“Actually our work depends on how much we can appropriate from other people’s work! Painting, music, films, literature … it’s all grist for the mill. We think of our work not as individual creativity but like a lifelong baton relay. Your work passes through your body and your life; you transform it into something, and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Mother/daughter relationship'
Mei Actually Met a Ghost — Totoro!
October 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment
Tags: Alternate universe · Animation · Bathtub scene · Beasts and monsters · Coming of age · Father/daughter relationship · Mother/daughter relationship · Supernatural
A Xenomorph May Be Involved
September 5th, 2011 · No Comments
“I think a lot of it has gone into comic books, and to me, in comic books, it’s all about the men — and because they were written in the ’50s and ’60s especially. It just wasn’t where it was at for those writers and there’s only so many band-aids you can put on that [...]
Tags: Aliens · Beasts and monsters · Dreams and visions · Famous line · Military · Mother/daughter relationship · Sequel · Woman in jeopardy
Fighting Imaginary Enemies
May 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Whoever said that talking about politics, religion or sex on a blind date was a bad idea could just have easily applied that rule to movies. Or maybe like Peter Venkman said, it’s more of a guideline than a rule. I caught two movies recently that were the flip side of the same coin: independently [...]
Tags: Ambiguous ending · Animation · Coming of age · Crooked officer · Documentary · Gangsters and hoodlums · Interrogation · Mother/daughter relationship










