Hero Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Vertigo is a brilliant piece of work that presents psychoanalytic issue in an efficient manner. Vertigo is a psychological thriller directed by A. Hitchcock. The movie was premiered during sixties and praised by the audience. The director utilized all film elements in a manner to create an impression on the minds of audience. All filmic elements such as sound, color, music makes the movie very remarkable. This paper presents a detailed analysis of movie Vertigo, and how director illustrated psychoanalytical issue in an impressive manner.
Vertigo has great influence of 1920’s art and movies that emphasize on imagination and experiments. Vertigo ...

Jay Gatsby, the protagonist of “The Great Gatsby” is the archetype and represents the tragic hero. This archetype is the one the audience sympathizes with and whose luck changes throughout the story from best to worst. In most cases the tragic hero dies and it happens because there is a flaw in his character. Jay Gatsby is fortunate at the beginning of the film when he meets Daisy and falls in love with her. However, his poverty prevents him from marrying her, so he goes away and returns as a wealthy man, but only to see the love of his life ...

In the movie "Gladiator," Maximus goes through many different roles. Through it all, he remains a leader, although in different incarnations.
At the time of this quote, Maximus is ascending the ranks of gladiator fame. Still in the Zanzibar province, he slaughters his way through four other gladiators in casual fashion. To a man of Maximus' martial skill, honed in the Legions, the vaudevillian fight style of the gladiator is no challenge to his compact, efficient technique. At the end of the fight, in a show of disgust, Maximus hurls his gladius at the VIP box of the arena, and then ...

In this paperwork, I will be conducting a film review- Shane 1953- depicting the extent that the movie represents the ideal qualities of the western hero. Does Shane live or die at the end of the film and how this affect our understanding of the film’s theme(s) will also be included in my paperwork. The film is a 1953 American Western film from paramount that was produced by George Stevens.
As depicted from the film, there is a social meaning, whereby, both their growth and employment concurrently pays for an exceptional facet of inventive connectivity. Shane vividly brings out ...

English

Superman is a superhero known by all people in the world. Many young children identify with superman and an even greater number of young children aspire to be superman when they grow up. As such superman has a special place in the heart of every human being who has experienced or rather underwent a childhood. Superman is an iconic figure as far as the super hero universe is concerned and is revered by a very large number of people all over the world. The latest depiction of this iconic hero is the movie man of steel. This motion picture has been long awaited ...

Hotel Rwanda is the story of a hotel manager who helped save thousands of Rwandans during a civil crisis between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes. Paul Rusesabagina is a Hutu married to a Tutsi woman. He is also the manager of the Hotel des Mille Collines, which later on served as an alternative home for several refugees and orphans. When the political situation worsened, people were killed violently. Thus, to keep his family safe, Rusesabagina bribed the influential people with alcohol and money. However, when the outbreak continued, his family and neighbors were threatened by Rwandan Army officers, forcing him to turn the ...

INVICTUS (2009)

Introduction

Nelson Mandela unites with the Springboks captain Francois Pienaar in an attempt to unite the South African country a country that due to apartheid is divided across racial and economical aspects. The two presume the roles of the heroes in the movie Invictus in an endeavor that they end up uniting the country through the love of sport. The entire movie has employed Campbell’s concepts and ideas of how a hero comes to being, how he is nurtured, designed and prepared to be termed as a hero in society. As it will be noted in this discussion, the journey ...

Introduction

In his book, Pathway to Bliss, Joseph Campbell talks about the journey that a hero must go through before he or she can be considered to be a true hero. According to Campbell, a hero’s journey is comprised of 12 stages. These stages test the strength, ability and motivation of the hero/heroine and it is only at the final stage that the hero gets rewarded for his struggle and attains ultimate success.

Question 1

In the movie Invictus, the hero is Nelson Mandela. There are several scenes that depict his heroic journey in this movie. Having just been released from, Nelson Mandela faces ...

