The song entitled ES-EM by Yano is a song that describes some cultures of Filipinos. We can assume that it is about Filipinos because it is written by a Filipino songwriter, and the character in the song portrays Filipino culture. The song is entitled ES-EM which indicates the SM mall. SM is a place where you can do and find everything. In there, you can shop for everything, watch movies, eat different kinds of food, enjoy the world of fun,...
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The song I have chosen to analyze and rearrange is ‘Billie Jean’ composed and produced by iconic artist and performer Michael Jackson. Co-produced by Quincy Jones. Both Jackson and Jones did not agree on the fundamental elements of this piece, yet built the bridge in which ‘Billie Jean’ was created for the classic song that it is. In 1983 ‘Billie Jean’ was released by Epic Records, which was placed in ‘Thriller’ Jackson’s sixth studio album. According to reports, Quincy Jones...
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“We Are the World” was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. Quincy Jones produced the song in 1985. This song is about a widespread famine that was going on at the time. The USA Africa is a nonprofit organization that was going through a famine at the time Jackson recorded the song and video. Proceeds from the song and video were then used to feed and relieve people enduring the famine. The song shows the importance of diverse backgrounds...
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Forrest Gump. The true example of what it means for someone to prosper and grow with adversity constantly by his side. I guess what makes him so likeable to millions around the world including me, is his sense of acceptance to whatever comes his way. There is no doubt or worry in the back of his mind of what the future may hold for him. He treats every situation with the same amount of love and compassion and lets faith...
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Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954, in a small town in Mississippi, USA. During her young years, she struggled with sexual abuse from male relatives and family friends. In 1971, she began working in the radio industry and then became the host of the chat show ‘People Are Talking’. Oprah launched her show 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' which ran for 25 years and ended in 2011. Her show earned her a lot of money and she became the...
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Michael Jackson rose to stardom because of his compulsion to make music, his commitment to perfection of his dance moves and singing, and his relatable messages to the world through his music. One of the best and most controversial icons of the twentieth century, Michael Jackson was omnipresent in our pop cognizance from the second he first lined up on stage beside his brothers, to the 24-hour rolling news coverage of his ‘brutish’ death. Every note he sang, every step...
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A problem in our society today that has been a problem throughout history is corruption in politics. In the television series, House of Cards, the main actor Kevin Spacey plays the role of Francis Underwood. His character makes his way through politics as House Majority Whip up to the President of the United States. Underwood’s character is merciless and craves power and will do anything to get what he wants like any other politician. His character is relentlessly cruel, and...
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The US and Hollywood have worked together for over a century collaborating on hundreds of projects. The origin of the relationship came about once the United States joined World War 2, and the two began producing military propaganda to boost morale. It was vital for the public to get behind the war effort, and propagandized films such as 'Wings' (1929) and 'Prelude to War (1942) did exceptionally well, even winning Oscars, and proving to be very effective when promoting the...
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Eric Roth’s 1994 award-winning film, Forrest Gump explores racism in American society from the 1950s to the 1980s. In ‘Forrest Gump’, it can be seen that African-American people experience severe prejudice through various protests and actions performed by white Americans. The prejudice African-Americans receive was highlighted through Forrest’s good friend Bubba, an organisation called the Black Panthers and protest called ‘Stand in the schoolhouse door’. In Forrest Gump, these events have been portrayed in a way that allows an exploration...
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Baby Blues (2008) This movie is based on a true story which is Andrea Yates and her family where 5 of the children have been drowned in the family bathroom by their mother. In this movie, there is a family farm with 4 children which is Jimmy as the eldest son, James, Cathy, and Sammy their mother suffers from postpartum depression and it becomes worse when her husband, a truck driver, goes back to work after being at home for...
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In our society today several dance styles exist but the Hip Hop dance has stood out probably because of its popularity or its influence. Hip-hop represents a specific culture, here we will find out where this style originated from, the people it belongs to, and how it has evolved over the years. To give a solid definition to Hip Hop or any specific style of dance or investigate where it originates from a solid definition of dance in general becomes crucial....
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Introduction: Recognition of human features is a natural process and it affects thinking and how others perceive the world. By removing these human features, the brain cannot process what usually stops one from treating others with dehumanizing disrespect. In 1961, Stanley Milgram, an American social psychologist, conducted the Milgram experiment which was a test based on dehumanization and the rates of obedience and was a very important experiment with extremely troubling results. In these tests, there was a teacher and...
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It would seem that it is not just the misrepresentation of Arabs and Muslims as a regressive group but also the lack of representing them in a balanced way. Pistritto in The Real Faces of Islam compares the representation of Muslims in “Islam vs Islamists”, a documentary that had taken the task to show Muslims battling with Islamic extremists in a struggle to represent Islam, and “The Muslim American” a documentary that explores the lives of Muslims in Europe and...
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Overview of film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is about a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and holds exceptional magical powers of his own. He is asked to become a student at Hogwarts which is a boarding school for wizards. At Hogwarts, he meets several friends who become his closest supporters and help him discover the truth about his parents' unexplained death. Film techniques Film techniques used...
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Fidelity Theory and The movie Fidelity refers to the 'quality of being faithful'. An adaptation is judged based on whether the film precisely produces its source or not. And also An adaptation of the movie is an attempt to please the masses. There is an enormous difference between the quality of the novels and the quality of movies, as there are no limitations to writing a novel, but the movie director has many limitations within which they have to work....
