"I Took a Pill in Ibiza" by Mike Posner is an extremely unusual, thought-provoking music video. The combination of the lyrics mixed with the costumes, scenery and Mike Posner’s real life depicts a compelling story of drug and substance addiction. However, there’s more to what makes this video interesting than just the lyrics; the use of scenery and types of outfits, specifically the grotesque mask that Mike Posner wears in the video, helps keep the video interesting. In Mike Posner’s real life, he actually took a pill in Ibiza, which is a music festival in Spain, because it was the “cool” or “popular thing” to do. Mike Posner wanted to show the other singers and people in Ibiza that he was cool. In the song he admits that the pills really aged and changed Since taking "the pill" at the beginning of the video the main character in this music video is always wearing a strange mask with a deadpan expression. The mask is an enormous, almost fish like, pale skinned, stunned, wide-eyed, opened mouth, bizarre, almost uncanny depiction of Mike Posner’s real face. This mask represents his displeasure doing what he does. The character never reacts to any action. Throughout the video his friends party, get into fights, get alcohol poisoning and Mike Posner even has beautiful women who want to be with him. However, no matter what happens in the video Mike Posner isn 't having any fun. The video takes place in a club and the main character who is just "Going through the motions" in his day to day life. All of his friends are having a great time around him at the party, but he can only sit back, watch and nod. The character in the mask is just there, zoned out, unable to enjoy himself, no matter what happens. This relates closely to his real life when Mike Posner had a serious substance
In Justin Pearson's memoir, From the Graveyard of the arousal Industry, he recounts the events that occured from his early years of adolesence to the latter years of his adulthood telling the story of his unforgiving and candid life. Set in the late 1970s "Punk" rock era, From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry offers a valuable perspective about the role culture takes in our lives, how we interact with it and how it differs from ideology.
I think that the video to go along with Fatboy Slim’s song depicts a man’s day dream as he frolics about the empty although ornate surroundings of the Hotel lobby. He releases all of his inhibitions of being in a public place and being seen and literally soars around the room and enjoying the music that is playing. At one point before he starts flying around the room he jumps on top of a sidetable and kicks these magazines and begins tap dancing. I believe that this is imagery of kicking away the conventions
For example in the party Romeo wears the mask, during that duration he is almost 100% on drugs while wearing the mask. This is showing that the mask is mostly used to show him trying to cope/ hide his depression which is constantly referenced in scene one of how sad he can be.
I chose to do my paper on the movie Sweet Nothing in My Ear. The movie was about a child who was born hearing and ended up going deaf, so his parents had to deliberate on whether or not they wanted to get him a cochlear implant. The wife Laura (played by Marlee Matlin) is deaf and her husband Dan is hearing. The movie is centered around Laura and Dan’s struggle to decide if a cochlear implant is what’s best for their son Adam. It doesn’t help Laura make the decision when her parents are both deaf, and her father is basically prejudiced against the hearing culture.
The Berry College Theater Company preformed the risqué, yet Tony award winning play, Cabaret On February 18-28, 2016. Berry’s own Alec Leeseberg instantly became a sensation as his roaring voice perfectly enunciated each foreign syllable in this full length musical, loosely based on the stories of author Christopher Isherwood. Leeseberg assumed the leading role of Emcee, the proprietor of and master of ceremonies for in an infamous fictional nightclub in Berlin, the Kit Kat Club. Cabaret is set in the 1930’s, a devastating era in German society that marks the rise of Nazism. The residences of Berlin are fearful of the extremist political climate and the prolonged period of economic uncertainty resulting from the previous World War. Emcee provides
In her music video “7/11,” Beyoncé appears as an indefatigable party-girl who explicitly expresses her passion and vitality: spinning crazily on the porch, dancing widely in the corridor, and acting hilariously in the center of a party room. This liveliness intensifies as the video approaches to its end in which the music accelerates, the background movements increases, and Beyoncé’s laugh expands. Underneath her endless energy lies the game 7/11, which incorporates alcohol to drive up the atmosphere in parties. Through the joint effect of rhythm and motions, the closing sequence indicates that 7/11 and its alcohol component assist Beyoncé in rocking the party, giving her the ultimate thrill as well as heating up the entire video.
