Creator | Title | Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) | Theme |
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Director: Caton-Jones, Michael | Rob Roy | Life is a struggle. The life you make for yourself can be difficult, but living it with strength and morality is the way to live. Happiness is possible in romance. | Heroism in everyday life leads to heroism writ large. A man works hard to lead his life and those of his extended clan in an honorable, productive, honest way. This is the everyday heroism. But dishonorable, evil men seek to steal from him and ruin him. This leads to a life of larger-than-life heroism to vanquish his mortal, and stronger enemies. |
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. |
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. |
Director: De Felitta, Raymond | Two Family House | Feelings of benevolence and optimism about life. Happiness comes from making choices for your own good. | Going after what you want in life; Don't be stopped by conventional standards of the people around you. It takes courage to be selfish. |
Sculptor: Saint-Gaudens, Auguste | Diana | Serenity in action. But not a strong world view in any case, quite placid. | |
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. |
Painter: Koyo Omura | Blue Phoenix | A pleasing and lush, possibly claustrophobic, world. | |
Screenwriter: Chopra Vidhu Vinod | 3 Idiots | Life can be fun and productive and exciting. As is true in some other Bollywood features, this story and the ideas behind it about pursuing the good life, has an honesty and clarity and benevolence that is not part of the U.S. movie scene. | Be what you want to be; follow your passion in life |
Designer: Sullivan, Louis Henri | System of Architectural Ornament, A | The world is a place of infinite, ordered, geometric, fluid possibilities. | |
Singing Group: Soviet Army Chorus and Band | Sports March | Happiness triumphs. | The power of joy to motivate action. |
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> |
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. |
Director: McCarey, Leo | Ruggles of Red Gap | Happiness and fulfillment is in yourself. | Personal declaration of independence from servitude |
Landscape Designer: Steele, Fletcher | Blue Steps of Naumkeag | elegance and grace | The man-made enhances nature -- it is what makes nature beautiful |
Author: Lazarus, Emma | The New Colossus | Benevolent celebration of liberty as a beacon to a troubled world. | A marvelous land of liberty offers welcome to the oppressed of the world. |
Composer: Handman, Lou | Are You Lonesome Tonight? | Sensuality and bitterness | The remembrance of past love. |
Classical Persian School | Ardabil Carpet | sumptuous eye candy. | |
Director: Parker, Alan | Fame | Life is hard, but you can succeed, and it is worth it and exhilarating. | Go after your heart's desire. |
Director: Canet, Guillaume | Tell No One (aka Ne le dis à personne) | Life is sad, and controlled by mysterious corruption. | |
Director: Ballard, Carroll | Black Stallion | Everything is possible between boy and beast, between an innocent human and mother nature. | Man and nature in harmony. |
Designer: Ferrari, Enzo | Ferrari Dino 246 GT | The world is a place of speed and elegance. | |
Alexander, John | Trees | A sense of the world as dynamic and strong. | Nature is wild and dynamic. |
Director: Stanton, Andrew | Wall-E | The world is garbage, and more garbage and humans have destroyed the earth, because of their wanton consumerism. | Mankind is a blight on the universe, and only cute robots (as opposed to evil robots) can save the earth from human degradation. |
Composer: Verdi, Giuseppe | Attila (live performance) | Life is a mix of strength, heroism, romantic passion. The work is a long complex opera, so it has many other lyrical emotions as part of it, but this covers the basic sense of life. |
Loving a heroic woman leads to death |
Creator: Nix, Matt | Burn Notice | Anything can be done if you are smart and motivated enough. |