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A Flat character is one who does not go through significant changes throughout the novel and who also serves as a support system to the min character. In “The Catcher to the Rye,” Phoebe is seen as a flat character while her brother Holden is seen as a round character. Phoebe is seen as Holden’s … Read more
This is the story of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), the vice-president of a bank, convicted of his wife’s murder. Andy states that he has been falsely accused, but all evidence points towards Andy and nobody else. As a result, he is sent to the Shawshank prison, to serve a double life sentence. In comes Red … Read more
“Maleficent may be known as a wicked villainess but she didn’t start off that way.” The story starts with meeting Maleficent as a child living alone in a tree, orphaned. In these early stages, Maleficent is confident and gentle. Then the story follows Maleficent’s encounter with Stefan, a boy from the surrounding village belonging to … Read more
Living in a modern society with a rapid development of science and technology, it is difficult to find an appropriate place for oneself. Directed by Satoshi Kon in 2006, through the back-and-forth traveling and interweaving of fantasy and reality in the use of multi-dimensional images, the animated film Paprika surrealistically reveals the split of human … Read more
Gray argues that the definition of a superheroine’s “hotness” is “the establishment of a delicate balance of both sex appeal and physical strength” (Gray 91). This definition is applicable to the superheroine Black Widow in the film Avengers 2: Age of Ultron (2015). Black Widow, or Natasha Romanoff (played by Scarlet Johanson), is a spy … Read more
Women’s roles in film are changing significantly as a way to reflect society’s changing attitude towards them. This is beautifully illustrated in the film House of Flying Daggers, where the director, Zhang Yimou, portrays the changing roles of women, in this Chinese Wuxi martial-arts action-adventure movie, with a strong female lead protagonist, Mei, who is … Read more
“I’ll tell you one thing, Fred, darling. I’d marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money?” Holly Golightly (played by the delightful Audrey Hepburn) drawls to Paul Varjack (George Peppard) as they banter in the tiny kitchen of her minuscule brownstone in downtown New York City. Given Varjack’s … Read more
The Movie Money ball is based on the true events happened in Billy Beane’s life, He is he General Manager of the Oakland A’s Baseball team. Beane and his Assistant GM, Peter Brand hired under-valued players, so that they could reduce the budget with less than 40% of their competitors. In the 2001-02 season, the … Read more
The genre convention that is plainly detectable from the beginning of the film is that there are clear double alternate extremes. This is the place you can plainly recognize the great individuals in the film yet additionally see the malicious individuals. In Hot Fuzz, it is obvious from the begin that Nicholas Angel, the fundamental … Read more
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the image and cultural representation of special education needs through the description of media. Ellis (2018), has mentioned that nowadays, it is common that children have some disability and they need to have some special needs. People always stereotype those who have disability or impairment, which cause … Read more
The documentary Bowling for Columbine demonstrates how America is very comfortable handling guns, he also talks about the consequences of this behavior like the “Columbine high school massacre” and many others school shootings and events that have happened because of this type of behavior. Michael Moore proves his point by interviewing people that attended the … Read more
Being John Malkovich Endless riches, untouchable fame, authority that would never dare be challenged. Isn’t that the goal? To live in a world where one can walk out of their beach house into their new Lamborghini knowing they don’t have a worry in the world simply because they have those material goods. Most see it … Read more
Addictions are prevalent in our society. From substance such as drugs and alcohol to process addictions like sex, gambling, and eating disorders, it is likely that someone in your work or friend circle has struggled with an addiction. Addictions counseling takes knowledge and patience from counselors. In this paper, I have chosen to apply the … Read more
Films that we interact with in our everyday life, requires people from various fields to communicate and cooperate in order to produce the best quality. A director is a person that is responsible for all the aspects of the film and its production; in other words, the center pole of the film production. They work … Read more
Groundhog Day Film Analysis What would you do if you had the chance to relive the same day over and over again? In the film Groundhog Day, a man named Phil Connors relives the same day every time he wakes up. Phil, who is a weather man for a Pittsburgh news station, goes to Punxsutawney … Read more
If the film is effectively and expressed visually with the contents of what is in the frame and the way it is organised, then everything in the frame can carry meaning through mise-en-scene. Therefore, the question arises, “How significant is mise-en-scene in film?” The frame consists of contents such as lighting, costume, decor, props, and … Read more
