Essays on Film Page 6

During the classical Hollywood period genre films were soundly established as the norm. In defining the genre films one must make the distinct separation between film genre and the genre film. Thomas Schatz in his article, Film Genre and Genre Films, maintains a clear distinction between the genre film and the film genre; “Whereas the…

In this essay, I will analyse and discuss the theme Revenge and Consequences portrayed in the films Tomorrow, when the war began, Bride wars, Troy and Man on Fire. Revenge is when a harmful action is made against a person and Consequence is a result or outcome made from that one action. This essay will…

Spiderman 2 is a Hollywood film directed by Sam Raimi, depicting the lives of Peter Parker with his alter ego Spiderman (Tobey Maguire), Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter Parker’s professor Dr. Octopus (Alfred Molina). Peter Parker the protagonist of the film illustrates the drawbacks of the duties that he must achieve to ensure innocent…

The film Othello, directed by Oliver Parker, is an adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy that explores the insecurities of a man who is manipulated by someone he trusts, Honest Ago, leading to his downfall. This essay examines how the timeless play is portrayed in the medium of film, specifically evaluating the director’s skill in creating…

Literature and Film             This paper as the title suggests, will purely explore the works of literature and a film with the intention of highlighting and describing the common thematic strands as writers and authors in the texts display them. The literature work to be investigated is Sonny’s Blues and Bartleby the Scrivener, while the…

The musical Urinetown, by Mark HollmannA andA Greg Kotis, falls in the category of the modern “ anti-musical ” with its nontraditional construction and content, non merely interrupting the cast of what makes musical theaters, but doing sarcasm of itself and its relations in the procedure. This essay will look into how Urinetown utilizations satire…

Reviewing cult movies, one will notice that many films will involve scenes using drugs such as marijuana or hallucinogens. Drugs performed in films with scenes of actors or actresses smoking pot tend to draw in a wide spread of audience; those who find marijuana to be the “sin” and fun to watch, and those of…

“The Swimmer” a short story written by John Cheever was originally published in The New Yorker, July 18th, 1964. In 1968, the short story was adopted into a film, directed by Frank Perry, starring Burt Lancaster. Both the film and the short story begin with Ned Merril, a seemingly wealthy, popular, middle-aged man deciding to…

One of the greatest actors in all of film history, Al Pacino established himself during one of film’s greatest decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies. Born on April 25, 1940, in the Bronx, New York, Pacino’s parents (Salvatore and Rose) divorced when he was…

I find the plants “ The Swing ” and “ The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa ” great chef-d’oeuvres with interesting historical and cultural backgrounds and stylistic characteristics which need to be penetrated into in order to uncover the differences and similarities of these outstanding plants. Frequently at historiographers underlined that during Baroque the Roman Catholic…