Within this essay, I will be discussing the American New Wave era of the 1960s in the film industry. I will be discussing how the film industry was influenced by new filmmakers that emerged during this time and how their artistic and cultural ideas changed the way that the film industry in America functioned. I will be exploring what the...
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Introduction "The Revenant," directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, is a cinematic masterpiece that has captivated audiences worldwide with its visceral storytelling and breathtaking visual aesthetics. The film is based on the true story of frontiersman Hugh Glass, portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio, who embarks on a quest for survival and vengeance after being left for dead by his comrades. Released in...
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The chosen extract is taken from Barry Jenkin’s second feature film Moonlight, which he directed and co-wrote. The film follows the life and struggles of Chiron, a young and poor black boy, growing up and coming to terms with his sexuality, a life not often portrayed in commercial films. This analysis focuses on the economic and social context of the...
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Living in a world where the battle for supremacy has been a pressing matter for centuries, with the constant change in the world's economy as well as changes within individual nations' governments except a very few, there is bound to be some debate as what is considered to be right and what is considered to be wrong form of government....
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The author Sayles who directed the film Lone Star is a movie based in Texas that touches on aspects in critical areas such as the history and boundaries of the borders between Mexico and Texas. In the 1800’s Texas fought Mexico to gain independence which is how the name Lone Star came about. Sayles tells a story that unfolds the...
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Introduction Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Breathless (À bout de souffle), a seminal work in the French New Wave movement, is a landmark in cinematic history. Known for its unconventional storytelling and groundbreaking film techniques, Breathless challenged traditional norms of filmmaking and narrative structure. The film follows Michel Poiccard, a small-time criminal, and his American love interest, Patricia Franchini, through a...
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In the film V For Vendetta, a freedom fighter who lives in the shadows, who goes by the name V, plots to overthrow and take the current British government due to tyranny. Many sociological perspectives are presented throughout the film from sociologists such as Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber. One of the main theories that surround the entire...
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For my essay, I'm going to focus on comparing both of the villains from, The Dark Knight (2008) and The Shining (1980). Both villains are driven crazy by the events of the film but the ways they both handle it create compelling characters. The performance from Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson builds the character and pushes the narrative forward and...
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Gurinder Chadha’s bold 2004 film Bride and Prejudice is an adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice (1813). The film serves as a clever, contemporary take on the classic novel. Chadha introduces the themes of cultural diversity in the romantic comedy. Kenyan-born and raised in England, Chadha aims to make non-westerners visible in the film as well as discuss...
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The 1927 silent black-and-white film Metropolis critiques the stark inequality between working and wealthy classes to champion Marxism through a science-fictional, dystopian world. The text follows Freder, son of the city master Joh Frederson discovering the underground workers who have suffered under the strict regimen, slaving away on machines that power the city above, hence feeling obligated to save ‘his...
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Throughout his incredible career, award-winning director Martin Scorsese has never disappointed with his thrilling, thought-provoking films. And this one does not. Hugo is all about a young, orphaned boy. His father passes and his uncle becomes his new caregiver. His Uncle Claude, although rude and almost depressing, teaches young Hugo how to work in clocks in a bustling railway station...
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In The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, a significant difference between the book and film version during Dally’s last moments is when Dally robs a bookstore and calls the greasers. In the book, the book shows Ponyboy’s perspective, him being driven by a man whereas the film shows the crime Dally commits, in which he robs a bookstore. An example of...
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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...
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Forrest Gump is a 1991 American epic romantic comedy 'drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Eric Roth, and starring Tom Hanks. It is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, a man from Alabama who witnesses and unwittingly influences several defining historical...
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Dystopia- Sexism? Racism? Homophobia? These are present in all aspects of our lives, especially in Hollywood, it thrives on it. We do not all live in a perfect 'utopia' as we were told by the big-budget movies. In reality, over the years it has engulfed Hollywood through and through. Outrageous is what it is and needs to be abolished. My...
