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Idenity. Happy Gilmore

2021-05-03T14:51:42-04:00

Gor

The light is shining through my windows, and I hiss at the thought of waking up. To ease the pain that it is a new day, I think about how cool my girlfriend is and wonder what my characters are doing. For most of my life, I have been drawing characters that I can call my own. They take up this space in my head that I call creativity. They are my children, and I want to raise them to be the best, but I need help. From someone that sees life like me or at least understands it.

Be Happy

My father was never a teacher, he would rarely pass down knowledge for it was not who he is. Thankfully, he would happily support any decision I made. Whether it was playing basketball as the shortest child in school, or wanting to express myself through fashion and drawing. I created a style that was unique to me, and this does come with its flaws. I was an outcast from my team, my school, and the Armenian community for how different I was. I felt as though the stray dog that no one wanted.

With ti...

To Love Life, Love Home: Harold and Maude

2021-04-12T12:11:00-04:00

Harold’s Mansion, Maude’s Rail Car

In the film, Harold and Maude, film director Hal Ashby depicts the psychological effects of one’s connection to their home. Harold: an old money directionless twenty-year-old that is begging to be heard by staging theatrical suicide attempts; lives in a mansion that screams formality. Maude: an eighty-year-old holocaust survivor that finds beauty in the unseen; lives in an abandoned rail car that has been personalized to her liking. Two people with juxtaposing backgrounds, find inseparability with one another due to vicarious learning. A home can explain a lot about a person, but what Ashby is trying to showcase is the importance of the size and personality of a home.

Juxtaposition

In this movie, we see the world from Harold’s point of view. With Harold living in a household that does not encourage personalization, he takes it into his own hands to find ways to make his mark, without making a mark. Harold uses his palatial home that resembles a ...

Bad Program Bad Family: Royal Tenenbaums

2021-03-08T12:28:00-05:00

The Tenenbaum’s Home

In the film The Royal Tenenbaums, film director Wes Anderson uses a three-story townhouse to highlight how the characters deal with depression, secrecy, and anger. There is something to be learned from Wes Anderson’s meticulous decision to place where each family member is roomed. Families have a culture of their own that may determine an individual’s position in life. Each member in the Tenenbaums has unique traits that they present and hide from their family. This could be the result from their family home’s program that encourages hierarchy.

Hierarchy

Wes Anderson separates each sibling by floors to show a hierarchy and reasoning behind their traits. Parents Royal and Ethaline Tenenbaum live on the third floor. Etheline invested into all her children’s endeavors. While Royal only cared for his golden boy Richie because he would bet money on his tennis games. Two parents with opposite views in life, have created a hierarchy encouraged by the program. Richie, p...

Adventures of Chinatown

2021-02-28T20:21:19-05:00

Why Are Films Rarely Brought Up In Architecture?

Being a 4th year student in architecture school, there is a rarity of discussions about film. How has film, a piece of media that the world happily consumes, not form a conversation in architecture? Is it because architecture is a “serious major” that scoffs when inspiration is taken from fictional movies, or is it because no one has even dared to try to start the conversation?

There are numerous films that use architecture to push or emphasize the narrative in hand. Lucky for you, I have currently watched and reviewed upwards of 550 films. Three films that use architectural insights effectively are Royal Tenenbaums, Talented Mr. Ripley, and Chinatown. These three films use architecture to form a setting that gives emphasis to the scene, provides a rock for a family that is about to crumble, and uses a town to describe the lifestyle of one’s life.

Symbiosis

Royal Tenenbaums uses a three-...