Credits: Article and images by Joshua Munchow @ Quill & Pad. See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2023/10/21/krayon-anywhere-a-long-overdue-love-letter-to-a-practical-sunrise-sunset-masterpiece-reprise/
In film and literature, there are numerous tropes popping up again and again thanks to their usefulness in creating tension, helping to move a plot along or providing comic relief.
There are quite possibly hundreds of tropes: enemies to lovers, the mirror jump scare, henchmen with terrible aim, the interrupted kiss, walking away from an explosion, and a personal favorite, the trash talk “he’s right behind me, isn’t he?” punchline.
Done improperly, tropes can evoke eye rolls, groans, and claims of lazy and unoriginal writing. This is because they are so common and used so often, they are completely unsurprising to audiences and bore them.
But when done well, these tropes can be the perfect way to design a scene. There is a reason that tropes became tropes in the first place: they were successful and interesting approaches to a situation. Many tropes will elicit an eye roll and defeated sigh from me as well, but many I still find highly entertaining in the right context.
One of my all-time favorites is the “just missed him” trope where two characters keep barely missing each other due to ever more ridiculous reasons.
This trope can be employed in a spy movie to keep the protagonist hidden in plain sight, or in a thriller where tragedy keeps narrowly being avoided by sheer accidental circumstances.
It’s also found in romance flicks about lovers destined to find each other, just not quite yet. So a bus drives by at the perfect moment, or someone gets distracted by a friend saying hello and doesn’t see their soulmate ordering coffee right behind them.
Used in comedy, this trope creates some of the corniest gags possible, sometimes bordering on unbelievability. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has more than a few examples of this trope, which carry the film along by keeping Ferris from getting caught.
Sometimes there is a variation of this trope in which people meet many times but only very briefly, not knowing until the very end of the story that the other person was important, all the while with the audience seeing the near misses, wondering when it will all fall into place.
Krayon Anywhere
That trope sort of describes my relationship with the Krayon Anywhere, an incredible creation by watchmaker Rémi Maillat that very intuitively displays sunrise and sunset nearly anywhere on the planet. Since it was released in 2020, I have only barely commented on it, saw it once, and am now, finally, meeting it in my writing to cover the evolution of the concept from the debut Krayon Everywhere.
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Credits: Article and images by Joshua Munchow @ Quill & Pad. See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2023/10/21/krayon-anywhere-a-long-overdue-love-letter-to-a-practical-sunrise-sunset-masterpiece-reprise/
