Idris Elba Essays

The Wire is a show about the Baltimore drug game, told through the lense of law enforcement, drug dealers, drug users, and the people of Baltimore. Sexism, racism, patriarchy, and heteronormativity are all seen within the show, but the two concepts that the show seems to centers around most are the concepts of Marxism and Hegemonic masculinity. Marxism is defined as the “dictatorship of the proletariat”(Merriam-Webster) which essentially means the control of the laboring class by those who have

Jon Favreau’s “The Jungle Book” took it’s source material and improved upon it, making a movie that people can’t help but love and be in awe of. “The Jungle Book” is directed by Jon Favreau and stars Neel Sethi with the voices of Bill Murray, Idris Elba, Ben Kingsley, and Christopher Walken. When Mowgli is threatened by Shere-Khan, he decides to leave the

Disney 's Zootopia takes place in a fictional metropolis where animals are anthropomorphic and have all the human traits. Carnivores and herbivores live in peace and everything is dandy. Mostly because there are no humans. Humans tend to fuck everything up. On what kind of a diet are carnivores is never really explained, but I suspect they ate a lot of fish. For some reason, aquatic animals are not anthropomorphized. Neither are birds, reptiles, amphibians, or insects. Only mammals. Judy Hopps (Ginnifer

The war based movies usually grab the attention of viewers. The amazing tale Beasts of No Nation is novel which is written by the Nigerian-American in 2005, who Harvard-educated student and author Uzodinma Iweala, The Nove lwas adapted as a film in 2015. The novel which is adapted as a film in 2015 is about the young poor boy, Agu, Who is forced to join a group of soldiers in some unnamed West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood

Week-in-Review: Weekend Box Office, Stranger Things, Game of Thrones and Gambit Movie Blade Runner 2049 Retires Kingsman Box Office Mojo reports that the sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic came in first at the last weekend's box office, earning $32.7 million in US cinemas. However, it's doubtful that Blade Runner 2049 will succeed in recuperating its costs. Even when one adds $40 million Blade Runner 2049 earned so far overseas, this barely budged its $150 million production costs. But

Atkinson, Kate. Life After Life. London, Reagan Arthur Books, 2013. Print In Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (2013) Ursula Todd is reborn and dies over and over. She lives in an unending time loop that causes her to live every possible version of her life and death. For example, in her first incarnation she dies during birth due to the umbilical cord being tied around her neck, and in her second incarnation she drowns in the ocean at the age of two, etc. This continues each time allowing Ursula

were involved. The genocide consisted of 500,000 to 1,000,000 deaths which makes this war a turning point in the history of Rwanda. The Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck has created a film which tells you to story of this horrible event. With actors as Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero, Carole Karemera, and Debra Winger, Peck succeeded in creating a film about an event which has a huge influence on the African history. The stories centers two brothers: Honoré Butera, working for Radio Télévision Libre des Mille

The “New Negro Movement,” better known as the Harlem Renaissance, was a period in American history in which African American culture became increasingly influential in the arts. To put it into more vivid terms, the Harlem Renaissance was “...the blossoming of jazz, infused with the breath of southern black musical traditions and a spirit of improvisation.” (National Geographic 91). Mediums such as painting, literature, and music were all given a touch of African stylization during the Harlem Renaissance

Yo soy Latina. Born and raised in the United States with Peruvian and Uruguayan roots, a first generation college student and fluent bilingual speaker. I take pride in my Latina roots; they’ve shaped my personality, ideals, and opinions tremendously. Looking on the outside, I have that curvy body, long dark wavy hair, brown eyes; it is the typical Latina look that can be easily identified. That look that can put an actress in a “box”. In turn, it can result in limited opportunities for several ethnicities

The perspective from which a story is told is of infinite importance to how it is received by an audience. According to Harold Lasswell’s (cited in Hawkes, n.d) behaviourist theories, “if messages are not received as intended, this is deemed to be a failure of communication in a technical or behavioural sense”. Since, according to Lasswell, there is a direct correspondence between the meaning intended by a sender and how that meaning is interpreted by a recipient, the distinction between Beasts of

The Bond franchise over the years has solidified the background and characteristics of James Bond. Since his inception, the secret agent has been depicted as a white man who has a talent for killing people, and dominating women. It’s hard to separate these defining characteristics from the Bond we’ve grown to know over the years. Recently however, there has been speculation that Bond may be undergoing major part to his identity. There is some speculation that the next Bond may be casted as a Black

This August, Disney announced all of its films to be released through 2017 at its three-day D23 fan convention. But now, Disney has gone even further and published their film lineup all the way through 2019. Working with Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm, this diverse lineup includes some sequels, superheroes, kid-friendly animations and of course - Star Wars. Here is everything you can expect to see from Disney, from November 2015 to November 2019: The Good Dinosaur - November 22, 2015 This film imagines

American singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter was born on September 4, 1981. Known as "Queen Bey" and a major player in 21st-century pop culture, she has received accolades for her singing and has been named one of the all-time greats by Rolling Stone. Beyoncé began entering singing and dance contests when she was a little girl. She became famous in the late '90s when she was a part of the groundbreaking R&B group Destiny's Child, which went on to sell more records