Essays 181 - 210
large urban environment, humanity is even more vulnerable to the cruel and capricious winds of fate than at any other time in hist...
Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...
(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...
McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...
adding to aid of gloom. As this suggests, in Frankenstein, the X factor is primarily shown overtly, using aspects of the cinemat...
Gregors father who would rather his son did not exist. And, there is Gregors mother who is of a similar opinion as the father. The...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...
of my being" (Frankenstein). As with any newborn, his sensory impressions of the world are at first indistinct. He began to attemp...
even a bit further back to Madge Evans and Florence Rice. Most of their films seemed to derive from Colliers Magazine stories that...
severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...
any film based on a novel, there is much that is left out. And, interestingly enough, if it were up to anyone but Peter Jackson, t...
rivals. In retrospect, many have said that Chaplin was the better director but some critics "consider Keatons work as less pretent...
towards the end of World War II. In Biloxi, Mississippi, Eugene faces "authority and danger, anti-Semitism and assimilation" (Henr...
Wanna Be Average" the writer illustrates how his high school years were filled with being educated in a school where he was mistak...
was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...
bound and determined to remain at the top of the monetary mountain; Tucker had little means to battle such inequitable market stru...
climax of the film. The history of the cubicle is that these partitions were once heralded as an innovation and, today, they rem...
In this essay of three pages, the writer details how explosive the film version really is and the impact that it has. There is on...
an accidental meeting, as they have lunch in Guys private compartment, Bruno makes comments that reveal that he has detailed knowl...
to abide by her decision to communicate only in sign language. Young children acquire language skills by listening. From the tim...
not-so-classic sci-fi approach in the storytelling process allows the audience to wonder along with the main character, Neo, if it...
film Braveheart is noted for its bloody battle sequences (Brackman, 2004). While The Passion is based on the Gospel of John, Brac...
time. Perhaps in the distance between the time of Christ and modern times, the death of Christ by way of crucifixion has been sa...
finds that her conscience has problems with this assignment and she ultimately rebels. Paralleling Janes story is that of Akiko...
This essay pertain to Darren Aronofsky's 2000 film "Requiem for a Dream, and describes how each of the characters' lives spiral in...
This essay explains what classical and operant conditioning are. It discusses how politicians, moviemakers, and advertisers use cl...
Project" serves as an excellent example of a film-maker taking full advantage of the inherent fear of all modern humans regarding ...
This essay discusses the function and characterization of the police as they are portrayed in Mattleu Kassowitz's movie La Haine (...
In five pages this essay compares the film with the novel by Mark Twain in the commonality of the popular theme in each of childre...