It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a man in his mid-thirties who has super strength and flies? Not all us can live by, and relate to complete fiction. Traditional heroes have never quite served the same purpose as the outlaw hero has. Everybody can appreciate a little realism, which is why society is more psychologically attracted to the outlaw hero. The outlaw, or flawed hero, has a certain persona in which appeals to everyone. In other words, outlaw heroes are a movie’s way of projecting imperfection as a quality. Imagine if your rough edges in life, all your problems, and flaws against other people led you to become a nationally recognized hero? Everybody in the history of time who has broken the law (who has been caught) has been punished. Howard Pyle decided that a hero can still break the law be righteous and become a hero – just like a Superman, but real life.…
In considering similarities between movies in these two periods, it must be emphasized that either of them is one phase of the development. All movies have certain features in common. Firstly, both of them are culture-specific reaction. Movie reflects these cultures, creating cultural heritage, and thus affect them. Movie is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating. Secondly, both of them are based on at least one story. Movie is one of the few arts that are both spatial and temporal, intentionally manipulating both space and time. Finally, we classify movies on the same basis. A preview summarizes the main idea of a movie providing suitable amount of information to perform the genre classification. Despite these superficial similarities, huge differences can be easily found in several aspects.…
The Big Lebowski, Dir. Joel Coen, Perf. Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi. Gramercy Pictures, 1998.…
In the movie The Green Mile there are 3 different sociological theories and concepts that are useful in considering how societies look at behaviors in life within the time and place. One theory you will see is that Emile Durkheim known as the functionalist applies throughout the movie. Terms that you will see in this movie include: conflict theory which is a theoretical framework that views society as an unequal system that brings about conflict and change. (pg. 8) Also you will see alienation which refers to a person of powerless, meaningless, and general criticism toward the political process. (pg 259) Lastly you will see segregation which is forced separation because of factors such as race, gender, or ethnicity. (pg 183) The story of this movie is about the execution of John Coffey, a wrongly accused man who has a gift that allows him to heal the wounded and sick. It is called The Green Mile because the floor that went to the execution chair was green. A guard named Paul becomes close to John and realizes the true moral of the story.…
“The Green Mile” , is am american farovite. This is a film by castle rock entert…
To the casual viewer The Big Lebowski, a 1998 film written by film maker brothers Ethan and Joel Coen and directed by Joel, would appear to be a comedy rip off of the 1940’s Los Angeles detective film The Big Sleep by Howard Hawks. It features a hippie dropout from the seventies named “the Dude” (Jeff Bridges) who gets caught up with his bowler buddies Walter (John Goodman) and Donny (Steve Buscemi) in a case of mistaken identity and a search for a presumed kidnap victim. Like Thornhill (Cary Grant) in North by Northwest he becomes a reluctant detective. However, The Dude is the polar opposite of the suave and resourceful Thornhill because he is verbally challenged, bumbling, and unemployed. I will present information that despite the film’s initial lukewarm reception by critics and audiences alike, it should be considered a classic like other movies that were initially overlooked including Annie Hall and North by Northwest. I will make the argument that because of the zany LA based characters, memorable dialogue, innovative narration, creative film elements, and entertaining music and dance; that it is a neo-noir classic that finds more fans as time marches on. Beyond that I will discuss the ideology on greed and social classes that run through the film.…
Intelligence is the capacity to think and reason clearly and to act purposefully and effectively in adapting to the environment and pursuing one’s goals. (Nevid p. 274) Intelligence can be classified in many different categories, but it can all so be used as a broad term. However according to Howard Gardner there are seven types of intelligence: Musical, Logical-Mathematical, Spatial, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and Naturalist.…
Shawshank prison. Every prison scene is framed by bars and dark, grays or blues as…
What defines a character as a hero or a villain? A cape and tights? An evil plot? This is not necessarily the case in what contributes to this distinction between the two. In both “Metropolis” and “Citizen Kane”, a narrative of heroism and villainy is presented and developed. These films address these topics of heroism and villainy, are defined by the people who experience the hero or villain. In some aspects, it is clear who is the hero in the story and who is not. Whereas in others, characters cannot be discussed as purely heroic or villainous, due to the complexity of the character and how that situation around them shifts. Each film provides a narrative of the relationship between this idea of a hero and…
It is undeniable that the types of films being released and audience expectations have changed hugely over the years. Between the 1920s and 1960s, the Hollywood studio system dominated all aspects of film production. Consequently, they needed to create films that were appealing and accessible to the masses in order to maximise profits (Gomery, 1999: 247-252). These classical Hollywood films had similar traits such as: characters with clear goals and personalities, a tight chain of cause and effect, dual plotlines, appointments and deadlines, a clear opening, a strong closure, invisible…
In the 20th century, it was crystal clear that in this age uniqueness was the key. It was the age of change. They started to tackle taboo topics with no worries, even though the plot at most of the time was untraditional, it could be without "Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action or even the Resolution" the plot may be missing any point of them. It was the age of rebelliousness or they only want the change for the sake of change. In this paper, I will be discussing a 2016 psychological movie called "Split" this film will be tackled through "Plot, Themes, Techniques, and Characterizations".…
A common theme occurring multiple times throughout the stories is the connections of people, amidst a wide treatment of human relationships which has influenced film largely. Movies such as; “Schindler’s List”, “Saving Private Ryan”, “Empire of the Sun” and “Amistad” add humanity back into the subject of War and slavery. These historical period movies keep the events from being forgotten, especially because of their popularity, along with reminding new generations of what happened and how people viewed that event, at the time when it was released. Through the years, these historical topics have been about facts and dates and events, but…
The importance of popular media representation is often underestimated to the average eye. Television, movies, books, and video games are just a few of the many examples of media to are available to an increasingly growing audience. Although forms of media are not reality, they are representations, a looking glass for society at large to identify with and see themselves in. How many times have we watched a big-time action flick and felt strongly connected with the lead character, began rooting for their victory? How many times have television and movie directors, in the span of a few hours, drawn us to the side of the protagonist? Regarding the protagonist characters especially,…
a blue filter. The filters give a special beauty to the scenes, which in turn…
Nearly one hundred years ago, human beings invented the gadget called camera. Nobody could have known the importance of this invention when it was devised. After years, television and cinema were invented, and people gradually understood the importance of these gadgets. They had a chance to join entertaining, interesting, and even amazing world of television and cinema because the life they saw in movies usually resembled their daily life. Now people have considered that movies are inevitable for them. The movie industry has become the largest industry with millions of employees, and producers have started to earn enormous amount of money from the movies that they made. While all these change were happening, people’s pleasures and trends changed. Going to the cinema and watching movies in the evenings have become usual events of weekends among the young people (youngster). There are several types of movies that people watch regularly, and we can categorize them into three groups according to their popularity: comedies, action movies, and sentimental movies.…