YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Western Films and the Themes of Loss and Regret
Essays 211 - 240
in many works, the focus of attention on the many true stories he takes on is related to childhood friendship that seemingly last ...
Michael is illegitimate, a revelation that he accepts cheerfully-a very strange thing for a Catholic priest to do (Dancing at Lugh...
clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...
Wanna Be Average" the writer illustrates how his high school years were filled with being educated in a school where he was mistak...
as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...
McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...
the white race is far superior to all others. Reprogramming such ingrained concepts is not something that will ever be carried th...
is bored out of his skull with his job and his life. His doctor advises him to go to support club meetings for people who are rea...
Every day, people seek medical treatments, surgery and extensive and costly procedures to reduce the physical impacts of aging and...
times appears to be a prune. In one memorable scene, as the plot thickens, George is standing in the middle of a waving...
new person. This has been tradition since Gilgamesh. The hero emerges from the wilderness to contribute to society and carry out...
In eight pages the trio of color symbolic components along with themes and plots from the films White and Blue are analyzed. Ther...
money that he stole from Warden Nortons ill-gotten funds. Eventually Red is paroled and joins Andy in Mexico. Themes : One of the...
main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...
fear. They seem at first to have found an idyllic home: the island is beautiful, there is abundant fresh water, plenty of fruit an...
mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...
is of excellent quality which is likely why it quickly became a classic, and one which others emulate. The ending is satisfying. S...
funeral, which is for seven-year-old Daniel Nicholson. Edward Walker, played by William Hurt, the apparent leader of this colony, ...
his dashboard. There is a common thread between the two men, but Hanson reacts to the fantasy he has constructed, not the reality,...
the idea that as father and son they belong together and belong to the same family group, but at the same time, as individuals, th...
hes written the book in blank verse. This means that it calls attention to itself but it does so with a purpose. Each poem, becaus...
"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" in 1782, a number of years before the French Revolution, and it stands to this day as a masterwork of p...
son, S.J., talking to him outside of school. S.J., which is short for "Sean Jr.," is a talkative youngster who is irrepressibly f...
graphic novel, a genre that Hollywood has embraced eagerly, hoping to duplicate the shocking and enormous success of 300. This pap...
of love that can so easily change course; it seems frivolous and rather shabby, after all Orsinos protestations of love to Olivia,...
the veneer of cultural, ideological and linguistic differences is also reflects in Kazablan (1974, directed by Menahem Golan). Thi...
mud hut where Hassan lived with his father" (Hosseini 6). While there was certainly hatred both expressed and suppressed among th...
that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...
history of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. In essence, Griffith is recounting the tales told to him by his father, who was a...
a "master swordsman," arriving at the Emperors fortress. Nameless explains to the Emperor how he vanquished "three deadly assassin...