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favoriteanimatedtheatricalfilm · 10 months

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2023 Disney Film Tournament

All films that count under my criteria are under the cut, as well as my poll posting schedule. If you feel like a film should or should not be included, feel free to send an ask!

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the automatic winner of the 1930s section because it’s the only one.

Positive propaganda is allowed, I just may not publish it all if there is heavy volume.

Winners of the year have a sun emoji and are italicized, winners of the decade have a moon emoji and are bolded, the final winner will be blue and have a star emoji.

1930s

☀️🌙1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1940s - Week 1, 11 July 2023

1940

Pinocchio

☀️🌙Fantasia

1941 - Dumbo

1942 - Bambi

1943 - Saludos Amigos

1945 - The Three Caballeros

1946 - Make Mine Music

1947 - Fun and Fancy Free

1948 - Melody Time

1949 - The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

1950s - Week 2, July 18 2023

1950 - Cinderella

☀️🌙1951 - Alice in Wonderland

1953 - Peter Pan

1955 - Lady and the Tramp

1959 - Sleeping Beauty

1960s - Week 3, July 25 2023

☀️🌙1961 - One Hundred and One Dalmatians

1963 - The Sword in the Stone

1967 - The Jungle Book

1970s - Week 4, Aug 1 2023

☀️🌙1970 - The Aristocats

1973 - Robin Hood

1977

☀️The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The Rescuers

1980s - Week 5, Aug 8 2023

1981 - The Fox and the Hound

1985 - The Black Cauldron

☀️🌙1986 - The Great Mouse Detective

1988 - Oliver & Company

1989 - The Little Mermaid

1990s - Week 6-7, Aug 15 & Aug 22 2023

1990 - The Rescuers Down Under

1991 - Beauty and the Beast

1992 - Aladdin

1994 - The Lion King

1995

A Goofy Movie

Pocahontas

☀️Toy Story

1996 (because there is no 1993 movie, I will fit both of these in the decade poll)

James and the Giant Peach

☀️The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1997 - Hercules

1998

☀️🌙✨Mulan

The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride

A Bug’s Life

1999

Doug’s 1st Movie

☀️Tarzan

Toy Story 2

Fantasia 2000

2000s - Week 8-9, Aug 29 & Sept 5 2023

2000

The Tigger Movie

Dinosaur

☀️🌙The Emperor’s New Groove

2001

Recess: School’s Out

☀️Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Monsters, Inc.

2002

Return to Never Land

☀️Lilo & Stitch

Spirited Away

Treasure Planet

The Jungle Book 2

2003

Piglet’s Big Movie

☀️Finding Nemo

Brother Bear

2004

Teacher’s Pet

Home on the Range

☀️The Incredibles

2005

Pooh’s Heffalump Movie

☀️Howl’s Moving Castle

Valiant

Chicken Little

2006

Bambi II

The Wild

Cars

��️The Nightmare Before Christmas

2007

Meet The Robinsons

☀️Ratatouille

2008

☀️WALL•E

Roadside Romeo

Tinker Bell

Bolt

2009

Ponyo

Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure

Disney’s A Christmas Carol

☀️The Princess and the Frog

2010s - Week 10-11, Sept 12 & Sept 19 2023

2010

Toy Story 3

Tales from Earthsea

Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue

☀️🌙Tangled

2011

Mars Needs Moms

Cars 2

☀️Winnie the Pooh

2012

The Secret World of Arietty

Arjun: The Warrior Prince

☀️Brave

Secret of the Wings

Wreck-It Ralph

2013

Monsters University

Planes

☀️Frozen

2014

The Pirate Fairy

Planes: Fire & Rescue

☀️Big Hero 6

2015

Tinker Bell & the Legend of the Never Beast

☀️Inside Out

The Good Dinosaur

2016

Zootopia

Finding Dory

☀️Moana

2017

Cars 3

☀️Coco

2018

☀️Incredibles 2

Ralph Breaks the Internet

2019

Toy Story 4

☀️Frozen II

2020s - Week 12, Sept 26 2023 (They JUST all fit!)

2020

☀️Onward

Soul

2021

Raya and the Last Dragon

Luca

☀️🌙Encanto

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

2022

☀️Turning Red

Lightyear

Strange World

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Favorite Over All the Decades - Week 13, Oct 3 2023

The list of contenders for this poll will update as the results roll in.

1930s - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

1940s - Fantasia (1940)

1950s - Alice in Wonderland (1951)

1960s - One Hundred and one Dalmatians (1961)

1970s - The Aristocats (1970)

1980s - The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

1990s - Mulan (1998)

2000s - The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)

2010s - Tangled (2010)

2020-2022 - Encanto (2021)

Overall Winner: Mulan (1998)

The NEW 2020s poll, with the winners from 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 as the contenders, will start January 1, 2024.

If the overall 2020s movie winner changes, I will then hold a new decades poll on January 8, 2024.

