Introduction In the beloved 1999 teen romantic comedy '10 Things I Hate About You,' we are given a modern retelling of Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew.' The film, directed by Gil Junger, captivated audiences with its witty dialogue, endearing characters, and relatable high school...
The My Fault Movie Adaptation In 2023, the popular Spanish book series Culpa Mía will be adapted into an English-language film titled My Fault. The YA novel series written by Estelle Maskame has developed a devoted international following since 2015. The upcoming movie aims to...
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...
I am Sam is a 2001 American dramamelodrama film directed with the aid of Jessie Nelson. Honestly speaking, I can't put into phrases how the director portrays such conflicting thoughts and how heart-tugging the films is. Jessie Nelson forces the audience to query Sam's abilities...
"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...
This essay on being a doctor could be inspired by the documentary 'The English Surgeon', which portrays the journey of a compassionate and empathetic neurosurgeon, Dr. Henry Marsh, who faces the difficulties of a mismanaged hospital in Ukraine, striving to improve patients' lives under any...
Horror fiction was a genre that was fast approaching extinction in the late 20th century until a certain high school teacher named Stephen King wrote a book titled Carrie that would quickly change the genre forever. This happened in 1974 and the success of the...
Introduction Within the 21st century, the digitalization of the media has started to shape and affect all areas of the media industries known today. As the godfather of Transmedia, Henry Jenkins states, that through digitalization the media is going through a transition where an old...
The stories of Rucka’s run needs to be framed on the lasting influence of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in the US which took place in 2001. The first issue of Wonder Woman written by Rucka came out in Oct 2003, #195,...
Introduction The film industry has long been dominated by male-led superhero narratives, but the release of "Wonder Woman" in 2017 marked a significant milestone in the representation of female superheroes on the big screen. Directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot in the titular...
The movie constructs a strict binary between gender roles through its setting and costumes. Wonder Woman’s independence supplies her with a liminal status between the constraints of the binary as an assertion that extreme perspectives should not act alone as guiding principles. For most of...
The theory of aesthetic consciousness depicts the aspect of aesthetic experience which lies in multifarious connotations of the Art of Performance. ‘Natyasastra’( Sanskrit for ‘theory of performance’) divides the dramatic nuance into two parts- on one hand, there’s ‘Natya’ meaning staging of an event in...
'Hidden Figures' returns us to 1961 when racial isolation and work environment sexism were generally acknowledged as unavoidable issues facing everyone and 'PC' alluded to an individual, not a machine. Even though a massive IBM centralized server appears in the motion picture — sufficiently large...
12 years a slave is a movie produced by Steve McQueen that treats the topic of slavery in the United States during the nineteenth century. The movie is the story of an African American man named Solomon Northup that lived happily as a free man with...
The Psychoanalytic theory applies to the life of Will Hunting. Therapy sessions with Sean Maguire led to the discovery that, Will pushing people away and not allowing people to get too close was a result of his childhood experiences. An example of this would be...
Forrest Gump (1994) is a romantic comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and stars Tom Hanks in the leading role of Forrest Gump himself. Forrest is a kind-hearted but slow-witted man from Alabama who shares his life story with a number of people waiting at...
This movie is the story of a man named Will Hunting. He is an orphan who was in an out of foster care throughout his childhood and grew up in a really rough situation. He is working as a janitor at MIT, the same university...
This type of mortgage shown in the movie is called subprime mortgage which means these are loans that have very small possibility of being paid. This happens because the banks primarily target mostly the immigrants and the people who earn small or those poor people....
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...
Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting (1997) is a coming-of-age, drama film that follows a young man on his journey to self-discovery. The titular character, Will Hunting, native to the decrepit South Boston, has been gifted with an incredible, natural intelligence that was not nurtured...
The film Forrest Gump was a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis. He goes through his life with his mother’s saying “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get” In mind, this quote means...
On February 24, 2010, veteran SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau was tragically killed by the orca she was doing a show with inside the infamous Shamu Stadium in SeaWorld Orlando. The film, Blackfish, is an emotion-stirring dive into the mistreatment of Orcas at SeaWorld and the...
Parvana, the protagonist, an eleven year old, brave, kind, strong, caring, hopeful and confident girl. In the first chapters, before becoming the breadwinner Parvana is a young and naive girl “what she wanted most of all was to be invisible” (Ellis 5), but after becoming...
Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick is a war film that stars characters like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Leonard Lawrence (Gomer Pyle), and protagonist James Davis (Joker). The film shows how War can change people to what they are not, either transforming them to blood-thirsty soldiers,...
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...
Ray Bradbury, stated: “the only answer to most of the destruction and dishonor and dissolution of the world is a sense of humor. …So when you are faced by the totalitarian regimes and the madness they inflict on the world, courage isn’t enough, you have...
The film “A Separation,” by Asghar Farhadhi was the first Iranian film to ever win an Oscar for “Best Foreign Language Film” in 2012. From just looking at the cover photos of a few of his works, there is a common theme of conflict between...
