Scatman Crothers Essays

  • Demi Lovato's Confident: Song Analysis

    752 Words  | 4 Pages

    Despite having a downfall in 2010 when she went to rehab to deal with an eating disorder, addictions and mental illnesses, Demi Lovato rose up from the ashes and has now become a powerhouse in the music industry, joining fellow ex-Disney stars, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez. Demi is not afraid to speak out about her struggles, with becoming a strong advocate of shedding off the stigmatizations of mental illnesses and spokesperson towards promoting self-love and confidence, so much so that she also

  • Amityville Horror Film Analysis

    1515 Words  | 7 Pages

    Horror films have the capacity to be utilized as vehicles to discuss or address issues of social change and societal transformation. This essay is concerned with the function of the nuclear family in horror films. The question that is the focus of this essay is: how does the horror film use the family to address social issues? Therefore, this essay theorizes that horror films utilize the nuclear family to demonstrate the impact and effect that societal change can have on individuals within the family

  • Silence Of The Lambs And The Shining

    571 Words  | 3 Pages

    killer. It was terrifying after figuring out that Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) broke into the wrong person’s house and Clarice was in extreme danger without her knowing. The Shining also had several suspenseful scenes. For example, when Hallorann (Scatman Crothers) first entered the hotel and was yelling out if people were in the hotel was terrifying because he was unarmed and Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) was walking around with a saw in his hand, wanting to kill anyone in his path. Another suspenseful

  • Louis Armstrong: Stcat Singing In Music And Jazz Music

    1253 Words  | 6 Pages

    Louis Armstrong shaping scat singing to make it achieve posterity Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) is surely one of the most famous and incredible jazz singer and trumpet player. He influenced widely, and still does, jazz music. But there is something that only jazz specialists or some aficionados know: he actually reinvented a brand new genre of vocal jazz, the scat singing. And I said “reinvented” on purpose. Indeed, though Louis Armstrong 's recording Heebie Jeebies in 1926 is often cited as the first

  • Criticism In The Shining Movie

    1211 Words  | 5 Pages

    FILM CRITICISM OF “THE SHINING” 1980 Directed by Stanley Kubrick and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, the movie is an adaptation of a 1977 novel of the same name by Stephen King. Though a lot of significant changes have been made to the original work in terms of the characters and the plot. An example is room no. 217 had been changed to room 237 in the movie. Also, the character of Wendy is much weaker and subservient in the movie than in the novel. The treatment