Essays on Film

Esoteric:

Designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone: “Anime fans have some of the most esoteric interests I know.” (Said by friend in conversation). (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). SYNONYMS: abstruse, deep, profound, recondite. ANTONYM: easy. (Roget’s Interactive Thesaurus).

Verisimilitude:

The quality or state of being verisimilar: “The dense language lends the film verisimilitude, and even lay audiences will be engrossed by the thrill of discovery” (Film review). (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). SYNONYMS: believability, color, credibility, credibleness, creditability, creditableness, plausibility, plausibleness. ANTONYM: falseness, impossibility. (Thesaurus.com).

Evulsion:

A forcible separation or detachment: “I got an evulsion cut on my finger when I tried to open a ...

When investigating crimes, taking notes is very important. Those investigating should make sure that they make notes that are very specific. Throughout the process of investigating the notes can be used as references. Immediately an investigator arrives at a scene where there has been a crime, they should start making notes on the scene, the area that surrounds it and they should also take notes of the statements that are made by people who witnessed the crime. (Becker 2009)

When making the notes, the investigator should ensure that they are very accurate and specific since they record everything that they ...

The film “Ikaru” by Kurosawa Akira is a great example of classic Japanese cinema. What impressed me most about the film is how the fragility of life is examined through cinematic technique. The film revolves around the story of a middle aged man dying from cancer and his search to find some meaning within his otherwise meaningless life before his death. The director excels at conveying a mood that is both sad and triumphant.

The character begins with his diagnosis of cancer and finds as he reflects on his life he has not accomplished much. He finds that most of it ...

Introduction:

Many contemporary films have catchy and witty titles, which promote those movies better than their trailers or synopses. The case of the film called “Agora” belongs to one of those few exceptions, where the title says it all, if you know what it means. The word ‘agora’ stood for a ‘gathering place’ in ancient Greece. It was the central point for the Greek community, a meeting point of differences and similarities within the social, economic and political views, and it is exactly where the story within the film finds a crack.

The film “Agora,” released in 2009, ...

Overall the film King Corn was really interesting; it was fascinating to see the entire process of growing corn, but also to see that corn is actually everywhere in our diet. Besides eating corn in its natural form, corn is added to everyday foods in the form of high fructose corn syrup; corn is also used to feed our cattle that we eventually eat.

Corn is used to feed our cattle because when the cattle graze on grass it takes much longer for them to reach the weight required to reach market rate. This is because if they were ...

Scholars of Australian art agree that Australian art has undergone several transformations. Australian art in the pre-colonial era were characterized by the practices of the natives, later on the coming of the colonialist led to introduction of art associated with their culture.

‘Australian contemporary art scene is divided into Australian and Aboriginal

art respectively. This is a divide originating from the colonization of Australia that began in the 1770’s, and hence, resulting in an Australian art descending from a so-called Western art practice consisting of works of art created in compliance with Western traditions (Persson 2011, 13).

Towards the end 1910, Australian art experienced massive changes ...

Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese film, directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is based on two tales; In a grove, which provides for the plot and characters, Rashomon which creates the setting. The film is about a priest and a woodcutter who are standing under a gate to protect themselves from the heavy rain that is pouring. They are later joined by a commoner, they explain to him a scene they have witnessed in the forest. This article will describe the film using some questions offered by the professor.

Humans are not able to be truthful with themselves of their real nature; they cannot describe themselves ...

The book, “Venus in fur,” tells a story about love, dominance and slavery in a person’s feelings. It is based upon the imaginations of Server in, who is weirdly in love with a statue of Venus, the goddess of love. The fur in this case symbolizes power and dominance, where the narrator identified with the cruelty and power in a woman. The character meets Wanda, with whom he falls in love. The character is in love to the point of delivering himself to become a slave. At first, he does not look at Wanda in a sexually taken way because he still has the ...

The Refusal of Time is an article that explores various concepts in photography. The article inspired the concept of using both kinetic and sculptural elements for photographic projection in multiple ways. The article’s writer used these concepts to present historical pieces that present photography references until this day (Kentridge and Peter 4). This paper will highlight how the article, The Refusal of Time inspired photography shooting.

