I don’t believe that the creators intentionally put Mad World into their work because they have an agenda against the mentally ill. I firmly believe that the mentally ill get stigmatized by the media because of things like Gears of War and CSI. It is because there is a stereotype that we should be scared of the mentally ill.
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Again, why would the creators of Gears of War use a song like Mad World to help accentuate a world full of violence and terror. The game is rated M which means your not supposed to play it unless your over 17 because of the graphic content, basically, it’s like an R-rated movie.
Gears of War is a very good and very popular game, but it is also extremely violent and bloody. A stereotype that is further advanced by my next topic, Gears of War. Why would a song about craziness (a term used commonly to describe people with mental illness,) be used for this kind of show? Are the creators suggesting that mental illness has some kind of connection to violent crime? The decision to use this song for this show perpetuates a stereotype that the mentally ill are somehow dangerous. The use always seemed to confuse since the meaning and the mood of the song didn’t fit the exciting, action packed, violent mood of CSI. A performance on the eighth season of American Idol by Adam Lambert also briefly increased its sales and interest in the song. In 2006, the song was included in the commercial to the video game Gears of War, which helped move it up the charts. It is extremely popular and helped to usher in a new era of crime shows on TV. Jules performed 'Mad World' with Mylne Farmer on her Timeless 2013 Tour. It’s use in Donnie Darko was appropriate because it felt the scene extremely but it’s use in CSI and Gears of War is more troubling.ĬSI is a show about solving often violent crimes. The reason I chose this song is because the types of media that it is used in. This version was a UK number-one hit, when Michael Andrews and Gary Jules released it a part of the soundtrack to the film 'Donnie Darko' in 2001. The reason I chose the song was not so much for the song itself, which is about how all the pressures of the world are making a man go crazy, not unlike Esther in The Bell Jar. Tears for Fears released 'Mad World' as their third single. Gary Jules attended The Bishop's School in La Jolla, California. He is best known for his cover of the Tears for Fears song Mad World, which was featured in the film Donnie Darko.
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It obviously succeeded since it’s always being used in different media. It wasnt until the song was covered by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews for the 2001 movie Donnie Darko that the song became the haunting ballad were most. Gary Jules (born in 1969 in Fresno, California as Gary Jules Aguirre) is an American singer-songwriter. The reason it was originally produced was for entertainment.
The song “Mad World” by Gary Jules has become very popular because of its use in Donnie Darko, the intro of CSI, and the popular Xbox game, Gears of War.
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