Essays on Film Page 30

Gone with the Wind and Glory are both highly successful movies that deal with the American Civil War. Gone With the Wind is the more popular of the two movies and has been widely acclaimed as a masterpiece. On the other hand, Glory is seen as the first real movie about the Civil War and…

The Fall, directed and written by Tarsem Singh, was released in June 2008 on just nine screens in the USA. It is an adventure fantasy film set in 1920’s Los Angeles. The story follows a young immigrant girl who ends up in a hospital after a fall. In the hospital, she forms an unexpected bond…

Mi Familia is a heartwarming story spanning three generations of a Mexican family living in America. It is rich with universal issues that reflect the human condition and value: of relationships, family, love, and dreams. Although it focuses on the story of one family, it actually illustrates the many problems that an ethnic family goes…

On February 2nd 2013, I saw Green Day’s American Idiot musical at The Hanover Theatre in Worcester, Massachusetts. As a performance overall, it was one of the best I have ever seen, and surely one I will never forget. Stemming from the Broadway musical production of the show, With the story line of the show…

The film ‘11th Hour’ features many well-established scientists and public figures, such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Stephen Hawking, James Woolsey, Wangari Maathai, William McDonough, and others. All of them offer their own perception on the nature and causes of global warming, deforestation, raising see levels, species extinction, and other environmental problems that plague our planet today….

Everyone would like to work for a company that’s fair, pays competitively and looks out for their employees. Magic Carpet Airlines is not a company who are practicing those three aspects. They are trying to pay their flight attendants minimal, but still requiring long hours. The flight attendants and the League of Flight Attendants are…

Superman, James Bond, Star Wars, all are motion pictures where good versus evil is present and typically tends to put hands up on the good side. In any case, where they characteristically conceived good or evil? In the book, The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, Golding accentuates unmistakably the inalienable good and evil…

Just last night I saw the movie, The Joy Luck Club (JLC), which played on television for the first time in Los Angeles. I had been meaning to see this movie but never got around to it until now. Since many female friends recommended this 1993 movie to me, including my own sister, I was…

In his article “‘Superman is about the visit the relocation centers’ & the Limits of Wartime Liberalism,” Gordon Chang explains how the portrayal of the Japanese as villains in the media greatly influenced public opinion. The Japanese were often depicted as “cruel-faced” and “sinister-looking,” reinforcing the idea of their inherent evil and threatening nature. This…

            In recent times we have become more aware of our surroundings and in some ways have become more environment conscious. The world around us is changing both physically and ecologically. Powerful cars, higher buildings, smarter technology, dangerous weapons are all pride of modern mankind. In this run of competing for the best, we have…