The article inspires photography shooting for the preservation of memories. It also inspires photography as art to inspire different ways of thinking during periods of historical violence. Photography shooting is a tool, ...

Everyone experiences the world in different ways; however, sometimes physical differences contribute to the development of a different culture, as is the case with deaf artists. Hilari Scarl’s film See what I’m Saying allows the world to glimpse what such a culture is like. Making use of different techniques, the director immerses the viewer in a profound analysis of this culture, including the emulation of what this population actually hears. The waking of consciousness that results of this is important and beneficial, as it allows the viewer to empathize with the people that have this condition. Finally, while many could ...

English

The 1976 and the 2002 movies successfully duplicated some of the horror scenes that are evident in the book, and more. The 2002 movie opens with a scene that Brian DePalma (1976) didn’t include in his movie; the rocks falling on the White home as young Carrie gets angry. A clear difference between DePalma’s movie and Carson’s movie is that Carson tries to copy King’s book excerpts as a break in chapters, by including his own film breaks. However, most of the plot is lost in the remake of the mini-television film as the movie has been ...

The film is based on the short story "The Greatest Gift"by Philip Van Doren Stern written in 1939 and published in 1945. It was produced and edited by Frank Capra in 1946. It is a traditional Christmas movie in USA. It is very inspiring, and positive, it shows that everyone has his/her own calling, destiny and mission in life. The main character is George Bailey (by James Stewart), who decided to commit a suicide on Christmas Eve as he thought that his life is miserable. The film genre can be defined as fantasy comedy-drama. ‘It’s a wonderful life’ is considered ...

Asian film industry has been entertaining audiences since a long time with the help of a strong story, music and different other aspects of film making. Asian cinema has lodged its strong presence across the world and Asian movies have won several prestigious international awards. This paper intends to discuss some very famous Asian movies like Red Sorghum, Ran, Eye in the sky, IndoChine and Dhobi Ghat along with further focusing, how masculinity has been portrayed in almost all these movies.

There are some favorite subjects of Asian movie makers. Aggressive Jingoism, fantasy, epic and masculinity are some important components of Asian ...

Discussion on which medium – the movie or the book on Twelve Years a Slave can better transform political sensibilities Twelve Years a Slave, a memoir penned by Solomon Northup, is a poignant and extremely touching piece of literature, on the plights of an American slave. It is the autographical journey of the writer himself, and the twelve years he spent in bondage. Born as a free negro in New York, Solomon was tricked into slavery, and beaten black and blue to when he tried to regain freedom. He worked as a cotton picker, a carpenter, a mill-worker, and faced severe cruelty. His final reunion with his family after twelve years of sheer torture and loneliness makes for an emotional read, and an eye opener ...

It has become the norm that before we watch any movie or series we check out the trailer. As an audience, we can then judge how exciting the movie will be. In most cases, the trailers are meant to instill some form of curiosity on the audience so as to watch a movie and find what happens to the main character or a twist to the storyline. Versus 2009 Trailer belongs to the Versus television channel and is in the promotion category. Versus as an upcoming television channel in America knows that it is at the starting line, and it is ...

Tarzan musical play is a Disney film which was obtained and adapted from the 1914 novel which was written by one Edgar Rice Burroughs. The musicals follow a distinct pattern where the character Tarzan is raised and guided by gorillas, in the wilderness. In the course of life of the wild, Tarzan meets young beautiful English naturalists or environmentalists, Jane, and they fall in love. The initial and original aim of Jane is to kill the gorillas that indeed raised and guided Tarzan. It presents a dilemma to Tarzan because his allegiance and loyalty are testes as to whether to follow his ...

- Becoming a craze in the late 2000s and remains still, paired with IMAX to create spectacular film experiences

- Polarization – projectors project image onto the same screen, one for each eye - Runs at 144 frames per second - Glasses at different polarizations, cancel out the other to create comprehensive 3D image - Curved to prevent cross talk

Conclusion: While 3D is thought by many to be no more than a gimmick, there is a surprising amount of effort and technology that goes into creating these realistic effects in a movie theater.

