Frida is shown living her life in Mexico in pain but not letting anyone be aware of it. She was known for wearing long native dresses to hide her scars and braces from the accident (Nyman, 2016). In Across the Universe when Max went through the process of getting screened for the army. Taymor used masks again for the soldiers to all be synced and the masks had a similar look of the ones from Titus. This scene also showed the ritual of young people being sent out to a fight a war that they do not want to fight. Frida and Across the Universe are a bit different from Titus because what of what Taymor wants to show her audience for the purpose of her …show more content…
Nine years later, in 1988, she worked on the production Juan Darien, A Carnival Mass which “Lincoln Center revived in 1996, giving Taymor her first broadway credit” (“PBS,” n.d. p. 2). She combined elaborate costumes and various form of puppetry that was influenced by the Japanese bunraku style (“PBS,” n.d). In 1997, she made her directorial debut with the musical The Lion King. Disney liked Taymor’s stage production in Juan Darien, A Carnival Mass and wanted to work with her on The Lion King franchise. She created puppets and masks to continue her avant-garde trademark style to connect the actor and the costume (“PBS,” n.d.). Avant-garde is an experimental method of theater or film work using visual, literary, or musical arts to explain a story. For example, a giraffe, was an actor “wearing a conelike giraffe neck and head - balanced on arm and leg stilts” (“PBS,” n.d. p. 3). Taymor wanted the actors and the puppet costume to work as one in order to become the