Language Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

American Tongues is a sociolinguistic documentary produced and directed by Andrew Kolker and Louis Alvarez in 1988. This documentary examines the American English accents and dialects as well as perceptions thereof. Rich in regional color and humor, this hilarious film uses language prism to disclose our attitudes about how other individuals speak. From Black Louisiana teenagers to Boston Brahmins, from New York professionals to Texas cowboys, American Tongues bring about funny, perceptive, at times shocking, and continuously telling comments on the American English in entirely its diversity.
People have feelings/beliefs/attitudes about the language in general, language of the other ...

Essay 1: Auteur

X-Men series of film is an institution in its amazing way. Bryan Singer pioneered this popular comic characters and brought them to the silver screen. It is a very gigantic task to convert the fictional fantasy of an existence of a superhuman into a realistic visual treat. However, highly creative mind of Bryan Singer is capable of this task. The history is the evidence (The Usual Suspects) of the mastery of Bryan Singer in direction and storytelling. The thesis statement of this paper is the powerful auteur of the directorial team of the movie to bring his vision into reality.

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The film is about the relationship between Andrew and Margaret .Margaret is the boss to Andrew in the organization. She was very strict in her position of management in the organization. Margaret could not entertain any nonsense at the place of job. She was very harsh in relation to the issues of leadership. The employees feared her in the organization. Margaret used her position of power to convince and push the young assistant called Andrew to marry. Margaret left her visa to expire risking her chances of deportation back to Canada. She used her position and influence in the ...

The video was about the discussion of how a simple change in body language can lead a person to a big change. In other words, a small tweak can change provide a big change to someone’s life (Cuddy, 2012). At first, Cuddy talked about how simple body language can create perception towards a person. Few examples were given, such as the difference of a person who handshakes versus a person who doesn’t. Thus, the behavior of person can be influenced by how he or she acts such as demonstrating the acts of a powerful person. Body language ...

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Children of a Lesser God is a movie directed by Randa Heines and produced by Burt Sugarman and Patrick Palmer 1986. The movie was based on a stage play titled Children of a Lesser God a play that was written by mark. The screen play was written by Mark Medoff and Hesper Anderson. The movie is a romantic drama film. The movie is about a teacher who finds a job in a school for the deaf and fortunately he falls in love with one of the students.

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James Leeds and Sarah Norman are the main characters. Sarah Norman is the character with a disability; she is deaf (Anderson & Medoff, ...

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The earliest known form of writing was the Sumerian language. The Kish tablet is the oldest extant document from that time period with writing on it, but the largest early collection of Sumerian writings were found at Jemdet Nasr. Writing developed as a set of logographic signs that later were changed into a logosyllabic script that had a few hundred signs; researchers found 468 different signs used in documents found at Sumerian Lagash. The period from the 26th through the 24th centuries BCE are considered the classical period of Sumerian cuneiform writing. Anthropologists were able to decipher the Sumerian from Akkadian glossaries, ...

“The Linguists” is a movie about the travails of two linguists, David Harrison and Gregory Anderson. Their objective is to document some of the world’s languages that are already near extinction. They visit Siberia, Arizona, Bolivia and India to research the disappearing languages in these areas. As they try to discover these dying languages, the two linguists also expose themselves to the distinct culture and traditions of the speakers of these languages. In Siberia, they were able to learn about the Chulym which is a tribal language. In Arizona, the linguists were able to come across the Chemehuevi language from a ...

I would like to start with stating that it was very impressing for me to watch the movie “For A Deaf Son” by Rob Tranchin. I thought I had some idea about deaf people and their life but in reality it appeared to be totally different from what I expected. In this documentary one family was brave enough to share all their pain and frustration regarding having the deaf son with the rest of the world. It believe it took a lot of courage to highlight the main challenges they faced and decisions they made, no matter right or wrong; ...

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 ...

In revising this piece, one of the main aspects that needs to be addressed is the choice of language used. In a piece of academic writing, it is essential to use formal language. In this piece the student has, at times, used colloquial language. An example of this is the line, “The cinematography followed the look established in Batman Begins by using subdued colours, lots of darkness and a more restrained visual style than the one seen in the late 80s and 90s”. Instead of the words ‘lots of,’ the student should have used something more formal, for example ‘many’. This ...

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 ...

This title of the film is “How to Make Kimchi: according to my Kun Umma”. It is a short documentary directed by Samuel Kiehoon Lee. It was shown at the UIC multi-cultural film festival. The film was shot with the help of The Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council and NFB Filmmaker Assistance Program. The main character in the film is the director’s aunt Bong Ja Lee.
The film was shot in 2003 and it won the Jury Award for the Best Documentary Short at the San Diego Asian Film Festival in 2003. The film was ...