In this film The Lorax advocates for nature and everything that lives inside of it. As you watch the Film you can see the spiritual and emotional connection the Lorax has to the land. The Lorax and the environment around him was sustainable and forever lasting until the Once-ler came around. The Once-Ler created his … Read more
“Zootopia” is the endearing story of the first-ever bunny police officer, Judy Hopps, and her journey through solving a missing persons – or, animals – case in the metropolitan city of Zootopia. Along the way, she runs into animals in power with less than pure intentions, a not so sly fox, and even a spiritually … Read more
The film Bad Boys II, starring two cops named Marcus and Mike (Martin Lawrence and Will Smith), is set in Miami where both partners are assigned to look for clues and evidence for an international drug dealer’s arrest. As they start with the investigation and stake outs, they find themselves insulting each other, fighting like … Read more
In 1986, John Badham directed the box office hit widely beloved by millennials, Short Circuit. This comedic film follows Johnny 5, a military robot on his journey to understanding humanity. The film starts in a Nova Laboratory, a pair of robotics Newton Crosby and Ben Jabituya (actors Steve Guttenburg and Fisher Stevens) plan to make … Read more
The foreign film chosen for analysis was Amelie (2001) directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The film differs from that of a traditional American film. However, the acting and portrayal of the screenplay envelop the viewer into the world of Amelie, the main character. The film lacks large special effects and leads to a more raw film … Read more
The movie Rear Window came out during 1954. It is Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest film with a leading duo of James Stewart and Grace Kelly. The context of this film is when the Us was in a huge communist scare. People treating other people like nothing to save their own self. Everybody is going against each … Read more
“Capitalism: A Love Story” is a documentary widely released to the public in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2009, which was written, produced, and directed by Michael Moore. The documentary tries to address the question: What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Michael Moore makes determined efforts … Read more
Recast as a fair-weather Hollywood rebel with Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys – breaking the rules only just enough to accrue a superficial glaze of strangeness – Chris Marker’s La Jetee is the real deal. It’s as aesthetically radical as any film this side of, well, Hiroshima, Mon Amour three years earlier, at least, but La … Read more
The film is very intense and dreamlike. We see multiple women, that are all the same woman but in different ways. They go through a set of events that slowly but surely get more and more bizarre. The movie ends with a shattered mirror, a man and the death of the main character, the woman. … Read more
“Zootopia” is the endearing story of the first-ever bunny police officer, Judy Hopps, and her journey through solving a missing persons – or, animals – case in the metropolitan city of Zootopia. Along the way, she runs into animals in power with less than pure intentions, a not so sly fox, and even a spiritually … Read more
The documentary “They Call Us Monsters”, takes inside a segregated unit for juveniles being tried as adults in Sylmar Juvenile Hall and introduces to three teenagers awaiting trial where they spend their days and nights waiting to learn their fate for their violent and gang related crimes. A screenwriter offers to teach a writing workshop … Read more
The film I chose to write about is “The Blind Side”. The reason I chose this movie is because it deals with various sociological concepts, such as, being a non-traditional family, being an upper-class family taking in someone who was considered lower-class, and being a family that wasn’t all the same race. This movie is … Read more
Superman has filmically evolved from ‘Superman, The Movie’ to ‘Superman, Man of Steel’. In ‘Superman, The Movie’ the opening shot gives the audience context that the superhero, Superman, is from a red alien planet which has been mined to the core due to the hubris of the Kryptonians. In ‘Superman, Man of Steel’ the opening … Read more
100 Yen Love is a movie about self redemption, feminist empowerment and the reality of a Japanese dollar store. Directed by the Japanese director, Masaharu Take, we are introduced to Ichiko, played by Japanese female actress Sakura Ando. After being thrown out of her home, Ichiko faces reality at its brutalest. With the added damage … Read more
Kenneth Anger’s Kustom Kar Kommandos asks us to feel with our ears, to hear with our eyes, to taste with our bodies. Charged with a tickling eroticism and hyperbolically fetishistic aura, this lascivious work of high camp and low culture is infused with an alternately infatuated and critical attitude toward the throbbing iconography of American … Read more
While the short film, 2081, has many common similarities with its adapted version of the short story, Harrison Bergeron, they differ from each other to the point where it can change our whole view on who Harrison Bergeron is. They contrast from each other because the short film includes an unplanned scene where Harrison hid … Read more
It is about a man named Forest Gump who is facing challenges in his life. The story stays narrated in retrospect, but in the end, it goes in chronological order. The movie is told from a third-person point of view, but Forrest Gump narrates the story and expresses his thoughts throughout. The movie starts out … Read more