What’s the last 3D movie ...

The movie The Educators by Hans Weingartner puts forth all the struggles of the post-unification in Germany. In Berlin, consumer and proletarian societies have eventually been forged together, and thus the film mainly struggles appropriately to find a stable balance between the issues. The movie mainly represents a trio of three very rebellious liberals, who decide to break into the homes of wealthy capitalists to rearrange their belongings and furniture rather than stealing the precious items. Additionally, this trio decides to leave a note passing a certain message such as notifying them as well as warning others. As the movie proceeds, the trio ...

The curious case of Tala and Laila in the film Fire & I Can’t Think Straight by Sarif Shamim (2010) brings forth the question of the social construct of homophobia in relation to their different personal backgrounds. Whereas Tala, a Palestinian Christian with roots from Jordan and raised in England and Laila, a timid Muslim, are both initially depicted as being involved in heterosexual relationships, their innate attraction to women has brought them together as lovers later ...

Beverly Tatum’s book ‘why all black students sited together in the cafeteria’

Few people seem to know about racial development and identity including those who have pursued child psychology. Inter-racial interaction has been a major challenge due to lack of psychological understanding amongst the people (Tatum 2). Both white and black adults are hesitant to speak to their children about racism as they fear creating problems that will make children become color-conscious. Tatum observes the lack of awareness and initiates a conversation of people’s perception about racism. Many people tend to think that racism is a forgotten thing. Many assume that racial identity is not a significant issue especially amongst the adolescents. The modern ...

Sociology is one of the social sciences, often considered the more rigorous, scientific study of societies and the ways in which they impact the individuals that exist within them (Haralambos and Holborn, 2004). There are many different avenues of study within the umbrella of sociology, and many different sociological theories that exist to describe the interactions between society, social groups, and the individual. Sociological imagination is one of these theories; the idea of the sociological imagination was proposed by Mills in his 1959 landmark text The Sociological Imagination (Mills, 1959).

The concept of the sociological imagination is similar ...

David Bordwell is a famous US film theorist, scholar, and film critic born on 23 July 1947. He worked at Wisconsin-Madison University, Emeritus in the Department of Communication Arts in the capacity of Jacques Ledoux Professor in the field of film sciences. David’s textbooks including Film History and Film Art gained remarkable attention worldwide especially in the United States in which his wife, Kristin Thompson contributed substantially. David is a wonderful content producer on films. He is a master of film-development process and staging illustrations. He is a productive researcher in which he focused extensively on national cinemas, auteur studies, narrative theory, ...

INTRODUCTION

The paper evaluates the various contexts within which the audience can read the play by Shakespeare and watch the film produced in this modern day, about a decade ago. Given that the two vary in the period of production, it is inevitable to have differences in the intrinsic and extrinsic contexts of the literary works. Some applications in the play could not be included in the film because of the technicalities involved in the production of films. At the same time, there may be some modifications to enable the audience receive the content of literary work in a better ...

Levi was born in a family of Piedmontese Jews: Cesare Levi and Esther Luzzatto, whose ancestors had moved to Italy from Spain and Provence. He studied in the classical lyceum (1934-1937), where he was taught, byNorberto Bobbio and Cesare Pavese, distinguished with anti-fascist views.

Then Levi joined the Department of Chemistry University of Turin, but did not finish it and did not get a diploma (the fascist government in 1938 forbade Jews to study in public schools and universities). He worked in chemical laboratories in small enterprises of Turin and Milan. Primo then joined the anti-fascist group of liberal-socialist-leaning " ...

The 1990 film entitled ‘Ghost’ starred by Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze and directed by Jerry Zucker was among the most popular depiction of the afterlife in modern media. In the film, Swayze, who played the part of Sam Wheat, Molly Jensen’s (Demi Moore) lover was killed yet remained on earth as a ghost. It was quite intriguing how Swayze’s character was able to co-exist between two different realms, enabling him to actively participate in its events. For some reason, the notion of afterlife in pop culture is that dead people or their souls still remain on ...

