Essays on Film Page 18

The purpose and intent of Daniel Myrick (Director) and Eduardo Sanchez’s (Co-Director) “The Blair Witch Project” (1999) was to have every viewer believe in and accept the afterlife or paranormal realm in which we may live. Because of this movie, spiritual, and paranormal interest spread throughout the nation like wildfire. Daniel Myrick was born November…

Both The Pianist and Maus offer different niceties about the functions of the Germans and the Jews in the Holocaust. Some may see merely the Nazis as the slayers in the Holocaust and non see other fortunes. The Pianist and Maus offer different cases to demo that confederates. bystanders and saviors provide a grey country…

Representation has finally changed the lives of each person in distinguishable ways. Television is the signifier of power through which different sorts of representation is depicted. Many manners of representation have made the person a topic through power and discourse, melodrama, has influenced the person ‘s life in a enormous manner. Melodrama is non merely…

On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center crumbles to the land, one million millions of people watch on their telecasting sets, many of them kids. As the kids sit around with their parents they see planes crashing into edifices, guiltless civilians leaping from Windows, and subsequently on, they see firemans and voluntaries sifting through…

            With the proliferation of the Internet today that provides video blogs and web blogs, almost everyone has had the chance to be critics on almost everything. Even social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter becomes a venue for Internet users to recommend a book or criticize a film or the spread the word of…

The Motion Picture Production Code (1930, – 1 -Association of Motion Picture Producers Inc. and The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America) The Motion Picture Production Code, made to control the making of talking, synchronized and silent motion pictures, in order to provide wholesome entertainment to the public. There are twelve sections including Crimes…

The movie ‘Jaws’ from 1975, directed by Steven Spielberg, revolves around a shark that uses its jaws (teeth) to fatally attack people. The movie “Jaws” was a groundbreaking summer hit that shattered box office records and propelled Steven Spielberg to fame. Thanks to the triumph of “Jaws,” Spielberg went on to produce more blockbuster films….

When evaluating Ken Burns documentary series The Civil War (1990) in terms of establishing a  verdict on the inherent quality of the series, it is important to keep in mind that there two basic perspectives from which the film will ultimately viewed: the perspective of an “average” viewer, and the perspective of an historian.   The…

"All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way–if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy."Gene remarked. (p.196) A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, is the story of…

The drive is an American action thriller film directed by Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn in 2011. The script, written by Hossein Amini, is centered on the novel Drive by James Sallis 2005. The cast includes Ryan Gosling as an unidentified Hollywood stunt driver who shines as a getaway driver. The film was made on…