The Marvelous is all to do with the secondary world view. A new landscape that doesn't obey any natural laws and doesn't have to be realistic. Born this way itself places quite firmly in the Marvelous. The second world is thematic of the dark before being splashed by an array of colors, the video strongly carries connotations of homosexuality, regular rainbows and semiotics of gay rights movements frequent throughout, from the upside down triangle at the beginning to the unicorn at the end. Born this way transports us into a hyperbolic state of the marvelous which transports us to another world to explicitly reveal the black and white issue that's at hand, a common use of fantasy. .
'Different issues may be located safely distant, even light years away, from the real ground of conflict and thereby rendered less obvious and less psychologically or politically threatening' Eric Greene (1996) 'Planet of the apes' as American myth: race, politics and popular culture, Middletown: wesleyanUP, p18.
A-ha's 'Take on me' video is still just as firmly grounded in the fantasy genre however its placement in Todorov's spectrum is difficult to do because for me it bridges across two. The second world, the sketched comic environment clearly places it amongst the Marvelous but to what extent can the narration be trusted? At the beginning of the video we see a close up of the protagonist looking tired and bored, how do we not know that the events of the next 3 minutes are all taking place in a daydream? This would explain in realistic terms how the supernatural sketch world surmounts which is why there could be a strong case to place it amongst the Fantastic, this because there is a deal of hesitation and unknowing in the matter because its never disclosed if she is dreaming or it really happened. .
The aspect of truthfulness and trust in narration is wafer like for the video to 'Take on me', what's most important to the fantasy element and it's relationship to the real world are the things we don't see on camera.
