Fire in entertainment
Fire in entertainment is one of the most fundamental possible dramatic and theatrical elements due to its common and dynamic possible influences to stories.[according to whom?] Fire involving complex society developments can interact with their indicating popular art works so that accumulations at one side can indicate similar at the other. Examples for prominently fire involving art works are
| Year | Popular art work |
|---|---|
| 1980 | Firestarter (novel) by Stephen King |
| 1983 | Burning Down The House, a song by Talking Heads |
| 1984 | Firestarter (film) featuring Drew Barrymore as pyrokinetically gifted girl Charlie |
| 1985 | Piccoli fuochi |
| 1986 | Bello e Impossibile contains "Tra le tue mani scoppia il fuoco che mi brucerà." – "Fire to scorch me explodes in your hands."[1] |
| 1989 | She-Devil (film) in which Ruth (Roseanne Barr) burns her whole house |
| 1993 | Mrs Doubtfire; Mayor Bill Pugen (Michael Keenan), the first of the 7 mayors of TV series Picket Fences, dies by spontaneous human combustion after murder conviction |
| 1994 | Star Trek Generations featuring Captain Picard who tells Counselor Troi his children died in a fire before seeing them again in Nexus |
| 1996 | Dragonheart, in The English Patient (film) critically burned cartographer Almásy narrates in World War II his involvement in love affair and plane crash and how during plane flying he was shot by Germans |
| 1997 | Evil stepmother Claudia (Sigourney Weaver) dies in large flames at the end of Snow White: A Tale of Terror |
| 1999 | Super Furry Animals song Fire in My Heart,
in The Green Mile (film) sadistic warden Percy secretly manipulates the electric chair for prisoner Delacroix which vastly dramatizes his execution course including burning him alive, in The Ninth Gate Corso (Johnny Depp) visits the Baroness Kessler in her apartment in Paris to inspect her copy of the book The Nine Gates, he falls asleep and when he reawakes the Baroness is choked and her apartment set on fire, Corso pursues someone to a remote castle who is obsessed with this book and who concludes a ritual from it which includes burning himself with gasoline |
| 2007 | In Ghost Rider (2007 film) the Ghost Rider (Nicolas Cage) often appears as a burning skeleton with a metal chain |
| 2008 | In German TV series GZSZ Franzi Reuters, main character since 2005, dies in a restaurant fire[2] |
| 2009 | Water and a Flame |
| 2010 | Music video of Coming Home (Diddy – Dirty Money song) depicts a burned house and burned belongings in a desert |
| 2011 | 21 (Adele album) contains Set Fire to the Rain and Rolling in the Deep with the lyrics "There's a fire starting in my heart, reaching a fever pitch, it's bringing me out the dark ..." and with a video depicting a white model of a city which is set on fire by five bursting light bulbs, Invisible (Skylar Grey song) sings "Even if I set my heart on fire why do I always feel invisible", Set My World on Fire |
| 2012 | May 11: In Dark Shadows (film) Angelique burns down the Collins' factory by witchcraft (associated music score title "Burn Baby Burn / In-Tombed") and dies in Collins' mansion when it burns down
May 23: Men In Black 3 depicts the flames of the starting Apollo 11 rocket 1969 which incinerate the alien Boris The Animal |
| 2015 | Sugar (Robin Schulz song) sings "... Before you play with fire do think twice, And if you get burned don't be surprised ..." |
See also[edit]
- Fire (disambiguation) listing further likewise art works
- Firework (disambiguation)
- Flames (disambiguation)
- Pyromania (disambiguation) listing art works by Cascada and Def Leppard
- Burning Down the House (disambiguation)
- Pyromancy#Pyromancy in fiction
- Burning Man
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