The 2020s poll from 2024 and onward (lol) will just have the top movie from each year go against the new ones. If we run out of slots available for all the new movies with the previous winners, I will hold a poll with just the new movies, get a winner, and then run it against the old year winners of the 2020s.

If I remember to run this tournament into the 2030s, I will do an Over the Centuries poll comparing the favorite of one century of Disney animation to another :).

My main blog is @deathsmallcaps and my art blog is @patheticbatman if curiosity strikes you.

I’m pretty sure there is another poll going on like this, I’m just running this one for my own amusement, and because I like to think about these in terms of decades.

#Disney polls #13 is my lucky number so I’m happy :)

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goodwhump-temp · 1 year

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Batman Whump (tv shows & movies)

Justice League (2001) - Kevin Conroy 1x01 Secret Origins Part 1 - Knocked out 1x02 Secret Origins Part 2 - Presumed dead 1x08-09 Injustice For All Part 1 and 2 - Almost falls to death in burning building, poisoned by Copperhead, unconscious, half-dead, angry at Superman, knocked out by the Joker, taken prisoner, has to listen to Lex talk (absolute torture) 1x16 Fury Part 1 and 2 - Knocked unconscious, poisoned, weak, collapses into WonderWomans arms 1x24 The Savage Time - Real Batman is missing (scares the rest of the League, worry) 2x06 Only A Dream - Almost crashes car, slowly passing out, exhausted, worry for friends, almost injected/stabbed, gets deserved beauty sleep 2x26 Starcrossed Part 3 - Sacrifice, passes out from heat

Justice League Unlimited - Kevin Conroy 1x02 For The Man Who Has Everything - Reliving trauma 1x05 This Little Piggy - Sacrifices his dignity 2x03 The Doomsday Sanction - Sacrifices himself, hit in missile blast radius, 'plane' crash, probably drowning, horribly injured, ominous anger towards Superman

Justice League Action - Kevin Conroy 1x03 Night of the bat - Possessed for a long time 1x09 Time Share - Epic moments of becoming the bat 1x11 Play Date - Mocked for lack of powers, briefly knocked out, movements controlled (quite a fun episode) 1x27 Time Out - Angry, pain of fazing out of the 'present', 'bond' with Booster Gold 1x29 Mxy's Mix Up - Mocked, briefly happy 1x32 Booray for Bizarro - Painfully squeezed, imprisoned, 1x36 Superman Red vs Superman Blue - Knocked out, shot with blaster 1x38 Forget Me Not - Batman identity is forgotten, confused, mocks himself 1x39 The Brain Buster - Forced to play in a dangerous game 1x40 E. Nigma - Consulting Detective , captured by the Joker, missing, tied up and unconscious, almost sliced in half 1x42 Phased and Confused 1x43 Itll Take a Miracle 1x44 System Error 1x46 Party Animal

Superman: The Animated Series- Kevin Conroy 3x02 Knight Time- Missing, mind controlled, collapses

The Batman (2004) - Rino Romano 1x02 Traction - Crushed and beaten by Bane, unconscious, dazed, pain, carried, surgery, trauma flashback, bandaged, weak 1x11 Bird Of Prey - Knocked down, punched unconscious, restrained, mask almost removed 2x01 The Cat, the Bat & The Very Ugly - Thrown unconscious, restrained 2x03 Fire & Ice 2x04 The Laughing Bat 2x09 Ragdolls to Riches 2x10 The Butler Did It 2x13 Night & The City 3x03 Dark Knight to Remember 3x06 Brawn 4x05 The Breakoutjla 4x06 Strange New World 4x07 Artifacts 4x09 Seconds 4x11 Rumors 5x02 Batman/Superman Story 5x03 Vertigo 5x05 Mirror Darkly 5x12 Lost Heroes

///// MOVIES /////

Batman: Hush - Jason O'Mara Shot in the sky, falls, horribly injured/broken bones

Batman: Bad Blood - Jason O'Mara Captured, thought dead, tortured, mind controlled, emotional scars/trauma from shooting a gun with malicious intent

Justice League: Doom - Kevin Conroy Sliced up, ache/exhausted, almost buried alive, trauma, beat-up by bane, badass moment facing the league

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm - Kevin Conroy Depressed, trauma, caught in explosion, falls from a great height, beat up by the Joker

Batman: Soul of the Dragon - Mark Dacascos Bloody fists, horribly beaten by Ben Turner, badass (aka batass)

Justice League Dark - Jason O'Mara Angry, possessed, depressed

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thefirstthinguc · 1 year

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M-G-M logo as seen on Soul Plane (2004).

#mgm logo #soul plane #mgm lion

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dean-isms · 6 months

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“Alright, well, first things first - how did we end up on ‘Soul Plane’?”

