Sentences with phrase «noble savage syndrome»

I understand that he's trying to make The Terminal — inspired loosely by a true story — a post-modern fairy tale (Lost in Translation for the emotionally neutered), but monumentalizing all of its unionized labour, focused in a scene where whimsical and wise Indian fugitive Gupta (Kumar Pallana, better in the superior post-modern fairy tale The Royal Tenenbaums) tells the tale of Viktor to a rapt audience of food - service workers, is trite verging on Noble Savage Syndrome.

Dragonfly's characters are stock, its scares are telegraphed (the script by committee mistakes «eye - rolling» for «tight»), and before it's done, it dips into a shocking Mead - era noble savage syndrome complicated by more conventional exploitations of race and illness.

He's found it worthwhile to wonder that the broadest strokes of Noble Savage Syndrome reflect a natural human tendency to revert to the natural to valorize cultures (objects) that are ambiguous by their nature.