Since last week we were discussing psychological analysis and appling it to films ect , as well as the fact that we disscussed The Joker being the ID and Batman the Superego etc, I thought It would be interesting to apply it to Batman, because there are alot of psychological themes. Here are a few examples of Psychological analysis being applied to the ficitous characters of Batman... I love being a geek.
Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of Batman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGJXF3uJuXI
The Arkham Mentality; A Psychological of Batman Villians using Real Serial Killers:
http://www.footstepsofghosts.com/t2717-the-arkham-mentality-a-psychological-analysis-of-batman-villains-using-real-serial-killers
A Mirror for the Bat: part 1 of 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWIwiP_Zj0I&feature=related
Sunday 11 December 2011
Thursday 8 December 2011
American McGee's Alice
Since in the last session we were talking about fairy tales and different versions of them I thought I’d mention American McGee’s Alice. Alice McGee’s Alice is a game, where the player takes the role of Alice as she fights her way through a twisted depiction of wonderland.
The game is set roughly ten years after the events of the original novels. Alice has grown up and has been institutionalized in Rutledge Asylum for the last ten years after the loss of her family when they’re house burnt down. Alice is suddenly sucked back into wonderland, here a creation of her own broken mind representing her current mental state, and she is tasked with saving wonderland and in doing so, saving herself.
One of the great things about the game isn’t just that it is a wonderfully macabre and horrific take on a childhood favourite but that both Wonderland and many of the characters that inhabit it, represent either an aspect of Alice’s Psyche or Someone that has gotten through to the now catatonic Alice, For Example the Jabberwocky here is symbolic of Alice’s saviour’s guilt where as Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee are symbolic of two orderlies from the asylum who routinely torture Alice.
Below are links to a few relevant YouTube videos.
American Mcgee’s Alice intro and gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dypmnh0PndY
American Mcgee’s Alice Trailer:
Alice Maddness Returns Trailer:
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