The time is March 2004 and the place is Paraguay. It is there, where a group of hunter-gatherers, quite possibly one of the few willingly isolated societies in the planet, came running out of the forest in northern Paraguay, escaping from ranchers' earthmovers. The Gran Chaco forest, which means "hunting land" in the Quechua language, the language of the people, is a thinly inhabited, warm and semi-arid coastal natural area of the Río de la Plata basin, shared among Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, where it is attached to the Pantanal region. This area is often called the Chaco ...

Wild Bunch (1969) and Pat Garret & Billy the Kid (1973)

There are different similarities and differences between the two movies. Firstly, they both depict a Western setting in which the place resides in a sand dunes and desert setting or in barren lands. Interaction with the settings can be seen using the landscape as protection against the enemies and a sanctuary for outlaws. The village scenes are places of authority, which present a stark contrast compared to the predominant desert landscape. The story also progress as the authority is chasing the outlaws while their efforts have been constantly undermined with the ability ...

Roger Spottiswoode’s film And the Band Played On, based on the book of the same name by Randy Shilts, is a tremendous drama that touches on many distinct issues that were present at the time of the discovery of the AIDS virus, as well as the curious resistance medical and disease experts experienced from affected populations, the government and even other medical professionals. Chiefly following a team of researchers at the CDC, led by Don Francis (Matthew Modine) and William Darrow (Richard Masur), the film follows the attempts of this organization and others to track the spread of the disease, ...

In the beginning of the film, the narrator tells the audience a story about two adult sisters who live in a remote Danish village at the seaside. Both sisters were raised by a strict father who was a pastor of a small Protestant church. The two sisters were once in love, one, Martine, with an army officer, and the other, Philippa, with an opera singer and both had a chance to leave the village and start a new life with their beloved ones. However, both ended up alone, leaving lonely lives in the village of Jutland.

Thirty-five years later, in the middle of the night, a woman ...

The Film a thousand words is a comedy-drama that stars Eddie Murphy and was directed by Brian Robbins. Eddie Murphy as Jack McCall in the movie is a literary agent who is not afraid to stretch the truth to get various book deals. He tries to deceive a guru, Dr. Sinja, who sees through his deceit, but agrees to the deal. However, a tree magically appears in Jack McCall’s backyard which falls a leaf for every word he says. When the tree shades all the leaves, Jack will breathe his last and the tree too will die. Jack tries to cut it but instead a ...

Questions for Women and Cinema

Part I

1. Transgender It is a state in which an individual’s gender is not matching his or her assigned sex responsibility. It refers to the trans-genders, such as homosexual, bisexuals, heterosexual. In the Paris burning film, the issue of Transgender is explored using various characters men and women. For instance, Trans women used as members of the club to show realness. The women are sued to enhance transgender in the film, this shows that as much as they are women they can also compete men and become real (Besnier and Kalissa 34).

2. Monstrous-feminine The female ...

Ethnography Caught on Celluloid: Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)

The cinema is a medium perfectly suited to the recording of a particular community’s beliefs, practices, and cultural milieu. Many anthropologists see films as media of representation in their own right, as opposed to seeing ethnographic film-making as merely an adjunct activity to data gathering (Homiak 185). This has been true not only in the modern landscape, but also in the early years of cinema and the anthropological medium. In fact, one of the first and most celebrated filmmakers during the 1920s essentially used his lens to document the culture and practices of a specific community. He is Robert Flaherty, and ...

The documentary taps on one of today’s most controversial issues in society which is homosexuality. The striking feel about the movie is that it taps two sides of the sensationalize issue such as the point of views of conservative Christians and also the question, is homosexuality a choice. The most striking aspect about the film is that as early as the beginning, it points out that homosexuality is not something forced on anyone rather a life choice. The film actually presented an animated criticism of several theories mentioned by clinicians (or theorist) belief that sexual orientation changes over time. My ...

The story of Jesus of Nazareth is one that is difficult to tell in written words, let alone in film. To be sure, it is not hallowed ground – the Roman Catholic Church permits these adaptations freely, not like Islamic institutions who are sensitive to adaptations of their own prophet Mohammed. However, there appears a number of constraints and restrictions that are otherwise absent if one makes a conventional film with a conventional character in its narrative center. For one, the director is constrained with telling the story faithfully to Jesus’s biblical sources. The scriptwriter, on the other hand, has the ...

