Line #48 Quotes/FauxSymbolism


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4	[[AC:Fan Works]]
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6	->''"Kane says it's symbolic and important, but I'm never certain whether he's serious or spinning nonsense to be mystifying."''
7	-->-- '''LEGION''', ''FanFic/TiberiumWars''
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9	[[AC:Films - Animation]]
10	->''"My crew... was as carefully chosen as the disciples of Christ. And I will ''not'' tolerate stowaways."''
11	-->-- '''Hernán Cortés''', ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado''
12
13	[[AC:Films - Live-Action]]
14	->''"The cross...was a mushroom. And the mushroom was also...the tree of good and evil. The philosophical stone of the alchemists...was...LSD! The Book of the Dead...is a trip! And the apocalypse describes...mescaline experience!"''
15	-->-- '''The Drug Master''', ''Film/TheHolyMountain''
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17	[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
18	-> ''[Looking at a poster of a [[DropDeadGorgeous burlesque dancer lying stabbed in a giant martini glass]]]''\
19	'''Nelson:''' Are these covers supposed to be an ironic post-modernist interpretation of the role of women in the Sixties?\
20	'''Maggie:''' Oh, god no, George was just horny!
21	-->-- ''Series/MidsomerMurders''
22
23	->''"So why [[CrucifiedHeroShot this]] symbolism? Did Christ [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt people on deserted islands]]?"''
24	-->-- '''Tom Servo''' on the movie ''Film/{{Bloodlust}}'' ending with it's villain being inexplicably crucified, ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''
25
26	[[AC:Music]]
27
28	->''"Oh no! They take it too far.\
29	Now all the greatest love songs\
30	Are secretly about heroin"''
31	-->-- '''Music/LemonDemon''', "Being a Rock Star"
32
33	->''"And you listen to the music,\
34	and you love to sing along,\
35	and you want to get the meaning out\
36	of each and every song,\
37	and you find yourself a message,\
38	some words to call your own,\
39	and take them home."''
40	-->-- '''Bread''', "Guitar Man"
41
42	->''"Hey man did you\
43	write that for me?\
44	It seems like it,\
45	it spoke to me.\
46	You made it up,\
47	you made it up,\
48	you made it up,\
49	you make it up."''
50	-->-- '''Music/{{Starflyer 59}}''', "M23"
51
52	[[AC:Videogames]]
53	->'''Foster''': What goes on in here?\
54	'''Hobbins''': It's me workshop. Like it?\
55	'''Foster''': It's... very impressive. A symbol of DEHUMANIZED SOCIETY. The futile STRUGGLE against ENTROPY.\
56	'''Hobbins''': Symbol, my bum! Only thing this symbolizes is THIRTY YEARS of HARD GRAFT.
57	-->-- ''VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky''
58
59	[[AC:Webcomics]]
60
61	->'''Elan:''' You know, I always thought that your short hair was somehow [[ImportantHaircut symbolic]] of your character growth.\
62	'''Haley:''' Me too! I guess it was just a crappy haircut.\
63	'''Elan:''' Weird.
64	-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0752.html "Picking Locks"]]
65
66	->''"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."''
67	-->-- ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal''
68
69	->'''Dora:''' Oh, there's TONS of deep meaning there. The pinup girls represent your feminine side, and the dinosaurs represent the oppressive, male-dominated society you were raised in. The wizard and the robot represent the struggle between superstition and technology.\
70	'''Marten:''' And the bomber dropping kittens?\
71	'''Dora:''' I like kittens.
72	-->-- ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''
73
74	->'''Nimoy:''' But all fantasy is an allegory for the human condition. Surely the Dark Elf mythos represents ''something''...\
75	'''Geoph:''' Geez. It's not that hard to figure out, dude.\
76	''[GilliganCut]''\
77	'''[[MsFanservice Dark Elf Matriarch]]:''' Fan harder, [[GoGoEnslavement slave]]! I want to see the sweat ''glistening'' [[{{Fanservice}} on your pecs]].
78	-->-- ''Webcomic/ElfOnlyInn''
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80	[[AC:Web Original]]
81	->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?)
82	-->-- ''[[http://www.andrewrilstone.com/2005/11/lipstick-on-my-scholar.html Lipstick on My Scholar]]'', by '''Andrew Rilstone'''
83
84	[[AC:Web Video]]
85
86	->''Why do people think [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion this show]] is a masterpiece?''\
87	''It's a cartoon about a bunch of giant mechs.''\
88	''Interspersed with the story of an emo kid.''\
89	''And some pointless religious symbolism.''
90	-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNvqtKv1bPo If Anime Were Honest.]]
