Post by Melifeather on Nov 7, 2022 21:50:29 GMT
The Années folles translates to the "crazy years" in French, and was the decade of the 1920s in France. It was coined to describe the rich social, artistic, and cultural collaborations of the period. The same period is also referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age in the United States. In Germany, it is sometimes referred to as the Golden Twenties because of the economic boom that followed World War I. The artistic parallels are evolving into the Art Deco period. Cafés around Paris became places where artists, writers, and others gathered. On the Rive Gauche (left bank) the scene centered around cafés in Montparnasse while on the Rive Droite (right bank), the Montmartre area.
Left bank
The Années folles in Montparnasse featured a thriving art and literary scene centered on cafés such as Brasserie La Coupole, Le Dôme Café, Café de la Rotonde, and La Closerie des Lilas as well as salons like Gertrude Stein's in the rue de Fleurus.
The Rive Gauche, or left bank, of the Seine in Paris, was and is primarily concerned with the arts and the sciences. Many artists settled there and frequented cabarets like Le Boeuf sur le Toit and the large brasseries in Montparnasse. American writers of the Lost Generation, like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, met and mingled in Paris with exiles from dictatorships in Spain and Yugoslavia.
The painters of the School of Paris for example included among others Chaïm Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani and Marc Chagall, Lithuanian, Italian, and Russian, respectively. Later the American Henry Miller, like many other foreigners, gravitated to the rue Vavin and Boulevard Raspail. Montparnasse was, he said, "the navel of the world". Gertrude Stein also lived in Montparnasse during this period.
Right bank
Montmartre was a major center of Paris nightlife and had been famous for its cafés and dance halls since the 1890s. Trumpeter Arthur Briggs played at L'Abbaye and transvestites frequented La Petite Chaumière. After World War I, the artists who had inhabited the guinguettes and cabarets of Montmartre, invented post-Impressionism during the Belle Époque.
In 1926, the facade of the Folies Bergère building was redone in Art Deco style by the artist Maurice Pico, adding it to the many Parisian theatres of the period in this architectural style.
The left and right bank might be a way to describe the freedom guests had (or think they have) when they visit the computerized Westworld versus the futuristic real-world existence of humans being controlled by AI. It seems Westworld doesn't currently have physical visitors. I think it is strictly virtual reality now. It might be a way to control humans much like Maeve (mountain cabin), Clementine (Greece), and Caleb (construction worker) to keep them occupied and entertained while they are offline.
Left and right are often used to describe the two lobes of the brain with the left controlling reading, writing, and math calculations and the right side being more creative, intuitive, and visual.
Surrealism came to the forefront in the 1920s cultural scene, bringing new forms of expression to poetry with authors like André Breton, whose Surrealist Manifesto appeared in 1924, Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, and Robert Desnos. Émigré artists had created Post-Impressionism, Cubism, and Fauvism in Paris before World War I, and included Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, and Piet Mondrian, along with French artists Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Jean Metzinger, and Albert Gleizes.
Surrealists also included artists like Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, and Francis Picabia, sculptors like Jean Arp, Germaine Richier and even early film-makers, like Luis Buñuel and René Clair.
This is what makes Westworld so hard to follow and understand. The story is very surreal and the interpretation is difficult to grasp. The current season covers Westworld's "crazy years" after mankind has been infected by genetically modified flies that inject a venom-like goo that transformed humans within the span of a generation into semi-drones that live their lives in a simulated "game". If you accept the idea that Dolores is now an operating system inside The Tower (Hale's Tower) and named Christina, I think you'll be able to grasp the freaky, fantastical concepts of this final season. We are inside the minds of Lisa Joy and her husband Jonathon Nolan as they push our understanding of the nature of our reality and questions of conscience and morality with artificial intelligence.
It's been 23 years since Bernard brought Stubbs to that motel and ran diagnostics. It took him that long to run through every simulated storyline to find a solution. He was waiting for history to repeat itself. He saw all the worlds that might have been. All the worlds to come - most ended in disaster. He's our Brandon Stark greenseer of Westworld. Bernard thinks if he can trigger a small series of events, they might make it. This is a similar premise to ASOIAF. Its my believe that Bran is trying to trigger series of events in order to find a solution to the threat from the North. By having Bernard tell Stubbs to "don't forget the shovel" proves that he knew it was sitting outside and is evidence that he chose the right track - as was their successful confrontation with "C".
