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Sep 10 '07 by hunkydo0ky

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Watch this

AHHH!

about Deus Ex Machina

I saw the title and right away I was like OMG LITERATURE.
DEUS EX MACHINA.
yay whoo literature.

MentalGeneration on Sep 10 '07 at 11:04pm

lawls. Same reaction here.
Yummy literatureee.

krnxguhj33 on Sep 11 '07 at 1:33am

I DO NOT GET IT! i'm literarily(is it a worrrrddd? :D) incompetant. :[

roboroller on Sep 11 '07 at 8:23pm

deus ex machina means "god is in the machine" or "god from the machine" in latin and is a term applied to a work of fiction that describes an event, character or story device that occurs improbably to solve a situation or make the plot flow more smoothly towards a conclusion. In other words...it's like God himself is inside the workings of the story, guiding events so they will lead towards the intended conclusion.

opifan64 on Sep 11 '07 at 10:43pm

It also applies loosely to any lazy literary device that rescues the heroes of a narrative conveniently. An example would be the characters in the movie Romancing The Stone being rescued by a sand storm at the last possible moment. It's a lazy literary device, in other words. The Greeks would literally have the gods intervene to save the hero when literary imagination failed to provide a creative solution to a plot predicament.

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sanaawarhol on Sep 15 '07 at 12:32pm

haha yea i love the literary device used here oh and they also mention it in donnie darko

"but aren't we forgetting the miracle of storytelling? The deus ex machina. The godmachine."

just thought id throw that in :)
love the shirt love the movie love literature

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