History Quotes / FauxSymbolism

->''"In short, it has been shown that no man can sit down to write without a very profound design. Thus to authors in general much trouble is spared. A novelist, for example, need have no care of [[AnAesop his moral]]. It is there--that is to say, it is somewhere--and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves."''

->''"Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on [[WordSaladLyrics my lyrics]] when 90% of the time they've [[IndecipherableLyrics transcribed the lyrics]] [[{{Mondegreen}} incorrectly]]?"''

-->-- '''Hernán Cortés''', ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado''

->The play I wrote in the 3rd grade about a time traveling ladybug who’s really into Jody Watley made more sense than this shit.
-->-- '''Michael K.''' on [[http://dlisted.com/2013/11/25/well-i-guess-this-is-one-way-of-commemorating-the-50th-anniversary-of-jfks-assassination/ "Do What U Want"]]

->'''David:''' I’m no big [[{{Literature/LandOfOz}} Ozhead]] here, but does the Oz metaphor go any farther?\\
'''Chris:''' You never read the one where the Gnome King is a shapeshifter who murders a Goth Girl because she’s selling vibrators in his likeness? Frank Baum was a weird dude.
-->-- ''Chris Sims'' and ''David Uzumeri'' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-blade-trinity-2004-part-two/ on]] ''Film/BladeTrinity''

->The fact that "Forcing the End" is so packed with weird eschatological imagery and themes, and yet so stubbornly refuses to work, demonstrates that it is not enough for television to be odd. It has to be good.
-->-- '''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/07/24/millennium-forcing-the-end-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/Millennium1996''

-->-- '''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/07/24/millennium-forcing-the-end-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/{{Millennium}}''

->'''[[BridgeBunny Aoba]]''': ''Another'' [[CreepyCoolCrosses cross]] attack!? Why!?\\

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->Kane says it's symbolic and important, but I'm never certain whether he's serious or spinning nonsense to be mystifying.

->My crew... was as carefully chosen as the disciples of Christ. And I will ''not'' tolerate stowaways.
-->--'''Hernán Cortés''', ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado''

->'''Nelson:''' ''(Looking at a poster of a stabbed burlesque dancer in a giant martini glass)'' Are these covers supposed to be an ironic post-modernist interpretation of the role of women in the Sixties?\\

-->--'''Music/LemonDemon''', "Being a Rock Star"

-->-- '''VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky'''

-->-- '''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'''

-->--'''Michael K.''' on [[http://dlisted.com/2013/11/25/well-i-guess-this-is-one-way-of-commemorating-the-50th-anniversary-of-jfks-assassination/ "Do What U Want"]]

-->--Chris Sims and David Uzumeri [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-blade-trinity-2004-part-two/ on]] ''Film/BladeTrinity''

-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/07/24/millennium-forcing-the-end-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/{{Millennium}}''

->The rats symbolize obviousness!
-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Ralph Wiggum]]'''

->Not everything is a metaphor!

->"[[RealIsBrown The darkness]] [[ShapedLikeItself is a metaphor for]] [[DarkerAndEdgier darkness!]]"

->Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

->In short, it has been shown that no man can sit down to write without a very profound design. Thus to authors in general much trouble is spared. A novelist, for example, need have no care of [[AnAesop his moral]]. It is there--that is to say, it is somewhere--and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves.

->If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.

->Now they're trying to come up with meanings for [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] songs. [[HypocriticalHumor I never understood what any of them were about,]] [[TakeThatMe myself...]]

->Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on [[WordSaladLyrics my lyrics]] when 90% of the time they've [[IndecipherableLyrics transcribed the lyrics]] [[{{Mondegreen}} incorrectly]]?

-->-- '''[[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]]''', on the eye imagery in ''{{Zardoz}}''

-->-- ''WebVideo/EvAbridged [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtUpWihJJJ4 1.0 This is (not) a Parody]]''

->'''[[BridgeBunny Aoba]]''': ''Another'' [[CreepyCoolCrosses cross]] attack!? Why!?\\
'''[[BridgeBunny Maya]]''': Because it's... deep?\\
'''[[DeadpanSnarker Gendo]]''': Ah, don't start start that tired argument again! It was added because the director thought it was shiny, so just move on and continue the operation.
-->-- ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]] [[WebVideo/EvangelionAbridged Abridged]]''

->''"I listen to it all and I said "[[Creator/AndrewLloydWebber Andrew]], is this something I don't get? Is this about Queen Victoria, she's the main cat and Disraelli and Gladstone are other cats and... and there are, you know, poor cats? Am I missing this?" And he took a terrible, painful, long pause and said 'Hal, it's about CATS.' And we never discuss it again."

->I listen to it all and I said "Andrew, is this something I don't get? Is this about Queen Victoria, she's the main cat and Disraelli and Gladstone are other cats and... and there are, you know, poor cats? Am I missing this?" And he took a terrible, painful, long pause and said "Hal, it's about CATS." And we never discuss it again.

'''*GilliganCut*'''\\
'''[[MsFanservice Drow Matriarch]]:''' Fan harder, [[GoGoEnslavement slave]]! I want to see the sweat ''glistening'' [[{{Fanservice}} on your pecs]].

