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Architaba Gohil Semester 3 Topic existentialism in Hollywood Paper 9 The Modernist literature Year 2016 - 18 Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

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Page 1: Existentialism in Hollywood

Architaba GohilSemester 3

Topic – existentialism in Hollywood Paper 9 The Modernist literature

Year 2016-18Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar

University

Page 2: Existentialism in Hollywood

• A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation ofthe individual experience in a hostile or indifferent

universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, andstresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the

consequences of one's acts.

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Existentialism in Hollywood

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Interstellar• Cooper not only questions what

is right and wrong in a difficultsituation but he questions justwhere humanity belongs in theuniverse

• His character alone gives theaudience an inevitable existentialcrisis and fascination with theuniverse as he chooseshumanity’s fate and the starsover his family

• We are taken on terrifyingjourney through the galaxy inwhich Many questions on ethicsand existentialism are raised.

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Inception

• Dom Cobb- His existential

moment occurs on the

‘Bottom level’ of the dream,

where he must finally let go

his dead wife. He chooses to

leave and move on with his

life. So he embraces the real

though flawed version of life

and chooses to get back to

his children

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Inception

• His existential moment

comes after he breaks

into his own

subconscious and finds

that idea panted there by

the other that his father

wants his son to not try

to emulate him but to

become his own man and

build his own life.

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Life of pi

• Pi suffers his existential

circumstance his

shipwreck, then , after and

only after this circumstance

his wills his own essence,

after he chooses to live and

not to die.

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• If person have to choose anyone thing no answers until the man chooses one for himself. No moral theory could help him inside because no one else’s advice could lead him to decision that was truly authentic.

• In Interstellar Cooper chooses humanity’s fate and the stars over his family

• In Inception Dom Cobb chooses to leave and move on with his life.

• In Life of Pi, Pi chooses to live and not to die.

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References

• http://alexforrest.com/2011/02/inception-and-existentialism-nihilism/

• https://www.google.co.in