Bernardo Bertolucci Essays

Karla Homolka is convicted of helping her husband rape and murder Leslie Mahafty, Kristen French and her 16 year old sister Tammy. Homolka has been subject to various acts and offences and is now pleading for early parole instead of facing her full sentence. I stand, as the prosecutor to urge the judge to keep her in prison for her full sentence, due to her violent and sexual psychiatric conditions, using drugs to sexually assault victims while they are unconscious, and results from an approved psychopathy

Paul Bernardo also known as Paul Jason Teadle was born on the 17th of August, 1964 in Scarborough, Ontario to the family of Mr. Kenneth Bernardo and Mrs. Marilyn Bernardo. He grew up living with his parents in Scarborough and he attended University of Toronto-Scarborough from 1982 and later worked for an American company called Amway that was into marketing of health, beauty and home care products. In October 1987 Paul Bernardo met Karla Homolka that he later married in June 1991. Paul Bernardo is

In this essay, I am going to describe and analyse Last Tango in Paris, a film of Bernardo Bertolucci. This is a movie where one of the greatest living Italian film directors met one of the greatest living (Marlon Brando) American actors, and was condemned by the Italian Court of Cassation that demanded the destruction of every copy of the film. Last Tango in Paris became a milestone in the cinematographic industry because of its uniqueness, not only in Italy but on the international movie scene,

One of history’s most eccentric and powerful figures is brought to screen in this compelling historical biopic directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Anthony Hopkins stars as King Louis XIV, the longest reigning monarch of France, ruling from 1643 to his death in 1715. Barely five years old when he inherits the rule of 19 million subjects and an unstable government, Louis is placed under the care of his regent, Queen Anne of Austria (Helen Mirren). Together these two enjoy an intense bond, uncommon for

handle, movies such as Last Tango in Paris allowed previously unexplored universal human fears and emotions to be expressed and received by audiences through the medium of film. Last Tango in Paris was so influential that Brando and director Bernardo Bertolucci were both nominated for Oscars (Leff and Simmons 279). It is worth mentioning that Deep Throat, a high-value production American pornographic film, was one of the first pornographic films to include movie elements, such as a plot and character

The Last Emperor, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci made the movie in the late 1980s, in 1987. The movie is about a young boy by the name of Pu Yi becoming emperor at the age of three from the previous empress, Empress Dowager Cixi. She told the two and a half year old Pu Yi that he would be the next emperor after the previous one had died earlier that day. This starts to take take place in the year of 1908 when he was brought to the Forbidden City. While in the book The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun