Some timely news to tag onto the full 26 post series describing some character archetypes: There is now a brand new workshop on turning
archetypes into full characters.
Society (that's the shorter way to say your friends, partner, parents, coworkers, boss, Tom, Dick, and Harry) hammers this ideal mom
archetype into our brains from day one.
A mixed media sculptural work featuring a subverted depiction of the infamously non-threatening Mammy — transforming the docile
archetype into an armed and ready revolutionary.
Not exact matches
The combination of pent - up anger and the easy availability of a powerful, fast - firing rifle transformed a scrawny misfit named Nikolas Cruz
into a murderous machine, one of a new American
archetype: the mass school murderer.
Eric Metaxas talked about the Jungian
archetypes, and how really when you dig deeper down
into the soul, it is Christ whom you find there.
In an article for Psychology Today, Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D., writes that stances on money can be split
into two
archetypes: the saver and the spender.
, Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D., writes that stances on money can be split
into two
archetypes: the saver and the spender.
The pastry world's
archetype comes from Liz Prueitt and Chad Robertson at Tartine Bakery in San Francisco, who roll up leftover croissant dough, cut it
into discs, and bake them off in sugared muffin tins.
He's not a player with crazy upside, but has a chance to fit
into a valuable role
archetype in someone's backcourt.
Increasingly, the Home Secretary is quietly being transformed
into one of the
archetypes of political culture: the Strong Woman.
Or maybe the
archetype of Juliet always returns, like the sun — a good metaphor breeds itself
into a growing community of interacting ideas.)
To get money, they would repeat the phrase
into an adapted cashpoint machine, which would compare the
archetype on the card with their speech.
I tell clients with a predominant free spirit
archetype to get comfortable with the fact that they might not fit
into the 9 - to - 5 grind, that they have lots of interests and passions, and that they love to travel or move around.
If your soul has a strong inclination toward this
archetype, get
into your heart energy and explore your emotions or start a spiritual practice that is based more around feeling than knowing.
Elements of deeper beliefs may percolate
into consciousness through images, myths and
archetypes.
During every warmup, I want my athletes to get
into, hold, and explore fundamental human positions (which Kelly Starrett calls
archetypes), have them move through full ranges of motion across multiple planes, and progressively ramp up the nervous system so that by the time the workout starts, everything is fired up and ready to roll.
Once you've completed the personality test, the site puts you
into a specific
archetype which then sends you suggested matches straight to your email box.
The
archetype of the Jewish matchmaker goes back long before «Fiddler on the Roof» danced her
into the mainstream.
The Hobbit concludes as it began: in a welter of continuous action, with characters who have become
archetypes but seldom rise above that level, and with a host of ideas J.R.R. Tolkien didn't put
into his short novel.
It's just that the film feels so unusually empty; even if he has subtly snuck his usual hallmarks
into the mechanics of the narrative itself, he's populated the foreground with characters who never come alive as anything more than
archetypes, who trade in so much exposition it's hard to see how any audience member could be overwhelmed with confusion at the story being told.
by Walter Chaw Larry Fessenden's Wendigo plays like a chthonic rite: it's terrifying in its brutal purity and delicious in its ability to pull domestic trauma
into the well of
archetype where it festers.
To be honest with you, I'm putting southern
archetypes and cliches
into movies.
The protagonist is such a profoundly boring and uncharismatic character, as played by Jack Lowden, that it falls to these successive manic pixie dream girl
archetypes to push him
into doing really anything at all, and when his efforts fail - which they almost always do - they are cast aside.
This experimental regimen conscripts people suffering from multiple personality disorder and turns them
into «triplets,» highly lethal operatives possessing three distinct personalities drawing from warrior / tough guy
archetypes.
Stardust is a comfortable film for Gaiman enthusiasts: this is what the guy's good at, relieved of the exposition the novel form demands; here're the author's stripped - down fairy tale
archetypes decanted
into pulp form, tapped out without embarrassment and full to bursting with joy.
This quintessential noir hero walks
into a story his
archetype is all too familiar with: a pretty girl in trouble and a gangster looking to get paid.
No character is ever pigeonholed
into a single
archetype by having to devote themselves entirely to one path.
Both The Scalphunters and Leone's spaghetti westerns consist of one - dimensional characters; the difference between them is the difference between
archetype and stereotype — between the elevation of the stock character
into pop spiritual icon and the subjugation of the stock character
into worn - out movie cliché.
Find reason there for the caricatured white trash pastiches serving as Maggie's family (and additional pathos in Maggie's need for a father figure), the boxing - trainer
archetype, the old fighter Scrap (blind in one eye and living in a tiny room at the gym), the evil Drago Eastern Bloc nemesis, and the rags - to - riches sports story
into noble - cripple tropes that worked in 1962 with Requiem for a Heavyweight.