The essay of Robert Warshow entitled “The Gangster as Tragic Hero” depicts the character of a gangster in a film as a protagonist, who holds admirable qualities such as grace, confidence, self-belief and individualism in the American culture. However, his tragedy begins when he goes beyond the acceptable and social norms to express himself to the public. The tragic fall of a gangster cannot be solely attributed to his own behavior since society is also partly responsible in denying him the opportunity of self-expression. The prospects that society offers to a gangster are limited in such a way that struggling and aggressive male individuals, ...

The Lord of the Flies is a 1963 film that tells the story of young boys from a military academy that is involved in a plane crash and end up in a remote jungle that is uninhabited. In the film, there is a conflict in its social order and its functioning seen through the lifestyles the boys choose to lead. On one end, there is the choice of following rules and on the other not following them.

Also seen in the film is the conflict between savagery and civilization.As they are faced with challenges in the jungle, savagery takes over and the traces of ...

When most people are asked to identify the reasons why a public support for an ongoing war changes, the media’s coverage usually comes on top of the list; yet most scholars neglect the influence of the media on war. The media has the ability to shape our outlook on almost every topic under the sun, this means that the general assumption that the support of a war depends on its cost and casualties alone is disfigured. Information on whether a war is being won or being lost is relayed through the media, also, are the reasons behind a war (Arraf, 2009). This ...

Question one

Science fiction is a sub- class of the horror film. Science fiction films sometimes often get confused with horror films. These two genres complement each other, and they have similarities because science fiction is said to have got adopted from traditional horror films. These two genres have distanced themselves from reality by use of fantasy and elements that get futuristic. Victims in horror films are shown as helpless completely, while science fiction shows the victims with more resilience. Alien a science fiction film of 1979 shows aliens getting defeated by technology and weapons. While the thing a horror film produced in 1982 ...

In the age that we live in today, the media are a great tool for companies, both small and large, to get their marketing messages across to a vast range of viewers. This is especially true for visual media, i.e. Television and Film, where, a huge amount of audience almost always guarantees that the advertisements projected for a certain brand will result in sales.

The movie 'The Greatest Movie Ever Sold', was a documentary that premiered first in January of 2011. The documentary was based on product placement and how brands market themselves using Film and Television media. The unique part about the ...

Battle for Haditha is a heart-wrenching film directed by Nick Bromfield which delves deep into the sheer brutalities of war which leaves a gazillion shocked and hurt at the atrocities meted out to the commoners of the city by the soldiers of the United States of America. This film is a vehement effort that reconstructs the circumstances and events which led to the

colossal massacre in Haditha where twenty-four people were assassinated by the marines in the year 2005. The film goes on to dramatize the horrific episode. The marines, civilian and the insurgents are portrayed in the film and their ...

It is believed that interpersonal conflicts are part of everyday lives. People possibly encounter conflict in their personal life, on the job, or a sort of acquaintances. People who identify conflict and deal the conflict well could help their relationships improve. These conflicts can be destructive and it only makes sense to have useful information on how to handle it. Conflicts happened during disagreement, in accomplishing a certain task or deciding from different alternative courses of action. Interpersonal conflicts happened when people failed to share common views and different goals or interests. Interpersonal conflict is a personal matter and can be considered ...

Through the years, markets have witnessed several products whose demands have declined. There are several reasons why these products have experienced a huge decline in consumer demand. One of these products is the encyclopedia. There was a time when the major source of information for students and researchers was the encyclopedia. However, during the late twentieth century, the information revolution started and the fast paced development in technology overpowered the once profitable printed encyclopedia business. The competitive advantage that was previously enjoyed by the encyclopedia has been swallowed by impact of the new technology, specifically, the internet technology.

Another example of a ...

The article is about movie star Clint Eastwood who damaged the career of Sandra Locke, his former girlfriend. Eastwood did so by securing her a movie development deal with Warner Bros which led to Locke calling off the palimony suit she had filed. Clint Eastwood then further used his influence to block Sandra Locke from directing any films. This led to Sandra Locke not working in any film as a director since signing the deal. This caused a serious harm to her career.

