TV & Film

  • Creativity,  TV & Film

    JOKER: The Impact of Meaningful Storytelling.

    Wow. I can’t believe it. Only a little more than a few weeks ago, Warner Bros/DC’s Joker passed a billion dollars in the worldwide box office, becoming the first ever R-rated film to do so. So what can we glean from it’s success? That’s right, the real impact of storytelling and how it has moved people for generations. Firstly, comic books are deeper than you think. Traditionally, comics derive inspiration from the society in which they are published. The stories mirror relatable situations and ideas that are prevalent in the points of history that they belong to. These comics have been adapted to match the social and cultural ideas of…

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  • Creativity,  TV & Film

    Aquaman, a breath of fresh sea breeze.

    Today, I saw Aquaman. It was full of amazing characters and wonderful action scenes but most of all, I saw what I believe to one of the greatest means of creative expression – aesthetics. Man! This movie was so visually appealing! As a great lover and admirer of the sea, it was so refreshing to see(sea haha!) the way the director James Wan envisioned life under the ocean. The film presented a perfect merge of comic book visual accents and vivid, child-like imagination, complete with glowing jellyfish, riding on seahorses, meditating amongst manta rays and the sunken city of Atlantis. There is a certain way the colours and figures move…

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