“Hotel California” by The Eagles has been the recipient of much speculation since its release in 1976. Although many other interpretations exist including some which claim this song to be referencing drugs, much evidence suggests that “Hotel California” is, at least partly, making a statement about the lifestyle of drug and alcohol users particularly in the large cities of California. As with many songs, duality of meaning exists in “Hotel California.”
“And the Band Played On” is a movie about the epidemiological discovery of AIDS in 1980’s. In the movie, an epidemiologist named Don Francis and his team travel to Central Africa and discovers a community that has been riddled with death due to an unknown illness later identified as the Ebola Fever. Years later, with the effects of the devastating epidemic that he witnessed in Africa still plaguing him, he became aware of the augmented frequency of death among gay men in areas of Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco from a mysterious illness with symptoms such as pneumocystis, and Kaposi’s sarcoma, and decided to investigate it. Thus, his examination of the outbreak ultimately led to the discovery of AIDS. During his discovery, he is met
The film trailer for “The Mask You Live In,” illustrates the values of today’s society and how they affect the lives of young men as they grow up. Emotional appeal, imagery, professional insight, and evidence from the boys are utilized greatly to provide support to the trailer’s argument. The world today and the people in it are telling these boys how to live when all they really want is to figure it out for themselves and grow into the person they want to become, not the person they need to become. Very few people make it to the stage of taking off their mask; I would say less than half of society. From experience, I will say that it is not weird at all; actually it’s lonely, just as it is for any minority. “The Mask You Live In” is the beginning of ending this minority.
A girl named Sarah who was interviewed by channel 6 “true life on ecstasy “ had done ecstasy for 3 years. However, the mistake in her part was that she had done it almost EVERY day. When she had gotten her brain scanned, she had a brain of a 75-year-old woman who had multiple strokes. Sarah at the time was only 25, but take into consideration that she more than “abused ” the drug.
For this assignment, I decided to choose the Hedonic Dysregulation Theory to explain the five-minute clip we watched. This theory explains that after experiencing the first sensation of the drug, you continue to seek for the drug later on. Also with the introducing of anxiety or even dysphoria coming to your mind you are still going to seek out the drug even though the effects are slowly or have been taking a toll on you. I do agree with what has been said about how the music, colors, even animation of this kiwi mimics the downward spiral of the drug on the body. Especially the effects it was having on the kiwi’s body from not being able to fly when it was enjoying the effects of the nugget that it first ate!
In my opinion, the core concept attempts to make Diana’s mental illness relatable to the audience. For the song “My Psychopharmacologist and I”, a giant pill bottle prop and many smaller pill bottles are shown on stage to give the audience
In the late 1950s, a new cinematic movement arose in French that stressed on social and political issues using radical editing and visual style. In terms of form, Psychedelic movement that arose in the 1960s somehow follows the New Wave Pattern. Both of them are rebellious and indomitable, and try to make confusions. Inspired by French New Wave, Cassavetes directed his chaotic movie, Faces, that explains
When I think about living in the hypothetical world such as If I were a bird, rich, or president, I usually imagine about it with my wish, hope, and favorable expectation. In her music video, “If I Were A Boy”, Beyoncé acts like a man and behaves in the way she thinks what is like being a man. It reveals gender stereotype that we may have subconsciously, while also implying her hope for women to be strong and positive beyond the gender stereotype.
Some find her works to be very intriguing while others find her work to be vulgar and obscene. To challenge the limits of the exchange between performer and audience, Abramović developed one of her most elaborate performances. She placed herself in the position of a passive character and used her audience members as the aggression aspect. She set a scene that included herself, a sign, and a table in front of her that the audience had complete access to. Placed on the table were a series of objects that could cause both pleasure and serious harm. Audience members were both expected and encouraged to use the objects on her in any way that they desired. Among these objects were a rose, a feather, honey, a whip, olive oil, scissors, a scalpel, a gun and a single bullet. For six hours the audience members were allowed, and did, manipulate her body and actions. This “tested how vulnerable and aggressive the human subject could be when hidden from social consequences”. By the end of the performance Abramović clothes were cut off of her body, she was covered with cuts and bruises, and was degraded to an image she described as the “Madonna, mother, and