YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the 1986 Film Crossroads
Essays 511 - 540
meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...
Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in b...
way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...
the event of Savannahs hospitalization after a second suicide attempt and Toms journey to New York to assist her psychologist, Dr....
The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...
direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...
and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...
and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...
Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
the film is Allens character Alvy who seems to have so many problems it becomes hilarious and insane, often presenting psychologic...
and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...
ultimately meaningless and pointless. An audience member, however, wants to understand whats happening, and uses a film narrative ...
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...
frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...