Essays on Cinematography Page 87

Into The Wild: Text and Film Contrasts Both the Into the Wild book by Jon Krakauer and it’s film adaptation written and directed by Sean Penn are amazing works in their respective modes of media.  Both works are respectively captivating in their portrayal of Christopher McCandless, though there are interesting differences between the two. The…

To exercise our sociological imagination, we had a film viewing of the indie film “Ded Na Si Lolo” by director Soxie Topacio last 8 July 2010. This film was all about a family who lost an important loved one—their father. Charing, one of the main characters, is one of the children. One morning while she…

The film “Bottle Rocket” was directed by Wes Anderson, a well known director in the industry. Created in 1996, the film’s cast included Luke Wilson (Anthony) and Owen C. Wilson (Dignan) as the main characters, portrayed as best friends on an adventure to find themselves. Throughout the entirety of the film, the main focus was…

My clients require $5,500 per month to afford a mortgage and private school tuition in addition to the lease payments on their shop. As the average entreneur in North Carolina makes $83,367, currently we can say the need of $5,500 is easy for my clients to afford (Salaries, n.d.). However, my clients are wanting to…

Disney’s 2009 animated film The Princess and the Frog, is a story about an African American woman named Tiana who lives in New Orleans during the 1920’s. Tiana is a strong, independent, and beautiful woman who is determined to make her and her father’s dream of opening a restaurant a reality, but becomes distracted when…

In our society everyone has a different view on how you should act and how they should be raised. When we look at the beginning scene of the movie Divergent, it talks about how the human race is split up into five different groups. Each of the groups were created so that society could maintain…

The one thing I have constantly realized I’d like to do with my life is to help individuals. I’m applying to graduate school in social work because having any kind of effect in individuals’ lives is the most significant part of a future profession to me, then some other. By qualifying as a social worker,…

On April 7, 1943, he was severly wounded at Sebkhet en Noual, when Allied fighte strafed his vehicle. He lost his left eye, right hand, and last two fingers of his Ie ft hand after surgery. Col. Stauffenberg was sick of seeing Hitler’s Nazi organization in rule of Germany so he took a big step…

In The Blind Side, there is a troubled young man named Michael Oher who faces many difficulties throughout his life which later plays into his development as a teenager in high school. Michael’s father left him shortly after he was born, and his mother was addicted to drugs. Michael was seemingly trapped in a dangerous,…

Webster’s dictionary defines a sitcom as “a radio or television comedy series that involves a continuing cast of characters in a succession of episodes”. A sitcom is a television show which is focused on funny situations over a plot, however structure still matters. A good sitcom should have the protagonists choice to pursue a goal…