Julie Taymor Themes
Julie Taymor was born December 15, 1952, in Newton, Massachusetts. She is an American director of theater, opera, and film. She is best known for directing the stage musical The Lion King in 1997. Taymor became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing the musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design (“PBS,” n.d.). She always had a passion for theater. When she was younger, she created backyard performances for her family and friends, that led her to play Cinderella with the Boston Children's Theatre at age of ten (“PBS,” n.d.). After graduating high school, at 15 years old, she traveled to Paris, France to attend the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (Jacques Lecoq International School of Theatre)
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She continued working with masks, body parts, and color patterns in her films. Not only is the production style the same but all four movies share a common theme in their stories. The transition from childhood to adulthood is the major theme that can be found in all four feature films by Taymor. Also, Taymor used a variety of different ritual performances in her movies to fit the story that is being told. Since Taymor was interested in learning about other cultures, she learned about rituals from those cultures. The ritual theory emerged within media studies in the 1970s (Pauly, 2014). Rituals have been around for a long period of time but were not studied for media communication purposes. Rituals have been a part of religion as long as it has been around. Greeks would have festivals for each of their God or Goddess they would worship to. Plays would be performed for the Gods covering their faces with masks and using their bodies to send messages. Also, during these festivals a sacrifice, usually a goat, would be given to the Gods for thanks. However, rituals today are a lot different from the Greek times. They are special moments in lives of people all around the world and not only routine moments in our daily life (Pauly, 2014). Rituals symbolize the passage from one state to another, for example, the transition from childhood to
She continued working with masks, body parts, and color patterns in her films. Not only is the production style the same but all four movies share a common theme in their stories. The transition from childhood to adulthood is the major theme that can be found in all four feature films by Taymor. Also, Taymor used a variety of different ritual performances in her movies to fit the story that is being told. Since Taymor was interested in learning about other cultures, she learned about rituals from those cultures. The ritual theory emerged within media studies in the 1970s (Pauly, 2014). Rituals have been around for a long period of time but were not studied for media communication purposes. Rituals have been a part of religion as long as it has been around. Greeks would have festivals for each of their God or Goddess they would worship to. Plays would be performed for the Gods covering their faces with masks and using their bodies to send messages. Also, during these festivals a sacrifice, usually a goat, would be given to the Gods for thanks. However, rituals today are a lot different from the Greek times. They are special moments in lives of people all around the world and not only routine moments in our daily life (Pauly, 2014). Rituals symbolize the passage from one state to another, for example, the transition from childhood to