Club Movie Reviews Samples For Students

There is a vast number of versions and remakes on R. L. Stevenson’s “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, 1886. But the two are have appeared to be the most impressive for me are the following: a very close remake – “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, 1985, filmed in the USSR and another one – though far from the plot, but still – related to the same subject “Fight Club”, 1999. And as we can see, every person has an alter ego that may at any time show the dark side of his soul.

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Fight Club:

Question 1:
This paper will examine both the film: Fight Club by David Fincher and the Book: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk in order to answer the question: Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club is written in almost cinematic terms, referring to specific shots in the first chapter, Tyler Durden’s job as a movie projectionist, and the idea of the "changeover." How does David Fincher’s film adaptation expand these terms to become a type of metafilm? What does the film show us about narrative, the transition from novel to film, and the medium of film itself? How are ...

The film, The Joy Luck Club, based on Amy Tan’s novel, portrays the story of four women and their daughters who eventually migrate from China to America. The story goes on to delve deep into how they are dissociated from their origins. These women live in a culture and time that is vastly different from the one in which they were themselves brought up.
The four older ladies meet once a week to play mahjong and they name their group as the ‘Joy Luck Club’. During the meeting they talk about stories of their respective families and grandchildren. They ...

Movie Review: “The Emperor's Club” (2002)

Introduction

The Emperor's Club (2002) is an American film produced and directed by Michael Hoffman. The film presents a story of a renowned teacher who fixes candidates’ results in an academic competition. The intension of fixing the results in the competition was to ensure that, a well-connected student wins the competition in expense of other students. The film presents William Hundert as a prominent educator with a strong reputation due to his past character and experience in the film industry. Although Hundert was successfully in developing an educative film, his work presents some weaknesses (The Emperor's Club 2002).

Important factors in moral development

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The Joy Luck Club (1993) was based on Amy Tan’s 1989 novel and deals with issues of culture, assimilation and generation conflicts between a group of four Chinese mothers and their Americanized daughters. All four women in the club had emigrated from China to the U.S. after World War II, and met after church to play Chinese mahjong every week. In reality, they had little joy or luck, and no expectations, only the hope that their children would have better lives than theirs. By the Confucian standards which the mothers learned from childhood, there were very definite differences in ...

John Hughes’ 1985 film, The Breakfast Club is a teen movie that addresses the imperative stage of childhood to adulthood transformation in a school set up. From a sociological point of view, the film brings forth an important display of teenagers’ interactions that is based on social labels, that is, appearance, interests and general behavior. The five major teenagers in the film, Allison, Andrew, John, Brian, and Claire are different in appearance, interests, and their behaviors too. The manner in which the story is presented remains relevant to the current times and is applicable to the adolescents’ daily lives.

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The Breakfast Club, written, produced and directed by John Hughes, often considered to be one of his most critically acclaimed movies, explores the personal identities, challenges, experiences and outlooks of five high school teenagers of Shermer High School in Illinois. The five students are sent to the detention room even before the school day starts, and this is where the movie gets its name. One of Hughes’s friends had his children studying at the New Trier High School, where students who were sent to early morning detentions were dubbed ‘members of the breakfast club’ .
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What is going to happen if one puts in the same room tomboy metal guy, first princess of the school, honor and intellectual individual, school-champion athlete and the typical notorious subcultural kid ? That's right, one will get a Breakfast Club, which became in the late eighties as a sensation and certainly one of the best sections about Generation X, as well as a recognized standard of the youth cinema.
This movie is considered to be perhaps the most chaste and simultaneously trivial film about teenagers among their own kind. It is also needless to say that the script ...

What is the true subject, or theme of the film, and what kind of statement, if any, does the film make about the subject? Which elements and which scenes contribute most to addressing the theme of the film?
I think the true subject, or theme of the film is sensationalism and corruption. This film takes aim at the way celebrity court cases are portrayed in the media, and the kind of impact that level of attention can have on the individual on trial. It also highlights corruption within the entertainment industry, portraying it as a seedy world where injustice ...

The Handmaid's Tale movie is an adaptation of the novel The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. It is directed by Volker Schlondoff and the screen play written by Harold Pinter. The movie is about the republic of Gilead. It was set in totalitarian future of America. It tells of Kate’s story as a handmaid where she is subjected to bear children so as to avoid facing criminal charges. Kate nicknamed as Offred is the protagonist in the movie who is trained to become a Handmaid and a concubine for one of the barren couple’s ruling the countries religious primary regimes. ...

The Wrestler (2008) features the story of Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke), an aging wrestler. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the film shows a wrestler’s attempts to hang on to the glory days of the 1980’s by wrestling past his prime, even though his health is sputtering and his personal life is on the downturn. A part-time employee of a supermarket, Randy has a manager who makes fun of his attempts to wrestle on the weekends. He meets Cassidy (Marisa Tomei), who works at a strip club and – much like Randy – is too old for the work she is doing. He ...

Broculture and The Hangover

Abstract
The concept of broculture and bromance in the movie, The Hangover provides a new understanding into the changing conception of masculinity in the modern man as depicted in popular culture. It is both a celebration of uber-masculinity and the liberation of the individual, in particular, the male from traditional conventions through the experimentation with drugs and alcohol.This paper seeks to examine the treatment of broculture in by Phillips in The Hangover. The first part provides a short synopsis of the movie and explores the choice and treatment of the setting of Las Vegas. The second part looks at ...

Norton who is unnamed narrator is an employee of a traveling company employee who was suffering from insomnia. He visits a doctor who refuses to offer him medication and instead visits a support group where he would witness more suffering. He attends a support group for victims suffering from testicular cancer and fools them that he is one of them. The emotional releases relieve the insomnia he had. He later becomes an addict of attending support groups and pretends to be a victim. However, he only played a victim. He met another impostor Bonham Carter (Marla Singer) disturbed him ...