Steven Mackintosh Essays

Flannery O’Connor is widely regarded as one of the most iconic Southern Gothic grotesque writers. Her works such as Wise Blood and “A Temple Of The Holy Ghost” manifest the grotesque writing style quite distinctly through their themes and characterization. Her characters and themes exemplify grotesque in their disfigured and unsettling nature. Perhaps O’Connor’s most notable work of short fiction, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” exemplifies the physical and moral aspects of grotesque. Physically

Steven Spielberg is one of the most influential directors ever, he has directed over 50 movies which has made him inspirational, he has all of the character traits of a leader, and he co-founded the studio ‘Dreamworks’. He has made a large impact on this century and the jewish man is only 68. Mr. Spielberg once said “As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism

The movie Troy, from Hollywood has been one of the greatest Hollywood movie ever made, it was nominated for more than 10 awards and got into the “Best of Warner Bros- 50 Film Collection”. In addition, it made approximately $497 million worldwide. It was one of the most successful films ever made. However, the content that was in the movie brought some speculation into whether or not the events of the movie were historically accurate. The purpose of this essay is to answer the question of how accurate

The Dirty Dozen is a historical fiction film, released in 1967. It won an Oscar for Best Effects, Sound Effects. The film also received three Oscar nominations and one Golden Globe nomination. The Dirty Dozen was directed by Robert Aldrich. Robert Aldrich started his film career in 1941 as a production clerk at RKO pictures, he worked his way up and in the mid 1950’s created his own production company. His most renowned films are Kiss Me Deadly, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, and The Longest Yard

Its Oscar night 1992 and The Silence of the Lambs has become one of the few films to have won the ‘top’ five awards: Best Actress for Jodie Foster, Best Actor for Anthony Hopkins, Best Picture for producers Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon and Kenneth Utt, Best Adapted Screenplay for Ted Tally and Best Director for Jonathan Demme. Proven to be a successful independent-minded filmmaker, Demme is one of those rare professionals in the film industry able to use his talents to create distinguishable movies within

When a person hears the name Steven Spielberg, they immediately think of the blockbuster movies, Jaws, Extra terrestrial Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones etc. However, Spielberg has directed other important films, many of which were selected to be saved by the national film registry like Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan, for their extreme accuracy in the portrayal of important moments and people in history. However, there is still a debate whether Spielberg should  be considered the best director

Three hundred fifty four million dollars; that’s much of the most awarded, most successful, and most influential movie of the 1988’s made. The Academy Award winner of 1988, Rain Man, is often considered the best film of that year. Thanks to the director, Barry Levinson, Rain Man has achieved many successes in its production, its success after the film was produced, and achieves success in its own script. Although Rain Man is a meaningful and touching film, it did face plenty of challenges. One

When we hear the name James Cameron the Oscar-winning director of Titanic, it will not be a surprise to know that he also created the amazing film Avatar. Avatar is a science fiction film directed, written, and produced, by James Cameron. The filming was supposed to take place in 1997, but the necessary technology was not yet available to achieve the high quality production of the film. The three top actors who starred in it were Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, Zoe Saldana as Neytiri, and Stephen

‘West Side Story (1961) was the second highest-grossing film of the year in the United States and swept the Academy Awards, winning ten Oscars, including Best Picture – more than any other musical. It garnered uniformly enthusiastic critical accolades (…). The soundtrack album was one of the best-selling LPs off all time up to that point.’ (Keith, page 100) West Side Story is known as one of the greatest musicals of all the time. Furthermore, the fusion of the magnificent play of colors with splendid

He was the academy winning Western legend, recognized as one of the best filmmakers of all time, his name was John Ford. He started out his career in film in July 1914 as an assistant, labourman and actor for his brother, Francis Ford. It was not until 1917 where he made his debut as a director with The Tornado and ended his career in the early 1970s with his last film, Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend as a result of his death in 1973. He started out making films in California, where he later went to

