The Symbolism Of Fear In Film

To start of the novel Fear, by Gabriel Chevallier, Jean Dartemont is in France observing all the civilians celebrate the start of the new war. He criticizes their behavior and strongly disapproves, however, he admits a curiosity in him that convinces him to volunteer for the war for it will be a ‘remarkable spectacle.” After being approved to go to war, Dartemont heads to a training camp. There he becomes a private after failing to become an officer. Here he commands a group, but realized he finds the maintenance of soldiers to be tedious and useless work. Already he becomes quite eager to arrive at the front lines, which soon happens.

Fear is an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger. Fear helps people recognize and respond to dangerous situations. There are two different types of fear. Healthy fear, which has a protective function and unhealthy fear which can lead to exaggerated behaviors. The soldiers in “The Things They Carried” carried many different things but the one thing that looms in the darkness is fear.

For most people, fear is a strong motivator to accomplish goals, do well on a test, or on other circumstances that could give people trouble. In one of my sports, I play, Cross Country, fear motivates me to work harder, run faster, and possibly gets me better results. When I hear, see, or know someone is behind me, I don't want the embarass of them beating me, or encouraging other people when they see that happen, they think they can pass me to get a better time or to pass someone so I don't get critism or live down that worse time or place. In the book, The Outsiders, fear plays an important role throughout the book.

In his book, The Culture of Fear, Barry Glassner examines the elements of fear regarding ‘road rage’ and political correctness on college campuses. This section describes the ease in which people are sucked into “scares” or “hype” regarding a nonexistent problem. Glassner describes road rage as a small risk the media successfully turned into a wide scale fear among Americans. Organizations responsible for introducing fear of road rage to Americans include talk show hosts, news reporters, and printed news sources. In one example, Glassner identifies Oprah Winfrey as one guilty “fear monger.”

In Dr. Strangelove, the main fears represented in the film are about Russia and war. Throughout the show, we see the American’s negative and hostile attitudes towards the Russians. For example, the pilot captain of the bomb place called the Russians ‘Ruskies’ which shows a clear disrespectful tone towards the Russians. Also, the American war general immediately bragged about the U.S.’s achievements while putting down the Russians. The general of the base even thought that Communists poisoned the water in order to control people.

What is fear? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines fear as the following, to be afraid of (something or someone). Most people associate fear with being scared of things like spiders, but fear can also be the action of worrying about something or someone. Fear is used every day in life. Every single person on this Earth has more than likely experienced fear one or more times in their life. Sometimes fear can be over little things, like spilling your drink, or, bigger fears like falling off a cliff. You can't possibly understand all the fear that goes on in one's mind, but you can guess what they have fears about. With this in mind, Johnathan Edwards uses emotion fear to persuade his audience; these fears later explained in this paper.

overcome their fears. Through the actions and decisions of the characters the themes of fear and

When you think of fear, what do you think of? Do you think of something you are absolutely terrified of and do not want to think about or something else. Fear is programmed in your brain as something you want to stay away from for  safety.  Like when we touched a hot pan and burned ourselves now we will not do that again for fear of being burned. Mr.King states three claims that we go to horror movies to have fun and that we go to feel normal and the last one That we go to face our fears but is that really true?

The allure of fear is interesting for some people for several reasons. These people have another perspective of how they react when they see something scary or read it. They don’t react the same way as other people that don’t like scary things. Other people like to be scared. Some people motivate others by saying to them they are not so scary and everything that is happening there is not real, since they use fiction elements, like characters, details and scenarios. These scary elements have real details but also have scenarios that are not real, this means it is magical realism. This thought of liking scary things is a physiological problem. Scientist make an article showing proof that there is a big pole of people that like scary scenarios.

Color is a huge part of how people view different emotions and feelings. For an example, when people see the color black, they may feel darkness and loneliness. Using color as a description in books can really help the reader better understand what the author is trying to get across. Color can mean so much more than shades and tints, it can show true meaning and emotion. Its proven that warm colors generate thoughts of happiness, energy, and optimism.

The director uses colors to suggest moods. The colors symbolizes Sy’s unstable mind. For example, in one scene, when Sy discovers that Will is having an affair, the whole scene is covered in red, which demonstrates Sy’s rage and anger at will. In another iconic scene when Sy is having a really bad and graphic nightmare, his eyes start gushing red which is a contrast with the white background. White is also seen many times throughout the film: white is the color of the superstore, the color of Sy’s house, and ends up being the color of the interrogation room where Sy is taken to after being arrested.

Fear: an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat(Websters Dictionary).Fear is something that our lives have adapted to rarely use as our ancient predecessors have.In our day and age the concept of fear comes through the stress of work. We humans no longer fear a cold nor do we fear storms as our houses protect us and on average our life spans are longer as old in the Paleolithic was 33 while currently it is 71.5(Wikipedia Life Expectancy). Why then is our fear so extensive that it can make us freeze up? “The answer is our legacy of ancient fears, the result of having spent millions of years running from predators. Our fear response is more influenced by the ancient species we struggled to escape than any modern challenges.”(The evolutionary legacy of having been prey.By Rob Dunn) This is one of the statements about human life. If this is so how do we develop from terror to finding fear fun?

Uncertainty of the colors of the scene translate into the uncertainty of the situation. The colors in the entire movie are pretty muted, but when the case becomes more and more lost in the details the less color is captured on scene. Specifically

Fear is an emotion that makes people do things that they would not normally do, for better or for worse. People tend to let their emotions guide their actions as-well-as control their lives. Fear does two things, it can negatively impact people or it can positively

Prepare yourself for a journey. Travel with me, as we explore the mind of a character named Roy played by Edward Norton in the film directed by Gregory Hoblit in 1996 Titled “Primal Fear”. In this film Roy suffers from a psychological disorder. As we travel on this journey deep into the mind of this character, we will begin to unlock the secrets that lay within. Discovering what psychological disorder Roy suffers from, how he thinks and his thought process from a bio-psychological perspective, and treatments for this disorder using cognitive behavior therapy. “Primal Fear” is the story of a young man who is accused of the murder of an archbishop. With all the evidence pointing towards him as the target suspect, an ambitious and vagarious