Introduction The film "12 Years a Slave," directed by Steve McQueen and released in 2013, stands as a haunting and gut-wrenching portrayal of the brutal realities of slavery in the United States during the 19th century. Adapted from Solomon Northup's memoir of the same name,...
Spike Lee's 1989 film "Do the Right Thing" stands as a poignant subject for film analysis essay, offering a compelling and thought-provoking examination of racial tensions and societal intricacies within a Brooklyn neighborhood. Set against the backdrop of an oppressive summer day, the film's narrative...
Disney has made gradual progress in recent years towards more meaningful LGBTQ representation in its films, though the studio still lags behind its promises and society's shifting expectations. With each new release featuring a queer character, whether substantial or subtle, Disney invites both hope and...
Disney's live-action remake of their beloved 1989 animated classic The Little Mermaid finally arrived in theaters on May 26, 2023. Directed by Rob Marshall, known for movie musicals like Chicago and Mary Poppins Returns this new take on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale has...
The Barbie Movie Mania Ever since the iconic Barbie doll first debuted in 1959, she has been a pop culture sensation beloved by generations. In 2023, Barbie is ready for her big screen debut in her first ever live-action feature film. Set for release in...
The recently released horror film Insidious: The Red Door marks the fifth installment in the popular Insidious franchise. Directed by Patrick Wilson, who also reprises his role as Josh Lambert, the movie focuses on Josh's son Dalton who discovers repressed memories from his childhood and...
The 'Fight Club' masculinity essay critically examines the portrayal of masculinity in the renowned film and delves into life struggles without father. In spite of the fact that “Fight Club” evokes somewhat mixed feelings among many viewers, a few years after the premiere, the film was...
Racism has been a major problem since the early 1900’s. It all starts with one person thinking that their race is better than every other which leads to them pushing down other races. There will always be problems with racism in our country and many...
Malala is a campaigner for girls' education from Pakistan. On the 9th of October Malala was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen because she spoke up for the rights of girls to be educated. Malala survived being shot in the head and is continuing...
In the 2002 film “Frida” directed by Julie Taymor, illustrates the life of Frida Kahlo based on the book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera. Who is Frida Kahlo? Her biography in this essay is explored with the help of the film...
Introduction “Tell him he’s dreamin”. Cultural identity is a distinct concept, which incorporates the ideas, assumptions, values and perspective that are unique to Australian individuals. Rob Sitch’s film ‘The Castle’ depicts various distinctive Australian values such as being an ‘Aussie battler’ and having a fair...
The theme that I have drawn from the movie “Mother!” is an allegory, a reoccurring cycle which has probably happened numerous times before, and an environmental film which has a very deep meaning to the films and many Easter Eggs, it depicts the rape and...
Milk is a film produced in 2008 in America based on a biography. It is based on the life of gay politician and right activist Harvey Milk. He was the first known gay activist to be elected for public office in California as a member...
History movies have always been controversial for historians. The scholars frequently criticised the values of these films for several reasons, such as; not showing a complete picture of the particular era, ignoring many facts and opinions or portraying events and characters historically inaccurately. However, as...
Christipher Nolan’s 2001 psychological thriller movie Memento is based on a man named Leonard Shelby who tries tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. Leonard suffers from a rare memory loss. This means that he can remember everything before he suffered an...
A Knight’s Tale is set in medieval Europe around 1370s and the movie follows a peasant, who is fuelled of the desire of food and glory and has a heart of a knight, through a journey where he disguises himself as a knight to compete...
"3 Idiots" is a bollywood film which was produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and directed by Rajkumar Hirani. It was released on 25 December 2009. This movie is said to have been adapted from the book ‘Five points someone’ by Chetan Bhagat. The leading actors...
“Without a struggle, there can be no progress” (Douglas, Frederick). In life we are constantly faced with struggles. Regardless of the social status or ethnicity of a person, anyone can face a struggle. Whether it’d be finding peace, money, or a place to fit in...
Under globalization, western ideas such as gender equality and individuality are widely spread to China. The phenomenon arouses a heated debate in the society. Some people may think that the enlightened ideas diminish Chinese’s feudal thoughts and increase their consciousness on the promotion of human...
