represented in this style. Why do studios do this? And are these images really drawn by hand, or are they just photoshopped photos?
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posted by scrm
on Apr 25, 2007 -
9 answers
Looking for cheap art. I want to take stills from a dvd and get a poster print for hanging on the wall. Can this be done in a clean nice looking manner, without a blurry unsightly pixelated mess?
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posted by striker
on Jul 5, 2005 -
13 answers
