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ANALYSIS OF TROPIC THUNDER PART 2: Character Growth in the Relationship Between the Role and the Self

SPOILER WARNING – This post contains spoilers for Tropic Thunder. Tropic Thunder is a hilarious movie. Aside from that, it is a movie that explores a lot of interesting themes about the movie industry, and the idea of what it means to be an actor. I explore in this two part essay (in excruciating detail) all… Continue reading ANALYSIS OF TROPIC THUNDER PART 2: Character Growth in the Relationship Between the Role and the Self

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ANALYSIS OF TROPIC THUNDER PART 1: The Relationship Between Story, Experience, and Audience

SPOILER WARNING – This post contains spoilers for Tropic Thunder. Tropic Thunder is a hilarious movie. Aside from that, it is a movie that explores a lot of interesting themes about the movie industry, and the idea of what it means to be an actor. I explore in this two part essay (in excruciating detail)… Continue reading ANALYSIS OF TROPIC THUNDER PART 1: The Relationship Between Story, Experience, and Audience

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Why the Lego Batman Joker is the Most Successful Iteration of the Character

SPOILER WARNING - This post contains spoilers for the Lego Batman Movie. I saw the Lego Batman movie a while ago, and I really enjoyed the portrayal of the Joker. In the mythos of the Joker, he is an archetypal ‘trickster god’. In a pantheon, the role of a trickster god is to humanize the… Continue reading Why the Lego Batman Joker is the Most Successful Iteration of the Character