YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the 1986 Film Crossroads
Essays 481 - 510
are the various traumatic events Christ endures from the Garden of Gethsemane until the Crucifixion. They are broken down into fo...
and he refuses to do so. Mary Kate abides by her brothers wishes, which confuses and frustrates Sean. The plot complications tha...
instance), and externally (how the cinematic techniques used communicate with one another, and with the audience, to convey some t...
film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...
isolation in the woods comes into contact with the more traditional culture of the people from the nearby town where she is taken ...
in 1992 and directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky for New Video Group. It concerns the fate of Delbert Ward, one of four ba...
single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...
particularly disturbing because, as Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivores Dilemma, indicates in the film, eating such a narrowly...
to achieve dramatic effect. In Shaaras book, Armistead simply comments to Longstreet that he would like to see his old friend one ...
This research paper argues that director Quentin Tarantino has earned the perspective of being considered the auteur of his films,...
determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...
seriously short-handed, and in desperation, he enlists Starlings services. In the novel, Starling is portrayed as an ambitious an...
and training in the group development process. Studying groups in the 1960s, Tuckman observed that groups of individuals transiti...
Weapon movie directed by Norman Rockwell" (Mitchell). Thats a very good, if snarky, description. That being the case, its not sur...
Many Splendid Thing" which is very innocent and then the viewer is presented with the images of a young woman and young man on the...
Abel. Smeagol is analogous to Cain; he is his brothers murderer, and the audience is aware that the Ring is both powerful and evil...
the traitorous guide getting ready to shoot him in the back. The camera shifts to Indys hand, which is holding a whip, as he swift...
he runs the docks. The same thing applies in the other cases. The priest, Father Barry (Karl Malden) wants to save the souls of ...
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...
that has been crafted by man. Is Evelyn a beguiling sculptor who wants to mold Adam? There are other thematic elements in the wor...
In 6 pages this paper considers the Communist paranoia of the 1950s as depicted in this film's desire to prosecute Queeg during a ...
They have decided to acquire it so that the airport can be expanded. Thus, the working class Kerrigan family is pitted against th...
and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...
Rican descent. Graham would undoubtedly not identity himself as racist, yet he fails to remember that Ria is Puerto Rican, not Mex...
their idea of the Australian dream. The Kerrigans home, in their minds at least, is indeed their "castle". They willingly disreg...
applied to the characters at different times, but the two that seem most effective are Merton, and Shaw and MacKay. The term "Amer...
acknowledging responsibility for their own deaths if Israeli forces fired upon them (Twair 56). Abu-Assad later revealed that his...
to be Kates surrogate is Angie Ostrowiski, who is characterized as "white trash," a high school dropout who has a common law marri...