Essays on Cinematography Page 35

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…

Movie: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartThe movie takes place in Vienna, Austria in the 1700’s. The film beginswith the attempted suicide of Antonio Salieri, a court composer of the AustrianEmperor. He is placed in a mental asylum where a priest visits and asks for hisconfession. Salieri claims to have caused the death of Mozart. The rest of…

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…

The American dream is something that everyone in America wants to achieve. Being able to achieve your goals and working hard will help you get what you want. The American dream is having a family, a stable job, being rich and happy, and once you are able to put all of these pieces together you…

John Adams was a man who believed in the law, and in fair play. If the soldiers could not get a fair trial, were we any better than the British and their high handed ways. John Adams knew he had to be the one, only a known radical could defend the soldiers. In the end,…

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…

I’ve had a brainsick hebdomad since I drew a sketch of the Mexican flag [ see above ] . with the bird of Jove shooting dead by a watercourse of machine gun slugs. The sketch illustrates the awful force in Mexico. Since President Felipe Calderon announced his war on the drug trusts. over 28. 000…

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…