Fragile and The Robust

Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, released to theaters on November 22, 1991 by Walt Disney Pictures. The story is based on the fairy tale La Belle et la Bête by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, who was uncredited in the English version of the film but credited in the French version as writer of the novel. The movie also uses some ideas derived from the 1946 French film. It centers around a prince who is transformed into a Beast and the beautiful young woman whom he imprisons in his castle.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(1991_film)

Beauty and the Beast is the perfect couple to represent our concepts because the Beast represents the robustness and Bella represents the fragility. The Beast is a wolf-like creature that is very strong and is very angry. bella instead is a petit girl that is very beautiful sweet and delicate. 

"It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."

King Kong is a 2005 remake of the 1933 film of the same name directed by Peter Jackson and stars Naomi Watts, Jack Black and Adrien Brody. Andy Serkis, through performance capture, portrayed Kong.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_%282005_film%29

King Kong may be one of Hollywood's most emblematic characters. The story of the giant ape that falls in love with a beautiful woman, which cosequently leads him to his death. Once again we find another example of a character that seems robust and stong but in the end is defeated because of a weakness, in this case his weakness was the love he felt for the woman that will lead him to his downfall.

Frida Kahlo: Inspiring Life

Frida is a 2002 biographical film which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award nominated portrayal as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera. The movie was adapted by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas and Edward Norton (uncredited) from the book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahloby Hayden Herrera. It was directed by Julie Taymor. It won Oscars for Best Makeup and Best Original Music Score. 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zudfarZ-ZNk

As we told in a previous post the life of Frida Kahol was inspiring, in such a way that it became a movie. We wanted to post this trailer because this movie illustrates the fragility of her body and the hard things she had to endure during her life. But this movie shows how she used all mer pain and transformed it into beautiful paintings.

Unbreakable: The discovery of a Superhero

Unbreakable is a 2000 American psychological thriller film written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The film stars Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, and Robin Wright Penn.Unbreakable tells the story of Philadelphia security guard, David Dunn, who slowly discovers that he is a superhero. The film is a study on the dimensions of comic books; it explores the analogies between the real world and the mythology of superheroes.

Elijah Price(Samuel L. Jackson) is born with Type I osteogenesis imperfecta, a rare disease in which bones break easily. Drawing on what he has read in comic books during his many hospital stays, Price theorizes that if he is frail at one extreme, then perhaps there is someone strong at the opposite extreme.

Years later, Security guard David Dunn(Bruce Willis) is also searching for meaning in his life. Returning from a job interview in New York, David is the sole survivor of a horrific train wreck that kills 131 passengers, sustaining no injuries himself. He is contacted by the adult Elijah, who proposes to a disbelieving David that he is a real instance of the kind of person after whom comic-book superheroes are modeled.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbreakable_(film)

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_f1uCWKZQs 


This movie shows the confrontation of Good and Evil in the "superhero world". The superhero that represents "good"is strong and nothing can hurt him, in our case he portrays ROBUST.  The "evil" superhero instead is very weak and breaks easily, for us he portrays FRAGILE. 

Despicable Me

 

Trailer retrived from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LuGnKmmDDw

This trailer shows how a plastic balloon, which is a fairly fragile object, can be robust at the same time when inflated with air. When the little boy hugs the balloon animal this one remains intact, but when the man touches it with a needle, this one pops.