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ACEO #16 CBT Sam EQUILIBRIUM

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I am a huge fan of the actor Christian Bale and the roles he plays in his movies. I decided some time ago that I simply HAVE TO draw my OCs in some of his roles which are either my fave ones or just remarkable. I have sketched the cards almost two months ago and had other priorities to work on before starting this personal fan project. There will be 6 cards of that set (until now) and it's very very personal and intimate to me. So please, be respectful. Apart from that, it is/ was much fun to collect detailed information again on the movies and to conceptualize the ACEOs. I hope you enjoy them!


Christian Bale movie tribute card #01: My OC Sam starring John Preston from Equilibrium.

Symbolism:
Rose: Beauty
Incense sticks: Fragrances/ Scene in the movie when Preston detects forbidden room and lights up the incense sticks.
Record player: Music/ Acoustic/ Same scene, he starts the player and Beethoven's 9th Symphony starts playing.
Notes: Note lines from Beethoven's 9th Symphony, when Preston breaks down crying from the beauty of the music.
Building in background: It's the Grammaton Cleric's main working building. Its' architecture depicts very well the whole architecture of the dystopian world of the movie - grey, sterile, cold, without any unneeded decoration. 
Injection shot: The citizens must inject themselves every morning the drug to suppress any emotions by it. 
Charakter depiction: Face expression without emotion. Hair very even and plain. No make-up like rouge, lipstick, kajal etc.

References:
Movie itself: [link] 
Cleric's coat: [link] & [link]
Record player: [link]
Beethoven's 9th Symphony: [link]
Background builing: [link]


Personal notes:
Having a thing for fictional dystopian worlds, I had to watch and eventually to love that movie. I am fan of the story idea of the society which is totally suppressed and dictated by a fascist state which even demands the people to take these injections every day and that there is also the resistance. This idea is so cool and gives so much space for plots and things. And I tend to be that subjective to like movies with the huge open message "this is how fascism would look like, obviously not cool!" everywhere on/ in them. XD 
I find it very good, that Christian Bale plays that role of the Grammaton Cleric who is so eager in his crazy job and even so blind to see that his partner, his wife and even kids are 'guilty' of 'Sense Offense' and don't take the injections until he begins not taking it anymore on his own. His journey and the contrasts of the cold grey totalitarian world towards the picturesque and beautiful (=full of beauty) art items etc. are really nice to watch in that movie. It's not a perfect or extra very crazily thrilling movie with thousand million sudden surprises, but as I said before, I like the whole idea of it and it's a pretty and cool thing to enjoy and a brilliant role for Bale's portfolio. ^^

Why I chose exactly this OC of mine for this movie:
For Sam, I chose to go the classical alien way in her character design. She is empathic with Earthlings, actually from social view she IS an Earthling, but one kinda sees her in a role distinguished from the others. This is why I wanted to settle her in that Cleric's role, because it gives it a spicey something. In my eyes, it fits. It's alienatic, to be an aloner in a world without emotions, completely isolated from art, music, fragrances etc. But the audience/ reader/ whoever gets to know the journey of the alien/ John Preston who starts experiencing those things that are completely new for him/ her. It's an interesting thing, I think, and I totally opine there are blatant parallels. Not only in that plot, but in the individual search or experiences from a sociological and psychological view.


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Nagareboshie's avatar
oh equilibrium <3 hab ich als dvd höhöhö ^^, cooles bild