Creator Title Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Author: Webster, Henry Kitchell King in Khaki, A Honesty is a noble and practical way of life.

Business acumen produces both material wealth and moral right.

The success of the entrepreneur in this story, along with his relation to all his staff and secondary and tertiary folks on the island who work for him -- makes him into a "king" based on important human relations and the rightness of his decisions that result in a successful business enterprise.

A subsidiary theme might be termed the power of morality over physical power or economic "power".
Painter: Leyendecker, J.C. Day at the Beach Fun and cuteness.
Director: Herskovitz, Marshall Dangerous Beauty The world is a horrible split of conventional marital morality vs. honest but promiscuous morality. The way to live requires one sacrifice one's body for one's soul.

1. The importance of accepting your own rules for living, your own morality.
2. The grim metaphysical conflict for a Venetian woman of being a slave to a husband or a free woman requiring sexual work.
Director: Hallstrom, Lasse Chocolat Pleasure is good; religion and conventional thinking is bad.

Follow your dream and disregard convention.
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.
Designer: Sullivan, Louis Henri System of Architectural Ornament, A The world is a place of infinite, ordered, geometric, fluid possibilities.
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.
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.
Composer: Coward, Noel I'll See You Again Life is bittersweet

Sweet memories of love last forever
Draftsman: Boscoli, Andrea Horse Seen from Behind Not much except perhaps stylistic -- confident, strong drafting style, and a vibrant, alive, horse.
Sculptor: Canova, Antonio Three Graces The female human form is beautiful, graceful, ideal.

Quiet repose and sisterly love. The piece exudes a quiet elegance and peacefulness amidst the complex three-dimensional composition. The inclusion of "sisterly love" is less certain, except that taking into account the mythological background of the piece. It can be argued that one should not take that into account, so perhaps that should not formally be included in the theme.
Composer: Handman, Lou Are You Lonesome Tonight? Sensuality and bitterness

The remembrance of past love.
Playwright: Shakespeare, William Othello: the Moor of Venice Malevolence and horrible tragedy is unrelieved.  Evil is potent.

A great man can be gullible and controlled by an evil character.&nbsp; Or, an evil character can have potency in the world, because of the weakness of a good man.<br>
Playwright: Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac Life can be exciting. Life can be grand, literally.
There is also some great sadness about consummated love, since it is portrayed as unreachable.

The importance of independence and independent thought. Compromise is deadly to one's soul.
Sub-themes: a) Doubt of one's goodness because of an incidental fact (physical feature) is terribly damaging and tragic. b) Helping someone by faking reality is damaging and can come to no good.
Director: Parker, Alan Fame Life is hard, but you can succeed, and it is worth it and exhilarating.

Go after your heart's desire.
Choreographer: Lander, Harold Etudes

Thrilling pleasure at beautiful movement and great success at developing the best within you.
 

Hard work results in great achievement in life -- and that results in beauty and excitement in life.<br>
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.

 
Designer: Tiffany, Louis Comfort Spider Web Narcissi Table Lamp Richness of form, sumptuous shapes.
Rodin, Auguste Shade, The Life is a gruesome trial. There is no hope.

The world destroys man. (Some unknown evil force is destroying this young strong man.) Given that the sculpture is titled as a "Shade" and is related to the Group sculpture "Gates of Hell", one can presume the evil is some unnamed condition that can overpower life and cause destruction of the good.
Alexander, John Trees A sense of the world as dynamic and strong.

Nature is wild and dynamic.
Maugham, W. Somerset Of Human Bondage Life is a fearful gray spread of actions and in-actions without genuine values. We are all deformed in mind or spirit and should accept convention as demanded by those around us.

Man's life is outside his control. Conventionality is the final ideal.
Painter: Koyo Omura Blue Phoenix A pleasing and lush, possibly claustrophobic, world.
Director: Luhrmann, Baz Romeo + Juliet Tragedy is central to life.

Romantic Love is doomed and we don't control our own lives.
Miron - Parish Tzena Tzena Tzena Joyous celebration

Joyous celebration
Director: Reiner, Rob A Few Good Men Justice should be fought for, needs to be fought for and can be fragile.

Commitment to a moral code is central to a good man's life.