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-->--'''LemonDemon''', "Being a Rock Star"

->Some thought there was some greater symbolic meaning behind [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-03-30 this infamous comic]], and a couple of readers actually analyzed it as a representation of my feelings of women being inferior. Honestly, I just wanted to put Dominic in a He-Man harness because I thought he'd look silly.

->You know, I always thought that your short hair was somehow symbolic of your character growth.\\
Me too! I guess it was just a crappy haircut.\\
Weird.

->No. That's not how English class works. What we CAN do is pretend the book is a towering riddle of symbology designed to obfuscate a central theme so simplistic that it can be expressed in a single paragraph during a one-hour midterm.

->'''Nelson:''' ''(Looking at a poster of a stabbed woman in a giant martini glass)'' Are these covers supposed to be an ironic post-modernist interpretation of the role of women in the Sixties?\\

'''Assemblywoman 1:''' Oh, so you're suggesting that the author just arbitrarily made fun of SarahJessicaParker for no reason??\\

->'''David:''' I’m no big [[{{Literature/Oz}} Ozhead]] here, but does the Oz metaphor go any farther?\\

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->The rats symbolize obviousness!
-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Ralph Wiggum]]'''

->Kane says it's symbolic and important, but I'm never certain whether he's serious or spinning nonsense to be mystifying.
-->-- '''LEGION''', ''FanFic/TiberiumWars''

->'''[[BridgeBunny Aoba]]''': ''Another'' [[CreepyCoolCrosses cross]] attack!? Why!?\\
'''[[BridgeBunny Maya]]''': Because it's... deep?\\
'''[[DeadpanSnarker Gendo]]''': Ah, don't start start that tired argument again! It was added because the director thought it was shiny, so just move on and continue the operation.
-->-- ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]] [[WebVideo/EvangelionAbridged Abridged]]''

->''Why do people think [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion this show]] is a masterpiece?''\\
''It's a cartoon about a bunch of giant mechs.''\\
''Interspersed with the story of an emo kid.''\\
''And some pointless religious symbolism.''
-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNvqtKv1bPo If Anime Were Honest.]]

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->I don't know what it's about. I'm just the drummer. Ask [[Music/PeterGabriel Peter]].
-->-- '''Music/PhilCollins''', when asked about the meaning of Music/{{Genesis}}' ConceptAlbum ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway''

->The play I wrote in the 3rd grade about a time traveling ladybug who’s really into Jody Watley made more sense than this shit.
-->--'''Michael K.''' on [[http://dlisted.com/2013/11/25/well-i-guess-this-is-one-way-of-commemorating-the-50th-anniversary-of-jfks-assassination/ "Do What U Want"]]

->'''David:''' I’m no big [[{{Literature/Oz}} Ozhead]] here, but does the Oz metaphor go any farther?\\
'''Chris:''' You never read the one where the Gnome King is a shapeshifter who murders a Goth Girl because she’s selling vibrators in his likeness? Frank Baum was a weird dude.
-->--Chris Sims and David Uzumeri [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-blade-trinity-2004-part-two/ on]] ''Film/BladeTrinity''

->The fact that "Forcing the End" is so packed with weird eschatological imagery and themes, and yet so stubbornly refuses to work, demonstrates that it is not enough for television to be odd. It has to be good.
-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/07/24/millennium-forcing-the-end-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/{{Millennium}}''

->It's possible to read too much into this shit.
-->-- '''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''', "[[http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/essays/runaway.htm 'Runaway Train' by Soul Asylum is actually about a man being absorbed into the vagina of an evil shapeshifting alien]]"

->This game - discovering feelings that writers didn't know they had on the basis of things they didn't say - is great fun, and anyone can play it. (There's is a bit-part player in "Prince Caspian" called Mrs Prizzle. Well then, the fact that Lewis chose this name proves that he had an unconscious desire to spank women using the penis of a bull. See how easy it is?)
-->-- ''[[http://www.andrewrilstone.com/2005/11/lipstick-on-my-scholar.html Lipstick on My Scholar]]'', by '''Andrew Rilstone'''

->In creating Elsa, Disney formulated a storyline that is richly applicable to dozens of different alienations and iconoclasms, any one of which can lead to social stigma, but which can also yield rich creative fruit and be a light unto the world. It is not reducible to just one, and never should be, but applies across many circumstances and conditions.
->By making Elsa’s metaphorical significance so fluid, she is widely relatable to many individuals in a host of different ways.
-->-- A [[http://justapinchofdisneymagic.tumblr.com/post/68639846847/kioewen-what-elsa-represents-numerous-theories blogger]] discussing ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''

-> ''But by making its story specifically about magic powers, Frozen takes the idea further. The snow and the ice are effective as CGI elements, but they’re also emotionally resonant, because it all relates back to Elsa’s inner despair. And her powers — her shame and fear of them — could be read symbolically, too. Symbolic of what? Well, what have you got? It’s all vague enough that the allegory could really be for anything.''
-->-- Another [[http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/why-is-frozen-such-a-big-hit.html analysis]] of the same movie
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