Creator Title Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Director: McCarey, Leo Ruggles of Red Gap Happiness and fulfillment is in yourself.

Personal declaration of independence from servitude
Designer: Eiffel, Gustave Eiffel Tower The works of Man are thrilling.
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
Painter: Ghirlandaio, Domenico Old Man with a Young Boy Human companionship or family closeness is real.

Quiet familial love. (A grandfather (perhaps) gazing upon a grandson, and vice versa, in a clear moment of happy communion.)
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.
Designer: Tiffany, Louis Comfort Spider Web Narcissi Table Lamp Richness of form, sumptuous shapes.
Director: Kurosawa, Akira Rashomon The world is terrible and full of disasters and mankind is awful and pathetic.

Objectivity is a myth -- everyone sees a different reality, a different "story".
Photographer: Ommer, Uwe Pirelli Calendar Diver Women can be strong, dynamic and unconsciously beautiful.
Author: Shute, Nevil Trustee from the Toolroom A feeling of gentleness, kindness and generosity towards good people in the world.

The importance of pursuing one's personal values.<br>
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.
Architect: Guarini, Guarino Real Chiesa di San Lorenzo (Royal Church of St. Lawrence) The world is perfected. The joy of seeing complexity that is simplicity, i.e., that the rich complex vision arises from simple elements which because of their arrangement provide layers of visual thrills.

Complex, soaring geometric order.
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.
Author: Steinbeck, John East of Eden Life is filled with great and important choices.

The battle between good and evil, guilt and innocence. Takes the position that we are influenced by many things, but ultimately we have free will.
Schaefer, Taf Lebel Octopus Playful.
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.
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.
Designer: Esherick, Wharton Fireplace and Door Very orderly exuberance, via "explosive" geometry
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.
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".
Vance, Louis Joseph Brass Bowl, The The world is a delightful place. Good things happen to the deserving.

Life as a gay, lighthearted adventure.
Designer: Fortuny, Mariano Green fabric Still produced by the Fortuny fabric company.
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.
Composer: Handman, Lou Are You Lonesome Tonight? Sensuality and bitterness

The remembrance of past love.
Director: Stone, Oliver Wall Street

There are bad people in power who use ordinary people as pawns in their endless pursuit of money.  Those who are not ruthless are sheep to be slaughtered by the rich and powerful.  Greed is bad.
Composer: Catalani, Alfredo Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (aria from La Wally)

Longing is the overall emotional tone of the music. The lyric gives reason to this overall tone.

Sadness at having to leave forever the place where you were happy once.