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Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in thirteen modern films.

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...ecessary in pursuing this goal. Ripley's reality test is maintained throughout the film. In other words - while he gradually merges with the object... ... Ripley time and again, mysteriously, capriciously, cruelly. Thus, ultimately, the film is an intricate study of the pernicious ways of psychopatho... ...and are available to anyone with a computer. The last decade witnessed a spate of films, all concerned with the confusion between life and the imi... ...t ambivalence, its surrealistic moral landscape and deteriorates into another banal comedy of situations. Return Dreamcatcher - The Myth of Destr... ...overdone", U.S. News & World Report, December 2, 1996 The concept of "nature" is a romantic invention. It was spun by the likes of Jean-Jacques Rou... ...marries the girl of his dreams (who scorned him before). But, this clever piece of comedy is philosophically muddled. The denizens of this dystopia...

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...or a better understanding of this definition, see the interpretation of the film “Scent of a woman” (see “I Laboratori corali della Cosmo-art”, Sophi... ...iale” {Theory of the Existential Unconscious} and my interpretation of the film “The Silence of the Lambs” in my book : “La vita come opera d’arte e ... ...in my book : “La vita come opera d’arte e la vita come dono spiegata in 41 film” {Life as a work of art and life as a gift explained in 41 films}. ... ...the Iliad and the Odyssey, written in poetic form by Homer, and the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. We no longer know who created the single myths... ...e created. Life as a work of art is not intended here like Neitzsche or the Romantics intended it. It is the creation of a unified and unifying field...

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...d say something so clinical and technical and make it sound attractive and romantic. "He ... Is he real?" "In your heart. He always will be." "And you... ...and she stared at him, trying to focus. "Huh?" "I guess they don't get Def Comedy Jam out in the desert." "Deaf Comedy?" "Never mind, Kane. Justice ha... ...the handle as if for support. She saw them as clearly as if they were in a film running across her memory. Sahir smiling as she banishes Kane to the e...

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...Rome, Roma, 2000 21 come opera d’arte e la vita come dono spiegata in 41 film” {Life as a Work of Art and Life as a Gift Explored in 41 Films}, Pu... ...en. Here it is important to read the Cosmo-Artistic interpretation of the film “Swept from the Sea” written by Toto Saporito and published in the b... ...dge but not after truth. For this reason, Dante Alighieri, in his “Divine Comedy”, condemns Ulysses to the inferno, after having him die at sea dur... ... ourselves, others and life (see Novecento, the protagonist in Tornatore’s film “The legend of the pianist on the ocean”, who chooses to blow up wit... ... time or from any time after them. This is what Dante did in his “Divine Comedy”, where with absolute liberty he mixed historical fact with imagin... ...f one embraces a concept of love that is not a sentiment (and worse yet a romantic one) nor simply passion, but is based on a decision. To learn mo...

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...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...n certain, influential, professions (in banking, finance, the media, politics, the film industry, publishing, science, the humanities, etc.). This ... ...ved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lect... ...l". Animals, goes the myth, don't prey on their own kind. Alas, like so many other romantic lores, this is untrue. Most species - including our clo... ...-productive", "city-based" vocations. Agricultural and industrial occupations were romantically extolled. The cities were berated as hubs of moral ... ...nt and content. Today, people are looking to the family for emotional sustenance (romantic love, companionship) and not as an instrument to enhanc... ...t ambivalence, its surrealistic moral landscape and deteriorates into another banal comedy of situations. Internet, Metaphors of Four metaphors c...

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...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...n certain, influential, professions (in banking, finance, the media, politics, the film industry, publishing, science, the humanities, etc.). This ... ...ved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lect... ...l". Animals, goes the myth, don't prey on their own kind. Alas, like so many other romantic lores, this is untrue. Most species - including our clo... ...-productive", "city-based" vocations. Agricultural and industrial occupations were romantically extolled. The cities were berated as hubs of moral ... ...nt and content. Today, people are looking to the family for emotional sustenance (romantic love, companionship) and not as an instrument to enhanc... ...t ambivalence, its surrealistic moral landscape and deteriorates into another banal comedy of situations. Internet, Metaphors of Four metaphors c...

