YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Shakespeare Films
Essays 1981 - 2010
also gave rise to greater criminal activity. Coupled with the decree of prohibition on alcohol, many took advantage of this easy m...
aided in this aspect of the film by production designer Henry Bumstead, who "carried the masters color ideas out in ingenious desi...
returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...
by todays standards because almost everything this film did, has been done over and over since. The paper, therefore, focuses on h...
legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...
darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...
the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...
What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...
hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...
style, but did not really have the time to focus on its development until he suffered from a back injury and spent numerous months...
America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...
Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...
and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...
dime to look like an model. In fact, in reality, it was not too long ago when it was discovered that models were selling their egg...
was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...
Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...
Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...
angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...
uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...
72). Morrow and the two children were killed instantly. While tighter safety precautions were immediately instituted by the film i...
she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...
rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...
poetry, philosophy and other topics. The club...would be completely unacceptable to the conservative school, which discourages stu...
large urban environment, humanity is even more vulnerable to the cruel and capricious winds of fate than at any other time in hist...
the ordinary man can screw those in authority then he should do it. One of the themes of Double Indemnity is shown in that it is...
another toots a miniature horn through his nose. When they arrive at the station, the boys join the rest of their peers, who are...
women and have no true knowledge of what life is like in a society with two sexes. These men fall in love, and eventually are kick...
light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....
of play. The summer is very representative of a simplistic and conservative community, giving us an ideal setting in a simpler tim...
against his father. Meanwhile, Fredersen orders the scientist Rotwang to create a robot that looks like Maria; he plans to use th...