Post 4: A film dealing with the 'MYTHS AND HEROES' notion

MYTHS AND HEROES 

TAKEN

Taken is a 2008 English-language French action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel, written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, and starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Holly Valence, Katie Cassidy, Xander Berkeley, Olivier Rabourdin, Gérard Watkins and Famke Janssen.

Kim is 17 and the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her

reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak  briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.

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                                                Taken - Official Trailer

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJVJBm9TPA

I think that in this movie the notion 'Myths and Heroes' is very present even if it is not about a traditional hero. And exactly it is one of the reasons for which I chose this movie and not an other one.

During all the film we can see that Bryan mills is a heroe because he is the main character and in more he has to save his daughter in few hours and arrive to find her. He has noble qualities, in the face of danger and adversity, he displays courage and the will for self sacrifice. 

Post 6: An art exhibition review

                                               ART EXIHIBTIIN REVIEW 
Pop Art Myths


   

 Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997)Woman in Bath

1) Today we are going to inform you and to speak about an incredible and very original temporary exhibition called 'Pop Art  Myths'. The latter took place on the Musueum Thyssen-Bournmisza, in Madrid. Unfortunately, it lasted only from June 10th till September 14th, 2014.
But do not worry especially because from now on you can visit it from your home on the link joined :

http://pdigital.museothyssen.org/index.html?revista=108575115&pagina=-13895

2) The exhibition took place on the museum Thyssen of Madrid,  only for 4 months.

Featuring more than 100work ranging from pioneering British Pop Art to the classic American version and its expansion into Europe, the exhibition aims to trace the shared sources of international Pop art and to undertake a revision of the myths that have traditionally defined the movement.
In this exhibition there are a lot of artists like Andy Warhol, Peter Blake or Richard Lindner.


3) As we were able to see it the Pop Art Ñyths is very complicate and complex. Every author has his think and his point of view and it is a very good way to express itself. This exhibition can have a lots of effects on the viewer, for instance the identification, the fact of appreciating or estimating the picture for one or of various reasons or even the indifference. The indifference because many people are not interested in the art or do not understand it and we

4) The emergence of Pop Art in the late 1950s and early 1960s was one of the most liberating moments in the history of art. Its explicit endorsement of the new culture of technology and consumerism demolished the heroic.

As a student of 'terminal L' (last year at the high school) and after one and a half years in literary class I think to be able to answer the wanted questions which will be 

influence by my literary route which has allowed me to acquir a lot of knowledge. 

My prefere work was the one of  'Cleopatra' which was made in 1963 by 'Mimo Rotella' who was as an Italian artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. 

As we can see it on the right, it is a board very special because we can see the old part of the character and the history thanks to an effect.
We almost have the impression to be on its time. In other words, on the 69 BC. 
Besides, we can notice that that looks like an index card or an announcement stuck.

Actually, Mimo Rotella expressed himself on this matter and said : "To tear away the posters of walls is the only compensation, the unique way to protest against a company which lost the taste of the change and the fabulous transformations. I stick posters, then I tear away them: so are born new, unpredictable forms. This protest made me abandon the easel painting. "

The picture and the intentions of the author seem to me very original, furthermore he calls back the history of a myth and a heroine of tragedy (cleopatra).  By her suicide, she becomes again a noble and proud queen, who prefers to face the death with dignity rather than to live in the dishonor.
With her jewels and her royal attires, she gets ready to join her lover in the death and to catch Octave at his own game. Shakespeare, as the writers of his time, is inspired by antique authors and also presents a conceited, jealous, seductive, malefic and poisonous Cleopatra. But at the time of dying, it is the big ruler who is described; she is proud, brave and loving because she will join her lover Antoine who waits for her. The tragic end of these old lovers can also be a wink of eye of the author in the change of the political life of his time.The queen of Egypt and its triumvir represent the end of an antique order exceededand swept by a New World. Octave represents a new face of Rome and the Elizabethan timeoffers a new face of England in search of legitimacy.

Besides the story, Mimo Rotella emphasizes the character, because it is the center of the picture and 
behind her there are two men who seem to protect her. We have the impression that it is the character who refers to the strength and the power thanks to her physical appareance and her position. 

In conclusion, it is my picture preferred with regard to history, it is a work which tells something, with regard to originality and its esthetic side.