Chinese cinema has always been at the forefront of international cinema. Despite it being only the 4th largest industry in the world, it has still managed to create an impact on American and European audiences. The story coupled with martial arts and action created crossover appeal with American audiences as early as the 1960s. Characteristics of Hong Kong cinema gave rise to anti-heroes whom went against type but were heroes at the end of the day. Drunken Master (1978), Hard Boiled (1992) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) are 3 films which speak to the evolution of Chinese cinema in ...

Ancient Rome has often been depicted in film through sprawling epics, mining historical accounts and Biblical scripture for sweeping stories of love, governments, religion and war. As the environment they depict is one of slaves, imperialism and hedonism, many of these stories fall into the traditional historical epic of a slave freeing themselves (and others) from tyranny. The 1960 film Spartacus is most certainly one of those films, a powerful and expansive work by Stanley Kubrick, depicting the slave Spartacus' rebellion against the Roman aristocracy who enslaved them. However, this same self-serious scope can often be mined for comedy, as in ...

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In the film, A face in the crowd, Griffith plays the anti-hero role. He plays as the protagonist who does not have the qualities to make him a true hero. He is a stumbling block to himself; a fact proved through the series of events in his life. Larry Rhodes gets discovered by Marcia Jeffries on a radio talk show run at a station called KGRK. Rhodes soon rises to fame as a country boy. He has a strong charm and folksy sense of humor, which endears him to the masses. Soon enough, he lands a job to host his own show in Tennessee. The talk ...

Introduction

“Invictus” is a film that shows an inspirational story of how Nelson Mandela united his fellow countrymen by using rugby team as a catalyst, subsequent to the end of apartheid. During this time Mandela was serving his term as president and as he campaigned to host the Rugby World Cup in 1995, he used this opportunity to unite divided nation. After the apartheid, the white minority fears vengeance while the black majority seeks revenge. The movie portrays the racial trapping that prevailed in South Africa through the almost all-white rugby team, Mandela’s security and the divided nation to narrate ...

Fist of Fury is a martial arts film directed by Lo Wei. The cast were Bruce Lee who portrayed the lead role of Chen Zhen; Nora Miao acted as Yuan Li’er, Chen’s fiancѐe; Riki Hashimoto as Hiroshi Suzuki, the master of the Hongkou doj. Also starring were Robert Baker as Petrov, a Russian gang leader and Suzuki’s friend. This film runs for 103 minutes and was first shown in 1972 in Hongkong and in November 7, 1972 in New York (Wikipedia).
This martial arts film was set in the early twentieth century during the Japanese occupation ...

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010), Divine Comedy of Dante
It is a common knowledge that this movie is adapted from Dante Aligheri’ called The Divine Comedy. This movie is animated from the country of Japan. The story is really simple. Dante had apparently gone to the Crusades for spiritual nourishment. However, when he came back, he found that his wife, Beatrice had been slaughtered. The Dark One, the name Dante gives to grim the reaper, was nonetheless present to take to hell, the girl’s soul. Dante did not know the reason for this. He therefore followed the ...

The Last Man on Earth is a 1964 science fiction horror film directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow. This film was adapted from Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend. The filmed was set in Rome, Italy and was released in theatre in the United States by American International Pictures and the UK in 1966.

Thesis

Through Morgan (Vincent Price), Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow are able to convey the horror and the despair of the last man living on earth that was infested by zombie like vampires resulting from an extensive plague. It was one man fighting against ...

Often touted as an ‘unfilmable’ novel, Yann Martel’s Life of Pi told the story of a young Indian boy named Pi who, over the course of the story, finds himself on a small life raft in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with only a dangerous Bengal Tiger (whom he names Richard Parker) to accompany him. Here, he goes on a hazardous journey of survival, during which he explores his spirituality and is taken to the depths of his understanding of life itself. Ang Lee’s 2012 film masterfully adapts these themes into an elegant, fairytale-like story that is alternatingly presentational and ...

