Monday, May 18, 2009

Night at the Museum: Illustrative


In Gulliver's Travels you come across the fact that the main character ends up being the prisoner of a big tribe of miniature people. He awakens all tied up by his hands, feet, and hair in an island after being shipwrecked. All the small people that inhabit the island are amazed at the giant, and if they sense any danger coming from him, they will attack. "When in an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which, pricked me like so many needles." pg 12. This is why I chose to represent this scene with a screen shot of The Night at the Museum starring Ben Stiller, where he is captured by a tribe of miniature people and tied up as a hostage. He is run over by a toy train and is attacked by mini Mayans with arrows as well.
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In this screen shot you can see the face Ben Stiller has, one that shows how confused he is at what is happening. He also seems to be calm, just as the main character in Gulliver's Travels is when he is captured. You can see the train that just hit him next to him and one of the small cowboys that captures him, starring Owen Wilson. And there are also some characteristics of composition in the screen shot. You can see how the train’s tracks take you directly to look at Ben Stiller’s face, as well as how the lines the mountains make a focus on him as well. The image depicts the feeling both Ben Stiller and the main character in Gulliver's Travels have when being captured by the small race of people.

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