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ANIMATION AND IT'S IMPACT ON ARCHITECTURE

The theme of madness doesn’t always extent from the characters into the architecture of the sets and when it does it varies in intensity. Certain films such as Dr.Caligari take madness to the extreme in their sets. This is achieved through animation, and 2-dimensional scenes. The madness of the character’s is reflected into the backdrop of the film. In contrast on the opposite end of the scale you have such films as ‘The Belly of an Architect’ where the madness is secluded only to certain characters actions and none is relieved in the architecture. In the ‘Belly of an Architect’ the architecture is far from mad and represents the high society of Roman architecture contrasting the character’s slowly maddening actions of his belief that he’s going to die.