Creator | Title | Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) | Theme |
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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 |
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. |
Director: Reiner, Rob | American President | Romance is fun, funny and important. | |
Rand, Ayn | Anthem | The book starts out psychologically dark and disorienting because of the protagonist struggling with the radically collectivist world he was born into. But what shows even in the early pages, and grows to the climax is the triumphant struggle of a rare few who break free of the yoke of total mind control and become free to live a life as a conceptual human and rediscover what it means to be an individual. Thrilling and emotionally satisfying (unless the reader is a committed determinist.) |
Ego and using one's individual mind is the core of being human. |
Classical Persian School | Ardabil Carpet | sumptuous eye candy. | |
Composer: Handman, Lou | Are You Lonesome Tonight? | Sensuality and bitterness | The remembrance of past love. |
Author: Rand, Ayn | Atlas Shrugged | Life can be good; Men are competent to live happily; The world can be a shining, happy place to exist, if one is free. But novel also presents a dark, dystopian world to help make real that positive view. | The crucial value of the human mind. |
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 |
Director: Daldry, Stephen | Billy Elliot | Life is dirty but one can clean up. | Go after what you love. |
Biviel Design | Biviel Shoe BV2773 | Feeling: texture and line create a sense of elegance and beauty. | |
Director: Ballard, Carroll | Black Stallion | Everything is possible between boy and beast, between an innocent human and mother nature. | Man and nature in harmony. |
Painter: Koyo Omura | Blue Phoenix | A pleasing and lush, possibly claustrophobic, world. | |
Landscape Designer: Steele, Fletcher | Blue Steps of Naumkeag | elegance and grace | The man-made enhances nature -- it is what makes nature beautiful |
Dancers: Torvill and Dean | Bolero | Harmony, grace exist. | Two people as one. |
Composer: Warren and Dubin | Boulevard of Broken Dreams | Weariness & Sadness | Life is loss of dreams and sadness |
Vance, Louis Joseph | Brass Bowl, The | The world is a delightful place. Good things happen to the deserving. | Life as a gay, lighthearted adventure. |
Screenwriter: Coward, Noel | Brief Encounter | Passionate love. Tragic choices. | High romance is possible. Such love is unlikely to survive. |
Architect: Unknown | Burgos Cathedral Crossing | God is order and reason and light. | The spirit of god is rational, uplifting and rich in detail |
Creator: Nix, Matt | Burn Notice | Anything can be done if you are smart and motivated enough. | |
Composer: Lerner and Loewe | Camelot | One must attempt to live by values, even though virtue is powerless and hopeless. | Camelot: a medieval place of goodness and justice, and its inevitable failure. |
Sculptor: Tuby, Jean Baptiste (1630-1700) | Chariot of Apollo | The world has thrilling powerful men of action. There are no limits to what can be achieved. |
Elegant, physical power. The fantasy ability to fly through water and air with grace and ease.<br> |
Director: Hudson, Hugh | Chariots of Fire | A complete feeling of openness of the world to greatness of your own choosing. | Life is achievement. |
Director: Hallstrom, Lasse | Chocolat | Pleasure is good; religion and conventional thinking is bad. | Follow your dream and disregard convention. |
Villeroy & Boch | Chocolate Pitcher and Butter Dish | Friendly warmth (arising from the simple graceful lines, and the unadorned simplicity of the colors without ornament) | |
De Felitta, Raymond | City Island | Anxiety and pain from all the lies and mistaken motives. Catharsis from the climax, leading to feelings of wanting to be truthful in life! | Lying is not the way to live. |