Movie Essays

Thomas Evans12-6-96General PsychologyDr. SabinIn the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest, there was a characternamed McMurphy, played by Jack Nickolson, who was admitted into a mentalinstitution for medical testing after having been convicted of statutory rape. It was obvious that he was only faking and he thought that he could get off fromhaving to …

James Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario in Canada August 14 (16) 1954. His family later moved to Chippewa Falls near Niagra Falls. James Cameron was during his youth years always very fascinated with movies. He was mezmerized when he saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, and he drew himself crazy trying to figure …

Lucille Ball has made significant and positive contributions to the country with her comedy. Many consider her America’s best female actress. Kathleen Brady, in fact, says, “Lucille Ball is one of the greatest performing artists America has produced” (ix). Throughout her career, Ball has not only been a comedienne, but also a superb businesswoman, an …

Animal Farm is a movie that uses animals to make fun of humans. The movie starts out with a the highest animal, Old Major, the pig, telling all the animals they must unite and leave the humans, and that the humans should not boss them around anymore. However, before that can happen, Old Major is …

YouTube, The Internet and the future of movies The Internet has transformed the music industry. Sales of CDs in retail music stores have been declining while sales of songs downloaded through the Internet to iPods and other portable music players are skyrocketing. And the music industry is still contending with millions of people illegally downloading …

Summary of the movie “Memento” The movie “Momento” staring Guy Pearce as Leonard was interesting as well as confusing in the same sense. The plot of the movie was recreated backwards to the way Leonard saw it and left many questionable gaps throughout. Leonard suffered a head injury because he went to go help his …

John Adams was a man who believed in the law, and in fair play. If the soldiers could not get a fair trial, were we any better than the British and their high handed ways. John Adams knew he had to be the one, only a known radical could defend the soldiers. In the end, …

Ethical Issues in The 2002 Steven Spielberg Movie Minority Report Technology is progressing every day. We have come so far in the past ten years. Imagine life in 2054, and what life will be like. That is what Philip K. Dick did in 1956 when he wrote the short story Minority Report, which was later …

The movie Amistad is a 4 star film because I believe it is historically accurate, very effective in showing the way slaves were treated, and the way slavery and the American judicial system worked during the Antebellum period. The movie was also a good watch, and was entertaining and educational at the same time. The …

An archetype is a pattern in literature representing human life. The archetypes from Antigone are the same ones that show in the very well known movie, “Star Wars”. Mentors and villains are two of the archetypes that are commonly found in both stories. There are various reoccurring archetypes in archetypes in historical works of literature, …

Exploring Film and Literary Angles: A Cross-Genre Critique on Cirilo Bautista’s Political Parable and Lualhati Bautista’s Dekada ‘70 Lualhati Bautista adapts her own best-selling novel Dekada 70, a political drama. It is directed by Chito S. Rono with  the prominent stars: Vilma Santos, Christopher De Leon, Piolo Pascual, Marvin Agustin, Carlos Agassi, Danilo Barrios, and …

Based on Stephen King’s novel “Two Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden”, “Secret Window”. Secret Window introduces us to Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp), and scruffy author who is isolated in a cabin somewhere in the woods, trying to use writing as a form of self-therapy to forget the infidelity of his soon-to-be ex-wife, Amy (Maria …

Steven SpielbergAs you may or may not know, Steven Spielberg is a famous director. Some his best movies are E.T. The Extra Terrestrial The Poltergeist Close Encounters of a Third Kind Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Steven says that Movies are my life. Steven first discovered his love for the camera as a …

Consumer AppealAdvertisers of today have strategically combined commercials andtelevision shows in order to sell products. Gloria Steinem discusses a similaridea in her article, “Sex, Lies, and Advertising.” She repeatedly demonstrateshow advertisements, particularly in magazines, are complementary to the articlesaround them. In the same manner, so are commercials to television programs. They are both aimed at …

Saving Private Ryan is a fairly new World War 2 movie, which was a blockbuster hit. It’s about a private named Ryan who lost three of his brothers in action. Being the only brother left in the family he gets the ticket home. He was dropped on D-Day in German occupied territories. Unfortunately no one …

Desiree N. CalderonMr.JallohMay 15, 2002 Pd.1Oprah WinfreyOprah Winery’s life experiences have made her into the woman she is today. She was born on January 9,1954,in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She has stated that she is a woman in progress, just trying like everyone else. Taking every conflict and every experience and learning from it. Oprah Winfrey has …

es of Snow White and Snow White Tale of Terrordespite there many differences, the plots are both based on jealousy. As viewers watch the movies they are dazzled by the mysterious mirror, entranced by the different takes of the story line, and know that there will be a happy ending. Both movies do a great …

Jurassic Park: The Book and The MovieThe story of Jurassic Park was written about fourteen years ago by a man named Michael Crichton. His book has now evolved into three movies of Jurassic Park I, II, and III. Steven Speilberg has taken the story of Crichton is transformed it into one of his action packed, …

James Dean, the acting rebel without a cause, was born in Marion, Indiana on February 9, 1931. His parents were Winton Dean and Mildred Dean. During his first six years of his life he and his family lived in Marion Indiana. Because of a military transfer between his father and the military he moved to …

As one of North Americas leading playwrights, Neil Simon has definitely been instrumental to the world of theater. He has experienced a somewhat shaky personal life, but he has found that this only adds to the texture of his work. He began his career working on radio and television, and found that writing for stage …

There is only word to describe Bette Midler: Divine. She is the bold and brassy, fragile and flamboyant, gleeful and glorious star of stage, screen, and television. And in my opinion there is no one that compares to her. She is a one of a kind individual with this enormous amount of talent. From the …

Among the oddballs and exhibitionists whoclustered around Andy Warhol in the 1960’s and70’s perhaps the scariest was Brigid Berlin, achubby, motormouthed rebel from an upper-crust NewYork City family who relished the way her undergroundcelebrity embarrassed her proper conservative parents. Herfather, Richard Berlin, a friend of Richard M. Nixon andan admirer of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, …

In the controversy against Napster, many supporters fight to keep their freedom alive. This case is about whether the plaintiffs can use their control of music copyrights to achieve control over Napster’s decentralized technology and prevent it from transforming the Internet in ways that might undermine their present chokehold on music promotion and distribution. This …

Art and Craft of WritingIn the deeper layers of the modern consciousness, all means are unlawful, every attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and defenseless among enemies: one is punished for success. Robert WarshowThis is a quote from the famous essay The Gangster as Tragic Hero, a classic …