English 3700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Symbolic, Real Country, List Of Muppets
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Sign: a word or sentence or whatnot used as a symbol. Referent: the thing itself that the sign is referring to. A simulation is a system of signs with the reference under eurasia. The modern era is shown by the decline of the referent, and the incline of the sign. You cant stage a hijacking anymore, because hijacking have become so common place in cinema. You can"t stage" one in real life, because the real and the fake mix together, and there can be a real element. We"ve created these fake settings and scenarios that we then treat as real. The treatment of layers; as in inception"s case, dreams within dreams. The meta strategy of going into the dream, and then going into another layer of the dream and telling them that it is reality. If you stay in the dream for too long, then you can go into limbo.
