Essays on Film Page 21

The Color Purple By Alice Walker, and the movie The Color Purple, directed by Steve Spielberg, are stories about love and the survival between two sisters. The obstacles that the sisters have to face are very life risking Primary Differences: 1. Characters: With regards to the basic turns of the plot, the film is pretty…

In the film War Dance It follows the life of three schoolchildren who live in northern Uganda in a refugee village (Paton refugee camp). The reason why they live in a refugee camps is the results of the rebels who are kidnapping children to become child soldiers and sex slaves. They enter a national music…

The film Surface can be directly compared to the myth of the American Dream. The contemporary perception of the American Dream is one monetary gains and power in society. Surface is a gangster movie in which the main character Tony Montana tries to reach his dream of overwhelming power and wealth. Tony Montana Like Jay…

Various types of cameras are now available, such as digital cameras, pocket cameras, and full-sized functional cameras. These devices have become an essential part of our daily lives due to technological advancements. Additionally, they have become more affordable and user-friendly over time. However, the rise of digitalization is rendering film cameras obsolete. Although digital and…

The Movies Industry is currently embracing a new trend by selecting many classic books for film adaptations. An example of this trend is the epic poem Beowulf, which dates back to Anglo Saxon times and is known as the earliest poem in modern European language. In 2007, American director Robert Zemeckis accepted the challenge of…

James Cameron’s film, Avatar, is a very moving story about freedom and choices. Jake Sully, an ex-marine, travels to Pandora to fulfil his brother’s dream of being in an avatar body and researching the environment on Pandora. Jake goes through a lot of hard times and ends up having to choose between being human and…

Pulp Fiction is a film by Quentin Tarantino that uses extraordinary techniques of editing, These editing techniques not only ignore basic film conventions but allow the film to have a feel that is very unique to it, The film was released in 1994 and was met with critical acclaim and is considered one of the…

In 1873, Leland Stanford, a former California Governor, enlisted Eadweard Muybridge to help him win a bet regarding a horse’s gallop. Stanford firmly believed that all four feet of a galloping horse were off the ground and was determined to prove it. To confirm this belief, Muybridge placed stationary cameras along a section of the…

Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing uses many editing techniques to establish spatial, temporal, visual, and rhythmic relationships between shots. He strategically strings shots together in order to maintain continuity and create meaning. From the second the film begins, the editing sets the scene that the rest of the movie will support. In doing this, the movie…

Sherman Alexie’s essay, “Superman and Me,” employs repetition and extended metaphors to shift from a personal to social perspective, effectively portraying his impoverished upbringing and emphasizing the transformative power of reading in his life and the lives of others. The essay begins with a discussion of how the Superman comic books helped Alexie learn to…