The film follows Elizabeth, a woman who has been controlled by her mother in childhood, and by her husband Charles in adulthood. After losing her money, car, job and marriage, Elizabeth is ordered by her mother to return to the family home. To help her cope with her controlling mother and achieve happiness again, Elizabeth’s childhood imaginary friend Drop Dead Fred reappears. Following a series of conflicts with Fred, Elizabeth accompanies him into a dream world where she is able, with his help, to overcome her fears of her mother, and her husband, and of being alone. No longer in need of Fred, Elizabeth returns to the real world without him, and resolves her conflicts with Charles and her mother to lead a normal, independent life.…
The film is a comedy about three women seeking justice after their husbands became successful and divorced them for younger women. Brenda, Elise, Cynthia and Annie were close friends in college, but after graduation from Middlebury, they lost touch with one another for 27 years. When Cynthia committed suicide after her ex-husband married a much younger mistress, the other three women met at her funeral for the first time since college. Seeing that their friend grew unhappy after her husband left her for a younger woman, they found themselves in the similar situation.…
It is a British movie based on a play written by Willy Russell that narrates the relationship of the two main characters: Susan (who asks to be called as Rita at the beginning of the story) and Dr. Frank Bryant. Susan is a young lady who belongs to the working-class, she works as a hairdresser and is about to get marry with her boyfriend, even though, after knowing Dr. Frank Bryan, she experiences a sense of freedom that leads her to leave behind the oppression she is living with his boyfriend and to get rid of the patriarchal regime in which she is immerse. Dr. Frank Bryant is a middle-aged man who works in a university as a lecturer, he is an alcoholic who has taken the tutorship to pay for his drink; the play opens as 'Rita ' meets her tutor, Frank, for the first time.…
The play starts off with the shipwreck and explains how two twins, Viola and Sebastian get separated. Viola gets swept up on land and doesn’t know where she is. She is told by a captain that she is in Illyria. Viola asks herself, “What should I do in Illyria?” Her brother is in Elysium and she thinks he might be dead. The captain tells her about the Duke Orsino and how he loves a woman named Olivia, and he is very sad because Olivia is not interested. Olivia is mourning over her dead father and brother. Viola wants to serve the duke, but in order to do that she has to dress up like a man to get the job. She pretends to be a man named Cesario. She gets the job and her and Orsino become good friends, and the Duke tells Cesario how he loves Olivia. But, Viola (who is playing Cesario) has a crush on the…
In Conrad Philip Kottak’s “Rite of Passage” he mentions the three stages of a rite of passage. Anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep defines these stages as Separation, Margin, and Aggregation. Victor Turner, another anthropologist, focused on Margin, which he referred to as liminality. Not only can a rite of passage be an individual experience, but it can also be a communal experience which Turner called “communitas.” Many of us experience this “communitas” in different ways such as my Hispanic culture that experiences quinceneras. Quinceneras are a rite of passage for young girls’ transition from adolescence to womanhood. I for one never experienced this rite of passage.…
Today The Rite of Spring is regarded as a revolutionary piece of music and choreograph. Its choreographer, Vaslav Nijinsky, was born in 1889. He started his dance career after he joined the Imperial Ballet School in 1900, in which he studied under Enrico Cecchetti and Nicholas Legat. He took many lead roles until his dance career took a turning point, and met Sergei Diaghilev. He danced with famous Anna Pavlova, as a lead in the Ballets Russes in Paris, and also starred in Fokine's pieces "Le Pavillon d'Armide," "Cleopatra," and "The Feast." He then went on to choreograph his own ballets, such as "L’Aprés-Midi d'un Faune" (The Afternoon of a Faun) and "The Rite of Spring" ("Russian Ballet History"). Most of Nijinsky's works were created far before the time they could be appreciated. The Rite of Spring, however, led to modern dance. The music in this dance was composed by Igor Stravinsky, which also played a revolutionary role in modern dance (Anderson).…
Almost immediately after beginning the film, I was less than amused by the look of it. The plot begins in a desolate field; no people, just music. I had realized then that this movie was going to be a time piece, based in what looked to be the early 19th Century; not necessarily my favorite time period. I continued to wonder how I was going to watch this movie, and then turn around and write a reaction paper on it for an Understanding the Bible class. I wondered how in the world this film was going to have any religious or biblical connotation to it, and if it did, was I going to be able to pick up on it.…
