Word: paradigmes
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Despite Spielberg's efforts, however, certain techniques he uses seem to undermine his paradigm that the African is always right. On the boat, after the mutiny, the Africans speak their native language to each other without translation, while the Spaniards they kept alive to help steer the boat are provided with subtitles--a conspicuous effort to lend a sense of foreignness to the Spaniards and a universality to the endeavors of the Africans. The fact remains, though, that the audience does not understand what the Africans say, so while the Spanish dialogue has some import, that of the Africans...
Such a male reaction is just as atavistic as Katie's castration fantasy. Let us elevate the discussion. What's interesting about this capsized fairy tale is what it tells us about sexual paradigms. The old paradigm in a case like this is Miss Havisham, in Dickens' Great Expectations. Miss Havisham had been left at the altar many years before. She stopped the clocks at the moment of abandonment. She shut herself off and lived ever after in the ruins of her nuptial hope. She trained up the lovely young girl Estella to take her revenge upon...
...paradigm? Diana, Princess of Wales. Last week's jilted bride, Nicole Contos, followed the essential outlines of Diana's example. The script: 1)The man (Prince Charles, or Tasos Michael) is a rotten, unfeeling, abusive cad, and inflicts a humiliation upon a naive and innocently hopeful young woman. 2)Instead of a Havisham withdrawal, however, the young woman goes vividly public with her trauma and plays the story out in the media, turning her shame not only into triumph but into revenge. Thus Nicole paraded her drama all over national television last week. Broken dreams make you a star...
...fall within the basic parameters of historical dialogues on their subject. Commenting on Pocahontas, Douglas B. Rand '98, one of Harvard's veteran Disney watchdogs and self-styled Disneyologist, has observed, "Pocahontas is not even revisionist history. It is not even debating the legitimacy of our current historical paradigm, because Disney is not even entering the realm of debate. Whereas we can have a scholarly discourse on what lens we use to view reality, Disney is going so far afield that they are concocting their own reality...
...posters are enough to make your heart sink: another "screwball comedy" with Bill Murray carrying the whole cast. Will it be another Kingpin, where Bill's comb-over and fringed vest are the last vestiges of laughability in what has remade the paradigm of a really bad movie...