Introduction

The film, The Secrets of my Success, is a viewed as a comedy that presents a young and determined business man who continues his business ambitions by strategizing on business oriented plans that consequently brings his company into a better position and outweighing the competitors. By just reading an email that passed through his hands, Fox devises a defined and brilliant project of streaming his uncle’s multinational corporation. The film presents the ladders that brilliant business individuals should undertake in moving a company to better heights. However, one can clearly see the integration of personal issues in business where Britney interacts sexually with a fellow ...

One of the top most grossing industries or sectors in the contemporary society is the entertainment industry. Increasing standards of living around the world have allowed individuals to accumulate bigger disposable incomes. Lifestyle changes continue to arise within the contemporary society owing to the growing, improving incomes. Consumables that were previously unprofitable have since become among day-to-day products. The growing entertainment industry is one such sector. The focus of this paper is to analyze the industry, growth process, and evolution of the cinema industry in India.
The growth of the movie sector is one of the indicators of a ...

Jagte Raho is a black and white film which describes the lifestyle of a villager who had travelled in an urban city full of evil acts. The film takes place over one long, bizarre night in a block apartment in the midst of the city. Raj Kapoor, a thirty villager, was seeking for water to quench his thirst. When heading to the direction with piped water in an apartment, he is hastily spotted and suspected of being a burglar. The accusations makes the villager run dearly for his life and hide in the safest apartments. In the process, Kapoor ...

Secrets and Lies (1996)
This movie focuses on the life and struggle of one woman in finding truths in her life. After her adoptive mama passes away; Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a triumphant black eye physician, searches for her birth mother. She is surprised when her investigation leads her to a plebeian white woman, Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn). Initially, Cynthia denies the claim, but she finally admits to birthing Hortense as an adolescent, and the pair begins to bond. Nevertheless, when Cynthia invites Hortense to a relative’s barbecue, Cynthia's already nervous relationship with her kin becomes even more complex. The film is ...

The movie ‘sound and fury’ is about identity in a deaf culture. It highlights the difficulty of a family living in the fear of losing their culture that has shaped them for generations. The deaf culture is important to the Artinian family, who fear losing it to a cochlear hearing plant that will force them to associate with a different culture in the hearing world. The concept of culture is, therefore, highlighted as an identity through the common behavior of a group of people. Culture is where a group is bound by the practices that identify them the most. It makes people who they are ...

The pressure of being a single parent dealing with an adolescent daughter or son can be a handful. In most cases, the father-daughter, mother-son relationships are quite more compatible, as the father has a soft spot for his daughter, and the mother, has for her son. But, when a single mother has to deal with her growing daughter, who is attached to her father, the implications can be volatile, as seen in the change in Traci’s attitude in the movie, Thirteen. Right at the start of the movie, Traci is seen asking, looking at the camera, and asking to be hit! To ...

Movie Title: The Pursuit of Happ(y)ness

Released Date : 2006
Director: Gabrielle Muccino
Written by : Steven Conrad
Cinematography : Phedon Papamichael
Produced by : David Alper, Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Mark Clayman, Louis D'Esposito, Chris Gardner, James Lessiter, Will Smith, Steve Tisch and Teddy Zee.

Genre: Drama

Story : Bibliographical, based on the true-to-life story of Christopher Gardner
Main Cast : 1. Will Smith as Chris Gardner, 2. Jaden Smith as Christopher 3. Thandie Newton as Linda

Plot Summary

The movie is based from the true events on the life of a man named ...

How to decide which films to watch

Personally, I decide the film I have to watch by using many features. Some of them include the following: mood, environment, who I am watching with, the nature of the film, and the moral lesson that the film has. The mood in this case tells us about the feelings towards the characters in the film. The question that I need to ask myself is “am I going to enjoy it?” Often, I normally watch to relive pain, to get comfort and even to settle my mind. Environment refers to the surrounding. I have to consider current surrounding i.e. the ...

Movie Review-Hamlet, with Mel Gibson

Juliet, Othello, Taming of the Shrew), the authenticity of the setting is most crucial for

capturing and engaging the audience’s attention for the entirety of the play. Zeffirelli has

chosen a twelfth-century Welsh castle to be the setting of the Royal Castle of Elsinor in

Denmark. Its ramparts, round towers, dark hallways and twisting stairs are the imagery

needed to uncover King Hamlet’s murder and to weave Hamlet’s elaborate plan to exact

his full revenge upon those responsible.

Shakespeare plays are not meant to be read silently but to be performed, with the

flow of the language, ...

Michelle Williams becomes Marilyn Monroe in the film My Week With Marilyn. It is obvious that Williams spent hours studying both movie and news footage of Monroe. Williams perfectly portrays Monroe’s voice, body language, and facial expressions. This film gives viewers a glimpse into Monroe’s fragile ego. Monroe’s low self-esteem causes her to be late on the movie set and influences who she chooses to have in her inner circle.
The story is told from the perspective of the young Colin Clark. Clark was only twenty-three years old when he landed his first job in filmmaking ...

