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The wheel of fortune

The wheel of fortune

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The wheel of fortune

- [Instructor] If you're an experienced animator, you reaction to this movie will be "Tell me something I don't know." If you're younger, if you're starting out, it's really important that you keep this in mind as your career goes forward, and it's about luck, fortune, and how things change, and this has been known for a very long time and so we have in ancient Medieval philosophy the idea of the Rota Fortunae, the Wheel of Fortune. So here's a closer look at it and you can see these poor people are strapped to the wheel and here's the bad news. Those people strapped to that wheel are you and me. So we have many, many images of this wretched wheel and we're just spun around by blind Fate, and there she is, she's blindfolded in the bottom left-hand side and there was in Ancient Rome one I think called Pacuvius and he wrote about this, "Philosophers say that Fortune is insane and blind "and stupid, that she does not see where she's heading. "They say she is insane because she is cruel…

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