Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stories themselves rely heavily on archetypes, and some of the best films of the genre have an allegorical, fairy-tale quality. In pop psychology terms, the monster emerges from the viewer's id, wreaks havoc for awhile, and is destroyed by the hero, who represents the triumphant super-ego...
This form has never changed, but the filmmaker's emphasis certainly has. The orgies of violence and destruction so fully depicted in Humanoids and Friday the 13th represent the id unleashed--in ways de Sade would have admired--but the victory of the super-ego also plays upon the viewer's sadistic urges...
...playing with him on cue? Is Cross really protecting him, or is he just a conveniently anonymous, expendable bit of cannon fodder in Cross's battle to make a masterpiece? Is the film-allegedly an antiwar tract-a serious enterprise or just a moviemaker's ego trip...
Vice President Johnson's ties to the Kennedy White House were strained. Bobby and others on J.F.K.'s staff dismissed him as "Uncle Corn Pone." There is much evidence, however, that John Kennedy sincerely liked Lyndon and went out of his way to stroke his ego. There were, for example, those raucous fact-finding trips through Asia and India during which Johnson spurned State Department advice to avoid shaking hands with the unwashed masses. Nothing released his old progressive juices better than a crowd of impoverished farmers waiting for the word...
...clothes for the captives. Others liked to harass them; one tactic was to ignore their knocks on their doors to delay them from going to the bathroom or getting something they needed. The tougher captors, including a fellow called "Old Stoneface" by the hostages, "were on a real ego trip," says Queen. "This was the big moment of their lives." Queen was blindfolded whenever he left his room, and except for his roommates, he was not allowed to speak to other hostages...