- published: 11 Apr 2016
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The Fantastic is a literary term that describes a quality of other literary genres, and, in some cases, is used as a genre in and of itself, although in this case it is often conflated with the Supernatural. The term was originated in the structuralist theory of critic Tzvetan Todorov in his work The Fantastic. He describes the fantastic as being the hesitation of characters and readers when presented with questions about reality.
The fantastic genre can be subtly seen in works where the reader has a sense of confusion about the work and whether or not the described phenomenon was real. Todorov states that this genre never solely encompasses a novel as the ending always drives the hesitation towards one of two decisions which he titles as the uncanny or the marvelous. The uncanny, wherein the phenomenon turns out to have a rational explanation such as in the Gothic works of Ann Radcliffe; or the marvelous, where there truly is a supernatural explanation for the phenomenon:
The fantastic requires the fulfillment of three conditions. First, the text must oblige the reader to consider the world of the characters as a world of living persons and to hesitate between a natural or supernatural explanation of the events described. Second, this hesitation may also be experienced by a character; thus the reader's role is so to speak entrusted to a character, and at the same time the hesitation is represented, it becomes one of the themes of the work -- in the case of naive reading, the actual reader identifies himself with the character. Third, the reader must adopt a certain attitude with regard to the text: he will reject allegorical as well as "poetic" interpretations.
Actors: Ted Lange (actor), Nico Mastorakis (director), Joe Estevez (actor), John Vernon (actor), Nico Mastorakis (writer), Hans Zimmer (composer), Ava Fabian (actress), Patrick St. Esprit (actor), Jim Townsend (actor), John Michaels (producer), David Webb (actor), Manny Perry (actor), Tara Buckman (actress), Prince Hughes (actor), Hope Marie Carlton (actress),
Plot: Two beach combing-shutterbugs accidentally capture a murder on film. Now detectives, the boys set out to capture a murderess shot only from behind, with a rose tattoo on her behind. Fun in the sun turns dangerous when they end up shooting bullets instead of film.
Keywords: b-movie, beach-bum, breaking-the-fourth-wall, brother-brother-relationship, cult-director, cult-film, cult-film, dark-comedy, detective, female-nudity