After the civil right movement, films such as Unforgiven, Posse, Silverado, and even Django Unchained paid tribute to a 1970’s Blaxploitation era. Still movies like Unforgiven, Silverado, and Posse had black leads dying, but they died in a more heroic form. The 1993 film Posse reversed the skin color of the actors from the film The Wild Bunch. The film is basically a re-vision of the film The Wild Bunch. The film Posse is also a contemporary western settings, classic west themes, classic firearms, and ideas, but staring black actors now. Also to note, rapper Big Daddy Kane’s character Father Time soon posing as Ku Klux Klan member, to rescue his group from trouble. Father Time may have got this scene from another famous film from the…
“Inconceivable!” Stated Wallace Shawn in The Princess Bride. This amazing cinematography was written by William Goldman. This cinema is a lovely fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman named Buttercup and her true love Westley. He must find her after a long separation and save her. In this classic film, they have to battle the evils of a mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other. The Princess Bride is based on William Goldman’s novel.…
In the movie, Bridegroom, there were many cultural differences aroused throughout the entire movie. Shane Bitney Crone struggled at a young age with anxiety from the fact of the acceptance that he was gay. He was afraid that no one would accept him for being this way, and everyone would look down upon him. His mother was his biggest supporter; she was there to pick him up when the kids at school shamed him for being attracted to guys. Also, his sisters and father played a huge role in his support team. Throughout the years until he graduated high school, he struggled with finding the acceptance of who he was, and where he belonged in this world. Little did he know that in another state a boy was struggling as well,…
Carrie is a 2013 remake of Stephen King’s 1974 Carrie novel. This movie film was directed by Kimberly Peirce with the help of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The movie shows of a mother and daughter relationship between religious mother Margaret played by Julianne Moore and daughter Carrie played by Chloe Grace Moretz. Peirce shows how Carrie being in the house with her religious mother’s beliefs affects the social beliefs of Carrie at school, and how she takes revenge on everybody. Carrie is and high school senior that never had real friends or any type of social relationship. Margaret made Carrie believe there was in outside world and homeschooled Carrie until the local authorities got involved and made Margaret send Carrie to public school. Now that…
Heroes are brave, determined, courageous, and selfless people whop embark on a journey in order to fulfill a goal for the better good, every heroes journey is different. Some heroes fight dragons to save the castle and some like Westley steal the princess in order to protect her, Westley goes on a long journey where he faces many enemies and challenges but, he continues his journey to rescue his one true love. In The Princess Bride a novel by William Goldman, the character Westley is a hero because, he experiences all 6 stages of the heroic archetype structure including being called to action, crossing threshold, the road of tests, meeting the helpers, trip to the underworld, and the quest.…
Although I am not very familiar with poetic readings and readings from our Literature book, I did enjoy and was able to comprehend the book Daphnis and Chloe by Longus because it was fairly easy wording and I am somewhat familiar and interested in Greek mythology. Upon reading Daphnis and Chloe, I found a connection to a movie and novel I have seen before. I couldn’t figure out what it was until the professor brought it up in class. It was tied to The Princess Bride movie. I remember watching this movie over and over again and now I can see why I loved reading this novel in class and being able to understand its context. This essay will evaluate the movie The Princess Bride and the novel Daphnis and Chloe. I believe both of these stories’ timelines…
In the article " Women aren't funny? 'Bridesmaid' is putting that lame attitude to rest" written by McClatchy Tribune Services, argues that bridesmaid is funny and gives a comparison on male comedians and female comedians. The author gives some recap scenes from the movie and compares male/female comedians to certain tv shows.…
“The Male Bashing Stereotype” by Kimberly Graham, unveils the secret of creativity, which is by her own admission a process of “uneducation,” rather than one of education. The premise here is to discard the rules we’ve learned about creative writing, and formulate new ones that actually work for us. Goldberg teaches workshops where current writers go not to learn the craft, but to actually tap into the creative process using a more “hands on” approach. Goldberg’s approach offers challenging concepts and positive solutions.…
