How difficult it is to avoid Clich\u00e9s in literature and in films?<\/p>\n
Many famous sayings or phrases become clich\u00e9s due to their overuse. I think clich\u00e9s sounds good to the ear at first. After all, the original creator had a good reason to make it part of his\/her art work. This observation is in literature, but it also happens in film and takes other forms besides of just old tired phrases.<\/p>\n
In the essay that we read last week \u201cAgainst Interpretation\u201d by Susan Sontag, she says that \u201cthe films perpetuate clich\u00e9s about identity\u201d. In the first novel we are currently reading Lucifer\u2019s Hammer<\/span>, I noticed several lines that sound and look like clich\u00e9s. For instance, \u201cnothing lasts forever\u201d and \u201cthe grass wasn\u2019t always greener on the other side of the fence.\u201d These two phrases sound great but unfortunately they lack originality.<\/p>\n According to www.moviecliches.com website, there are tons of clich\u00e9s in films such as the elevators being ready for every one else but the hero\/heroine or the protagonist who is being chased. In terms of clich\u00e9s related to language this website states that \u201cWhen foreigners appear in movies (Hispanics in particular) they seem to be able to speak perfect English without making one single mistake except it seems they NEVER manage to learn how to say “Sir” or “Thank you”… they always say “Senor” and Gracias.\u201d<\/p>\n If I\u00a0continue looking for clich\u00e9s in all the great works of literature and in films, I am very sure I will find plenty of them. That doesn\u2019t mean that it takes away the other good stuff in a piece of work, so how difficult it is to avoid clich\u00e9s? Does honesty of character and honesty of love sounds like clich\u00e9s? The bottom line is that I am kind of obsessed with this ugly term because I feel it is almost impossible to get rid of them. What are you thoughts about this issue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How difficult it is to avoid Clich\u00e9s in literature and in films? Many famous sayings or phrases become clich\u00e9s due to their overuse. I think clich\u00e9s sounds good to the ear at first. After all, the original creator had a good reason to make it part of his\/her art work. This observation is in literature,… Continue reading Clich\u00e9s in Literature and in Films<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}