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Random Rambles: Frozen's Quick Fix

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So I already stated how I was not entirely satisfied with this movie. It's one of those movies that's perfect...but just isn't. To summarize my main points of discontent, I just said that the cliche of Kristoff as the true love was pretty bad and the idea of having Hans as the bad guy was also extremely flawed. Anyways, this movie is obviously constrained because it is a Disney movie and the bureaucrats running the show just made sure these cliches were still in place. What I would do to make this movie "perfect" is just three steps: make Kristoff female, make Hans a misguided man instead of a "bad guy," and get rid of the trolls. My reasons for doing this is that first of all Kristoff was obviously the "true" true love from the moment we saw him. We weren't sure exactly how Hans would fit into all of this but we knew that the development of Kristoff made it so that he was going to be the one. Anyways, I think there would be a more empo

Random Rambles: Art

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Art has a unique place in our society. For all of our emphasis on concrete ideas that is exemplified in media like books and television, we often don't care for pieces of art. The idea of art seems to abstract and we try to apply our complexity to it as if the piece of art can be deciphered through our internal processing. In fact, art has changed yet again to reflect our thinking. More often that not, art is more realist to allow the audience to get a clear picture instead of a sweeping feeling or impression. Art also has multiple interpretations by artists themselves since they identify art in a different way. Because of this, art is multi-faceted and our "rectangular" way of thinking can't fit into the "oval" that is art. Before moving on, art is defined as a diverse range of human activities and their products which means that even the definition is ambiguous. It's hard to describe art in its entirety and limiting art to just visual art still mak