For this essay I am going to focus in on mostly anorexia nervosa. Ellen is a 20-year-old woman struggling with anorexia nervosa. In the midst of family problems and her own fears, she is accepted into a group home run by an unusual doctor. Through...
Film form is the sum of all the parts in a film, shaped by a set of conventions of patterned relationships used to perceive, evaluate, and define. There are 5 basic elements of film form – literary design, visual design, cinematography, editing and sound design....
The first time I saw “Do the Right Thing” was in my English class. Do the Right Thing (1989), directed by Spike Lee, The movie take place in a hot day of summer in a neighborhood of Brooklyn, this is not a action movie with...
Many filmmakers use a variety of types of techniques to convey their point in films. Depending on the choice of the type of films, different filmmakers have a different approach on how to communicate their ideas across the screen. There is a lot that goes...
The movie War Horse came out on December 25, 2011. The majority of the movie occurred during the first World War. The beginning of the movie is not about the first World War, but it does eventually start talking about the war. One of the...
Schindler's List is a film released in 1993 and since it’s release, it has been widely acclaimed film winning seven Oscars. I selected this film because I am interested in Judaism and the history of the Jewish people after being introduced to the subject from...
The Virgin Suicides is a 1999 American motion picture made for the screen and facilitated by Sofia Coppola (in her segment directorial debut). The film moreover incorporates Scott Glenn, Michael Pare and Danny DeVito in minor occupations, and a voice depiction by Giovanni Ribisi. This...
The 1939 musical “The Wizard Of Oz” directed by Victor Fleming is a really great film. This musical was one of the first films to ever be in color. The actress Judy Garland was the perfect fit for the role “Dorothy”. The Wizard Of Oz...
I decided to write about One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest because I had never seen the movie before and had always had the intent of picking it up at some point. I am really happy that I did because this movie was different from...
The film Good Will Hunting features the eight psychotherapy sessions that raise and address concerns in the current practice of psychotherapy as well as its ethical base of counseling. Will Hunting, the main character, demonstrates the psychological difficulties that adversely affect his life, especially in...
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, was a magnificent novel, it’s main character is Randle Patrick McMurphy who had an antisocial personality disorder who got sentenced to six months in jail because of statutory rape. He wanted to plead insanity so that...
The Soloist is a movie based on a true story and book of a Los Angeles Times news reporter, Steve Lopez. Mr. Lopez is pressed for a column deadline and for story ideas, but continues to come up empty handed, until he runs into a...
Film Noir. By definition it signifies, 'a style or sort of cinematographic film set apart by a state of mind of cynicism, submission to the inevitable, and threat.' as it were, American spine chiller or investigator films. The motion picture Chinatown, coordinated by Roman Polanski,...
Forrest Gump which was released in 1994 follows a young man’s story through major events in the 1950s to the 1990s. In Forrest Gump, it reviews the Vietnam War, desegregation, anti-war protests, and many other historical events. From the hippie movement to Vietnam to the...
Introduction In the film Looking for Alibrandi, the director Kate Woods effectively positioned the audience to accept Josies challenges growing up as an Italian-Australian in the 1990’s. The film follows the main character ‘Josie’ through her discovery of identity, throughout the course of her year...
October Sky is a film that was released in 1999. The movie takes place in the 1950s in Coalwood, West Virginia. Around this decade the Space Race, a competition to launch the first spacecraft between the Soviet Union and the United States. The film is...
Women Around the world have come a long way towards achieving equal rights and protection from gender discrimination at the legislative level. The historical drama Iron Jawed Angels is dedicated to the struggle for equal rights for women that took place in the United States...
The film raise the red lantern, based on Su Tong's novel wives and concubines by the renowned director Zhang Yimou, depicts the male-dominated, 'polygamous' stories in the deeply rooted feudal family system. The main character in the film is Songlian, who has received higher education...
Introduction The Grand Budapest Hotel costume analysis is an important aspect of director Wes Anderson's 2014 film. In this surreal and complex narrative of persecutions, murders, and love set in a luxury hotel, Anderson chose not to pursue historical accuracy. Instead, he employed color to...
The movie “Lean on Me” reflects on events that occurred at east side high located in Patterson New Jersey. The movie shows a principal named Joe Clark transitioning from being a principal at a preschool to being a principal at a high school that faced...
