This document provides an analysis of Hollywood films being influenced by Plato's theory of mimesis. It discusses Plato's view that art is an imitation of reality. As an example, it describes how the locations in The Lord of the Rings trilogy were made to visually resemble real places in New Zealand. It then examines the different types of mimesis and provides analyses of several popular films, including The Village, The Lego Movie, Interstellar, the Harry Potter series, and The Matrix, to demonstrate Hollywood's application of Plato's concept of mimesis.

1. Name : Ami Trivedi
Class : M.A
Sem : 1
Paper no : 03
Topic : Hollywood influenced by Plato’s
theory
Email id : amitrivedi4288@gmail.com
Year : 2016-2018
Submitted to : SMT. S. B. Gardi and
Department of English M. K. Bhavnagar
University

2. Introduction : Plato’s theory
 Plato’s theory of imitation.
 The art deals with illusion or they are
imitation of an imitation.
 Example : when director Peter
Jackson decided to film “The Lord
of the Rings” in New Zealand,
fictional locations like the city of
Edoras became visually mimetic
of real-life locales, like Mt. Sunday
in the right foreground.

3.  PARTS OF
MIMESIS
MIMESIS
1. Vocal mimesis and
metaphorical mimesis
2. Behavioral
mimesis and
Impersonation

4.  THE VILLAGE
 The village is about a small
Pennsylvania town in the 1800s.
 Residents of the town live in constant
fear of those we don’t speak of ,
monstrous figures that stalk the woods
surrounding the town.

5. EXAMPLE OF HOLLYWOOD
MOVIE
 “THE LEGO MOVIE”
(2014)
 3D computer
animated adventure
movie.
 Good vs Evil
 Twist and Turns

6. “THE INTERSTELLAR”(2014)
It follows cooper;
a farmer who
leaves the
blighted and
dying earth in
search of a new
planet.

7. “HARRY POTTER” (2014)
 “Harry Potter” is a British-
American film series based
on the Harry potter novels by
author J. K. Rowling. The
series is distributed by
Warner Bros and consists of
eight fantasy film, beginning
with Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stones (2001)
and culminating with Harry
Potter and the Deathly
Hallows- Part 2 (2011).

8. “THE MATRIX” (1999)
 American-Australian science
fiction action film written and
directed by The Wachowskis.
 It depicts a dystopian future in
which reality as perceived by
most humans is actually a
simulating reality.

9. Site : Mindtools.net