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...c system in the brain often takes priority over the logical section of the brain. This has an effect on our buying habits, our preferences for films ... ... sarcasm make everybody, but the object of the sarcasm, laugh—because they are all better than the goat of the joke. Power, power, power—from comedy... ... And in spite of the strength with which they are held, both are rooted in non-provable assumptions!‖ -- ―And violence sure sells in films,... ...ke other harassing behavior, is one of the common behaviors of people with inferiority feelings.‖ —―You have to admit that violence in films,... ...e can be more powerful than totalitarian politics.‖ —―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romant... ...nson have utilized the method of science to learn more about the most effective techniques of love-making, or should we say ‗sexing?‘ We find romant... ...lp my wife develop her fullest potential.‘‖ —―Most people have some fuzzy idea of what human love is. This idea usually relates to some romant... ...r society. And we keep out of our media the Hollywood emphasis on violence for entertainment. Our media writers must be clever enough to write comedy...

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...calls a singularity which was the origin of the Big Bang. If you reverse the film of a pebble hitting the 2-dimensional The Path of Splitness Cha... ...ticles: a living organic cell. This is why galaxies exist as faint, cellular films of energy on the outer perimeters of huge, empty inter-galactic ... ...s another medium like water, or a transparent pane of glass, or a transparent film of plastic. Space is a Pure Formless Medium. The only reason ... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...o many aspects of our present and past: why humans to this day think the most romantic thing in the world is to walk along a sand-covered beach. Why... ...000 years to Rome… It comes from Ancient Roman Culture. Where the height of comedy and entertainment was one Roman fool… beating another Roman foo... ...l using steel traps and snares is something that could be made into something romantic! The idea…of an animal caught in a trap… slowly freezing to ... ...h emotionally by poisoning the meaning of what is said. Turning tragedy into comedy, and comedy into tragedy. False humor is an emotional lie. The... ...r own lives or their own problems. Because if they did… if they did not go to comedy houses or watch sitcoms… they might actually stand up and do so...

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...man, was ordered by a government official not to publish her criticism of the romanticization of the Old South, at least not in the words she wanted to... ...ial was not one of the many in Congress and the Administration who share the romantic view of the Confederacy. It was a fed- eral judge in Atlanta who... ...w—not recombining the resources of the commons. 47 That is an account of the romantic theory of authorship in the context of contemporary Anglo-Americ... ...x the law in this area. When the case of Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films came up, they thought they had what they wanted. The band NWA had u... ...d. To appropriate a phrase from Carol Rose, open source teaches us about the comedy of the commons, a way of arranging markets and production that we,... ... at http:// www.law.duke.edu/cspd/pdf/cspdproposal.pdf, and Access to Orphan Films: Submission to the Copyright Office—March 2005, available at http://... ...e Action (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), and Carol Rose, “The Comedy of the Commons: Custom, Com- merce, and Inherently Public Property... ...k: New York University Press, 2001). 22. Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films, 410 F .3d 792, 804n16 (6th Cir. 2005). 23. Walter Benjamin, “The W... ...ia Law Library Music Plagiarism Project. See Copyright Infringement Project. comedy of the commons. See commons, comedy of the. U.S. Commerce Departme...

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...r laugh has helped Smarandache to change the existential drama into a serious comedy played with gift and intelligence by a postmodernist tragic hist... ... because of the hybridization) the postmodernist show is given by the somehow film succession/ agglomeration of the contemporary life sequences- its... ..., utilitarian, decorative and eminently democratic art’s perception, fore the romantic revolution”(p.8). The next reader’s question appears logically...

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...wig, gave him a look of mystery. His eyes seemed shrouded in a transparent film; you would have compared them to dingy mother-of-pearl with a blue iri... ...olonel Chabert “Ah ha!” said he with a laugh, “here is the last act of the comedy; now we shall see if I have been taken in!” He took up the letter an... ...rprise he said: “That old man, my dear fellow, is a whole poem, or, as the romantics say, a drama.—Did you ever meet the Comtesse Ferraud?” “Yes; she ... .... Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Bonaparte, Napoleon The Vendetta The Gondreville Mystery Dome...

