The Lighthouse plot analysis

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Men to Villains: Competitive Masculinity in The Lighthouse. This paper investigates the competitive nature of masculinity as presented in Robert Egger’s film The Lighthouse . Applying gender theory, I examine three crucial scenes in the film that demonstrate the two protagonists’ pursuit of ascendance, which manifests as their lust to possess the lamp of the lighthouse. Borrowing from the works of sociologists, anthropologists, and historians, I was able to understand the naturally recurring crises of masculinity that circulate around a hegemonic model of the masculine ideal, ultimately leading to competition between men to achieve said hegemony. The Lighthouse proves this enduring phenomen…

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Merlerium: Mermaids, mythology, desire and madness in Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse (2019). Robert Eggers’ 2019 film The Lighthouse provides an idiosyncratic representation of the mermaid as a Jungian anima in a film that revolves around the homoerotic tension between two lighthouse keepers on a remote, windswept island. While the mermaid theme is essentially a minor aspect of the film, juxtaposed with other mythological motifs, it is significant for the intensity of passions it catalyses in one of the film’s two male leads. Analysing the film, its script and statements of directorial intent, this article first discusses aspects of the interaction of the masculine characters and their relat…

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The Lighthouse is a 2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, from a screenplay he wrote with his brother Max Eggers. It stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as turmoiled nineteenth-century lighthouse keepers stranded at a remote New England outpost by a violent storm. The film has defied genre categorization in media, leading to multiple interpretations from critics. The idea of The Lighthouse originated from a script based on Edgar Allan Poe's incomplete short story "The Light-House", which was written by Max. Eggers researched for source material and developed the plot from a nineteenth-century legend of an accident at a Welsh lighthouse. The Lighthouse draws visually from pho…

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(Eco)horror of Masculinity: Confronting Abject Nature in the Films of Robert Eggers

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The Lighthouse (2019). Directed by Robert Eggers. Written for the Screen by Robert and Max Eggers

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Voices of the Dead: Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse and the Horror Genre | Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture Voices of the Dead: Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse and the Horror Genre