Reference: Soul Plane

Episode: 5x01 “Sympathy for the Devil”

Writer: Eric Kripke

Spoken To: Sam Winchester

Media Type: Movie

Timeframe: 2004

Description: Things get raucously funny aboard the maiden flight of a black-owned airline, thanks to some last-minute passenger additions.

#season five #movies #from the dean isms spreadsheet #SEASON FIVE LETS GO!!!

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demondmayhew016 · 7 months

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#WUTANG WEDNESDAY 👐

#YING YANG TWINS & METHOD MAN 👐

#SOUL PLANE (2004) 📽️💿🎼🌹💘👑🎤✨

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my-sugar-walls · 2 months

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Soul Plane (6/12) Movie CLIP - We Feds Now (2004) HD

I have jack off to this scene many times. That bulge...

#Soul Plane #Richard T Jones #celeb

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tilbageidanmark · 4 months

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Movies I watched this week (Year 4, week 2)

Napoleon, Ridley Scott's new sweeping epic. It's assumed that when a megalomaniac filmmaker (Abel Gance, Kubrick) becomes obsessed with the myth of "The Great Leader Napoleon", it's because they themselves are inflicted with delusions of grandeur of some kind. So it's not very interesting or relevant to us mortal people.

This is a beautifully-shot, rich with gorgeous tableaux showing the senselessness and chaos of war. The best thing it did was making me read about the history of French history in the first half of the 19th century. 4/10.

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2 tight French thrillers by Yann Gozlan:

🍿 I feel bored at the moment, and was looking for an intelligent thriller to break out my film lethargy. Somebody on r/truefilm suggested Black box, a French conspiracy thriller, similar to 'Three Days of the Condor' and 'The Parallax View'. I started watching it at 4AM, and gulped it all in one fell whoop. A sharp analyst at the French NTSB discovers small inconsistencies while investigating a plane crash. Terrific! 9/10.

🍿 Burn out was a more traditional crime action story about a semi-professional bike racer who gets involved with a gypsy cartel of drug-dealing goons. 5/10.

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Another thriller, Black Mirror's longest (feature-length), and my most favorite and re-watched episode, Hated in the nation; "The attack of the killer ADI Bees". I knew that it was based on a personal experience that Charlie Brooker himself lived through. "Today I learnt" it was after a 2004 article he wrote, calling for the assassination of George W Bush. A perfect film! 10/10 for the 10th time.

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George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead, my first AI-generated movie! (or rather a stand up). As a long time big fan of St. George, I was very skeptical, and it did take some getting used to. The uncanny valley incongruity of a not exactly right voice, not exactly sharp words as the dearly-departed political genius (Jesus Christ, had it been 15 years already!)

But as weird as it is, you could eventually ease into the rant, and imagine that this - more or less - is how he would respond in 2024 to today's wretched times. F. ex., his descriptions of the Shitting Trump (at 12:00) is right up there with the best of the Real Carlin. If this up-to-date artificial facsimile of his voice, attitude and opinions is all we can get today, I for one am grateful. (AI-generated Photo Above).

Actually, this experience was so unsettling, I had to watch it twice. And to even it out, I also listened again to his Complaints and Grievances from 2001, as well as some 2.5 hours 'tribute mix' of Carlin 'Top Hits', just to make sure...

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I need more Jean Renoir in my life! A Day in the Country is a perfect start. A light tale, based on a Guy de Maupassant story, which feels like a black & white painting by his father, Auguste Renoir. An innocent seductions one afternoon on the banks of the river Seine. So delightful, so nostalgic. 8/10.

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Jacques Demy X 2:

🍿 "We are a pair of twins / Born in the sign of Gemini..."

Another delightful re-watch: Demy's dreamy musical The Young Girls of Rochefort. Colorful tunes by Michel Legrand, and pastel dance numbers performed at the quintessentially romantic square of this fantasy town. The inspiration to La La Land. 9/10.

🍿 Demy's only American film, Model shop, a testimony to his love for Los Angeles, opens in Huntington Beach and follows aimless, young Gary Lockwood, so broke that he drives around looking to bum 100 bucks from somebody, to avoid his old MG convertible from being repossessed. It's considered a minor masterpiece, about two lost souls looking for love, but I found it dull and empty, and devoid of all magic. 2/10.

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“You’re a good man, sister…”

Re-watch, just for fun: John Huston Tough Man fantasy The Maltese Falcon, the original Film Noir. With Gutman "The fat man" as an early study for Noah Cross, and beautiful Femme fatale Mary Astor. The only strange role is Elisha Cook Jr. who didn't look like the Heavy, "Your boy here", under any circumstances.

There were two earlier adaptations of the story, which I haven't seen yet, but I will.

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Re-watch: Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave, a happy Oscar-winner Aardman studio classic, which first introduced Shaun the Sheep. I've forgotten that Gromit, Like Teller's, never speaks. 100% score on 'Rotten Tomatoes'.

