YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Three Classic Films From the Mid Twentieth Century
Essays 451 - 480
Luhrmann, "In Moulin Rouge, our ultimate Red Curtain gesture, music and song is the device that releases us from a naturalistic wo...
Furthermore, there are certain commonalties that run through the storylines of all epic writing. Examples of such include heroism,...
Modern movie adaptations of classic novels are often hard to compare to the originals. This report discusses the film version of P...
The writer analyzes the 1942 classic film Casablanca, and argues that Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, is the archetypal re...
him. A coach has been appointed the foreman but he is ill equipped to do the job he has been assigned. He resents wasting his tim...
is that so many people believe in ideals like Willys. In the end, what is show is that a man with so much potential ends up losing...
and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...
not-so-classic sci-fi approach in the storytelling process allows the audience to wonder along with the main character, Neo, if it...
makes constitutes the "others" uniqueness. "The Other" inFilm The existence of "the other" has figured prominently throughout the...
would have no doubt preferred. She stays and makes a life for herself and Pearl as a seamstress and though her scarlet letter def...
for garnering information about the characters. Citizen Kane tops on all of the critics list is the new and dynamic use of the cam...
these nonverbal cues that reveal more than the spoken dialogue. Alfred Hitchcocks reputation as the cinemas "Master of Suspense" ...
This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...
This essay pertains to a Vincente Minneli film from 1945, "The Clock," which starred his wife, Judy Garland. The writer discusses ...
This film reviews pertains to director Richard Brooks' 1958 film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." The writer discusses the film in terms o...
African author Chinua Achebe argues that the extended metaphor that Conrad uses to relate his principal theme is founded on the vi...
factor can be seen in both Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters. In Sunset, Joe Gillis is an out-of-work screenplay writer, who has t...
The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project fits perfectly with the popular conception of what constitutes an independent fil...
his home, and is confronted by an angel who convinces him that Mary has told the truth. The next scenes dramatize the "birth of Je...
just beginning his journey, understanding that is a necessity and that it holds danger: "MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I fou...
night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...
Company to the top of the Nielsen ratings. Its premise was simple - Jack Tripper needed a cheap place to live while completing hi...
of consumerism - the perpetual wanting of more and more materialistic tangibles until there is nothing left to appreciate - reside...
decent amount of food and health. A Nazi band plays a bright military march that contrasts with the general shabbiness of the men ...
"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...
the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...
inasmuch as they were "fortunate to live at a time characterized by open-mindedness and liberal ideas" (Jianying, 2001). This exa...
Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...
This paper begins by presenting a brief summary of the plot to "Philadelphia," a 1994 film. The writer, then, present a sociologic...
This paper discusses 2 scenes from the film "Good Morning, America" and offers summation and analysis. Three pages in length, thre...