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...on garage. Yet Babbitt was again dreaming of the fairy child, a dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea. For years the fairy child ha... ...ors. Billboards with crimson god- desses nine feet tall advertising cinema films, pipe to- bacco, and talcum powder. The old “mansions” along Ninth St... ...ggone luxury!” Thus, laden with treasure, after three and a half blocks of romantic adventure, he drove up to the club. III The Zenith Athletic Club i... ...manufacturing a plow or a brick was so that it might be sold. To them, the Romantic Hero was no longer the knight, the wandering poet, the cowpuncher,... ...ow very, very much earth and rock there was in it. He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an ind... ...rst-class hotel, that to the drummers loves to cater, across from some big film theayter; if I should look around and buzz, and wonder in what town I ... ...d with me, old man, and I’ll show you a good time!” They went to a musical comedy and nudged each other 212 Babbitt at the matrimonial jokes and the ... ... for the two doctors were exactly like the bearded physicians in a musical comedy, both of them rubbing their hands and looking foolishly sagacious. D...

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...of another corps, the white caps, without meaning any offense, would have observed the etiquette of their order and ignored our presence. [How strange... ...Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure like a fish’s skin, and it was rippled over with the gracefulest little ... ...pation has busied him with death and funerals all the week, it will rest him to go to the theater Sunday night and put in two or three hours laugh- in... ...try to put your fin- ger on it, it will skip a thousand times its own length at one jump, and no eye is sharp enough to see where it lights. A great d... ... there on the summit the guests did not wait to dress much, but seized a red bed blanket and sailed out arrayed like an Indian. This was good; this wo... ...ngen from the heights of the Bru”nig Pass. They said the view was marvelous, and that one who had seen it once could never forget it. They also spoke ... ...eeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shre... ... terracelike projections— a stairway for the gods; at its head spring several lofty storm- 205 A Tramp Abroad scarred towers, one after another, with...

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...c, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life. The eternal aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Bl... ...ture theater called “The Rose- bud Movie Palace.” Lithographs announcing a film called “Fatty in Love.” Howland & Gould’s Grocery. In the display wind... ...rints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a pa... ...re a blurry theater-audience before which she self-consciously enacted the comedy of being the Clever Little Bride of Doc Kennicott: “These-here celeb... ...nutes Carol kept it up. She asserted that she was going to stage a musical comedy, that she pre- ferred cafe parfait to beefsteak, that she hoped Dr. ... ...ailroad the sections of snow fence, which had been stacked all sum- mer in romantic wooden tents occupied by roving small boys, were set up to prevent... ...eet But what she told herself was that Axel Egge’s was “so picturesque and romantic.” It was in the matter of clothes that she was most self- consciou... ... spread on the rack in the oven. She scampered up-stairs to bring down her filmiest tea-cloth. She arranged a silver tray. She proudly carried it into... ... hate him!” CHAPTER XV That December she was in love with her husband. She romanticized herself not as a great reformer but as the wife of a country p...

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... was there: in the form of a Christmas tree that was drenched with silver film in a most wonderful way; and on a table was prodigal profusion of brig... ... heart of an enchanted land, a land wastefully rich in tropical wonders, a romantic land where all the birds and flowers and animals were of the museu... ...They gavel me, these stale and overworked stage direc tions, these carbon films that got burnt out long ago and cannot now carry any faintest thread ... ...just before Caesar Augustus was born, and was most poetic and touching and romantic in its feelings and aspects. It was a dream. It was dreamed by Cae... ...st authority, Mr. Grant White) several of the plays had been written. ‘The Comedy of Errors’ in 1589, ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ in 1589, ‘T wo Gentlemen ...

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...e was seated, for the rea- son that both eyes were covered with the yellow film pro- duced by cataract. Madame Mignon may be sketched in one sentence.... ...hing more than 15 Balzac subjects which our souls convert into tragedy or comedy ac- cording to the bent of our characters. Madame Latournelle and Ma... ...obtain more by tender- ness than you have discovered by trickery.” Was the comedy of the “Fille mal Gardee” being played here,—as it is everywhere and... ...old; to attend her own funeral like Charles V.; to play within herself the comedy of life and, if need be, that of death. Modeste was indeed playing, ... ...0 Modeste Mignon CHAPTER VII A POET OF THE ANGELIC SCHOOL ALL YOUNG GIRLS, romantic or otherwise, can imagine the impatience in which Modeste lived fo... ...ted, and wholly noble. I worship the beautiful, the ideal, with- out being romantic; though I have been, in my heart of hearts, in my dreams. But I re... ... woman, and which three months of close communion of souls now rendered as romantic as the most imaginative maiden could have wished. Every one, excep...

