Movies/Scenes
Representing Fear
- Signs (2002)
- "If there is any metaphor rising in movies this year that seems prophetic and timely, it is that of the "panic room". This film has one too: a place where people retreat and try to wall themselves off from some terrible evil pursuing them." (Looking Closer, review by Jeffrey Overstreet)
- Summer of Sam
(1999)
- Fear of the killer, and fear of their own lack of control over their neighborhood, and lack of knowledge of any world but their own leads the group to stalk and attack one of their own who has "become different"
- The
Blair Witch Project (1999)
- alternate reality springs from fear at being lost. (See review at Hollywood Jesus)
- The Phantom Menace (1999)
- Anakin's fear of never seeing his mother again - parting scene
with mother - Yoda's words during Anakin's meeting with Jedi Council:
"I sense much fear in you.
Fear is the path to the darkside. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." (See review at Hollywood Jesus.)
- Anakin's fear of never seeing his mother again - parting scene
with mother - Yoda's words during Anakin's meeting with Jedi Council:
"I sense much fear in you.
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- "evil" in movie is symbolic of fear, especially fear of relationship. (See director's comments at Hollywood Jesus.)
- The Truman Show (1998)
- Truman standing at edge of water afraid to cross because of implanted memory of father's death. (See review at Hollywood Jesus.)
- The Stand (1994)
- The plague is spread and not contained because of the fear of various characters - the man who attempts to escape with his family, the bureaucracy
- Randall Flagg (Satan figure) plays upon the fear of those he "calls" to his service.
- The Lion King (1994)
- After Mufasa is killed, Simba runs away to avoid becoming the king of the lion kingdom. Almost dead, Pumbaa and Timon rescue Simba, and nurture him with their "Hakuna Matata" song and philosophy. "No worries!" It is Simba's fear of inadequacy that keeps him from accepting his role as king. The entire script for the movie can be found at http://www.lionking.org/scripts/Script.doc. (Clarence (Clare) DeBoef, Woodward, IA)
- Defending Your Life
(1991)
- The premise is that most decisions are made out of fear. The problem is, their solution is use of more of your brain, not faith; logic, not belief. Still, if one is setting up an antithesis to faith, the fear motivation is well explained and could easily be used.
- The Fisher King (1991)
- Parry's fear of the Red Dragon - scene in front of Lydia's apartment or in front of the mansion where he is being chased by the specter of his wife's death.
- Do the Right Thing
(1989)
- racial violence inevitably erupts as various groups consider and fear the others as less than human
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Kurtz: "It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies."
- Rebel
Without a Cause (1955)
- Prejudices and Fear lead to the fatal confrontation at the end of the movie
