Essays on Cinematography Page 34

Spiderman 2 is a Hollywood film directed by Sam Raimi, depicting the lives of Peter Parker with his alter ego Spiderman (Tobey Maguire), Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter Parker’s professor Dr. Octopus (Alfred Molina). Peter Parker the protagonist of the film illustrates the drawbacks of the duties that he must achieve to ensure innocent…

The film Othello, directed by Oliver Parker, is an adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy that explores the insecurities of a man who is manipulated by someone he trusts, Honest Ago, leading to his downfall. This essay examines how the timeless play is portrayed in the medium of film, specifically evaluating the director’s skill in creating…

A Beautiful Mind “A Beautiful Mind” is a moving and distinctively inspirational movie directed by Ron Howard. It offers audiences a fresh outlook on psychological disorders. The common perception of “mental illness” often conjures up ideas of madness, insanity, otherness, abnormality, and peculiarity. However, “A Beautiful Mind,” which is based on both a real-life account…

Green Street Hooligans Resumé Matt Buckner gets thrown out of Harvard University, because they find some cocaine in his jacket. He moves to London to live with his sister Shannon, her husband Steve Dunham and their son, Ben. Matt meets Steve’s brother Pete, before he has even been in London for a day. The football…

The films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are said to represent the so-called slacker genre. Slackers are individuals in society who have no direction and no reasonable expectation or realistic goals in life. This term is mainly used with Generation X’ers (people born between 1961 and 1981) (Casto, “What’s A Slacker Movie? ”). Slacker movies…

In my opinion, the leader in the film, “The Day After Tomorrow”, is Sam, Jack’s son. In the movie, he displays the qualities that a good moral leader should have. Leadership Concept #1: DiSC Personality. The DiSC personality profile of Sam would most probably be a high “I” as he is communicative, interactive, friendly, optimistic,…

Although the film was very old, the quality of the story is equivalent to fine wine, its aged but it’s also very delicious and flavorful. Cinema Paradiso showed me how it was back then, at first glance I thought that the movie was an early Italian version of the movie “Dennis the Menace” with old…

Every creature plays a role in maintaining the circulation of our environment. This includes even small creatures like bees, which have an important function in our ecosystem. Bees belong to the family Apoidea and are hymenopterous insects. They can be solitary or social and have smooth or hairy bodies, as well as various colors. Bees…

In this paper I discuss similarities between Westside Story and The Warriors as well as differences. I will bring to life both movies to my audience and make value judgments about what make one better than the other. Westside Story is a ten time Oscar Award winning musical classic said to be adapted from the…

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a 2006 novel from the point of view of a naive young boy, written by Irish novelist John Boyne. Unlike the months of planning Boyne devoted to his other books, he said that he wrote the entire first draft of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in two…