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Disney Princess movies are not as safe as we previously thought. We are unintentionally damaging our kids by subtly enforcing social stereotypes. This is done by using classic story tropes like the handsome knight saving the pretty, helpless princess. Along with that, it can make girls self-conscious about their bodies. This is due to all the pretty princesses all sharing...
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Introduction Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) is present almost everywhere and helps us daily, for example in self-driving cars, in virtual assistants such as the well-known Siri or Google Home, or even in the film industry. However, when asking some of my close friends, family, and IB students from around the world if they trusted AI, the most common answer was...
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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...
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Marjane presents Iran as a country that underwent through 2500 years of tyrannical rule and submission. The country has been in continuous war with a cavalry of Arabs that invaded the country, Mongolians, and Europeans encroachment after the discovery of oil. Persepolis begins right away after the Iranian revolution that led to the downfall of the Shah of Iran, who...
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How does one perceive religion? In literature, when authors include religion throughout their writing, they generally portray it positively or negatively, based on their perspective. However, in Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi describes her relationship with religion as evolutionary. In the late twentieth century, the Islamic Revolution came to Iran and this religious reform pressured new rules and enforced a change in...
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Introduction: Jane Austen’s bestselling novel Pride and Prejudice earlier named' The First Impressions ' was written between 1796 and 1797 and was published in 1813. The basic theme is love and marriage with social classes, prejudices, and pride. There are several movies made in this novel, a good comparison can be made with the one filmed in 2005 acting as...
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In Iran, there are different regulations and laws for women living in the country. Iran has different policies that men and women have to follow. The rules for women can restrict their freedom. In the book Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi shows an upper-middle-class woman growing up in Iran and the different restrictions that even women of her class have to endure....
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Reflective statement: While reading Persepolis, I was quick to learn that the Sharia laws put in place to enforce the codes of Islam were taken far more extremely in 1980s Iran than what most Muslim countries experience today, and the interactive orals helped broaden contextual considerations as to why that is the case. Concluding in-class discussions and further research, one...
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During the 1980s, Iran was starting the biggest transformation in the nation's history. In 1978, Iran was ruled by a monarch called the Shah, with whom the people had been engaged politically with different nations. During the 1970s, Shah was not successful in his strategy and then lost his devotees. Marjane's family was fighting his standards and following an extreme...
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Defining and Understanding the Role of Women in Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” Marjane Satrapi’s first novel “Persepolis” is an autobiographical graphic novel that narrates the experience of a young Iranian girl growing up amid the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Within her novel, many themes are utilized and highlighted to further her story and create a compelling novel. One such theme that...
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In the book, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi she finds herself growing up amid the Islamic Revolution. She talks about her childhood and how at a very young age she had to grow up very quickly. Marjane had witnessed a lot of disaster and tragedy at a young age. The revolution sparked a lot of controversy between the government and the...
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Throughout Western education, the concept of the winner writing the history books is truly embodied as great tales are spun about the accomplishments of the British Empire or American Veterans recalling the trauma of World War II. However, the Third World, which occupies four-fifths of the planet, is very much brushed to the side with the broad umbrella teachings of...
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Most romance comedy films are evaluated using very similar criteria. A romance comedy should consist of a good plot, one or multiple profound messages, good actors, humor, and originality. It is important to have all these components so that the audience wants to continue watching the film and enjoy it. The film “When We First Met” is a rom-com about...
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Reflective Statement: How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the Interactive Oral? The interactive oral allowed me to view Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis as more than an interesting story. Before reading the text, my political understanding of the region was limited, yet class discussion allowed me to make stronger connections between the...
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The graphic memoir The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi portrays the experience from the author’s childhood in Iran to her adulthood in Austria. The story happens with the background of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Born in a family with advanced and open-minded parents but living under the influence of radical change in society and politics, the main character Marji’s...
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