Week 3 Topic 1
Nearly all of the characters in the film Stranger Than Fiction live up to the stereotypes typically associated with their lifestyle. The character that most prominently displays a stereotype, in my opinion, would be Harold Krick. Mr. Krick makes a living as an IRS agent, and whenever I think of an IRS agent one word comes to mt head. That word is boring. Harold Krick lives a very boring lifestyle and never does anything exciting. The author of Harold’s life, Karen Eiffel, also seems to fit a stereotype. In my mind whenever I think of an author I think of someone who spends much of their time isolated from others, and tends to keep to themselves. That is exactly what she does, for example, when she is given an assistant she wants nothing to do with her and pushes her away. Ana pascal, however, to me does not fit the stereotype. She is the “anarchist” of the film and to me does not seem as such. To me an “anarchist” is not very well educated, nor are they very successful. Ms. Pascal is quite the opposite, she attended harvard, and has a successful bakery. The stereotypes make the movie easier to relate to. In our heads as viewers we have attached such characteristics to specific types of people, and since the characters are how we belief them to be it makes things more realistic.