Creator Title Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Author: Shute, Nevil Far Country, The Life can be bright, happy and successful, but hard decisions must be faced and dealt with.

A good and happy life is made up of self-directed actions, self-chosen goals.

A less important theme is:
Freedom from government control.
Whether the government control results from devastating wars, or from socialist control of medical care, freedom is to be sought and prized.
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.
Painter: Tito, Ettore La Gomena (Towing a Boat) There is great effort in life, and a woman can be the master of it.
This painting is a curious combination of romantic heroism and 19th century genre naturalism. It has a visual dynamism and dramatic content that is strongly romantic, yet the subject is the prosaic task of pulling a boat out of the water.

The will and the power of a woman. Implacable determination.
Playwright: Shakespeare, William Much Ado About Nothing Sweetness and light and beauty are what the world is made of.
Author: Webster, Henry Kitchell Real Adventure, The Life is wonderful as long as you realize that life has to be earned the hard way.

Creating your *self* is the only way to live.
Creator: Nix, Matt Burn Notice Anything can be done if you are smart and motivated enough.
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.
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.)
Composer: Warren and Dubin Boulevard of Broken Dreams Weariness & Sadness

Life is loss of dreams and sadness
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.
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.
Director: Reiner, Rob American President Romance is fun, funny and important.
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.
Painter: Peale, Charles Wilson Staircase Group (aka Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale) Perceiving accurately is important and playing with the artistic medium is fun.
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: 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.
Screenwriter: Coward, Noel Brief Encounter Passionate love. Tragic choices.

High romance is possible. Such love is unlikely to survive.
This film manages to embrace two contradictory themes, leading to a major bittersweet outcome.
Designer: Otar, John Covered Box Fun; complexity made from simplicity
Director: Korda Alexander Rembrandt Life is hard as an independent spirit, and wealth will elude you, but you will be happy, after a fashion.
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.
Director: McCarey, Leo Ruggles of Red Gap Happiness and fulfillment is in yourself.

Personal declaration of independence from servitude
Director/Writer: Elliott, Stephan Easy Virtue

Love isn't easy, but it is glorious.