The case highlighted in this article is a classic example of how a party to a contract (first party) may intentionally interfere ...

Introduction

Everyone feels emotions. We employ a lot of time interpreting emotions, defining how to react to them, observing others emotional responses and dealing with our emotions. Emotion presents itself in both nonverbal and verbal communication. Different cultures and countries express emotions differently. The varying differences in the expression of emotion means that people from different cultures will also interpret expression of emotion differently. Studies have shown that there are similarities in the way cultures express emotions despite the differences. The following essay focuses on expression of emotion in United States of America and Japanese and the differences in emotional expression.

Discussion

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The journal articles mainly look at the issues of the media and the efforts that have been made so far to facilitate balance of the on the content and the audience. The content being displayed on the screens depends on the target audience and on what they want to see rather than what they need to know. This is so especially for the media practitioners who are aimed at increasing their profits rather than instilling morals in the society. There have been calls especially for the media to be considerate especially on films that target the youth and the ...

Daniel Day Lewis in the Last of the Mohicans, is pointed to as one of the great method actors of our time. He totally immersed himself in the role actually killing and skinning his own food, learning the crafts of the Mohican tribe, and carrying a rifle with him everywhere during the shoot. Before the filming ever began he lived for six months in the woods and continued to do so throughout the shoot. By believing he was the character he was portraying, he convinced the audience as well as his co-stars who also gave more realistic and believable performances. ...

Movie review: Shakespeare in Love (1998)

After having been shot in 1998, the British romantic tragicomedy Shakespeare in Love won not only popular affections but also seven Oscars. Being a fiction, the film showed the true love between William Shakespeare and Viola de Lesseps. The lines, characters and plot perfectly depict the times of Queen Elizabeth.

It is London, 1593. William Shakespeare is a young and talented writer who, unfortunately, undergoes a protracted crisis because of losing his inspiration. So, he is in need of a muse. He is like a lone wolf looking for new feelings and impressions. He was asked to ...

Introduction

"I think Italian cinema is one of the most creative contributions modern Italy has made to 20th century culture" (Bondanella,qtd. Karl, 54). This quote features in most of the scholarly works that discusses the impacts of Italian cinema on today’s film. A common opinion seems to be the fact that “recent films that people watch are the same: they talk about girls or boys growing up, vacations of the mentally impaired, and couples having crisis,” social issues such as crime, unemployment, and class bias among other similar topics (Hake, pp. 23-25). Most of the ...

Introduction

One of the most important message that is brought out in the film is determination. The movie discourages people from losing hope. After the death of Tomoko , Reiko sits on and start to investigate the mystery about this death. She finds the cursed tape and with the help of her ex-husband she is able to connect the content of the tape with psychic who died 30 years ago and a child sadiko.

The other message that the producer is trying to put across is the theme of death. Many people in the film have lost their lives in a very mysterious ...

Gender equality is significant in every field especially the modern days unlike aerial where on male gender that was vied as the superb gender in everything they do.One find that the female gender are thriving on any given field and to some extent they are even doing grate in some of these field than even their counter parts from the male gender. Similarly the in the construction of cinemas or the in the field of film the female gender is no longer left behind. Research on field of film acting has come to agreed with one of the essay ...

Both versions of “Imitation of Life” by John Stahl (1934) and Douglas Sirk (1959) are adapted from the Fannie Hurst’s book of the same name. Despite the fact that the two films were produced two decades apart (25 years to be precise), they exhibit many similarities. For instance, both films explore the concepts of race and class in the American society during this period. However, the films also exhibit some significant differences. These differences range from character representation (the fair black girl in the 1939 version is played by a black actress while the in 1959 version she ...

Introduction to Film

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is the film that impresses by originality, actors play and unexpected plot. Therefore viewers may have mixed impressions about it. So it’s especially interesting to evaluate the impression of professional critics and the audience in general.

Let us consider the review by Robert Wilonsky. In the beginning of this review the author briefly expresses his own opinion about the film, its plot and the director’s work. He also describes the main idea of the motion picture, trying to understand what impression the film produces on different people. A large part of ...