«The Breakfast Club» brings together an assortment of adolescent
archetypes — the uptight prom queen (Molly Ringwald), the stoic jock (Emilio Estevez), the foul - mouthed rebel (Judd Nelson), the virginal bookworm (Anthony Michael Hall), and the kooky recluse (Ally Sheedy)-- and watches them shed their personae and emerge
into unlikely friendships.
Extras: «East / West Batman» featurette): Batman meets the anime medium, as this documentary looks
into some of the Western tropes and
archetypes, meshed
into the world of feudal Japan.
They are relatable
archetypes who are thrown
into often surreal but completely viable situations that would destroy the best of us.
Along the way the baffled wayward couple comes
into contact with friends and relatives, who together represent a cross-section of family
archetypes; the middle - American casualty family (fat kids, crass parents), the New Age neo-hippy family (they make love in front of their child); the «adopted because they can't have their own kids» family (desperate, secretly unhappy); and the single - dad family (deterministic, anxiety - ridden).
How do you turn tasteless literature — Bernhard Schlink's 1995 Holocaust novel, which «complicates»
archetypes by making an illiterate, unrepentant Nazi
into its central figure of pity —
into tasteful, awards - season filmmaking?
This is a black - and - white film about two brothers, a self - written picture distilling much family lore but also trucking in masculine
archetypes, ones that the film twists and turns and mutates
into something that seems to mash up Tennessee Williams and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Kyle is recognisable as the crush
archetype formed in our early teens and carried through
into the adult dating world, even though we should know better; the floppy - fringed guitar player that is quietly exempt from our usually strict vetting of Tinder matches.
Twenty one per cent think their life story falls
into the
archetype of a true underdog tale and a quarter think it would be a feel - good and uplifting story.
As for the rest of the cast, it's pretty much all one - note, no nuance the entire way, falling neatly
into their predetermined
archetypes — romantic interest, comic relief, pure - heart, crafty rival, or seething wolf - like antagonist.
The original film being the logical successor to»70s Blaxploitation - chic — all bad attitude and ass kicking — its sequel escalates the posing and exaggerated stoicism
into something equal parts
archetype and joy.
Worse, Vanderbilt seems to be referring to author Thomas Hardy in the naming of Travolta's character (and Barbarino's recent sour grapes concerning his passing over Chicago doesn't say all that much for the film he was shooting instead), pushing the connection by tying Hardy's hallmarks of personal
archetype and use of forces of nature as allegory
into what is essentially a stupid rip - off of any stupid David Mamet film.
Best known for his acting credits, including In America and the cocky detective in Hot Fuzz, Paddy Considine elevates the British social drama
into something more than your average miserable affair, tapping
into the grandeur of Western
archetypes as Joseph (I am sure there is a biblical parable in there somewhere as well) tries to do one right thing in a maddening world.
While the French term «femme fatale» can be traced back to the early 20th century, the
archetype — a dangerous woman who uses her beauty, charm and sexuality to tempt her lovers
into deadly situations — has been around for centuries.
But Bruce, and thereby Charles, suffers from a screenplay that turns him
into more of an
archetype than a character.
While «I Am Another You» is a scrappy production, it roots the narrative in the epic ambitions of its quixotic protagonist, and he fits nicely
into a series of familiar
archetypes.
This is the kind of character that can slip all too easily
into the insufferably precocious child
archetype and the fact that he never does is a huge testament to both Parker and the script.
It's one thing that he's something of an asshole savant who fell backwards
into an
archetype by the good graces of his talented friends — it's another that he continues to fiddle with his original Star Wars trilogy.
THE BLU - RAY DISC by Walter Chaw Where zombies in American cinema seem to have risen with televangelism and its slow - moving white people promising salvation in the life of a sheep (in that sense, they're really just another iteration of the Body Snatcher
archetype), in Italy they transmogrified, following the success of Romero's Dawn of the Dead there,
into analogies for romance - gone - sour.
It'll be quirky and fun, but also a bit of a tearjerker at the same time, often involving known actors in roles that don't automatically play
into their established acting
archetypes.
is perhaps more central here than it's ever been, but not nearly as engaging, instead offering a cacophonous clash of half - baked personality
archetypes that never cross over
into actual humanity.
It both humanizes Hancock's self - loathing misery and shifts his conflicted identity
into the realm of myth and
archetype, and director Peter Berg (who likes to lace his films with a sarcastic streak) grounds the spectacle of epic disaster in both ends of the drama.