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Even a normal, average college teenager can turn into a monster in the right circumstances. This movie has been the hardest hitting movie i have watched to date. When it started, it seemed like a good experiment that might have some interesting developments. By the end of the movie, I had a sick feeling in my stomach. After watching the movie, I do look a little more into the experiment.
O Brother Where Art Thou? is a film that will take you on a perilous journey with Ulysses Everett McGill and his simpleminded cohorts. This film may be set amidst the early 1930’s Great Depression era, but it still has a Homer’s Odyssey feel to it. Down in the dusty and highly racial south, Everett recruits a couple of dimwitted convicts, Pete Hogwallop and Delmar O’Donnell, to help him retrieve his lost treasure and make it back home before his wife marries another suitor.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven in 1984. It was a critical success and went on to earn twenty-five-point-five million dollars and spawned several sequels, a remake, a television series, and comic books. With this paper I will look to answer four questions pertaining to my experience while watching this film. The first question involves how I distinguished between whether I was feeling fear or whether I was feeling anxiety. I explained that since the scenes I considered fearful involved an actual present danger this they would be categorized as fear.
Over the years popular films are modified to correspond with modern times. Movie classics are remade to grasp the attention of a younger audience. But, with a younger audience comes the parents forced to attend with. The movie is about an adult with regrets from not following dreams. The main character gets a second chance to fix failing relationships.
Throughout life we are told to express our individuality and swim against the stream of the general population to put emphasis on the characteristics that make us, in short, individuals. Cherishing what makes an individual special and different is what establishes roots in creativity and self expression, however there is a forced false sense of comradery in today’s society that takes the form of involvement with the masses; peer pressure forces many people to fall into the mold of an average character. The Academy award winning film, “The Incredibles” displays the themes of expressing one’s true self and special qualities, and in contrast repression by society to fit a basic mold. These themes are elaborated on through the development of the main characters and expressed further through the supporting roles and their dialogue and endeavors.
The critically acclaimed film, Goodfellas, is a gangster crime drama that features an incredible amount of talent. Household names such as: Robert De Niro (Jimmy Conway), Joe Pesci (Tommy DeVito), Paul Sorvino (Paul Cicero), and promising stars like Ray Liotta (Henry Hill) and Lorraine Bracco (Karen Hill), attracted numerous Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. That type of cast power, linked with the signature talent of Martin Scorsese as a director, made for cinematic gold. Unquestionably, the actors and actresses did an excellent job augmenting the verisimilitude of this film and compelling audiences to empathize with their characters. But the cinematography in this film plays just as large a role in having audiences feel what the characters
The Woman in Black Novel to Film Susan Hill’s, “The Woman in Black” Book and the Film directed by James Watkins and starring Daniel Radcliffe will be compared in this paper to reveal the major differences in the book to film version. Arthur begins the narration by introducing himself and then sharing his story before confronting and sharing his past which has haunted him for many years.
Amy fits 6 of the 7 diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder. “Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest” is one criterion that Amy fits because she has committed many acts throughout her life in which she could have been arrested for. For example, she has stolen money from her husband on multiple occasions to save up for when she will go missing. Stealing money from another person goes against social norms, as this would typically be an action that would result in a penalty or arrest. She was also arrested for assault and framing someone for her own disappearance, meaning she has difficulty following the law.
In a dramatic twist near the end of the film, Evelyn reveals that her husband’s mistress is a product of incest. Catherine, the woman she has gone to such great lengths to hide from Jake, is both her sister and her daughter. This revelation flips the narrative on its head. Suspicion turns to sympathy as we come to see her as a painfully vulnerable victim. Topics of this nature were never approached in traditional film noir cinema: “we see the film
Even where they appear as entirely nonpolitical, movies tend to inevitably have political messages. However, the notably evident aspect in numerous films is their tendencies to integrate liberal ideas. Using the film, Independence Day directed by Roland Emmerich, the current essay examines the themes related to conditions under which liberal ideals can influence elite policy-makers in achieving rational foreign policy decision-making. Several relevant themes are likely to emerge in films pointing towards the liberal tendencies or otherwise among elite policy-makers that contribute in promoting greater international experience. Even though in an indirect manner, it is common for American films to exhibit liberal ideals that are likely to provide
Supreeya Thammarattananon COM 495 Chasing Amy (1997) The story of Chasing Amy (1997), played out through a triangular relationship, is a common one in dramatic and comedic film. And since Chasing Amy is dubbed as a comedy, it would seem at the start that there would be mostly hilarity along this process. However, Chasing Amy is more of a dark comedy, and in dark comedies, just as there is in real life, there is “dark” communication that looms, threatens, and damages the lightest of moments and closest of interpersonal relationships (Cupach & Spitzberg, 2007; Spitzberg & Cupach, 1998).
Overall, Bad Girls is a well produced and well acted short film, with several strong aspects that make it stand out in the world of student films. These aspects include, lighting, locations, and acting. However, some aspects, primarily sound, revealed it to be a less than professional endeavor. First, the lighting throughout the film was consistently, not only well done, but often beautiful.
It is understood that the media shape our notions of love (Illuz, 1997). Therefore romantic messages in children’s films should be examined in order to determine whether unrealistic romantic ideals are being pushed toward young impressionable audiences. This paper will examine the romantic plotlines in the Disney musical film “Beauty and the Beast” using the feminist and post-modern critiques of love. The film begins with a fairytale prologue in which a prince is cursed for his selfishness by an enchantress.
The movie’s content is much more complex than it seems at first glance, just like the protagonist, Elle Woods herself.
The movie I chose to write my psychology review was on Girl Interrupted. The movie was based on the writer Susanna Kaysen’s and her eighteen month stay at a mental hospital, but the movie was directed by James Mangold. My reasoning’s for choosing this movie was due to the fact that it carried many psychological concepts to it. The movies main script revolved around Susana’s and with the crazy women in a mental institution. This movie had two main characters and they were Susanna (Winona Ryder) and Lisa (Angelina Jolie).