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Coogan’s Bluff, the only (?) film where laconic outsider Clint Eastwood plays a fish-out-of-water in NYC, and the inspiration to Dennis Weaver's McCloud. Half-sheriff, half-cowboy from Arizona, he's sent to bring back an extradited convict. Not as misogynistic and reactionary as Dirty Harry, he's still a sexist He-man, always horny and creepily pushes himself on any skirt around, whether they like it or not. This being Don Siegel, they love it. 2/10.

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2 music documentaries:

🍿 "..You probably wandering why I'm here / And so am I, so am I..."

I was a big Zappa fan since the outrageousness of 'Freak out!' in the late 60's. I even started a Zappa side-blog in 2003 on 'Grow-a-brain' [where most of the links are dead today]. So Alex Winter's moving Zappa documentary was right up my alley. Groundbreaking avant-garde experimentalist, a committed modern composer, who was so beloved in the Czech Republic. 8/10.

🍿 On the other hand, Greenwich Village - Music that defined a generation was bland and uninspired. The story about the part of 60s music that wasn't Laurel Canyon. Based on the memoirs of Bob Dylan's girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, and including snippets of performers, from Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Richard and Mimi Fariña, Kris Kristofferson, to Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, and dozen others. 2/10.

*Woman Director

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"This is nuclear war!"

The 1967 documentary Oscar winner, the BBC-produced The War Game was more of a Mondo mockumentary. Like 'Threads' which came 2 decades later, it brutally describes the horrifying effects of a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. Its bleak hopelessness caused so much "mayhem" in the British government, that it was promptly withdrawn from broadcasting screening. Unvarnished horror, total devastation, destruction & misery, undiluted.

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Always interested in good stories about the 'End of the world', I thought I’ll also try the new HBO series The last of us, knowing full well that I'm not big on zombies, and also never having played 'any' computer games. I soldiered through the first feature-length episode, but found it so uninspiring and mechanical, so devoid of any real emotions, I had to bail out before continuing. An adaptation of a video game, with all the depth of a stupid comic book? Or simply not for me? 1/10.

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4 shorts:

🍿 Krzysztof Kieslowski's Talking Heads, in which he asks a baby: 'What year were you born? Who are you? What do you most wish for?' The baby doesn't answer, so he keeps asking other people, each older by a year or two, until he ends with the answer of a 100-year-old woman. Simple and profound. 9/10.

🍿 The hand, a classic 1965 Czechoslovak stop motion puppet animation film, an anti-totalitarian parable.

🍿 Never Weaken, Harold Lloyd’s last 3-reeler before he moved on to feature length production, and another of his comedies where he dangles from high buildings.

🍿 The babbling book, my first (?) formulaic short with George Burns and Gracie Allen. I guess they were all structured like this, the two meet in a certain locale, (this time in a bookstore), exchange jokes for 10 minutes, she talks fast and delivers all the zingers, and he plays the straight man. M'eh.

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David Ehrlich's annual The 25 Best Films of 2023: A Video Countdown. So far I've seen 12 of them, and was planning to see 6 more.

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3 movies I couldn’t finish:

🍿 Vox published a relevant article this week about Leon Uris's bestseller 'Exodus' (and the 1960 Paul Newman adaptation of it). How influential it was in shaping the views of Americans in regards to Israel and the middle east. I have vivid memories from when I was 8 staying at my grandmother's tiny apartment in Haifa. She listened to the Adolf Eichmann's trial on the radio, and she used to read to me excerpts from 'Exodus', which she received as serials in thin pamphlets printed on cheap newsprint paper - in Yiddish.

So that prompted me to try and watch this 3+ hours long piece of Zionist Agitprop Cheese about the founding of the state of Israel. But even after 3 attempts I could only get 26 minutes in, before having to give it up.

🍿 From the few roles I've seen him, I developed a physical dislike to actor Jake Johnson, but I love Anna Kendrick, so I gave his new Self Reliance a shot. The trailer opened with an amusing scene where Andy Samberg invites the loser Johnson to join him for a limo ride. But that was the only cute or interesting scene in the whole first half of that unfunny 'comedy'. Pass!

🍿 The Diary of a Teenage Girl, an explicit story about 15-year-old girl who becomes sexually active by starting a relationship with her mother's boyfriend, Alexander Skarsgård, made by all-female team. But I went back to it 3 times, and could not watch more than 20 minutes.

*Woman Director

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Throw-back to the "Art project”:

Zombies Adora.