Sarafina the movie

It is true, we should treat everyone as an equal, when we demand respect for ourselves. Speaking of “Sarafina” the movie, we see problems of black people in the USA in the 1980s. The main character is a schoolgirl Sarafina who dreams of becoming a star, but realizes, she cannot achieve this, without being free. We observe a racy nation, loving and supporting each other, suffering from injustice. Their dances are original and sometimes wild. Their songs combine sadness and energy, hope and love. Their language is unique; and the people are not ashamed of it (McKinney). The nation ...

The following analysis of Persona and Solaris reveals how movies from unlike countries and of different genres portray the development of opposite human personalities while losing or gaining humanity under the external influences and internal self-recognition. The attempts to create a fine movie about internal and external of human life do not often impress much, especially nowadays when we experience an endless flow of visual images. Probably, it inspires people to look back at the classic works that not only represent the unusual transformations in the forms of self but also produce extraordinary rhythms in the scenes (Tarkovsky 113). ...

Try Something New for 30 Days

According to the criteria of an organized presentation, non-verbal communication and knowledge about the topic, Matt Cutts gave a great lecture about his personal experience of acquiring a new habit. He says: “I also noticed that as I started to do more and harder 30-day challenges, my self-confidence grew” (Cutts). He encourages people to change the routine in their lives and to strive for perfection. They will not achieve it, but they are going to have more energy and be more enthusiastic about their lives. Matt’s speech is very inspirational because it makes people realize that there is ...

One of the most interesting documentaries is The Square, which relates to the ongoing Egyptian state crisis. The documentary is directed by the Jehane Noujaim, who talks about the disaster that happened up to recently 2013. Much of the documentary covers the Egyptian revolution of 2011 although it is American based. Due to the creativeness in the movie, it has won different awards including three Emmy awards and nominated for various honors in the industry.
The Square Movie was released on January 17, 2013, and received a lot of media attention. Since that time, it still maintains one hundred ...

A short film “Ghost Recon: Alpha” is the background to the game “Ghost Recon: Future Soldier”, released in 2012 (Alaux et al.). The French company, engaged in the video games production, Ubisoft performed the adaptation of the given film. After a bad start of the game Prince of Persia on the big screen, Ubisoft came to a more serious approach to this issue. Ubisoft decided to perform shootings of the acclaimed video game series “Assassin's Sreed” through its own efforts and at its own expense, thereby fully preserving copyright movies. Such a move is quite expected, as this will ...

Spellbound (2002 film)

Spellbound is a 2002 film that focuses on the efforts of eight teenagers to win a spelling competition. The movie centres on how culture plays an important role in shaping language skills of the children as well as their parents and teachers. All the children that participated in the competition came from different backgrounds and school and received varying training. The determination they had as well the support they received from their parents, siblings, other relatives and teachers. Apart from the simple fact that the movie is entertaining, it has more of an academic touch whose audience are the stakeholders in ...

Introduction

The Devil Wears Prada is a story which focuses on the lives of career women and the kind of power influences they adapt in order to climb higher up the ladder. In this case, the storyline is simple and revolves around the life and career decisions of the main protagonist, Andrea who has just completed her college education and is aspiring to become a journalist. Despite having the skills, she lands up in a job as a second assistant to the editor of a magazine. The female lead, accepted the offer for this job as she thought that after completion of around 12 months, ...

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 ...

The film ‘Rabbit-Proof Fence,’ is the story of three young Aborigines who dared to challenge the extreme and hostile terrains of the Australian bush country and desert to escape from captivity to freedom. The movie is touching and deals with cultural anthropology to the hilt. Right from the onset when the camera runs across a spectrum of barren land and reaches the eyes of an innocent girl who looks at the distant mountains and the bird in the sky with an emerging smile, the viewers are quickly moved to understanding that the eyes talk of the crave for freedom. On ...

What is Bollywood and Hollywood?

Bollywood and Hollywood both have many similarities and differences in regards to their portrayal of romance in film. The term “Bollywood” is defined as, “films produced by the Mumbai film industry, primarily in the Hindi language, distributed across the normal commercial film circuits of northern India, and containing song and dance item numbers as an integral part of the plot.” (Brief History). Hollywood film is defined as, “the cinema of the United States since the early 20th century.” (Brief History).

Nationalism

Bollywood differs from Hollywood because it incorporates three different characteristics: nationality, censorship, and music(Brief History). These three concepts ...

Produced by Caitlin McNally and directed by Dretzin and John Maggio, the film, Growing up Online shows a clear difference between the virtual world and the real life of emotions with regard to teenagers and young people. From the film, young people have made the internet part of their social and academic life. The film agrees that the internet is today a way of life and the young IT generation of today are influenced by the internet in many ways. The web shapes how the youth behave, learn, interact and share information. Therefore it becomes a crucial tool for learning. However, virtual ...