Boyhood, a movie directed by Richard Lekter that has received praise and formed headlines from critics everywhere, but at the same time many people have formed their own opinions, and have decided it is boring. Yes, people have different opinions, but why has one movie...
In the historic Academy Award-winning drama film, Glory, it tells the true story regarding the first all-African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Glory narrates the civil war year in which a white officer led a group of black slaves to fight with the South...
People from all around the world know well the traumatizing attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Watching Pearl Harbor movie shows the most devastating moment of when this attack happened on Pearl Harbor and what people went through on that day. The movie depicts...
The movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is a film that resembles the struggles of relationships with conflicting cultures and beliefs among families. Toula, the main character comes from a Greek background with her parents being strict about traditions and belief. She finds a boyfriend...
In the movie Smoke Signals, inspired by Sherman Alexie the audience was taken on a cross country journey with the lifetime friends of Victor and Thomas. While on their journey they end up forming a close relationship with each other by discovering themself and their...
A film about a Phantom, who lives deep below a theater in Paris, is obsessed with an orphaned girl named Christine. The Phantom tricks Christine into thinking he is the Angel of Music Christine’s father told her about when he passed. The Phantom hides is...
‘Film noir has usually been talked about in terms of its historical resonances, its treatment of gender and its uses of style, and these three trends in noir criticism continue to inform criticism on and of noir, contributing to the long, unfinished, and arguably unfinishable,...
“Some children aren't really children at all, they are just pillar of flame that burn everything they touch. Some children who are just pillars of ash that fall apart if you touch them.” The symbol of fire is very important in Modern Native American cultures....
The film, The Passion of the Christ primarily focuses on Jesus of Nazareth's final twelve hours beginning with Jesus during the Agony in the Garden and ending with the Resurrection of Jesus. The film draws inspiration from the four Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and...
Throughout “Run Lola Run”, the director uses his own style of filming to convey us to stay in the movie. The director uses the movie to show unrealism by character development, realism by setting, the theme of the video game concept, and the way the...
Introduction In the film, “The House I Live In” states that “Since 1971, the War on Drugs has cost over one trillion dollars and has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, which makes America the world’s largest jailer” (Jarecki, 2012). We meet those who...
Everything that lives eventually meets death; when death comes suddenly we are exposed to the human experience of how brief and fragile life can be. it is impossible to mention one without the other, in regards to life humanity has learned from its experiences with...
The films from today covered in the course include Traffic and Hotel Rwanda. The early 2000’s was a tragic time for the United States, with a devastating terrorist attack that effected so many lives. Pre 9/11, the national discussion was the war on drugs and...
Introduction In Gillo Pontecorvo’s film The Battle of Algiers, the suppression of French Algeria is explored through numerous urban uprisings in the late 1950s. The film is ancient and rather extreme in its portrayal, yet it provides excellent critique of guerrilla insurgency. Few of today’s...
Introduction Pretty Little Liars is an American teen drama mystery thriller television series developed by I. Marlene King and is partially based on the novel series of the same name written by Sara Shepard. The series follows the lives of four high school girls whose...
The movie Far from Heaven, directed by Todd Haynes and released in 2002, is an American melodrama that tells the story of Cathy Whitaker and her life that, on the surface, appears to be the perfect image of livelihood in the 1950s, but then, due...
Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “Volar” is the story of a mother and daughter from an immigrant Puerto Rican family, who both dream about escaping their grim reality by being able to fly. Volar means to “fly” in Spanish. They both aspire to “belong” by taking flight....
To discuss British heritage in terms of its generic components I will differentiate the films by period. The concept of heritage is not a definitive genre, meaning a diverse range of films are considered to be within the category. Several critics address this issue of...
Christopher Nolan is a Hollywood icon for huge blockbuster films, and creative and mind bobbling scripts. Nolan can tell stories when a film ending is the beginning, giant leaps in space and time, or make you question what is real or not. All of these...
The film I am going to analyze is Titanic by James Cameron. This is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster movie. The film was a global box office hit because the director provided equal importance to history, fiction, and romance. The movie is about two...
The movie, “Remember the Titans” is equally motivating as well as entertaining. It intrigues the viewers to dive deep into their psyche, ending up appreciating the movie as more than just any-other entertainer. The following takeaways from the movie will certainly be helpful in our...