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe is a documentary that follows the life of a radical-leftist attorney. However, the captivating and incendiary film is also based on the tragic form of liberal guilt. The movie revolves around the numerous cases that Kunstler was involved with until his demise. The film depicts William Kunstler as the passionate defender of the American people’s civil rights, earning him the reputation through defending a majority of the controversial defendants during the 20th Century. In Kunstler’s profession, he defended the American Indian Movement, Chicago 8, the Attica Prison rioters, the Freedom Riders, and ...

The film confirms the universal power of faith and belief in yourself. Whoever you may be, your trump card is your faith. Fatalists believe in the inevitability of fate, Gatsby believes that the fate of his was just that, which he invented himself. He achieved the greatness that all was prepared for him since childhood (Churchwell).
The film is about how to love, loyalty on his dream. Of course, it is not easy, even dangerous, but maybe we should try it. As long as the person is alive, you can correct any mistakes; realize any dream, even a return ...

Genre: Horror

Director: Tobe Hooper
Stars: Marily Burns, Gunnar Hansen
Objective Analysis: (give a few examples and provide text to support your examples)
1. Visual component (such as the art direction, camera angles and movement, cinematography, lighting, visual style, etc.):
The film is very gritty, with a dark visual style, heavy use of shadows and more. The visual style is very stripped down and gory, with close-up camera angles to capture the horror.
2. Editing component (like the pacing, rhythm, transitions, etc.):
The pacing of the film is very tense, with situations and shots lingering ...

Analysis of Science Fiction Movie Solaris

Analysis of Science Fiction Movie Solaris
Solaris is a Russian science fiction art film adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris (1961) shot in 1972, directed and co-written by Andrei Tarkovsky. It represents a meditative drama of psychological character set mostly on a space station that is orbiting around the fictional Solaris planet. The station had a scientific mission that was stalled as the three scientists in the crew fell into the emotional crises. This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the problems brought out by the film and the way the director managed to convey the ideas of Lem, ...

Ernst Lubitsch (1942): To be or not to be
Ernst Lubitsch, a Jewish-German, directed the film to be or not to be in 1942 together with Jack Benny, and Carole Lombard, who act the couple Torra. This is a couple of actors who had led a theatre team in Warsaw and were busy in rehearsing an anti-Nazi play a time when Germans had invaded Poland. In the film, the group becomes an active secretive participant and through their costumes they manage to deceive the Nazis together with their cooperators. The film illustrates the Nazis racism and violence instead of the military ...

PROJECT TITLE: Rear Window (1954)

GENRE: Thriller/Suspense

1. Opening Image (1): The movie opens with the view from inside the house of a window of an apartment complex. As the name of the movie says rear window, the audience can infer that it the view from this apartment of the society that forms the premises of the story. One can guess that is from this window that the protagonist might see something that builds into the story of the movie.

2. Theme Stated (5): Roughly five minutes into the movie, Jeffers (James Stewart) says on phone to his editor “Six weeks sitting in a ...

Hotel Rwanda movie is based on a true story of a man who against all odds tries to save people in the midst of genocide in Rwanda. It was an organized murder of almost a million Rwandans. He gives hope to people in a country when there is no hope left. Rwanda descends into total chaos and madness and the whole world opts out. Nobody wants to help the Africans as they are viewed as dung. He opens arms to the helpless and by this saves many lives. The movie is all about the atrocities conducted against humanity in Rwanda. The tension that ...

Deviance is a behavior that is thought to go against the common known standardized social norms which makes the behavior be disapproved by a majority of the people in the society. Norms do vary across different groups, places and even times but and therefore there is no standard way of gauging whether an act can be termed as deviant or not. In the case of Ron Kovic, an anti war activist, writer and veteran who was once a law abiding citizen, was socialized into a deviant member of society. This can be clearly seen through the movie Born on the Fourth of July.

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