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(My complete movie list is here)

#movies #AI #george carlin

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rayshellearningjournal · 5 months

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Research into Modernity Concept/Issue

Derive and Psychogeography

I chose to write on the concept of ‘Derive’ and ‘Psychogeography.’ Derive is the French word for ‘drift,’ meaning to make an “unplanned journey through a landscape.” (McDonough, 2004) This is usually done in an urban setting. Participants of the derive usually don’t focus on the direction in which they’re going or their destination. They “stop focusing on their everyday relations to their social environment.” Derive is linked with “psychogeography,’ which involves the observation of a city’s terrain and how geographical location can affect ‘the emotion and behaviour of individuals.” (Tate, n.d.) It is described as “the intersection of psychology and geography” and how “psychological experiences of the city illuminates forgotten aspects of the human environment.” (Lyons, 2017)

The Derive was an idea developed by the Letterist International, a group of radical artists that were prominent in the 1950s. Guy Debord was the member who publicly introduced the concept in his book ‘Theory of the Derive’ which was written in 1956. Writer and psychogeogrpaher Wilfried Hou Je Bek wrote “psychogeography is the fact that you have an opinion about a space the moment you step into it.” (O’Rourke, 2021) Psychogeographers “advocate the art of becoming lost in the city” which is done through the derive.

This concept is linked to Modernity because in derives, people can observe changes in cities as they are always changing. New buildings are being built or gentrified. In relation to the derive and its link with modernity, there is the relevant term called The ‘Flaneur.’ This is another French word for ‘stroller’ or ‘wanderer’. ‘Flaneur’ is represented as a man and is an “ambivalent figure of urban affluence and modernity.” This depicts the ability to wander around detached from society, the only purpose is to be an “acute observer of industrialised, contemporary life.” According to Bijan Stephen in his 2013 Paris Review article, Bijan Stephen had stated that the use of the Flaneur “is a vehicle for the examination of the conditions of modernity.” (Stephen, 2013)

This concept interests me because I also like to observe my surroundings when I’m outdoors. I always connect to my senses and let myself feel when I’m walking through the city, especially in the evenings where the ambience feels stronger. For my project, I’m personally going on derives in places in the city I find myself in and recording it in videos and photography.

An example of this topic in visual culture is Dustin Yellin's series called 'Psychogeographies.' This series is a collection of "fantastical colages encased within layers of glass." (Mitchell, 2015) They are presented uniquely in life-size humanoid figures. They are pieced together with drawings, paintings and magazine clippings that are stacked between glass planes. Psychogeography is described to be a "toy-box full of inventive stategies for exploring cities." (Waldman, 2014) For Yellin, his toy box is "full of everything he finds on the street - flowers, leaves, bugs, and even dead rats," which he also uses for his thee-dimensional collages sealed in resin.

Reference List

Lyons, S (2017) ‘Psychogeography: a way to delve into the soul of a city’. The conversation, Available at: Psychogeography: a way to delve into the soul of a city (theconversation.com)

Mcdonough, T (2004) ‘Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents, Boston, October Press

Mitchell, K (2015) 'Three Dimensrional Human Collages Encased in Layers of Glass', My Modern Met, Available at: Three-Dimensional Human Collages Encased in Layers of Glass (mymodernmet.com)

O’Rourke, K (2021) ‘Psychogeography: A Purposeful Drift Through the City,’ The Mit Press Reader

Stephen, B (2013) ‘In Praise of the Flaneur’, The Paris Review

Tate, (n.d.) ‘Art Term: Psychogeography, Tate) Available at:: Psychogeography | Tate

Walman, J (2014) 'Psychogeographies: 3D Collages Encased in Layers of Glass by Dustin Yellin' Colossal, Available at: Psychogeographies: 3D Collages Encased in Layers of Glass by Dustin Yellin — Colossal (thisiscolossal.com)

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surra-de-bunda · 2 years

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Iva LaShawn & Angell Conwell at the "Soul Plane" premiere (2004).

#Iva Lashawn #Angell Conwell #Soul Plane #2004 #xo #black women

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spoilertv · 9 months

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scriptsandlattes · 11 months

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The Good, the Bad, and the Faustian

June 25, 2022

What would it take for you to sell your soul? Money? Success? Fame? A culmination of the three? Would you risk driving yourself to the edge of madness for someone you know you should not trust? The story has been told before; a character gets tempted by a sinister being and ends up on the wrong end of the deal. It is a bit of a gender bent story of Eve being tempted by the snake, but with a twist. While this project began with the idea of strictly and exclusively comparing three versions of the Doctor Faustus story, the final idea is a discussion of the three and how Faustian elements have seeped into modern media network shows from the early and mid-2000’s through 2021. The versions to be discussed are written by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Mann.

Faustian themes in early 2000’s network media

Lost

From 2004 to 2010, the American Broadcast Company (ABC) aired the dramatic, science fiction, mystery series Lost. What started out as a story about plane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious island became a deeper, philosophical story about individual decisions and the long-term effects not only for the individual’s life, but the lives of those around them. Each person had their reasons for getting on the plane- from giving up a baby for adoption, to being an extradited fugitive. The series plays on humanity, character arcs, and their long and short-term decisions.

