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An Analysis of the Film, American Beauty

troubled home life. To escape, Ricky retreated into his own world of drugs and voyeurism. Simply stated, American Beauty was an ...

Commitment and Betrayal in the Film Elizabeth

In five pages this film is considered in an analysis of its thematic portrayal of betrayal and commitment. One source is listed i...

G.I. Jane and Disclosure Sociological and Film Analysis

noted for her androgynous performances, is clearly a woman who is unafraid to exert a mans strength and predatory nature, has soug...

Visual Themes in Cameron Crowe's 2001 Film Vanilla Sky

is until he has suffered pain and unhappiness, concepts that are foreign to David, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth....

Literature, Film, Identity, and Travel

conversation" (Clifford, 1997, p. 37). Similarly, the identity of the Moe family remained Hawaiian, despite the fact that they t...

Sir Carol Reed's Film The Third Man

a job writing for a volunteer medical unit he runs. Harry, however, is dead by the time Holly arrives (Ebert, 2002); he has, in fa...

History and Citizen Kane

flashbacks in the movie) (Street 48). Through these interviews, the audience learns that Kane inherited a fortune at a young age, ...

Cinema and Gun Symbolism

take a life in just moments. A student writing on this subject may want to consider the gun as an appendage of the bodies of Travi...

A Seven Film Analysis

excellent example of explanatory communication. The protagonist is explaining his reasoning and the fact that he wants to do some...

Fritz Lang's Films

the audience. In many modern examples, the most creative thing that can be said about a particular movie maker is his or her abili...

William Shakespeare's Play Macbeth and 2 Film Interpretations

conscience. Said Macbeth: "One cried "God Bless us! And "Amen!" the other, as they had seen me with these hangmans hands. Listning...

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Film Analysis

by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...

Analysis of the Style and Narrative of the Film The Man Who Wasn't There

in that Ed Crane is sure that his wife is having an affair with her boss. Banking on the surety of his assumption, he sends the bo...

Comparative Analysis of Wladislaw Szpilman's Book The Pianist and Roman Polanski's Film Adaptation

true to the book? When Szpilman took pen to paper, he seemingly did so to relay the events of his life. Realizing that he had sur...

1939 Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by Director Frank Capra

MGM and Warner Brothers, it had to rely on a limited group of performers. One of the most appealing was a tall, gangly young acto...

Psychological Analysis of the Film Leaving Las Vegas

1996, p. 3), which she accepts as a way of demonstrating her unconditional support of him and his intention to literally drink him...

Artwork in the Films Basquiat and Crumb

he is the one telling us of his past and his art. He tells us that one time he took some drug that was supposedly LSD but he think...

An Analysis of the Films, Bowling for Columbine and, The Decay of Fiction

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

Analysis of Literary and Film Versions of The Color Purple

a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

David Fincher's The Fight Club

libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...

Macon in The Accidental Tourist and OCD

safe with American restaurant choices, avoiding human contact, and the like. What is interesting about this story is tha...

M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable Cinematic Analysis

use the camera in the same way as an author uses words for both aesthetic and textural purposes. There are two particularly effec...

Opening Sequence Analysis of the 1979 Film Apocalypse Now

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

Critique and Analysis of Wag the Dog Film by Barry Levinson

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

An Analysis of Akira Kurosawa's 1995 Film, 'Ran'

it was because of Kurosawa that the West became aware of Japanese movies and the unique views of and commentary on the world that ...

Revolution, George Orwell's Animal Farm and the Film Gandhi

farmer, the oppressor. However, once the pigs were in place and the rules established, the farm animals found themselves under a...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Gender Issues and Class in Karl Reisz's Film Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

What it depicts is a picture of class prejudice and strained gender relationships. Saturday Night Sunday Morning is made ...

The Film The Heiress Analyzed

lush as one of the contemporary Merchant-Ivory or Emma Thompson movie adaptations of other literary classics that offer a view int...