Week3: Stranger Than Fiction
Topic 1: Stranger Than Fiction contains many character "types" (i.e. the taxman, the writer, the non-conformist, the college professor). Do you find these characters to be stereotypical? Why or why not? How do these "types" contribute to the meaning of the film.
I did find these characters to be unbelievably stereotypical, to the point where it's too stereotypical to be considered stereotypical, if that makes sense. A stereotypical taxman, yes, Crick is boring and mundane (in the narrators eyes), but the story goes a bit beyond that, and finds the man who is MADE to be a taxman. He is not only characteristic of most taxmen, but he excels in math, even counting the things he does, and is WAY too meticulous to ever be considered 'stereotypical', though it would fit. With the writer, Eiffel is in solitude, halfway crazy, and very spiritual, the way you would expect a writer to be. Very stereotypical. With characters like the hard-ass assistant the publishers sent to Eiffel, The Professor too busy to help, and the rebellious baker that Crick falls in love with (an 'opposites' attract' kind of love) are all exceptionally mapped out as characters, in some stereotypical way (To the max, in some cases)
I did find these characters to be unbelievably stereotypical, to the point where it's too stereotypical to be considered stereotypical, if that makes sense. A stereotypical taxman, yes, Crick is boring and mundane (in the narrators eyes), but the story goes a bit beyond that, and finds the man who is MADE to be a taxman. He is not only characteristic of most taxmen, but he excels in math, even counting the things he does, and is WAY too meticulous to ever be considered 'stereotypical', though it would fit. With the writer, Eiffel is in solitude, halfway crazy, and very spiritual, the way you would expect a writer to be. Very stereotypical. With characters like the hard-ass assistant the publishers sent to Eiffel, The Professor too busy to help, and the rebellious baker that Crick falls in love with (an 'opposites' attract' kind of love) are all exceptionally mapped out as characters, in some stereotypical way (To the max, in some cases)