Hoodwinked is a 2005 computer animated movie that retells the folktale of Little Red Riding Hood, but as a police investigation, using flashbacks to show multiple characters' points of view. Even the word “hoodwink” means to deceive or trick someone which is the whole plot...
The film The Imitation Game both possess limitations and benefits of its representation of an historical figure. In evaluating the film's representation of the past there are many key issues to be discussed which include the essential questions about how and why the film has...
“Marshall” is a film about Thurgood Marshall a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) who together with his partner Sam Friedman a Jewish lawyer, take on the case of Joseph Spell a black chauffeur who had been accused of...
Introduction The film tells the story of four different babies that born and raised in 4 different places. There are babies from Namibia, Japan, Mongolia, and United States of America. Story begins with birth of babies and ends up with their first step scene. Each...
Purpose of this extended Essay is to investigate how filmmakers edit their films in order to present a visceral reality by doing so I intent to develop an understanding of editing techniques and styles used to portray time and space in film narratives. I will...
China, officially the People’s Republic of China is the largest country in the world today with the most population in the Southeast Asia country, which is a total of 1.435 billion people, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data. China is also...
Whale Rider is a Maori drama film that was released on 9 September 2002, directed and written by Niki Caro. The movie, adapted from Witi Ihimaera’s 1987 novel, is a co-production between New Zealand and Germany and has become a global success. The film reflects...
Billy Wilder’s 1959 film Some Like It Hot is an age old comedic farce often regarded as one of the best comedies of all time (Mondello, 2008). It centers on two men who, after witnessing a mob hit in prohibition era Chicago, are forced to...
The movie Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the final installation of Peter Jackson’s trilogy based on books written by J.R.R Tolkien. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King shows the final battle between the two armies, Aragorn’s army...
The Hunger Games of America The Hunger Games storyline has a lot of deeper aspects that can easily relate to the world we live in now. While watching the film, I think one of the things that really stood out to me was how the...
Based on the true story, the movie is based upon the coach of the high school in the poor area of Richmond Hill, CA. Samuel Jackson plays the character of real life ken carter. Richmond high school is his former high school in which he...
We as humans are creatures of the culture that we create; as a 19-year-old girl living in the stereotypical 'I’m lost in life and nobody can understand me' point of my life, I’ve become fairly acquainted with the side effects of today’s complex culture. Whether...
When it comes to the Phantom of the Opera, I would like to describe it like a magnet, a puzzle, and love. Firstly, the performance is like a magnet. In other words, it has the power to attract audiences. The composition of this performance is...
The quality of a film is denoted by the extent to which it captivates viewers. Some pieces may work better when performed on stage than when presented in the form of motion pictures. In contrast, some works are picture-perfect when offered as movies unlike when...
Separation is a very influential force that causes an individual to experience loneliness or alienation. To overcome the perception of separation, one must display emotional courage which gives an individual the power to show confidence in a distressing environment. In the film “The Green Mile”...
Introduction The movie “The Devil Wears Prada” is about a College graduate named Andrea Sachs and this character is played by the actress Anne Hathaway. She is looking for a job after her graduation and she eventually finds one at a fashion magazine named Runaway...
Setting In The Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy, the setting is a weird one. The setting is the whole universe, although they spend most of their time in a ship called the “Heart of Gold,” which was stolen by Zaphod Beeblebrox, who was briefly the...
Basic Information about the Movie: Name: 12 Angry men Director: Sidney Lumet Producer: Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose Story By: Reginald Rose Year of Release: 10th April, 1957 (USA) The Time Duration: 96 minutes Genre: Crime, Drama, Legal Drama Language: English Movie’s thesis/Purpose: It discusses...
A Beautiful Movie A dark-haired Jennifer Connelly peers into a white room with artificial lighting and a variety of hospital equipment. In the middle of the room, Russell Crowe is strapped to a hospital bed, wires and tubes hooked to various points of his body,...
Regardless of how one feels regarding the ending of Game of Thrones, it will forever be remembered as one of the most successful shows ever written. This last season of the show is worthy of its scrutiny mainly because the characters that we fell in...
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 intention of picking it up at some point. I am really happy that I did because this movie was different from...
Freedom Writers is a movie about how an optimistic inner-city teacher transformed the lives of her ‘unteachable’ at-risk students by believing in them and teaching them how to respect each other. Freedom Writers is based on a true story about how new teacher, Erin Gruwell...
The story, “The Day I Got Lost”, is by Isaac Bashevis Singer, who is almost the missing minded academic, playing the role of “Professor Schlemiel” who is the protagonist. When he leaves, he constantly overthinks, racking his mind even if he is absent-minded, for the...
Tokyo Story is a 1953 Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu, telling the story of an elderly couple named Shukichi and Tomi who travel from their small hometown to visit their children in Tokyo, who are too busy to spend time with them. Some of...
