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Extraordinary You is a South Korean drama that was released in 2019. I can say that it is one of my comfort watches and guilty pleasures. I always watch it when I am stressed, and since it is the midterm week, I found myself watching it again. It tells the story of Dan-oh, a high school student who discovers that she actually lives in a comic book. While assuming she is the main character at first, later, she realizes she is an extra who has only one purpose, which is to bring the main characters together. Then, we watch her while she is trying to change her fate.  Since it is a fantasy rom-com, it is pretty easy to watch, but at the same time, it is really cheesy and sometimes even cringe to the degree that I have to stop watching for a while. Still, it is a pretty comforting TV show to watch, at least for me, and it is actually one of the works which showed me that something does not have to be critically acclaimed or a masterpiece  to have an effect on us. Sometimes we just need to

Like many people, I watched the new Batman film past week. As someone who had a DC phase in high school, of course, I liked it. Watching The Riddler as the main villain of a Batman film was great. Everyone compares the past versions of certain characters in comic book films, but The Riddler is not one of them most of the time. So, this film actually made me think about how a character may be represented in many different ways.  When we look at the last three live-action versions of The Riddler, they are very different from each other while being from the same source material. First of all, there is The Riddler in Batman Forever (1995), played by Jim Carrey. This version of the character may be the most similar to the comic book version out of the three. He was cheesy, over the top, and definitely not threatening. In addition, his costume was similar to the comic books. Staying faithful to source material can be great most of the time, but it is probably not when it comes to comic b

The Nightmare is an oil painting by the artist Henry Fuseli. It might be one of the most recreated paintings in films, especially within the horror genre. However, the specific tableau vivant I chose to write about is the one in the film Frankenstein (1931), directed by James Whale. It might not be the most detail-oriented recreation of this painting. Still, I think using it in this particular film makes it more meaningful since the author of Frankenstein , Mary Shelley, probably took the inspiration for the scene where The Creature  kills Victor's wife, Elizabeth, from this painting since she was familiar with Henry Fuseli. While in the film, Elizabeth is not killed but collapsed, in both the painting and the tableau vivant, the main subject is lifelessly lying on a bed while their heads, arms, and hairs are hanging down. They also share similar costumes.  What is missing in this tableau vivant is the  incubus  and the horse in the painting. Their equivalent might be  The Creatu