Week Eight (2017.4.6)
1. fid-: trust, believe
infidelity: lack of belief in a religion
simu-, syn-: in the same time
a-, non-: negative
abnormal: deviating from the normal or average
ambi-: both
ambivalence: simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action
2. Ten Years: a 2015 Hong Kong dystopian speculative fiction film. It offers a vision of the semi-autonomous territory in the year 2025, with human rights and freedoms gradually diminishing as the mainland Chinese government exerts increasing influence there. (IMDb) (trailer)
3. The Giver: a 2014 Canadian-American-South African social science fiction film directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Jeff Bridges, Brenton Thwaites, Odeya Rush, Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgård, Katie Holmes, and Cameron Monaghan. The film is based on the 1993 novel of the same name by Lois Lowry. (IMDb with trailer)
4. When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Liberty Leading the People: a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. A woman personifying the concept and the Goddess of Liberty leads the people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the French Revolution – the tricolour flag, which remains France's national flag – in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. The figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic known as Marianne.
Coronation: a ceremony marking the formal investiture of a monarch with regal power, usually involving the ritual placement of a crown upon the monarch's head and the presentation of other items of regalia.
Oedipus and the Sphinx: an 1864 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Moreau that was first exhibited at the French Salon of 1864 where it was an immediate success. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work was a fresh treatment of the established subject of the meeting between Oedipus and the Sphinx on the road to Delphi.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité: French for "liberty, equality, fraternity", is the national motto of France and the Republic of Haiti, and is an example of a tripartite motto. Although it finds its origins in the French Revolution, it was then only one motto among others and was not institutionalized until the Third Republic at the end of the 19th century. Debates concerning the compatibility and order of the three terms began at the same time as the Revolution. It is also the motto of the Grand Orient de France and the Grande Loge de France.
5. Miss Saigon: a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover.
Madama Butterfly: an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
6. Thomas Stearns Eliot OM: a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
7. Jeremy Irons: an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969 and has since appeared in many West End theatre productions, including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Godspell, Richard II, and Embers. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and received a Tony Award for Best Actor.
The French Lieutenant's Woman: a 1981 British romantic drama film directed by Karel Reisz, produced by Leon Clore and adapted by playwright Harold Pinter. It is based on the novel by John Fowles. The music score is by Carl Davis and the cinematography by Freddie Francis. (IMDb) (trailer)
8. David Henry Hwang: a Tony Award-winning American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor.
9. Metafiction: a narrative technique and a genre of fiction, wherein a fictional work (novel, film, play, poem, etc.) self-consciously draws attention to being a work of imagination, rather than a work of non-fiction; and about the process by which fiction makes the author's statements. Metafiction poses philosophic and critical questions about the relation between fiction and reality, usually by applying irony and self-reflection.
10. Lolita: a 1955 novel written by Russian American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator—a middle-aged literature professor called Humbert Humbert—is obsessed with the 12-year-old Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather. The novel was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne.
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