At the time of publishing, Sharon M. Kaye was an associate Philosophy professor at John Carroll University. In Lost and Philosophy, she introduces the show as a series that sinks its teeth into the audience and will not let go. This show was chosen for the discussion of Faustian themes for the metaphorical messages within the series. L.O.S.T. in Lost and Philosophy stands for Love, Origin, Survival, and Transformation. While certain parts of episodes play off like an anthology of short stories, the main story always comes back to the present. Professor Kaye asks the readers if they have ever been lost, and to remember how they felt when they were (Kaye 2010). That is what the island is- it is our lowest point. But it is also the point of transformation.

The idea of Faust, or Doctor Faustus is that a man willingly bargained with demon and sold his soul to the devil for decades of personal gain. Lost is Faustian by means of the characters who chose to remain on the island. The character named John Locke stayed to protect the island, the character Rose Nadler and her husband Bernard choose to stay on the island so she can live. Both Lost and the stories of Faustus have elements of dark magic. Where Faustus sold his soul in the beginning of the story and is granted his version of success, Rose, John, and the rest of the characters that choose to stay created the bargain from that point on. John was confined to a wheelchair before his trip to the island, now he can walk. Rose had terminal cancer, but the island has made so that she is cancer free. All the characters- despite their reasons, came to the same conclusion: the island giveth, and the island can taketh away.

Criminal Minds

A crime procedural shows may seem surprising when discussing Faustian themes in popular culture, but the season seven episode “Snake Eyes” is about an Atlantic City in-debt gambler. In opposition of Faust, he is already married, but the gambling debt is causing a strain on the marriage. All he wants is to take his wife to Tahiti in hopes to rebuild the relationship. He

loses a poker game with a large buy in, and, in a rage, he kills the man he borrowed money from. After the murder, he finds a stroke of luck and wins a jackpot- but he soon realizes that the luck is conditional- murder equals a lucky strike. The more murders he commits, the more “luck” he gets. Although after killing a random gas station attendant and not having the luck, he realized there is another caveat to his situation: if the person means more to him, (such as his best friend) the jackpot of luck granted becomes bigger.

Akin to Thomas Mann’s version of Faust, the character is driven into madness (sans syphilis) by his quest for fortune. After his wife says she wants a divorce his spiral deepens. No longer in the right frame of mind, he decided the only way to keep his luck is to kill the one he loves the most- his wife. He finds her at her sister’s house and takes them hostage. He also blames the sisters for ruining his lucky streak. Though he is already “damned” for prison, he finally realizes what he has done and releases his wife. The episode differs from Doctor Faustus because he chooses suicide. His actions, however, damned him either way.

Supernatural

In 2005, The CW Television Network (formerly known as the WB) aired the supernatural mystery show Supernatural. It follows a pair of brothers, their friends, and acquaintances, as they save the world from beings with supernatural abilities. The Faustian elements are present throughout the series as characters- major and minor- are always making bargains with demons. The show depicts the condemned character being dragged away to Hell by invisible (to all but the condemned soul) creatures known as Hellhounds. The bodily death is violent if the soul resists. That idea by itself could be the difference between Goethe’s version and the versions written by Marlow and Mann.

The main characters had the bad habit of bartering with their own souls to save their family and friends. In an entertaining twist to the Faustian tale, the series manages to kill the personification of death twice. The original character of death was named as such, but the second one was a former reaper named Billie. Going forward, to make it easier for readers, they will be addressed so. The oldest brother, and one of the show’s protagonists, Dean seems to have made friends with Death. (Who knew cheap diner food was the key to befriending death?) The show tells us that Death was at one point a servant of Lucifer, so making a bargain with death is the same as bargaining with the devil. Death eventually escapes servitude but is still “Big Daddy Reaper” making his bargains death sentences if he wills them such. In the show, even as a villain, he is not truly a villain.

Supernatural makes a point to show all the recurring characters as neither fully good nor fully bad. Even the demon Crowley- “The King of Hell” sacrificed himself so the Winchesters could find their way back to their reality. The show’s introduction to Angels and God himself, is no exception. As the show progresses its heavenly storyline, the audience learns that like humans, we cannot trust half the angels on the planet or in Heaven. Castiel, even after all his indiscretions and internal misdirection, earned the trust of the Winchesters, who eventually considered the trench coated angel family. The point must be known that the angels are celestial beings that must be granted permission from the human vessel they wish to possess, before possessing them, which is different from the demons, as they can just hope into any body- living or dead.

The audience expects the demons to go against their word, but the angels are supposed to be “the good guys.” When Dean finally grants the Archangel Michael permission to use his vessel, he makes bargain that he expected to be held: “If we do this, it’s a onetime deal. I’m in

charge. You’re the engine, but I’m behind the wheel. Understand?” (“Let the Good Times Roll”) after which the archangel nods in agreement. Once Dean finished the task, Michael goes against his word and forces Dean’s conscious to hold him prisoner in his own body. Seems an oddly demonic thing to do for a heavenly being.

