When it comes to the movie ‘Do the Right Thing’ written and directed by Spike Lee, the movie has been focusing on how the people who were well known as the lower-class citizens, who have been living in Brooklyn, New York City. Many people from different nationalities such as African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians have been going through discrimination and many other culture disparities that causes the many of the characters such as Mookie, to lass out at all the negative...
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“The real education is your attitude and behavior with others. It defines your whole personality, no matter how qualified you are”. By analyzing ‘The Proposal’ movie, we can identify many aspects of interpersonal communication. Interpersonal communication is the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages between people who build relationships, share meanings, and accomplish social goals. In the movie, ‘The Proposal’, Sandra Bullock is casted as Margaret Tate, an assertive and very powerful, executive editor-in-chief of a New York publisher, and...
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There was a scene when Jean, who didn’t hide how racist she was, falls down the steps. She had been bitter and mean towards her housekeeper Maria because she was Mexican. When no one would answer the phone and her best friend of 10 years refused to come to help her, Maria was the one to find Jean and take her to the hospital despite how Jean treated her. It was then that Jean realized that people outside of her...
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Movies aren’t constantly a figment of creativeness. Some draw thought from real lives and true incidences. Tom Hanks starrer and Clint Eastwood directed movie ‘Sully’ is exactly that. In January 2009, Captain Chesley Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles miraculously and safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 at the Hudson River. A decision had to be made and it was made. Decision making instructions couldn’t have come from anywhere higher than through this film. Sully is that indispensable chief who...
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Introduction to 'Crazy Rich Asians' and Its Cultural Context This movie analysis is based on ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ movie that come out last year in 2018. It produces by Jon M. Chu, a Singapore producer based on novel with the title ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ wrote by Kevin Kwan in 2013 (Jose, 2018). The main actor of this film was starred by Henry Goulding as Nicholas Young, while the actress was Constance Wu as Rachel Chu. Rachel Chu's Journey: Love and...
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As the movie’s title suggests, ‘Runaway Jury’ is a story of the independent body of juror who are on a case. The movie opens with a scene of shooting in an industrial building. The case involves a lawsuit of a widow and gun making company since her husband was killed in gunfire incident because the deadly weapon was easily accessible. The wife then hires a lawyer against the gun manufacturers and the defense hires a lawyer. The movie however takes...
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The novel ‘Jurassic Park’ was written by Michael Crichton, and published in 1990. Most people know it as the inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film, which has gone on to spawn one of the biggest franchises in film history. While both the book and film follow the same basic plot, the film excludes many scenes and storylines so that the story is more streamlined and is confined to just over two hours. Crichton’s novel, a sci-fi thriller, is much darker...
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Introduction "Pearl Harbor," directed by Michael Bay and released in 2001, is a film that portrays the events surrounding the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. As a viewer, I had eagerly anticipated watching this movie, given its historical significance and the reputation of the director. In this personal review paper, I will share my thoughts and opinions on the movie "Pearl Harbor." Plot and Narrative The plot of "Pearl Harbor" revolves around the lives of three main characters: Rafe, Danny,...
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More and more modern films resort to geopolitical tricks to diversify the movie and increase the audience to increase the box office. This trend was maintained even back in the early 90s. So, the movie ‘Rocky IV’ released in 1985 from the Rocky series directed by Sylvester Stallone used a parallel between the box and the Cold War to somehow rescue the Rocky franchise. Although the movie Rocky IV appears to end the Cold War in the movie, it attaches...
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The film ‘Pleasantville’, directed by Gary Ross, highlights the nostalgic perspectives of the present century looking back into the 1950s, known as the ‘Golden Age,’ where society was known to be a structured and simple lifestyle. Ross has positioned the audience to reject the idea of this constructed and idealized view of society, using parallels to the 1950s and Pleasantville, where he chooses to expose the flaws of the ‘utopian’ town. Ross highlights the reality of inevitable change and fluidity...
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In the movie ‘Gladiator’, directed by Ridley Scott, leadership takes a big part. The 3 main protagonists are Maximus who is the general, Commodus who is the emperor and Marcus Aurelius, Commodus’ father, who was the emperor. Maximus and Commodus show two different sources of leadership. Maximus, who is just a gladiator, but still is trusted and respected because of his capabilities. This can be proven when he said “Together we survive”, he uses his experience to get their trust...
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The movie ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ is a true-life story following the life of a young boy named William. The life of a young man in Malawi, growing up at the time when poverty struck in the country. At the time William was growing up in his village, people were still very conservative of their culture and didn’t have any room for innovation. This film is about a boy who used education to save his family and his...
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Black and White Flashbacks: Looking Our Racist in the Eye In the film, American History X, he portrays the profound message of how prejudice and hatred can change people and bring them closer together. Shows how “hate is baggage and life’s too short to be pissed off all the time.” Although hard to watch the film American History X, the realism of the movie sends a powerful message of hatred and violence. Derek who had joined the neo-Nazi movement soon...
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One of Sicily’s prominent filmmakers, Giuseppe Tornatore, transcended the Italian film industry by breaking the conventional, stereotypical and ordinary. On the 17th of November 1988, Cinema Paradiso was released and it is a product of his creativity that helped the Italian cinema to its peak. The film follows the life story of a notable film director Salvatore di Vita who received news of the unfortunate demise of someone close to him. It takes the audience back to his childhood in...
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Addictions are common among the public. For example, from substances, medications, and liquor to addictions like sex, betting, and eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Somebody in your work or companion circle has battled with fixation. Addiction advising takes learning and tolerance from advisors. I have connected the information from the course of this addiction to ‘28 Days’ featuring Sandra Bullock. In this paper, I will concentrate on Gwen Cummings, the principal character played by Sandra Bullock. She is...