“How can a man become a God?” Alexander asked. “By doing something a man cannot do,” was the philosopher’s reply. This was the defining principle that governed the life of Alexander the Great. Alexander was one of the most successful military commanders in history. He...
The use of music and sound is an integral part of horror movies, and The Shining is no exception. The Shining film analysis essay will explore the various methods and reasons for the use of music and sound in The Shining. The film, directed by...
Music and sound are also essential to Game of Thrones, just like the other media products I’ve analysed. Similar to The Last Of Us, Game of Thrones uses leitmotifs to give themes to characters and places etc. This particular TV programme uses leitmotifs extensively as...
Moonlight is a 2016 film written and directed by Barry Jenkins that was named the best film of 2016 by several media outlets and won numerous Academy Awards. Moonlight opens up an extremely important conversation about the nature of gay masculinity. Although there were other...
What does Fifty Shades of Grey have in common with a sadistic romance? The ability to induce viewers into a masochistic fantasy. This phenomenon has intrigued experts in literature and film for years. “It’s interesting because it’s a piece of fan fiction based on Twilight...
A famous philosopher once said, 'Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it” (Santayana). Overtime, mankind has seen dramatic changes to the world and society in which they live in. Although we experience these changes the past seems to always find a...
At the start of the film, The Graduate, Benjamin tells his father that he wants his life to be different. Being 20 years old and freshly out of college, Benjamin is extremely anxious and hopeless because he has no clue what life has in store...
Annie Hall is a romantic comedy starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. It is important in film history, being full of narratives, inner thoughts, split screens, and time changes. The film began Woody Allen’s recognition as a filmmaker with the Hollywood elite, winning 4 Academy...
The 1997 quirky, romantic comedy ‘Annie Hall’ was directed by the award-winning Woody Allen. Not only did he direct it and star as the main character in the film, he in fact co-wrote it along-side Marshall Brickman (Wikipedia 2018). The film follows the life of...
“An Inspector’s Call” is about an upper class family whom were having a peaceful dinner party in April 1912. They were then interrupted by an inspector named Goole, he suggest that the Birling Family are responsible for a young women’s commitment of suicide by leading...
Goodfellas hands down is the most influential gangster film that paved the way for the rest. Directed by Martin Scorsese in 1990, this film exhibited ingenious visionary work to depict constant foreshadowing elements. Subversive in theory, Scorsese creates a world of organized crime and one...
Few literary works have achieved the level of success and enduring popularity that Bram Stoker's novel, "Dracula" (1897), has attained. This timeless tale of horror and romance has transcended its written form to become a prominent fixture in the world of cinema. Various film adaptations...
Film musical, which is a new genre developed after the “sound” cinema, is one of the popular and notable film genre in the Holywood film industry. The famous musical film examples are Moulin Rouge, The Greatest Showman, The Phantom of The Opera, La La Land,...
Moulin Rouge (2001) starts off with setting the tone of the film, the first few minutes are a roller coaster. Everything about the film is over the top, from Satine’s dresses to the set design. With a combination of real sets and computer generated images,...
Between Steve Ryfle’s article “Godzilla’s Footprint” and Susan Sontag’s 1965 article “Imagination of Disaster”, clear differences can be understood. Both heavily focus on science fiction films, but Ryfle discusses the Japanese’ viewpoint while Sontag addresses the American point of view. Using Susan Napier’s article, “Panic...
Donnie Darko: The Directors Cut is a 2004 extended version of the movie Donnie Darko written and directed by Richard Kelly. This movie is not only dark but confusing and delusional as it revolves around a teenage boy who is a paranoid schizophrenic. The continuous...
The film “JAWS” was a 1975 summer blockbuster that terrified a large percentage of people from entering the depths of the water. “JAWS” is about one shark that finds a great feeding place on the beaches of Amity Island where there is a great supply...
I am comparing Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) to the theme of Film Noir. This film was adapted from the 1935 novella ‘Double Indemnity’ by James M.Cain. The film was created before the term noir was even created. Even though Film Noir is full of...
The success of a story depends a lot on the traits of the characters that the author chooses. Even in real-life situations, interests, attractions, desires, and ambitions will determine a person's decisions. These items that define character are, in most cases, not just things one...
The task given to the students of year 9 is to write an analytical essay that discusses how a film produces meaning for a school-based magazine. We are expected to demonstrate our understanding of: the film and how film techniques create meaning and essay structures....
