Essays 301 - 330
Abel. Smeagol is analogous to Cain; he is his brothers murderer, and the audience is aware that the Ring is both powerful and evil...
Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...
sole survivor out of the eight people who lived for three years in the lofts tiny space. The film flashes back to Otto explaining ...
lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...
This paper provides an analysis of the film Se7en (Seven), in terms of form, cultural-historical background, and how the film is u...
truth and the search for meaning in life. It was no longer a time for people to sleep and hide in their supposedly perfect illusor...
to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...
the Bond films (Antulov, 2004). They all seem to come together on some lonely little island, in the middle of nowhere, where th...
theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...
is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...
who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...
successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...
that wracks him with confusion (Nassal, 2002). "I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Li...
religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...
In three pages cinema is defined as 'writing in images' with differences between visual and written texts considered along with fi...
of these men (Broken Sword, Sky, and Flying Snow). In essence, the central protagonist in the film takes it on himself to find an...
understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...
human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...
child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...
of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...
the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...
exact) and the censorship had begun to relax. Other firsts included showing the two lovers naked on their wedding night. What one...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
the criminal activity that is taking place in this particular world. In Mildreds story we have a woman who has struggled all he...
Brittens music in this work, his primary identification is with deeply felt emotion that emanates from Owens poetry (Gomez 92). So...
This paper addresses two films from each decade, beginning with the 1950s and continuing to the 1990s, and cites examples of racis...
where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...
police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...
and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...
women will play in the film (The Graduate). Throughout the film, Nichols uses images, including an extensive series of montages, t...