When you talk about the greatest films of all time you have to mention The Shawshank Redemption. This film is at the top of IMDB’s top 250 list, ranking in at number one above films like The Dark Knight and the all time classic The Godfather. This movie is so appealing in so many ways, in my opinion it is ranked number one because of the fact that it hits the Christian aspect, has a character you can feel for and of course has a satisfying ending. But thats not what I am going to be focusing this

“The COVE” 2009, is an Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary of takes after a tip top group of activists, movie producers and free divers as they leave on a clandestine mission to infiltrate a remote and shrouded inlet in Taiji, Japan, sparkling a light on a dull and fatal mystery. Using best in class procedures, including shrouded receivers and cameras in fake shakes, the group reveals how this little shoreline town serves as an alarming microcosm of gigantic biological wrongdoings happening

reason. The usual way of studying the economy is very strict and matter-of-fact in order to try to describe something that is very hard to definitively explain. This idea of why people do what they do is discussed in depth in Freakonomics, a book by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. They argue that people react in a market because of incentives. The three basic types of incentives are moral, social, and economic. By looking at unconventional situations, like bagel selling, crack cocaine dealers,

Steven Spielberg’s "Saving Private Ryan" was one of the first movies to show the worst terrors of war in film. Showing scenes in the movie of soldiers screaming for their mothers as they watch their entrails fall out of them. Steven Spielberg choice of the phenomenal cast greatly exhibited the toll of war on man and the nation. Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan is what the viewers can describe as an anti-war movie, which can be seen through the extreme violence and drama. Speilberg use of establishing

I went into Sand Sharks with incredibly low expectations after my recent viewing of Avalanche Sharks. But how much of a sequel Avalanche Sharks is can be a bit debatable. Both films are basically the same plot, down to the spring breakers and the mayor who doesn't want to close things down because the town needs the money. But that's it as Sand Sharks managed to do what Avalanche Shark failed at, being entertaining. Which goes to show that it's not budgets that makes entertaining films. Like Avalanche

Whether male, female, married, single, conservative or liberal all people have a moral compass. The moral compass in Freakonimics does not point in one direction creating a new approach to economics. Authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephan J. Dubner suggest viewpoints on crime, abortion, and education from an economic prospective while ignoring the right or left minded political viewpoints. Chapter 4 of Freakonimics answers the very question it proposes: “Where have all the criminals gone?” To begin

Andrew Johnson was the President of the United States in a very difficult time, the Radical Reconstruction. During the Reconstruction, there were many items that Johnson was frowned upon for doing. Johnson was an insensitive man to public opinion and lacked political savvy. Also, Southern whites undercut Johnson’s lenient program of Reconstruction and played into the hands of so-called Radical Republicans in Congress who wanted to take away power from the executive branch. The author Donald explains

Levitt and Dubner classify Freakonomics as a book having “no such unifying theme” (14), but all the unique topics discussed throughout the text connect back together in order to show the hidden side of human nature. The argument that the wide variety of topics and their abstract descriptions all link together draws the attention of a large audience and connects to issues that society is currently facing or has recently confronted. Freakonomics, organized as an argumentative piece, asserts that

Chapter one there are three kinds of incentives: economic, social, and moral, and often incentive schemes will include all three of these. The next chapter aims to answer the question, “How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real estate agents”(Levitt, Steven D)? This chapter also discuss what happens when one party has more information than the other party. Chapter three ask why do drug dealers still live with their moms. The biggest takeaway from this chapter is the similarity between the drug dealing

In the film Jurassic park directed by Steven Spielberg there is an important character called Alan Grant. Jurassic park tells a story about a rich man, John Hammond who was dedicated to open a park with dinosaurs, using DNA. But everything goes horribly wrong ... Alan Grant is an important character because of the following scenes. When he was at the digging site; with the children, going into the electric car and when he and the children were lost in the jungle running away from the T-Rex. We