The adventures exhibited by Duke and Gonzo is far from what most people would like to undergo in the name of exploration. The two men ended up getting carried away from their journey right from the beginning. It all started as a mere trip through...
As a child Juno’s mother left her at the age of six, forced to live with her single father at the time. From her experience as a child with a single parent made her realize what the value of a complete family really is. Juno...
Juno find Bleeker to tell him about his pregnancy that cause after a sexual event on an armchair because of boredom. She goes find him because she felt Bleeker as the father of the baby should know it and do something because this tragedy occurs...
'King Kong' (Merian C. Cooper, 1933) is, like all legendary films, several films in one: an overwhelming romantic melodrama, a horror film of an atmosphere never surpassed, a film about cinema and about the irresponsibility of filmmaker, a shuddering parable about the violent incursion of...
When thinking about the movie Holes and the book there seems to be many similarities and differences. The Holes movie by Andrew Davis and the book by Louis Sachar are based on a boy named “Stanley” that steals a pair of shoes and ends up...
In The Notebook, Noah is the epitome of how fundamental it is for a man to obtain true love. This film holds my attention because through all the obstacles Noah and Allie had to face, they ended up together. Noah proves how strong love can...
Michael Curtis' film Casablanca, one of the best films of all time, was marketed to be a deep and impressive love film. Was Casablanca really a love movie? Casablanca wasn't just a love movie. Considered as a war-era masterpiece, the film was also full of...
The classic drama, Casablanca, has been a favorite love story for decades by many. Casablanca was produced in 1942 and since then, the film has grown tremendously due to the classic storytelling and iconic acting, gaining numerous awards and nominations throughout the ages. The films...
The New York Times, in its 1942 review, called Casablanca one of the most exciting and powerful films of the year, especially in the famous scene in which visitors to Rick's cafe sing Marseillaise, drowning out the Nazi choir. And no less enthusiastically spoke of...
Introduction The term of zombie is a concept that remains in our minds as living dead from horror movies. In recent times, this term has often been used to describe standing firms while it should have been closed a long time ago. Zombie firms are...
Once treated as a minority of manipulative pleasures, zombies have expanded their territory in popular culture. Now in present days, many people are familiar with zombies through various entertaining sources including cartoons, novels, and movies. However, not all zombie tales are necessarily the same, as...
The Breakfast Club is a comedy drama directed and written by John Hughes, released in 1985. This cult movie around the life of the teen and high school environment is considered as one of the pioneers of the genre. On a Saturday, five students with...
Griggs (2016) describes the canon as ‘works of individual creative genius: they are an individual expression from a specific writer’s imagination’. This means that works which enter the canon must be seen as being created by a single author and be valued for the creativity...
Phil, is sarcastic and detached from the world around him in the movie Groundhog Day. He mocks about anything that might be remotely obscure, sincere or genuine. He’s not compassionate towards others. His self-absorbed ego carries him throughout different scenes in the movie, along with...
Taxi Driver (1976) directed by Martin Scorcese and Michael Chapman. It is about Travis Bickle, a night taxi driver who lives in his own world full of routine and loneliness. The great work was done on cinematography level – shots changes very quickly, despite the...
Coach Carter film is exceptionally intriguing and motivating to watch the motion picture coordinated by Thomas Carter. It is a genuine story dependent on Coach Ken Carter who was a Richmond high school basketball mentor who was brilliantly played by Samuel L Jackson.it is a...
In the short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge written by Ambrose Bierce, there are many ways that the film magnifies and alters the original text. When analyzing the two mediums here, first we must fully understand what film adaptation is. Film adaptation is...
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a film filled with a lot of different technical uses to tell a story in a film. The film involves a wide variety of storytelling techniques to convey messages like no other. Filmmakers can manipulate films with different...
The film “My Sister’s Keepers” poses a moral dilemma concerning the predestined life of a girl who was conceived to save her sister. Genetically engineered as a marrow donor for her gravely ill sister, Anna has undergone countless surgeries in her short life. Anna sues...
The movie, Gladiator, happens in 180 AD, during Rome’s golden age. At this time, the Roman Empire was governing over a quarter of the world’s population. It had been over 60 years since the last expansion of the Roman Empire, and the Emperor, Marcus Aurelius...
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