Creator Title Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Designer: Eiffel, Gustave Eiffel Tower The works of Man are thrilling.
Director and Screenwriter: Curtis, Richard Love Actually Romantic love, family love, filial love, and the love of friendship are of central importance to human existence, and are possible to achieve.

Wonderful experiences of love are found in many forms and places.

Alexander Mackendrick, Director The Ladykillers

All is right with the world because virtuous people prevail over evil people. Evil people simply destroy themselves, and innocence strengthens you.

Evil is impotent. Secondary theme: you can’t cheat an honest lady.

 

Director: Zinnemann, Fred High Noon There is palpable evil in the world. There is heroism in the face of evil in the world. The movie is full of fear and foreboding and betrayal.

Civil Society is the ideal, and worth fighting for. Doing what is right is the right way to live. Don't let the evil bastards win. The theme is expressed repeatedly in the movie via the contrast of the Marshall who grimly faces the need to do what he lives for, despite the death facing him, vs. the mealy mouthed town folk, many of which who won't fight for their civil society, and vs. the deputy marshall who portrays the sellout who will give into evil force in order to "get along".

Director: Korda Alexander Rembrandt Life is hard as an independent spirit, and wealth will elude you, but you will be happy, after a fashion.
Shute, Nevil Landfall Heroes and Heroines are self-made, by anyone at any level of intelligence who seriously pursues what is important in their lives.

Truth will triumph -- with perseverance.

Sculptor: Agesander Laocoon (Laocoön and His Sons) Life is a desperate, agonizing struggle.

The heroic but agonizing defeat of Men. This sculpture certainly represents at the same time the heroic nature of men but cast into an impossible situation that can only be tragic.

Composer: Beethoven, Ludwig Symphony no. X

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Director: Coppola Francis Ford Godfather Life demands death; life is a horror of killing and retribution. Life is tragedy and malevolence

Behind beauty and success lies corruption and death.

Painter: Koyo Omura Blue Phoenix A pleasing and lush, possibly claustrophobic, world.
Sculptor: unknown Winged Victory

One of the great expressions of the Greek Classical and Hellenistic spirit -- that men (and women) are larger than life and triumphant.  While the image is partially a fantasy since the woman is winged and probably represents a goddess: Nike -- this concretization depicts a "god" in the form of a human woman, thus glorifying women.

The grandeur of being alive and free.

Writer: Coward, Noel Design for Living Life can be giddy and bright. Facing up to one's anti-conventional values is important. Conventional morality must be questioned if it causes suffering and conflict.

You should follow your deepest values and accept them no matter how unconventional the outcome.

A rare combination of the wittiest, lightest of Noel Coward's style, along with deeper themes of romantic love, proper morality and how should one live.

Dancers: Torvill and Dean Flying Fish A heightened sense that Life is fantastically unbounded by daily cares. Life is imbued with unlimited potential and ease of movement.

Life is light and fluid.

Biviel Design Biviel Shoe BV2773 Feeling: texture and line create a sense of elegance and beauty.
Designer: Rouff, Maggy Helene Arpels Dress Elegance and richness of detail
Director: Ballard, Carroll Black Stallion Everything is possible between boy and beast, between an innocent human and mother nature.

Man and nature in harmony.
At least this is the theme of the first half of the movie. See "Description" and "Context" info below for more on this comment.

Creator: Nix, Matt Burn Notice Anything can be done if you are smart and motivated enough.
Sculptor: Fedi, Pio Rape of Polyxena, The Strength and complex beauty are central.
Vitality, passion and action are hallmarks of this work.

Life is complex strife, entwined with strong god-like characters.

Designer: Ferrari, Enzo Ferrari Dino 246 GT The world is a place of speed and elegance.
Franz Liszt Benediction of God in Solitude

There is no conflict in the world, only sublime movement toward achievement of supreme values. The conclusion says, “You never had to worry: it was all there for you."

Painter: Leyendecker, J.C. Day at the Beach Fun and cuteness.
Designer: Unknown Rose Window - La Sainte-Chapelle (aka The Holy Chapel The world is open and bright and colorful and gay.
Director: Hudson, Hugh Greystoke Life is Loss -- life is grim and culture is grim and the jungle is grim. All is grim.

The other important feature of the film emotionally is that Tarzan has been crippled by his circumstances of being brought up in the jungle -- he cannot live as a man, so the great tragedy of the story is that he has to return to the jungle, which is below primitive -- it is an isolated hell in which death is at every corner, and at best the companionship of apes. Given that the story partly portrays civilized men as brutes who relish killing animals, perhaps the emotional intent is to make the choice to return to the jungle as positive, but for this reviewer it is unutterably tragic and ugly.

Loss, Loss, Loss. Man as metaphysically alien from human culture.

Sculptor: Buonarotti, Michelangelo David Man is a strong, indomitable creature who has the intelligence to overcome terrible odds.

[requires assumption of some context of this work -- not a "cold" introduction to it]: A man able to face a daunting task, with tremulous calm and determination. This is the depiction of the David/Goliath story of the Bible in which David takes on the much more formidable Goliath and wins.

Director: Reiner, Rob American President Romance is fun, funny and important.