HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA
The Fantastic Approach to analyzing literature is used
when analyzing literary works set in a world where the occurring events have no
logical explanation. Todorov is a prominent
critic of the said approach. Fantasy –which is a genre– was made famous by
prominent writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis; and the Fantastic
Approach looks upon the elements of this particular genre.
Hotel Transylvania
is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated comedy, fantasy film by Sony
Pictures Animation set in a modern age where Count Dracula and his family of
ghosts and monsters are considered nothing but myths. But, in the movie, the Count and his band of
merry and once terrifying creatures are dwelling in secrecy, from the townsfolk,
in the vampire’s castle in Transylvania. The once fun and peaceful leadership
and “living” of Dracula is disturbed when a human has stumbled upon his
palace-turned-hotel.
The Fantastic Approach has two major classifications:
marvelous and uncanny. Each of the two is branching out into different types. Hotel Transylvania, the movie being
criticized here, belongs to the Pure
Marvelous type. As the word ‘fantasy/fantastic’ was defined, the events in
the film can be nothing but truly fantastic – they have no logical explanation.
The character of Dracula first winked into existence on a classic novel written
by Brahm Stoker in the late 1700s. The
viewer knows by critical thinking that vampires, the Boogey Man, werewolves and
the likes, cannot simply exist in reality.
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