I learned man things about the dance ballet for example they alone more men in ballet the I expected and they wear make-up also. They are many structured techniques that go in the dance of ballet. They are also different ways that performers get ready to perform some stretched or some even jump rope. They were many threats that the dancers did too keep the blood flowing. Ballet also takes a lot of coordination and balance. All through the movie there were many times balance was needed. Ballet is a structured dance.…
The research for this paper was based off a question that came to, while re-visiting the history and celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of Vaslav Nijinsky’s creation of Le Sacre du Printemps, The Right of Spring that premiered in 1913. This question in mind has many dimensions when asked, to compare the relationship between the costumes of Nijinsky’s The Right of Spring and Pina Bausch interpretation of the score. When researching both ballets in relationship to the costumes that were represented in each version it becomes unclear of the real reasons behind the choices that Nijinsky and Bausch made to develop the style, design and visual effect of the costumes; Questioning whether there was a specific initial inspiration for the designs or perhaps it was the style in the time period when both individual ballets premiered and was influenced by fashion and society.…
Baz Luhrmann's film Moulin Rouge adapts the ancient Greek Orpheus myth to the context of early 19th century France. The film celebrates Bohemian ideals through reshaping the archetypal story of The Orpheus Myth to illustrate the importance of love through music. Within the classical context, freedom is achieved through music and through love, both of which offer the individual emancipation from the confines of a materialistic and hierarchical society as shown by Baz Lurhmann in Moulin Rouge.…
The Rite of Spring by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) had been composed in 1913 and is considered a masterpiece of the twentieth century. Despite being considered such a prolific piece, it serves as quite paradoxical when it comes to its rather contradictory and ambivalent background. The composition process had been approached in a different style to much of his other works, involving myth, folklore and traditionalism and all of which surround this rather haunting yet admirable piece with great controversy. Primitivism is an obvious and quite prominent influence upon the Rite of Spring but what were these features and how do they relate to the ambiguous, diverse genre of Modernism? To realise, the internal cogs that turn this devise must first of all be analysed and recognised.…
After the opening of the red curtain; we see of the characters is them awaiting the competition, exuberant for the coming contest. The message conveyed by the preparations of the dancers is that they are preparing for something of great importance, a very significant event. The impact of the slow motion section in this scene enhances the elegance and the formality of the scene.…
An innumerable number of people love to go out on a spring break, they do it almost like a tradition now, but why is it so important?…
Nevertheless, viewers and critics cannot attribute all the themes in The Rite of Spring because she provided an interpretation of the piece not an original work. Café Muller on the other hand is an original work by Bausch. The piece is very rich with information about Bausch's style and techniques as well as her personal background. Growing up observing patrons visiting her parents' restaurant, she had exposure to a wide pool of human experiences and emotions to make the basis for this art work. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph in 2001, Bausch told the interviewer that the café's patrons she watched growing up were a "formative influence" on her view of sexual attractions."It was a place where life happens, and couples have love affairs and fights," she said, "I saw that love was a strong relationship in which anything can happen. For some people, fighting is exciting; life would be boring without it." It was her early window to life.…
At the end of the last age, which was a kind of primal, cave painting/tribal drumming age of blood and stone, the last great shaman refused to die out along with the rest of his people and hung on and on, surviving the end of his age and the birth of the next one, his name... Lord Root. He is the only thing in the world that isn't meant to be and as a result he is able to bend and twist it into new and horrible directions. Imagine the world is a book written by the Great Mystery. One that ends 'and they lived happily ever after'. All of a…