The final Faustian theme could be Faux Faustian. Giving your soul to God would imply to the devout that you are doing good for the world. Supernatural exercises the idea that God does not care; he is out to help his self. He will help you only if you are of use to him. The show portrays God as mostly selfish- even when his sister wanted more for the world, he locked her away and continued with his life, going as far as refusing to acknowledge her existence until he could not. Billie, the previously mentioned reaper-turned- Death often bargained the same way as God- and the way we expect the demons to- under false pretenses. By the time the brothers figure out the plans from either God or Death, it is too late to change the outcome.

Fantasy Island

The last show for discussion is a summary of the concept, and coverage of a single episode. In 2021 Fox Network aired the pilot episode of the contemporized the adventure, fantasy, drama series Fantasy Island. The show tells stories about people that have a fantasy they wish to fulfill, and travel to an island that claims to do just that. The island has rules though- you must play the fantasy out as it is to be or learn the lesson within the fantasy. In the pilot episode, this couple, of retirement age, come to the island to live out the fantasy of being young and healthy once again. Ruby, like Rose from Lost, is terminal. Because the island is magic, she is not terminal. If she were to leave the island, she would remain terminal. She was at peace with her diagnosis and willing to accept her fate. However, the guardian of the island takes a liking to her and her selfless personality. Roarke offers the option to stay on the island and aid the other

island goers. As she was going to die anyway, she and her husband agree that she should stay and help the island while he leaves. Because Ruby was terminal when she and Mel (her husband) booked the trip to a secret island that appears to you when you need it, it is acceptable that Mel goes back to their family with the news that she died peacefully on the island.

Though not as dark or grim as the original theme suggests, Fantasy Island shows its audience that a bargain, even one created for a selfless reason such being able to spend more time with a loved one for the sake of the loved one, does not always end the way you think. There is good in the bad and bad in the good- Life gives us shades of Gray and Black. It is our job to find our comfort shade.

The epic tale of Doctor Faustus

There is a copy of The Atlantic Monthly from 1858 that tells the legend of Doctor Faustus and the lesson it is meant to teach us. The entry goes on to say that Faustus’ journey is decidedly “the stamp of the great moral revolution of the time.” The story goes on to say that two saints were tempted with possessions and worldly prosperity and fell deeper into sin than Faustus himself. But repentance saved them. (Atlantic Monthly). While this legend is based off Christopher Marlowe’s Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, can we assume that Johann Wolfgang van Goethe came across this legend and got inspired to write his own version and give Faustus a different fate?

An academic may question whether Faust truly deserved to go to heaven even though he sold his soul. Damned to Heaven says this-

One of the most contentious debates in literary history revolves around the ending to Goethe's magnum opus, Faust. Some of the controversies have focused upon moral issues. Does Faust deserve to go to heaven? If so, is it because his striving accords with

God's notion of human existence as described in the play's prolog, his seeming regret at some of his deeds, or his larger plans at the end for the greater good of humanity? (Tantillo).

Where Goethe’s version shies away from the above legend is that it can be taken as a challenge to religion from science.

Faust [sic] ascension is meant to be read as an unhappy, tragic event. The tragedy, however, is not a moral one in the Christian sense. It is not that an evil, non-repentant man goes to heaven, thereby breaking a traditional, Christian moral codex. Instead, Goethe's scientific principles replace a Christian moral code within the play, and Faust's final end is tragic in that he is rendered incapable of further activity. In this sense, the play signals its ultra-modernity: a scientific, naturalistic understanding of the world replaces a religious one. Productive activity replaces moral rectitude as the goal of human striving (Tantillo).

The article goes on to justify Faust’s damnation as being condemned to an eternity of stasis. It is that stasis- inactivity- is more damning than eternal torment.

The previous paragraph brings forward another idea from the show Supernatural. If every soul that goes to heaven has ‘their own heaven’ it would make sense that Hell should also be based on individual torment. When considering heaven being broken up into the individual’s version of heaven without access to even a passed-on friend’s heaven, those of us that wish to, are left wondering how much of a blessing being sent to Heaven truly is. It is house arrest if you will. Going by this idea, Faust, as written by Goethe, was damned. Had he descended to Hell instead, he may have lived his afterlife in a constant state of doing and being which, he seems to prefer. A Meditation of Knowledge summarizes the legend as such-

The medieval legend, Doctor Faustus was a scholar who had come to the unhappy realization that his knowledge and pleasures were limited. To overcome the barriers that prevented him from enjoying the fruits so unjustly denied to him, Doctor Faustus struck a deal with the devil. Thus [sic] he obtained the vast powers he desired—but at a very dear price.

With that idea of the legend, we can assume that this version of Faustus, or Faust also floating about in nothingness is the ultimate punishment. The more in-depth the research of Goethe’s version of the story gets, the more irony it seems laced with. The bad in what we thought was good.