Left bank
The Années folles in Montparnasse featured a thriving art and literary scene centered on cafés such as Brasserie La Coupole, Le Dôme Café, Café de la Rotonde, and La Closerie des Lilas as well as salons like Gertrude Stein's in the rue de Fleurus.
The Rive Gauche, or left bank, of the Seine in Paris, was and is primarily concerned with the arts and the sciences. Many artists settled there and frequented cabarets like Le Boeuf sur le Toit and the large brasseries in Montparnasse. American writers of the Lost Generation, like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, met and mingled in Paris with exiles from dictatorships in Spain and Yugoslavia.
The painters of the School of Paris for example included among others Chaïm Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani and Marc Chagall, Lithuanian, Italian, and Russian, respectively. Later the American Henry Miller, like many other foreigners, gravitated to the rue Vavin and Boulevard Raspail. Montparnasse was, he said, "the navel of the world". Gertrude Stein also lived in Montparnasse during this period.
Right bank
Montmartre was a major center of Paris nightlife and had been famous for its cafés and dance halls since the 1890s. Trumpeter Arthur Briggs played at L'Abbaye and transvestites frequented La Petite Chaumière. After World War I, the artists who had inhabited the guinguettes and cabarets of Montmartre, invented post-Impressionism during the Belle Époque.
In 1926, the facade of the Folies Bergère building was redone in Art Deco style by the artist Maurice Pico, adding it to the many Parisian theatres of the period in this architectural style.
The left and right bank might be a way to describe the freedom guests had (or think they have) when they visit the computerized Westworld versus the futuristic real-world existence of humans being controlled by AI. It seems Westworld doesn't currently have physical visitors. I think it is strictly virtual reality now. It might be a way to control humans much like Maeve (mountain cabin), Clementine (Greece), and Caleb (construction worker) to keep them occupied and entertained while they are offline.
Left and right are often used to describe the two lobes of the brain with the left controlling reading, writing, and math calculations and the right side being more creative, intuitive, and visual.
Surrealism came to the forefront in the 1920s cultural scene, bringing new forms of expression to poetry with authors like André Breton, whose Surrealist Manifesto appeared in 1924, Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, and Robert Desnos. Émigré artists had created Post-Impressionism, Cubism, and Fauvism in Paris before World War I, and included Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, and Piet Mondrian, along with French artists Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Jean Metzinger, and Albert Gleizes.
Surrealists also included artists like Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, and Francis Picabia, sculptors like Jean Arp, Germaine Richier and even early film-makers, like Luis Buñuel and René Clair.
This is what makes Westworld so hard to follow and understand. The story is very surreal and the interpretation is difficult to grasp. The current season covers Westworld's "crazy years" after mankind has been infected by genetically modified flies that inject a venom-like goo that transformed humans within the span of a generation into semi-drones that live their lives in a simulated "game". If you accept the idea that Dolores is now an operating system inside The Tower (Hale's Tower) and named Christina, I think you'll be able to grasp the freaky, fantastical concepts of this final season. We are inside the minds of Lisa Joy and her husband Jonathon Nolan as they push our understanding of the nature of our reality and questions of conscience and morality with artificial intelligence.
It's been 23 years since Bernard brought Stubbs to that motel and ran diagnostics. It took him that long to run through every simulated storyline to find a solution. He was waiting for history to repeat itself. He saw all the worlds that might have been. All the worlds to come - most ended in disaster. He's our Brandon Stark greenseer of Westworld. Bernard thinks if he can trigger a small series of events, they might make it. This is a similar premise to ASOIAF. Its my believe that Bran is trying to trigger series of events in order to find a solution to the threat from the North. By having Bernard tell Stubbs to "don't forget the shovel" proves that he knew it was sitting outside and is evidence that he chose the right track - as was their successful confrontation with "C".