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Calendar Events / Announcements '05 II / The Effect Of Extreme Age
« on: July 02, 2005, 04:16:18 PM »
And yet another interesting DS reference, this one as part of an article about Disney's Howl's Moving Castle (featuring the voice of the '91 DS' Jean Simmons) that discusses the effect depicting extreme old age can have:
I suspect in part it is to evoke a primal fear of extreme age. The traditional image of a wicked witch is that of a wizened old crone, as in Disney's Snow White. Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars conforms to this archetype: the association of extreme age and evil. So too does a character like the sinister and elderly General Immortus in the 1960s Doom Patrol comics. There are episodes of the original Star Trek, Dark Shadows, and The X-Files in which leading characters rapidly age to extreme elderliness, to horrific effect. Consider, too, the ghastly image of the ancient Keir Dullea character lying on his deathbed at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey before his ultimate transformation into the godlike Starchild.
In all these cases, old age is presented as the opposite of youth, beauty, and vitality. ...
Check out the entire article: Age Before Beauty
I suspect in part it is to evoke a primal fear of extreme age. The traditional image of a wicked witch is that of a wizened old crone, as in Disney's Snow White. Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars conforms to this archetype: the association of extreme age and evil. So too does a character like the sinister and elderly General Immortus in the 1960s Doom Patrol comics. There are episodes of the original Star Trek, Dark Shadows, and The X-Files in which leading characters rapidly age to extreme elderliness, to horrific effect. Consider, too, the ghastly image of the ancient Keir Dullea character lying on his deathbed at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey before his ultimate transformation into the godlike Starchild.
In all these cases, old age is presented as the opposite of youth, beauty, and vitality. ...
Check out the entire article: Age Before Beauty