YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the 1986 Film Crossroads
Essays 181 - 210
pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...
main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...
mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...
towards the end of World War II. In Biloxi, Mississippi, Eugene faces "authority and danger, anti-Semitism and assimilation" (Henr...
as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...
closer together and provide cohesiveness to the group through a single-mindedness of purpose (Gehring 93). At no time does the gr...
has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...
it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...
children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...
on the marquee, the classic Frank Capra holiday film starring James Stewart. The night is clear as evidenced by the lack of umbre...
that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...
The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...
resonates with the viewers and that, in part, is why the film is so successful (Short and Short). In addition, writer and Angelo...
at the other end looks miniscule (Holme, et al, 1972). This perception is based on visual assumptions, and these same assumptions ...
value, Sherilyn Fenn, a B-movie actress who had starred in David Lynchs television series Twin Peaks (Thompson, 1992). As a resul...
around the emperor was protected from prosecution. Thus the films main villain, Baron Takahasi, the commander of the Ambon camp an...
Aruru to create a man mighty enough to subdue him if necessary: "It was you, Aruru, who created mankind, now create a zikru to i...
well into adulthood. However, Lorber points out, "Individual actions construct social institutions and therefore... changes in in...
his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...
that allows the director to alter the internal pace of the scene, directing the audiences attention to specific aspects of the sce...
"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" in 1782, a number of years before the French Revolution, and it stands to this day as a masterwork of p...
fact is not as clear in the film. The film is allowed the benefit of constant juxtapositions out of place and time. The book depen...
primarily morals or values, but rather self-interest and the realization that he would have allowed the attraction he feels for th...
was able to successfully leverage despite its late entry into the digital camera market (Thompson, 2007). The company has been abl...
Peruvian interior, complete with "the chattering of monkeys, the cries of exotic birds, the unidentifiable clicks and hisses of th...
funny. The boys arrive at Uranyas beach shack, which is "straight out of Fellini," on their bicycles (Young). One boy ventures for...
gifted comedian of the era in her own right. Silent screen actors had to convey emotion, as well as personality, by establishing ...
Goodman, who starred in four Coen films). Its dramatic KKK historical motif serves as a backdrop for what plays like a cartoon wi...
that Phil has always been a jerk, even in his youth, as first of all, he dismissed ordinary people, such as Ned, as beneath him an...
of a directors wish to go into a more exciting creative direction by deviating from his formulaic musical comedies and instead mak...