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To survive, in basic terms, is to be able to have access to resources such as food, water, and shelter. To acquire these resources, several stances need to be taken, whether it be aggressively, neutrally, and rarely ever altruistically. A perfect example to demonstrate the multitude of different stances would be in the television series ‘The Walking Dead’. ‘The Walking Dead’ is set in a post-apocalyptic setting in which most, if not all, of humankind, have been infected and turned...
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In the scene 'Brooks', I observed in Frank Darabont's 'The Shawshank Redemption', Brooks Hatlen was released on parole from the Shawshank Prison after serving time for 50 years. During this time Brooks had become institutionalized by prison life, being treated like shit, and having no freedom was normal for him. Brooks’s attitude reflects the way he feels in the outside world, along with the fact that society had changed tremendously over the last 50 years, making it hard for him...
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The documentary, “The Eleventh Hour” narrated in 2007 by Leonardo Dicaprio a movie actor and a producer, tells us mainly about the current and future state of the world and humans. The documentary gives us a message about how our mother nature is changing drastically throughout the years from human behavior and what can be done to slow or reverse the destruction. Over more than fifty scientists, politicians, and environmental activists have made contributions to the documentary. We have created...
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Comic book movies have become the customary stock of motion pictures and have been reigning at the box office for the last 20 years. Box office sales are a huge factor in the production of comic book movies and the money spent to produce them is extraordinary. Hollywood has invented a world of fantasy that has become an obsession for viewers and the most consumed narrative to date. Our values are reflected on the big screen, politically and socially in...
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Bee Movie is a 2007 American animated film. The main character (Barry B. Benson) is a honey bee, his voice is played by the star Jerry Seinfeld. The story follows Barry on his adventure to sue the human race for exploiting bees after he found out humans steal honey from bees. It starts with Barry not wanting to get a job in the hive after finding out that this will never change once he picks his job. So he goes...
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Rhetorical Analysis: Breakfast at Tiffany’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a romantic comedy film that focuses on the eccentric Holly Golightly, and her new neighbor and friend Paul Varjack, who she calls Fred, after her brother that he shares a striking resemblance to. Their friendship is threatened when Holly’s husband tracks her down and talks to Paul Varjack, revealing that Holly, who is actually named Lula Mae, is an adoptive mother of four from Tulip, Texas. Aristotle’s three rhetorical appeals—ethos, pathos,...
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Using films and movies as a platform to ventilate social messages is identified as a common measure that directors and producers use extensively. In the case of reviewing ‘Thelma and Louise’ and ‘Amelie’ as clearly feminist films, it is important to understand the background of the movies and the perception that those two movies possess in order to analyze the feminist approach at a popular glance. It is obvious that both films follow different perspectives in the feminist context and...
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The story A Rose for Emily, written by William Faulkner, tells the story of the main character Emily Grierson. Emily was a staple character in the small town of Jefferson and the story follows the maddening acts of this sad woman caused by her want for love. In 1983, A Rose for Emily was made into a movie. The movie incorporated many of the main ideas from the story, however, some important ideas from the original were not included or...
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Textual analysis is a way of understanding languages, symbols, and pictures for presentation in texts, designed to gain information about how people understand and communicate life and life experiences. Visual, written, or verbal messages provide clues about how to understand communication. Moreover, it is a way for those researchers who want to understand the ways in which members of various cultures and subcultures make sense of who they are, and how they adapt to the world in which they live....
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Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey is the story of the discovery of a strange monolith on the moon that prompts a space mission to the planet Saturn. Adapted from a film of the same name the author had also written the screenplay for, the story has been regarded as one of the most culturally and aesthetically significant works. The author, Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), was for many years part of the ‘Big Three’ of science fiction, which...
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Violence changes your social power in society. Once Coretta Scott King said that ‘Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear, and violence.’ It wrecks and shortens lives, causes suffering and pain, and it’s often part of rapid social change. Some people use violence for revenge, and some (as a way to release their pain) achieve what they want. I chose the movie Joker to answer my essay question because this movie and how director Todd Philips represented...
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'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind' is an inspirational movie based on true events. Seeing the poverty and struggles that the people from Malawi, Africa live in is very heartbreaking and humbling, but these conditions cannot hold back 14-year-old William Kamkwamba who is smart, dedicated, and driven. William fights all obstacles to educate himself and to find a way to save his family and village. This is a must-see movie with wonderful life lessons. The movie has a slow start...
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Social constructivism is defined as a social group constructing things for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artifacts with shared meanings (Moodle, 2015). The theoretical base we use to understand knowledge is called social constructivism, or the ‘sociology of knowledge’. It characterizes knowledge as the sets of beliefs or mental models people use to interpret actions and events in the world. Social constructivism tells us we build knowledge as ways of understanding the world, and that these...
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“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it.” (Augusto Boa, 1992). The Greek Theater is a theatrical tradition that flourished in ancient Greece between the years 600 and 200 B.C. The idea of acting and singing on a stage was introduced in the festivals where Greeks worshiped Dionysus, the god of wine and grape cultivation, with performances to...
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Children are raised with certain rules on how they will dress, the toys that they should play with, and even how they will behave. Most of the time, parents would teach them these things because it is how society taught them before. For instance, girls should always wear dresses and clothes that are feminine while boys should wear shorts and T-shirts. Aside from that, these gender roles and stereotypes have taught us several gender-based concepts. For instance, some certain jobs...
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