Summary Thomas wakes up in a box with no memories. He only remembers his name. Doors open above revealing a group of young boys living on a type of farm surrounded by huge walls. The place is called the Glade. Outside the Glade, behind the...
Grey’s Anatomy is an extremely popular medical drama that first appeared 2005 on American Broadcasting Company, better known as ABC. The television show is based around Meredith Grey, played by Ellen Pompeo, and her journey through internship, residency, and eventually her role as an attending...
In 1948 Bicycle Thieves introduced a new dimension neorealist filmmaking, a film that transparently invited the audience to reflect on historical reality through the prevailing notions of realism embedded within it, by ‘surmounting the barrier between documentary and fiction’ (Wagstaff, 2007, p.300). Andre Bazin notes...
We initially see him from a distance away from the crowd of the men. The use of the camera angles in this scene aids in characterizing Antonio’s sense of isolation possibly due to the fact that he is unemployed. Once the scene continues further into...
In this essay, I’m going to discuss how the action genre has changed over time by comparing examples from Batman (1989) and Batman Begins (2005). By choosing two origin Batman movies it enables me to show how the two directors, Tim Burton (Batman) and Christopher...
From the day we are born our experiences shapes the way we grow mentally and how we may interpret the environment around us. For this assignment, I chose to watch Good Will Hunting directed by Gus Van Stant in 1997. This film depicts the story...
Introduction The film industry has developed rapidly in recent years, and Chinese films have gradually entered the international scene. Chinese films have not only made breakthroughs in production techniques, but also in content, which is also undeniably attractive and artistic. Let the Bullets Fly (2010)...
Based largely on Joseph Campbell’s hero monomyth, which describes the prototypical heroic path of departure, initiation, and return, the hero’s journey, in its various interpretations, is present throughout many Hollywood movies. Regardless of the specifics of the heroic journey, there are constants that apply to...
Introduction Media is a medium that are popular among people nowadays. People often spend their times with media rather that other stuff. Television show or movie are the trending thing that people watch these days for a lots of reason such as entertainment, advertisement, news,...
Powell and Pressburger’s acclaimed ‘A Matter of Life and Death’ (1943) was released during a period of hostility between American servicemen stationed in Britain before D-Day and the British public. Notably the film’s title was changed for American and audiences to “Stairway to Heaven”, a...
The self-concept develops through biology and personality, culture and gender roles, reflected appraisal, and social comparison. Personality, or ways of thinking and behaviors that characterize a person, are an important component of self-concept. Likewise, some aspects of one’s personality are shaped, reflected, or affected by...
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly is a satire that criticizes the romanticism of the West, with a theme that alliances and friendships can shift wildly. The camera fades up on an open, deserted town. Three men meet up, nod, and charge into a...
A tech-noir science fiction film is defined by Google as a dark-movie expressing a specific type of cinematography while incorporating the elements that define science fiction such as advance technology and time. Ridley Scott’s timeless film, Blade Runner, is considered the pioneer for these types...
Looking at the Caribbean culture and lifestyle through film allows people to understand the past, however, the content must be viewed with a subjective eye. The films Pirates of the Caribbean at World’s End and PBS’s Egalité both portray different stories, ideals, and representations of...
Since it first aired on Nickelodeon on the 1st of May 1999, the animated TV series Spongebob Squarepants created by marine biologist/animator Stephen Hillenburg has not just generated a huge revenue ($13 billion, as at late 2017) for the network but has ranked as one...
The Russo Brothers return to direct the third installment in the Captain America franchise after delivering the fantastic Winter Soldier, while also acting as the thirteenth film in the now massive Marvel Cinematic Universe. For the most part Captain America: Civil War delivers an entertaining...
Mr. Holland’s Opus was a sensational, unforgettable movie. By the end of the movie I felt uplifted, although the movie was an emotional rollercoaster. Mr. Holland’s Opus reminded me of one of my favourite movies, Dead Poets Society. Both movies give us the story of...
Interpersonal communication is dynamic relationship between two or more people in which messages conveyed significantly influence their thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships (McCronack, 2015). The film to be discussed in this essay is the film Crash. There are number of things that happened in this...
Fury, a film by David Ayer embodies the description disclosed by Jeanine Basinger in the article “The World War II Combat Film: Definition”. This film includes many critical elements of the World War II Combat Film, including soldiers that have unrelated types of socioeconomic backgrounds...
The Danish Girl, directed by Tom Hooper, portrays the life of a painter Einar Wegener and his wife Gerda during his transition from a man to a woman. Einar’s first encounter with his female counterpart is shown when his wife asks him to be her...
The Age of Innocence is a movie which was made based on the novel of the same name by American female wirter Edith Wharton in 1921, the film foucuses on the love triangle in the upper class of New York in 1870s. Newland is the...
A composer manipulates a story into an impactful film for the ages by modernizing and appropriating it, making it appealing to their target audience and thus transforming it into something new. John Sturges’ 1963 film The Great Escape depicts in a modernized fashion the experience...
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