#Franz kafka rock opera series#
#Franz kafka rock opera tv#

But it does, true to form, feature lyrics and song. It’s not Tommy or Quadrophenia - two of the greatest rock operas ever made.

In this episode, we find the character Dwayne writing a rock opera based on Kafka’s famous novella The Metamorphosis.

Skullgirls has a parasite named Samson, who has an attack called Gregor Samson, of which are both references to The Metamorphosis which has a main character named Gregor Samsa.“The Franz Kafka Rock Opera” comes from Season 1 of a 1999 video series called Home Movies.

The main antagonist is a noted fan of Kafka and bases her plans off his works, each level is named after one of his works, and each level is proceeded by a quote from Kafka. The general plot of the game is about people trapped in an oppressive world where all the mean-spirited terrors are never explained while being watched over by an uncaring watcher.

Quite a bit of Resident Evil: Revelations 2 takes cues from Kafka.

This attitude may have been inspired by Kafka's own Black Comedy.

Final Fantasy VI's main villain is a Monster Clown named Kefka Palazzo, a corruption of Kafka, and his ascent to godhood is accompanied by a theme called 'Metamorphosis.' He's also a Straw Nihilist who views all life as meaningless ('Why create when it will only be destroyed?') and derives his joy and purpose in life from destroying everything like a god game player setting off disasters.

All four parts were even merged in to one song, with a cover by Sharpless of Father/Daughter Records. All four parts were featured in the soundtrack released in 2006.

The young Indiana Jones meets Kafka in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, in an episode featuring a Kafka-esque struggle with bureaucracy. The Franz Kafka Rock Opera was originally a four-part song featured in the Home Movies season one episode: Director's Cut.

#Franz kafka rock opera series#

In the series finale of The Wire, Walon gives Bubbles a quote from Kafka's Zurau Aphorisms ('You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid'), in order to convince Bubbles to let a profile about him be published in the Baltimore Sun.Kafka appears in a historical / flashback episode of Northern Exposure, played by the series' star Rob Morrow. Informaní a publicistický portál o divadle: informace, recenze, hodnocení, ankety, diskuse, blogy, odkazy, pehledy v dynamickém balení.Which turns out to be Kafka's medication prescription for his tuberculosis. Finally, Brod, who got so worked up about burning something, randomly burns a piece of paper he finds. Israeli skit show The Jews Are Coming, satirizing Jewish / Israeli history and lore, featured a skit in which the moribund Kafka asks Max Brod to burn all of his writings, but keeps asking him to spare more and more works, to the point he wants to keep the empty pizza box in his room.

#Franz kafka rock opera tv#

Kafka was played by Daniel Day-Lewis in Alan Bennett's 1986 BBC TV drama The Insurance Man.

'One morning, when Kafuka Fuura woke up, she had become (classmate's name),' indeed. An donated her organs into several depressed teenagers, who would discover that she took over their bodies once in awhile in an attempt to search for closure and become her classmates to soothe her spirit.

It turns out that 'Kafuka Fuura' is a pen name her real name is later revealed to be An Akagi, and her classmates gave her that pen name because The Metamorphosis was her favorite book, clutched in her hand as she died from being hit by a car by her father. However, Kafuka's Dark and Troubled Past makes her usual brand of optimism very twisted (she several times creates cults and wishes to be a god, for example).

In Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, the main female character is named Kafuka Fuura, whose comedy stock plays with Kafka's usual cynical works Kafuka has a very depressing family life, the usual staple of Kafka's stories, but Kafuka herself is absurdly optimistic.

In the sequel, Kafka's short story A Crossbreed is discussed briefly and seems to be a metaphor for the relationship between Half-Human Hybrid Sasaki and his Parental Substitute, Arima. It is also mentioned that oft-mentioned novelist Sen Takatsuki titled her first work Dear Kafka, hinting that she was influenced by his work. Near the beginning of the series, Kaneki compares his transformation into a Half-Human Hybrid to The Metamorphosis.

The works of Kafka are a major influence on Tokyo Ghoul and its sequel, Tokyo Ghoul:Re.

Gregory, an anthropomorfic cricket from Dragon Ball Z, is named after the main character of The Metamorphosis.