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Reconstructivist Art: Eternal Sunshine

Thursday, December 22, 2011

[NOTE: We'll take a break from our current series for the next couple of weeks until the holiday season is over] Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” considered as an example of Reconstructivist Art The aggressively intellectual, modernist and experimental inclinations of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman were synthesized with the dream-drenched [...]

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Reconstructivist Art: Star Wars

Saturday, November 1, 2008

One of the most popular and successful movies of all time, Lucas’ “Star Wars” represented a return to classic storytelling after the more deconstructionist narratives of the 1970’s. Reconstructivist Elements: Nod to Artifice: The movie begins with a famous image of scrolling text “Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away” that not only [...]

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Reconstructivist Art: The Warriors

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

“The Warriors (Ultimate Director’s Cut)” by Walter Hill and David Shaber as an example of Reconstructivist Art I’ve been a fan of this cult classic movie for years, but it wasn’t until viewing the 2005 “Ultimate Director’s Cut” that I realized the movie was originally conceived in a reconstructivist mode. Reconstructivist Elements: Nod to Artifice: [...]

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Reconstructivist Art: Y Tu Mama Tambien

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Alfonso Cuarón’s “Y Tu Mama Tambien” as an example of Reconstructivist Art Cuarón’s movie broke records in Mexico, and was a worldwide hit, despite its racy and subversive material. Reconstructivist Elements: Nod to Artifice: The realism of the movie is broken periodically by weighty voice-overs which break into both the plot and the soundtrack. Classic [...]

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Jedi Philosophy

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

For many people, the main appeal of George Lucas’ “Star Wars” movies is the “Jedi Way,” the philosophy/religion that guides the mystical Jedi knights. But where does this philosophy come from, and does it hold up under scrutiny?

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Kierkegaard’s Narrative

Monday, December 20, 2004

"Kierkegaard's Narrative" is an existential humanist plot outline named after the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. In general, it runs as follows: An aimless young man drifts through life, obsessed with aesthetics, and seeking sexual fulfillment with a series of women, yet never making substantive choices or real commitments. The climax of the story is the protagonist's decision to commit to a single woman, and to enter into marriage.

The raw source material for this plotline is found in Kierkegaard's books "Either/Or," "Fear and Trembling," and "Repetition," in which he takes on the persona of various first-person narrators, and describes their experiences.

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Reconstructivist Art

Friday, December 10, 2004

to reawaken a sense of the Real in a world where everything has been demonstrated to be an illusion

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