Essays on Film Page 36

Do you have spare time and feel bored? Instead of wasting it with friends and family, why not watch Ridley Scott’s latest film Gladiator? It will truly demonstrate the meaning of boredom, leaving you frustrated. In this film, the muscular Russell Crowe portrays Maximus, a tough Roman general and a beloved figure of the dying…

‘The Hire’ manages to draw in nine million viewers on the BMW films website, effectively reaching and promoting its brand to a diverse audience. Furthermore, the overwhelmingly positive comments from both website and conventional main-stream media contribute to BMW’s positive brand image and potential increase in sales. Comments such as ‘Absolutely fantastic!’ and ‘Wow. Very,…

In the classic film, “The Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy meets a tin woodsman. The solemn Tin Man tells Dorothy that he wasn’t given a heart. He then sings his hit single, “If I Only Had a Heart”, and through song and choreographed dance, the Tin Man shares his dream. He would be “friends with the…

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – English assessment draft In the book, Bruno is portrayed as a young boy with a sense of adventure and curiosity; it mirrors this in the film too, however in the book he seems more mature and his age doesn’t meet his personality, it expresses this when it says…

During Howard Days 2008 and 2009, a group of film students from California who call themselves Goodspeed Productions made trips to Cross Plains to film Barbarian Days, a documentary on the event and the fans who attend each year.  The title of the film is actually an interesting amalgamation of “Howard Days” and the “Barbarian…

Documentary are able to create different ideologies based on how the come across to their viewer. The documentary film Bra Boys, by directors Sunny Abberton and Macario De Souza seeks to portray its central characters, Sunny, Jai and Koby Abberton as products of their harsh upbringing as well as brothers who take their gang’s motto…

The sense of belonging is something that we will all feel whether we mean to or not, if it is for good or bad, if we feel we belong or alienated. This sense of belonging can come through our family, friends, likes and dislikes, backgrounds and opinions. This belonging gives us connections to other people…

Al Gore has a mission. The documentary An Inconvenient Truth has been his catalyst to travel around the world in order to raise awareness among people that the change in climate of our planet has gone awry. Gore says, “I’ve been trying to tell this story for a long time and I feel as if…

Encouraged by his first sale to Spicy-Adventure Stories, Howard was soon at work on another spicy adventure. Like “She Devil” (aka “The Girl on the Hell Ship”), “Ship in Mutiny,” Howard’s second spicy effort was set in the South Pacific and featured Clanton’s love interest, Raquel O’Shane from the first yarn. However, “Mutiny,” written as a…

The whole society recognized today depends upon religion. Both scholarly works The Handmaid’s Story, shaped by Margaret Atwood, and Persepolis, made by Marjane Satrapi, present the peruser with a general populace subject to religious fundamentalism. The two works picture outrageous timetables. They challenge the peruser to consider what could occur and the final product for…