One key aspect that makes a movie enjoyable is being able to relate to it. There are many things that someone can learn or relate to in the movie Parenthood. It has many good, engaging points in the movie while also being funny and enjoyable. Every person is different, so everybody relates to movies differently. Im sure everyone can relate to Parenthood in at least one way. There are three scenes, or points, of the movie that I can really relate to. I can relate to Parenthood in the way that Gil and Karen raised there kids, the rollercoaster story told by the grandma, and the final scene of the movie in the hospital.…
Stereotyping females creates a domino effect that leads to maintaining gender inequality. The film industry's long standing portrayals of female stereotypes have socially normalized these ideas. Normalizing females stereotypes pose an issue for women because it implies inferiority in the community. Socially accepted ideas seem to be normal and become strange to contradict. Thus, causing the continuation of gender inequality. Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey's book, "Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives" explains why circumstances that cause inequality are effective. "Maintaining systems of inequality requires ongoing objectification and dehumanization of subordinate peoples. Appropriating their identities is a particularly effective method of doing this, for it defines who the subordinated group/ person is or ought to be" (Kirk & Okazawa-Rey, 2013, p. 106). The passage explains that a method that maintain inequality need to portray the oppressed as either objects and less than human because it effectively labels the oppressed. The film industry's use of stereotypes for storytelling has become a method of inequality that labels females as inferior. As the film industry continues to use female stereotypes the more normal the idea of female inferiority in the social community will become. Ultimately continuing gender…
The film American Beauty was a complex story of a “traditional American family” as seen by the media. The intriguing part of the film was that it showed what happens behind the doors of a “typical American family” or a family that put on a persona of a typical family. The Family Crucible written family psychiatrist Augustus Y. Napier, PhD, with Carl Whitaker, M.D. it tells a story of an American family who initially seeks counseling because of the abnormal and rebellious behavior of their adolescent daughter. The family in the book seeks family therapy only after individual therapy for the adolescent daughter seemed to fail in solving the behavioral issues the family was dealing with from the adolescent daughter. Many aspects of family dynamics were drawn to the surface both in the film about the Burnham family and the book about the Brice family. The three family dynamics or principles that were common and most pertinent to both families were triangulation, scapegoating, and lack of communication due to stress. Both the film, American Beauty and the book, The Family Crucible will demonstrate all three of these principles multiple times throughout their unique stories.…
Call it The "Bridesmaids" Effect: Ever since the R-rated 2011 comedy became a runaway hit … a rash of female-written comedies are enticing viewers with provocative new characters who are more like women we know.…
My Sister’s Keeper is a movie that introduces the world to the Fitzgerald family with its countless imperfections. The family carries some guilt when it comes to their youngest daughter Anna; who was genetically created to donate things such as blood and bone marrow to her older sister Kate, who has cancer. With tears and laughs, the film, My Sister’s Keeper, captured thousands of hearts across America with its incredible acting, capturing introduction, flash-back imagery and shady realness.…
The Breakfast Club is a simple but beautiful 1980’s movie about a group of teenagers that end up realizing they are all going through some tough situations. While The Breakfast Club was made for entertainment purposes, it can be a great learning tool. Just from studying the movie, a student can realize they should not judge a book by it’s cover. For a student-teacher, this movie is a great tool in observing what happens when teachers decide not to invest their time into their students. Analyzing the teacher in the movie could open a potential teacher’s eyes too what they could end up doing wrong and how that could end up harming a student.…
The movie chosen for this assignment on marriage/divorce is a popular movie from 2002 titled My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The film grossed over $368,000,000 in box offices worldwide due to its real life cultural elements in regards to marriage, humor, and drama (Box Office Mojo, 2014). The film starts up with “Toula" the protagonist, a Greek woman and main character of the film expressing her disdain for her perceived early midlife crisis. She is in her early thirties unmarried and without children. Due to her Greek culture and pressure from her family, she feels as though she has failed in life and cannot compare to the sister who is the “ideal” Greek woman who married a Greek man and produced Greek Babies. Toula feels that she is the only woman who is lacking fulfillment in life due to her lifestyle Toula is stuck working in the family restaurant in Chicago. She becomes depressed and pessimistic fearing that she is destined to be stuck with her life as it…