Zitat des Tages über Allegorie / Allegory:
V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening.
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
The tree has been always an allegory for spiritual growth.
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
I don't know if you'd do a Marvel story on Ferguson, because it trivializes what the real flesh-and-blood people on the ground are doing there. But you can make an allegory and deal with the bigger questions.
Everything for me becomes allegory.
I don't like allegory.
Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning, not a historical battle. Doubting Thomas is an example, not a person. The story of Noah, with all of its scientific and historical impossibilities, can be read the same way.
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