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...d his hands bound in a web of green silk, which she was unwinding. In this romantic position Osborne and Amelia found the in- teresting pair, when the... ...presents of knives, pencil-cases, gold seals, toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in man... ... now in hand. We might have treated this subject in the genteel, or in the romantic, or in the facetious manner. Suppose we had laid the scene in Gros... ...ghing about me to Joseph? Has he frightened him? Perhaps he won’t come.”—A film 61 Thackeray passed over her eyes, and her heart beat quite quick. “Y... ...t is that the French Em- peror comes in to perform a part in this domestic comedy of V anity Fair which we are now playing, and which would never have... ... of the present day) to cajole the.public into a sermon, when it is only a comedy that the reader pays his money to witness. But, without preaching, t... ...to a scream of hysterical tears. The last scene of her dismal V anity Fair comedy was fast approaching; the tawdry lamps were going out one by one; an...

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..., Valois—the hundred great names that form the Aristoc- racy of the “Human Comedy” owe their lordly mottoes and ingenious armorial bearings. Indeed, “... ...eave the third alone with Madame de la Baudraye, that their jealousy was a comedy to the lookers-on. T o reach Saint-Thibault from Caesar’s Gate there... ... she, “has learned to live, while I have been learning to endure.” A tragi-comedy was, in fact, being enacted in Madame de la Baudraye’s house, in har... ...rcumstances at least as extraordinary as these, and often outdoing them in romantic details. Indeed, is not this proved by the reports in the Gazette ... ...id Madame de la Baudraye. “There, you see!” cried Bianchon. “Interest, the romantic demon, has you by the collar, as he had me a while ago.” “Read on,... ...lzac the cure. Madame Piedefer had no great difficulty now in removing the film from her daughter’s eyes. She sent for Monsieur de Clagny, who complet...

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...e convent smoke which rose straight and high from the chimneys in a golden film, al- ways standing on one jutting point looking down after them. Long ... ...f her fortunes carriage people now no doubt and horses without number most romantic, a coat of arms of course and wild beasts on their hind legs showi... ...w,’ returned the engaging young Barnacle. ‘True,’ said Bar, with his light-comedy laugh for special jury- men, which was a very different thing from h... ...laugh for special jury- men, which was a very different thing from his low-comedy laugh for comic tradesmen on common juries: ‘he has been in Parliame... ... what says the Captain, if I quote him correctly—and if not,’ with a light-comedy touch of his double eye-glass on his companion’s shoulder, ‘my learn... ...ness upon it. The beauties of the sunset had not faded from the long light films of cloud that lay at peace in the horizon. From a radiant centre, ove...

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...g with subtle tenderness to him. “Naturally! Y oung people always do these romantic things,” replied Cyril Scott. He was twenty-two years old, so he c... ... their voices from the distance. “Yes, Josephine, wouldn’t that be awfully romantic!”—she suddenly called shrilly. The pair in the distance started. “... ...t—!” they heard Josephine’s sharp exclamation. “What’s that?—What would be romantic?” said Jim as he lurched up and caught hold of Cyril Scott’s arm. ... ...t it was Jim himself, for he was an unsettled house mate. There was a thin film of snow, a lovely Christmas morn- ing. CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER I... ...ather like the imposing hall into which the heroine suddenly enters on the film. Aaron dropped his heavy bag, with relief, and stood there, hat in han... ...as now no magnate richer than we, no hero nobler than we have been, on the film. Connu! Connu! Everything life has to offer is known to us, couldn’t b... ...ipped various glasses of the liqueur, and told all his tale as if it was a comedy. A comedy it seemed, too, at that hour. And a comedy no doubt it was...