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92	->'''Fuyutsuki:''' It looks like the angel has just suicided into a giant cross.\
93	'''Gendo:''' Why the hell would it do that!?\
94	'''Maya:''' Maybe it has something to do with the angel's genetic makeup that gives its death this particular shape.\
95	'''Makoto:''' Or maybe the angels are actually messengers from God.\
96	'''Shigeru:''' Or maybe this is all a part of a bigger message that symbolizes something deeper, a metaphorical meaning about all the angels, religion, and perhaps life as we know it.\
97	* {{Beat}} as dramatic music plays and everyone looks thoughtful*\
98	* [[EverybodyLaughsEnding everyone breaks down laughing]]*
99	-->-- ''WebVideo/EvAbridged [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtUpWihJJJ4 1.0: This is (not) a Parody]]''
100
101	->'''[[BridgeBunny Aoba]]''': ''Another'' [[CrossAttack cross]] attack!? Why!?\
102	'''[[BridgeBunny Maya]]''': Because it's... deep?\
103	'''[[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.
104	-->-- ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]] [[WebVideo/EvangelionAbridged Abridged]]''
105
106	->''So now the director has shown these two images, of [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Muslim]] and [[UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}} Hindu]] origin respectively, it's likely that he's establishing the core belief system of the film as being derived from the quasi-Orientalist teachings of early New Age philosophy contemporary to this time. Or it just looks cool.''
107	-->-- '''[[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]]''', on the eye imagery in ''Film/{{Zardoz}}''
108
109	[[AC:Western Animation]]
110
111	->''"The rats symbolize obviousness!"''
112	-->-- '''Ralph Wiggum''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E13TheDebarted The Debarted]]"
113
114	->''"Not everything is a metaphor!"''
115	-->-- '''Candace''', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
116
117	->'''Stan:''' Goddamnit, there is no deeper meaning in this book! Read it again!\
118	'''Assemblywoman 1:''' Oh, so you're suggesting that the author just arbitrarily made fun of Creator/SarahJessicaParker for no reason??\
119	'''Kyle:''' Yes!\
120	'''Assemblywoman 1:''' But what would be the point?\
121	'''Cartman:''' There ''is'' no point! It's just because Sarah Jessica Parker is fuckin' ugly!\
122	'''Assemblywoman 2:''' No writer would take the time to make fun of Sarah Jessica Parker just because they think she's ugly.\
123	'''Stan, Kyle, Cartman:''' YES, they would!\
124	'''Assemblywoman 2:''' It is because Miss Jessica Parker is a metaphor in the book for oppression felt by the lower class.\
125	'''Stan:''' What?? Dude, that is not in the book at all!\
126	'''Assemblyman 2:''' Boys, this book is an important look at how liberals are hurting this country.
127	-->-- ''The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]'', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
128
129	->''"[[RealIsBrown The darkness]] [[ShapedLikeItself is a metaphor for]] [[DarkerAndEdgier darkness!]]"''
130	-->-- '''[[PrimaDonnaDirector Flip [=McVicker=]]]''', ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman''
131
132	[[AC:RealLife]]
133
134	->''"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."''
135	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud''' ([[BeamMeUpScotty probably]])
136
137	->''"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 his moral. It is there--that is to say, it is somewhere--and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves."''
138	-->-- '''Creator/EdgarAllanPoe''', ''Never Bet the Devil Your Head''
139
140	->''"If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't."''
141	-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert'''
142
143	->''"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...]]"''
144	-->-- '''Music/RingoStarr'''
145
146	->Because [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan]] we thought it would be mysterious. None of the staff who worked on [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Eva]] are Christians. There is no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity [[RuleOfCool look cool]].
147	-->-- '''Kazuya Tsurumaki''', in [[http://web.archive.org/web/20020110094207/http://www.akadot.com/article/article-tsurumaki2.html an interview]] on the topic of crosses in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
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149	->''"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]] [[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped incorrectly]]?"''
150	-->-- '''Music/KurtCobain'''
151
152	->''Lazarus Heart'' was a vivid nightmare that I wrote down and then fashioned into a song. A learned friend of mine informs me that it is the archetypical dream of the fisher king... can't I do anything original?
153	-->-- '''Sting''', liner notes to ''Nothing Like the Sun''
154
155	->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 [[Webcomic/DominicDeegan Dominic]] in a He-Man harness because I thought he'd look silly.
156	-->-- '''Michael "Mookie" Terracciano'''
157
158	->Suppose you are studying Moby-Dick. Anybody with any common sense would say Moby-Dick is a big white whale, since the characters in the book refer to it as a big white whale roughly eleven thousand times. So in '''your''' paper, '''you''' say Moby-Dick is actually the Republic of Ireland. Your professor, who is sick to death of reading papers and never liked Moby-Dick anyway, will think you are [[SeeminglyProfoundFool enormously creative.]]
159	-->-- '''Creator/DaveBarry''', "College Admissions"
160
161	->There is not always intended symbolism in the [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Alice]] books, which were made for the imagination of children and not the analysis of mad people.
162	-->-- ''The Annotated Alice''
163
164	->''"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."''
165	-->-- '''Hal Prince''' on the subject of ''Theatre/{{Cats}}''.

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