I choose to discuss “That’s So Raven” show. It is a family comedy television show that aired on Disney channel in the 2000’s. I choose this show because it shows how Black Americans are discriminated against the white people. The show is about a high school girl who has physic visions which allow her to … Read more
The movie “Traffic” by Steven Soderbergh is a film which deals with several aspects of drug trafficking and drug abuse. The movie has three different simultaneous plots that come together. One part is the national level which deals with drug trade between the Unites States of America and Mexico, another is a mid-ground focusing on … Read more
Rocky is a 1976 American sports action movie which was nominated for Oscar awards in 9 categories and bagged 3 of the Oscars including the awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Editing at the 49th Academy awards. In 2006 it was inducted into US National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically … Read more
Movies have been introduced to the world in many genres and in different years. Somehave made a huge impact on this world whilst some have been depicted as the worst ones.Each and every movie gives a message either complex or simple. Various websites haverated the movies according to their views which help people more to … Read more
The Self-Sufficient Beauty and the Entitled Beast Growing up means growing up with stereotypes and gender roles following behind like an annoying friend. They mature, starting from being expected to playing with and nursing dolls, or destroying toys and playing in the mud, and from there never seem to end. As a young child, girls … Read more
Peepli Live did not just live up to my expectations, it exceeded them. Giving me a side splitting and yet brooding glimpse to an India I know exists, an India I have experienced first hand, but an India I rarely hear about. An India most urban dwelling Indians think exists only in movies. Actually, that … Read more
Rebel archetypes in movies are portrayed as the mean person or character that does not care about any rules they are being told.when you hear rebel people assume they are talking about a bad person or the villian but really it can be any character we just have to really understand the story. They tend … Read more
The movie, Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis, is known as a classic to many movie buffs. Created in the year 1985, Robert Zemeckis makes full use of his creative tools and the budget of 19 million USD, to create a magnificent story of the popular genre of time travel, elevating the work … Read more
Mark Sonsena English 121/22/18 Hero’s Journey Every story has a heroic journey. In Steven Spielberg 1998 action movie Saving Private Ryan, Captain John H. Miller is sent to retrieve Private Ryan, the last of four brothers, and to send him home. Lt. Col Anderson tells him that they have been ordered to go behind enemy … Read more
The movie ‘Freedom Writers’ talks about the struggle of an inexperienced teacher named Mrs. Erin Gruwell as she took up the challenge of teaching English to the students at Woodrow Wilson High School where lot of tensions (discrimination, racism, injustice system, gang wars, violence) exist between them. As Mrs. Gruwell tries to connect and interact … Read more
The Killing story of hoods and schemers are planning to rob a Los Angeles racetrack shortens the moment-to-moment plotting from a typical to a robbery movie. This movie is a narrative movie. A splash of cold water on the face, Kubrick begins to dry off. Kubrick then begins to see the progress of the robbery, … Read more
“Lucy” is a 2014 English-language French science fiction thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson and produced by his wife Virginie Besson-Silla for his company EuropaCorp. Shot in Taipei, Paris, and New York City, the movie features Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, and Amr Waked. Johansson, the protagonist of the film, portrays a … Read more
Who doesn’t love a good murder mystery and funny Minnesota accent? Well Fargo provides both and then some. Fargo is based on true story that takes place in Minnesota during the year of 1987.The plot of the film revolves around the protagonist of the film and a hilarious pregnant police officer during a very harsh … Read more
In Raymond Carver’s short story “Beginners,” the use of alcohol is the most apparent and important image and helps show the characters’ true feelings about their love life. Through the characters’ consumption of alcohol, we are able to see their eventual confusion and simplification of the meaning of true love. Carver begins the story with … Read more
American Sniper is based on a true story based on an ex Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. Chris is a man from Texas who sees the damage that people in al qaeda are causing and instantly decides that he wants to become a SEAL and go make a difference and go fight for his country. While … Read more
Throughout the movie Crimes and Misdemeanors by Woody Allen, the characters of Judah and Lester have similarities and differences that reflect Alan Watts’ main theme of morality and insecurity in his book, The Wisdom of Insecurity. Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors intertwines two stories. The first involves Judah. Judah is a wealthy eye doctor and … Read more
Raja Tarun, the young heroine who is struggling with successive flops, has come up with ‘Lover’. The film is directed by Dil Raju Banner and the film is set to become a director with Anish Krishna, who is the director of the hit film. Let’s see if this film is going to change the way … Read more