- “Appeal for Widows 2013.” Saynotoviolence.org. 2013.

This video is informative about the contemporary scenario of violation against women. The video gives detailed figures and message about the discriminatory activities against women folk of the world society. Coupled with pictures of widows, this video is emphatic about the baleful presence of chauvinism and patriarchy.

- Asinas, Edelwina. “Battered Woman” FamilyFriendPoems.

This is a stirring poem by Edelwina Asinas which depicts the tumultuous emotions of the heart of a woman. The poem explores the helplessness of a lady who is tortured by the man whom she is with. This is a harrowing ...

Movie Review – Argo

Ben Affleck’s 2012 film Argo tells the tale of a CIA operation to extract a group of American diplomats from war-torn Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979, using the guise of a fake science-fiction film to sneak them out as part of a film crew. In the film, Tony Mendez (played by Ben Affleck) works with Hollywood producer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) and makeup artist John Chambers (John Goodman) to set up a fake sci-fi film called Argo as an excuse to escort the six diplomats in Iran, who have been in hiding at the Canadian embassy after the US embassy was ...

Ashford University

Introduction to Film: Focus on Society

According to Peter Lalonde, our culture and values are passed along through film. Among the movies I watched, these two movies captured my attention; “Apocalypto” directed by Mel Gibson and “Shooter” directed by Antoine Fuqua. In “Apocalypto,” communicates positive facets that provide comfort to the soul, the message on how to reject fear as a human sickness, alluding to the society where fear is utilized as a way of brainwashing.

The film reminds a total fascination in the atmosphere of the experience. Few films have the impact of leaving the viewers ...

The film produced by Tennessee Williams “The Glass Menagerie” begins with the current-day describing different scenes in the film. Conflicts develop among the actors and this causes a lot of turmoil and Tennessee Williams tries to come out with resolutions to make the protagonists and antagonists come to relate well.

The film produced by Tennessee Williams “The Glass Menagerie” begins with the current-day describing different scenes in the film. Conflicts develop among the actors and this causes a lot of commotion and Tennessee Williams tries to come out with solutions to make the protagonists and antagonists come to relate ...

Question 1

In order to deliver health message about hand washing to Brian, the nurse should establish an enabling environment that would enable Brian to speak openly. The nurse should be friendly to Brian with a brilliant smile. This includes using stories to attract his attention. The nurse should engage Brian in play activities or a game that would enable Brian to freely enjoy as well as develop the trust in the nurse. To pass the message on hand hygiene, the nurse should use audiovisual aids to demonstrate proper hand washing methods. She can show a film of children who visit the toilet and ...

Introduction to Film

There are various different types of actors or performing artists in the world of industry and they are categorized according to the roles they play or portray on stage, television shows, on commercials, and in movies. The five types of actors are impersonators, personality, star, wild card, and character. Impersonators are someone who imitates the actions or behavior of another person, actors, or celebrities. Personality actors play unusual roles and as he in many instances, they are better suited and successful in soap operas and sitcoms. Stars or movie stars can perform much whatever they want, cast based on ...

- What was your favorite film viewed in the class this semester and why?

I would mark out Reservoir Dog by Quentin Tarantino as my favorite because I am a worshiper of his creative activity. I liked it because once one had seen it he would never forget the scenes. Tarantino supposed the scenes to be disturbing and he succeeded. I do not like violence, but I like the way the scenes in the film were organized. I believe that the film leaves no one indifferent due to black humor used and Tarantino’s unique narrative style. Also, particular attention should be paid to social context of the film meaning the relationships between black ...

Introduction

The current condition of chaos and terror use as an end in itself in the contemporary America is what Christopher Nolan presents in his film The Dark Knight. The contemporary Americans chaos and terror prevalence is the most significant issue portrayed in the movie. The plot of the movie appears similar to the current situation of the contemporary America. The Gotham city where the whole criminal and chaos occur is a replica of the American cities lifestyle where greed, money and crime are rampant. The Villains like Bane and Joker are a reflection of the notion of fear, chaos and mass ...