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Critical Essay about a Movie

2 Pages 826 Words
“Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wild World,’ said the Rat. ‘And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going, nor you either if you've got any sense at all.” (Grahame, 1908). In the one hundred and twelve years since the publication of Kenneth Grahame’s ‘The Wind In The...

Analytical Essay on Forrest Gump

3 Pages 1309 Words
When we watch movies and or tv shows, we can’t help but notice to point out what kind of form of communication takes place. The first movie to come to my mind of what I have learned in this course when it comes to communication is Chapter 2 covering “Perception” is “Forrest Gump”. In the movie, a good example of...

Informative Essay on Horror

3 Pages 1631 Words
Abstract What is the psychological science behind why horror films appeal to us, despite having such a negative notion to cause anxiety and fear? Even individuals who do not like the horror genre, find themselves captivated and glued to their seats in a torturous and excited manner. Why does this happen? How does it affect viewers? And why is it...

Informative Essay on Horror Movies

2 Pages 812 Words
Are Horror Movies Diverse? Horror is arguably one of the most, if not the most, popular film genres out there. This has recently led to debate among movie fans about if horror movies are as diverse as they should be. In 2016, film critics felt that most of the mainstream horror movies out were too white, but it appears that...

Lincoln' Movie Review: Critical Essay

2 Pages 1151 Words
Lincoln directed by Steven Spielberg, was made not too long ago in 2012. Because this film was produced relatively recently, the production quality was obviously more advanced than other movies about the civil war. Using more developed technology, props, costumes, etc. the portrayal of the time period of the 1860s was very accurate. The sets did very much look like...

Summary of 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'

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The film 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' revolves around thirteen-year-old, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), who returns for his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry alongside his two best friends, Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint). In the midst of their return, a mass murderer by the name, Sirius Black (Gary Oldman), has...

Martin Scorsese’s 'Taxi Driver' as an Example of Skilful and Deliberate Use of Cinematography: Essay

3 Pages 1305 Words
Cinematography contains many different intentions, much of them going far beyond the direct action of photographing the action. Many of the methods used are all about adding visual subtext and visual metaphor to a scene. The ways in which the cinematographer uses movement, composition, color, and light can be powerful tools to enhance the dramatic elements of the story. Martin...

Observation and Analysis of a Scene from 'The Shawshank Redemption': Essay

1 Page 563 Words
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...

Analysis of the TV Series 'The Walking Dead' from the Concept of Survival: Essay

2 Pages 810 Words
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...

Summary of the Movie '42'

2 Pages 900 Words
The movie ‘42’ starts off in 1945, when America comes back from war. Nazi Germany was defeated, and Imperial Japan surrendered. The United States had gotten their freedom, yet African Americans still had it rough. They served their country the same way the white men did but returned to racism, segregation, and Jim Crow law. The only difference between these...

Sound Design of the Film ‘American Sniper’: Critical Essay

1 Page 521 Words
Oscar-winning film for Best Sound Editing, ‘American Sniper’, is known for its high-packed action scenes filled with gunfire and war. However, these sounds of gunfire were not easy to create. Sound supervisors Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman were responsible for delivering the sounds to the director, Clint Eastwood. They made sure to deliver a very realistic documentary approach to...

Key Themes of the Film 'A Beautiful Mind': Essay

1 Page 544 Words
In ‘A Beautiful Mind’, they attempt to depict the triumph and struggles of a Nobel-Prize-winning mathematician whose mind was brilliantly flawed. The film provides an insight into various aspects of society, including the great competitiveness that exists among academic scholars, the reality and difficulties of marriage, as well as the world of schizophrenia. John Nash’s struggle with schizophrenia, which is...

Psychological Analysis Gwen's Addiction in the Movie '28 Days': Critical Essay

2 Pages 935 Words
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...

Cinema Paradise: Critical Analysis Essay

3 Pages 1196 Words
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...

American History X': Critical Essay

3 Pages 1463 Words
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...

Peter Jackson's ‘The Lovely Bones’ and Its Unsavoury Protagonist: Analytical Essay

5 Pages 2182 Words
‘The Lovely Bones’ by Peter Jackson is a film which has an unpleasant character called George Harvey. The director utilizes the character of Susie his victim, the character of George Harvey, key scenes, and the setting to create this unpleasant character. Susie Salmon is a 14-year-old girl from Norristown, Pennsylvania whom her neighbor murders at the start of the film....

Theme of Masculinity and the Role of Women in the Film 'Fight Club': Critical Essay

3 Pages 1375 Words
'Fight Club’ (1999), directed by David Fincher, remains to be a volatile encapsulation of the zeitgeist on the eve of the 2000s, underlining white-collar melancholy mourning the loss of manhood. The film has been interpreted in vastly differing lights – some identify it to be a film that critiques hegemonic norms of white masculinity, but also one that perpetuates a...

Thelma and Louise' in the Historical Context: Analytical Essay

5 Pages 2027 Words
‘Thelma and Louise’, written by Callie Khouri and directed by Ridley Scott, is a drama and mystery film released in 1991. It was a remarkable film at the time, given that it had two strong female leads. It is very representative of the second and third waves of feminism. Although this was not the only film or show displaying feminist...

Theme of Cultural Diversity in the Film ‘Where to Invade Next’: Critical Essay

3 Pages 1459 Words
Culture is a summative term that describes people’s way of life, including their social codes, art, and customs among other variables that differentiate them from other groups (Gil, 2013). Since culture is collective, it is classifiable into such categories as material and non-material culture, representative symbols, and formalized and casual culture among others. Quantifying the total number of global cultures...

Critical Essay on Steven Spielberg's 'Jurassic Park'

3 Pages 1539 Words
Steven Spielberg's 1993 action, adventure-filled, science-fiction thriller follows Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler. John Hammond discovers a mosquito frozen in tree sap from millions of years ago and gets the blood that the mosquito took from animals. He discovers that the mosquito had been carrying dinosaur DNA, so he then uses the DNA to create living dinosaurs. This...

Critical Essay on the Film ‘Pleasantville’ and Its Key Messages

3 Pages 1301 Words
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,...

Theme of Value in Quentin Tarantino’s Film 'Pulp Fiction': Critical Essay

2 Pages 738 Words
Individual human experiences are fundamentally modulated by the values of the collective, by which individual and shared beliefs determine human behavior, emotions, and motivations. As such, the value and meaning in people’s lives are dependent on collective human assumptions and ideas, prompting personal reflection to which an individual can weigh and assess the value and meaning of things, as well...

Review of the Movie 'Gandhi'

1 Page 588 Words
In the movie ‘Gandhi’, Gandhi marries a girl at the age of thirteen. As he follows the death of his fathers, he was sent to England to study law. He became very interested in the philosophy of non-violence, but he didn’t fulfill the decree of law. That’s when he came back home and got into it with the British, he...

Summary of the Movie 'Inside Job': Critical Essay

1 Page 666 Words
Amongst the first motion pictures, that exposes the fact that shocks about the reality that perceived purpose of the 2008 financial crisis. It starts with a country that is loaded normally and very wealthy. The kingdom had an excessive stage of democracy and a very low unemployment rate. Later the country falls into economic troubles due to its pointers courting...

Movies about Terminal Illnesses: Critical Essay

3 Pages 1342 Words
Movies about terminal illnesses mirror a very vital part of life that humans love to shy away from. It reveals to us a scary reality that awaits some of us. Though most people don’t want to look into this mirror, death, after all, is something that we all are going to face sometime in the future. What these kinds of...

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