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The style of Jazz was developed during both the 19th century and 20th century and it radically altered the style of American and European stage and society in the 20th century. On the stage, the minstrel show performers, who were white people who would paint their faces black and they would perform, comedic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music performances, and these people created what we know now as tap from a combination of, Irish Jigging, English clog dancing and...
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While we all know that Jazz is as much a style of music as it is a style of dance, many people may not realize the importance that dance has played in music. There are many songs out there that mention the importance of dancing and yet we as a society seem to have forgotten the importance or limited that importance to a certain age group. Once we age it seems that we forget not only how to dance but...
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The media is where half of the world’s population stays updated on news and trends, as well as to find and enjoy entertainment. Due to its massive influence, it has slowly affected how we view the world and the people living in it. It’s as if our values, attitudes, and beliefs depended on the films, shows, newspapers, and magazines people have made about our day-to-day lives. Its huge influence has either helped us or hindered us from finding our own...
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What is Virtual Reality? There are red and blue pills in front of your eyes. If you choose the blue pill, you will continue to live in virtual reality as you have believed in reality, and if you take the red pill, you will be able to escape virtual reality and face real life (Wachowski & Wachowski, 1999). These scenes from the 1999, SF film 'The Matrix,' directed by the Wachowski brothers, are likely to be realized soon in reality,...
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The movie 'Gone Baby Gone' revolves around the abduction of four-year-old Amanda McCready. The plot was made more interesting by each character in the story who had their take on each situation given their moral compasses. The complexity of each situation exemplified the grey areas of reality. Moreover, it must be recognized if they fit the criteria for the responsibility of their human acts. Each personality has its motive, act, and consequence. Regarding the responsibility of the person, three circumstances...
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The film 'Red Dawn' directed by Dan Bradley in 2012 is an American war film. This film depicts a group of teenagers from a high school who are fighting for their life and are under attack from the Soviet Union. These teens joined together and formed an army known as the 'Wolverines.' This name was created by the teens who got their name from their school mascot. Films like Red Dawn can introduce and demonstrate to viewers a sense of...
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Racism has always been part of our society in recent decades, people have been getting more to value than before. Same with animations and cartoons, people get more and more sensitive to what message the animation delivers to the audiences. Back in 1900 animation was published for entertainment only, Compared to animations published nowadays they are indeed for entertainment but at the same time audience cares more about what the story delivers than just visual satisfaction. I have revealed old...
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In this essay, I choose the movie “Harry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets” as the object, aim to discover its critical and commercial values in the popular culture industry; but more importantly, I will try to analyze key themes and approaches the movie tends to deliver, as well as discussing its strengths and shortages as an artifact from an audience’s perspective. Unlike written content, images have the power to dramatically depict the events and actors (Bleiker, 2015), which are more...
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I started listening to “Let’s Go Away for Awhile” (1966) on YouTube after it appeared in the movie Baby Driver, which became my favorite track. While listening to it, I remembered the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” (1892) from The Nutcracker ballet I watched as a kid on Christmas and YouTube. The pieces are from different musical eras, 74 years apart. The first one is from the Beach Boys’ album Pet Sounds during a period where mutual inspiration between...
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The Renaissance The Renaissance period has the opposite relationship between music and dance than the Medieval period did. In this period, the music became more revolutionary, thus making it more important than the dancing that was being performed with it. The new style of polyphony was introduced making the music more complex. Polyphony is when different voices have different rhythms and tunes but are all performed at the same time. Below is an example of polyphony within a bassoon quartet,...
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Solomon Northup’s book “Twelve Years a Slave” is a Narrative directly from the person himself, Solomon Northup who experienced a personal journey of slavery directly through the experience of kidnapping and being sold as a slave in slave markets. Solomon Northup’s experience dates back to the mid-1800s and it is fair to say that Solomon’s book is one of the oldest books that have a narrative that is direct from the source and is told and described from a first-hand...
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In the first act of 12 Years a Slave, Solomon Northup is abducted by two men named Brown and Hamilton. The scene sharply breaks from the brightness of his last meal as a free man to the darkness of his cell, where he wakes up to find himself chained to the ground. The darkness and shadows allow the audience to see Northup’s reaction, although he is hidden in the shadows. This allows his feelings to be projected onto the audience,...
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I would like to thank you for inviting me to speak at this year’s Literature Festival. Today, I am going to reflect on Oscar Wilde’s 1895 play, The Importance of Being Earnest, and the 2002 movie adaptation. The play is a satirical comedy about Victorian society and Victorian attitudes to marriage and class. My values, culture, believes, and experiences lead me to deplore the play's representation of love and its representation of women. I find the reaction to love and...
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Steinbeck focuses on the theme of loneliness to describe the lives of people at the ranch during the 30s. He applies this theme to three characters in the story, Crooks, Curley’s Wife, and Candy. All three of these characters show a theme of conquering loneliness. We see this transpire through all three characters. Of mice and men we are introduced to some very unique characters. Steinbeck designed some of these characters to have a very depressed or lonely demeanor and...
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Summary: The novel tells the story of an unidentified narrator combating sleep disorder the unnamed narrator, suffering from chronic insomnia, is attending support groups. Not for insomnia, but for diseases he doesn't have such as tuberculosis, and testicular cancer. the narrator meets a man with giant breasts at his testicular cancer support group named Bob and learns how to cry. he also meets a woman named Marla, he calls her a faker, a tourist, because she goes to support groups...
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