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An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods. The most common type of anachronism is an object misplaced in time, but it may be a verbal ...
Anachronism, chronological inconsistency, is seen in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth in the juxtaposition of cultures of evidently different periods, such as the classically-inspired Gondor and the medieval-style Rohan, and in the far more modern hobbits of the Shire, a setting which resembles the English countryside of Tolkien ...
African-American filmmaker Spike Lee coined the term, deriding the archetype of the "super-duper magical negro" in 2001 while discussing films with students at Washington State University and at Yale University. [1] [2] The Magical Negro is a subset of the more generic numinous Negro, a term coined by Richard Brookhiser in the National Review. [3]
Loki (Marvel Comics) - From the Marvel Comics series, and from the Marvel movies Thor, The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok, and Avengers: Infinity War. He is based directly on the trickster god Loki from Norse mythology. Max and Moritz - Principal characters of the book of the same name written by Wilhelm Busch in 1865. Famous ...
List of cult films is where we put the comprehensive list of sourced examples. Something similar could be done here, such as Anachronism in popular culture. The examples would still need to be sourced, of course, but they would not have to contribute to an understanding of the main topic. NinjaRobotPirate 16:36, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Some movies stay in our hearts because of the way they're portrayed or the dialogues that hit the right spots, making them immortal in our memories. For instance, it’s been over 6 years since I ...
Felix the Cat: The Movie; Fellow-Friends - short; The Flower with Seven Colors - short; The Frog Princess; Geese-Swans - short; Germania Wurst - short; The Girl Who Leapt Through Time; The Golden Antelope; Grasshopper - short; Have a Nice Day; Heavy Metal; How People Got Fire - short; The Humpbacked Horse; I Lost My Body; I Love You - short ...
The movie theater has always represented a cool, dark escape, and also a mini-island of cultural civility. Peter Bart: For One At Least, The Pandemic Has Made Movie Theaters An Anachronism Skip to ...