Essays on Movie Page 7

I am a passionate movie lover and go-to person for my friends when they want to know Oscar winners from 1980 or actors in popular films like Jaws. However, my friends no longer invite me to join them for a cinematic experience, as I tend to opt for waiting until movies are available on television….

Mise-en-scene is the framing arrangement of lighting, actors, décor, costume and props including the camerawork and frame. It is actually a French name meaning placing on the stage. The film Fargo was based on a true story. According to the Coen brothers who produced and direct the film they wrote a fictional story around the…

“The Goal” is a movie about Santiago Munez, an immigrant from Mexico who is determined to play in the English Premier League. Despite growing up in modest circumstances and his father wanting him to work in the family landscaping business, Santiago has always dreamed of becoming a professional soccer player. He encounters challenges like lack…

    The movie Rainmaker as directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is the 6th adaptation amongst the novels written by John Grisham wherein Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon), a young lawyer in Memphis is seen looking for a job. He lands one with a dubious lawyer’s office of one Bruiser Stone, who happens to be under FBI’s…

The Apartheid Era is undoubtedly one of the darkest times in the history of the African continent. The best tool that has told this story is the 1992 film ‘Sarafina’ which shows a story of struggle, beating the odds and fighting for what is rightfully one’s own. There were casualties along the way but in…

Double Indemnity The movie that I watched this week is a 1944 American film called, Double Indemnity. This film was directed by Billy Wilder, produced by Buddy Desylva and Joseph Sistrom and co-writen by Wilder and Raymond Chandler. The script was based off a 1943 novel with the same title and was written by James…

It is necessary to mentioned that “Little Buddha” is a powerful and highly entertaining movie. Actually such films are rare, because it is filled with things being not only entertaining, but such as also uplift people’s spirits and leave positive meaning. This movie makes people think about life and death, about joys and pressures of…

War Movies             For thousands of thousands of years, human beings have played witness to the numerous world occurrences which have enriched humankind’s history. Some of the groundbreaking events that have transpired throughout the course of history were the life changing inventions, amazing discoveries, liberating independence, destructive natural calamities and devastating wars. These specific incidents…

The summery of the film Amistad The narrative of the Amistad is rather a narrative of Freedom. The film depicts how the state of affairs in American and Europe was at the clip. The film opens on the ship the Amistad in a great storm at sea with an African who breaks lose of his…

Movie: The Patriot Characters: Benjamin Martin is a farmer and was a member of the military during the Seven Years War. He had lost his wife and joins the Revolutionary War due to the loss of his 15 year old son. He is promoted to colonel in the continental army and leads his eldest son…