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There was a time when Hip hop and Hollywood were seen as two separate lanes. The idea was preposterous when hip-hop/rap artists expressed a desire to cross over to Hollywood. Those who dared cross the lane were perceived to be inauthentic and mocked for their inability to choose one route and stick to it. The only movies that featured hip-hop and rap artists taken seriously were those constructed around the art form, such as Wild Style (1982) and Beat Street (1984). As the progression of our material world has proven, one never knows how great something can be until it's done. And over time, artists have demonstrated that hip hop artist in Hollywood is hardly a joke. Talent is rarely linear. More often, genuine artists possess a multitude of skills. Top Ten: From Hip-Hop to Hollywood Films While many hip-hop artists have shown top-caliber skills in acting, others failed miserably, leading many to wonder why hip-hop/rap artists didn't stay in their lane. However, this is life, and we must take the good with the bad. So here is a list of movies starring hip-hop/rap artists who nailed their performance to those that will forever live in infamy. #10 Snoop/Method Man Soul Plane The number ten spot for movies featuring a hip hop/rap artist goes to Soul Plane. Soul Plane was a film that premiered in 2004. The hour and 26-minute comedy about an airline owned and staffed by African Americans featured artists Snoop Dogg and Method Man. Other notable comedians in the industry rounded out the cast. One can argue Snoop played his role to perfection. The Dogg Father did what he did the best play himself. His smooth, laid-back demeanor as Captain Mack was his signature. Snoop has more than learned how to use his persona in Hollywood to his advantage. As Highsnobiety notes, " Though Snoop has 163 acting credits, most of those appearances can be viewed as extensions of his brand. Often, he plays himself." 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While a low-key movie compared to most, Idlewild allowed Big Boi and Andre to display the full range of their talents, proving that just as on stage, their flare and creativity were suited for more than the sound booth. https://youtu.be/zwv5XWJhD6A # 7 Full Cast Carmen Hip Hopera Carmen Hip Hopera is one of the lesser known movies; however, it is one of the best revisioning of a classic film starring a predominantly hip-hop cast. Until Carmen Hip Hopera, few films boasted a primary hip-hop cast, let alone used the performer to recreate a classic movie for a wider audience. This film was a 2001 offering directed by Robert Townsend. Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), Rah Digga, Wyclef Jean, Da Brat, Jermaine Dupri, Shad Moss (Bow Wow), Beyonce, and Mekhi Phifer made up the cast. Impressively this group of talented performers was able to reshape the story of Carmen into a hip-hop work of art, displaying not only their acting talent but also their musical talent. https://youtu.be/G5J9kN2nKY8 #6 Tupac Shakur - Juice Juice takes the number six spot. This 1992 film is one of the best cultural films to be produced. Tupac Shakur, who played the role of Bishop, a no-nonsense dealer in the 1990s street of New York, proved that rappers could be serious actors. Tupac's delivery was on point, and his poise was unmatchable. With this performance, it was undeniable that Tupac could effortlessly move through both worlds. Of relative importance was what the film did for the perception of hip-hop overall. As Independent notes, "Juice was equally crucial for showing how uniquely enmeshed movie and rap stardom could become. " https://youtu.be/CoXniP8kldY #5 Kid n Play House Party House party is hands down a hip-hop cult classic. Hip hop artist Kid n Play did their thing in the 1990 iconic comedy, making it one of the most memorable films. While neither Kid nor Play's performances were Oscar-worthy, their performances were authentic. The chemistry was unforgettable, with Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, A.J. Johnson, and Robin Harris rounding out the cast. The culture loved it, accepting the film for what it was, an iconic moment in cinematic history celebrating hip-hop on the silver screen. And the acting wasn't half-bad. https://youtu.be/Z1l5PFs2eTc #4 Queen Latifah -Set it Off Set it Off falls in the top five movies starring a hip-hop artist. Set it off premiered in 1996, and it was fire. Queen Latifah showed the world how it was done. Her performance, along with the performances of the other three leading ladies, was noteworthy. No one could doubt whether each poured their essence into the characters of Stony, Cleo, Frankie, and Tisean because It showed. These women were as authentic and touchable as any. In fact, it was difficult to tell the character apart from the actor. And if it hadn't been obvious before now, it was plain that Queen had what it takes to make it big in Hollywood. As a testament to her talent, according to Highsnobiety, "With almost one hundred acting credits and nearly fifty producing credits to her name, Queen Latifah is now a Hollywood titan." https://youtu.be/f_cbkxnbiqQ # 3 Tupac Shakur Poetic Justice While Tupac has been mentioned before, he again gains mention for his role in the cultural favorite, Poetic Justice. This 1993 John Singleton film wherein Tupac Shakur played the character of Lucky. This film, which premiered only a year after Juice, depicted Pac differently. In Poetic Justice, Tupac played the love interest of none other than Janet Jackson. While he remained rough around the edges, the character of Lucky depicted a man gentler in nature, a vast difference from Bishop. Poetic Justice was demonstrative of Pac's range. 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