The Breakfast Club is a quintessential teen movie. Director John Hughes really knew what he was doing when he wrote his teen movies. Set during one Saturday detention, The Breakfast Club is a movie about five different kids from five different social groups becoming friends and finding out they're not so different after all. The five main characters are Claire the princess, Andy the jock, Allison the basket case, Brian the nerd, and Bender the criminal. Though at first the five characters argue, they pour their hearts out to each other and realize that they aren’t So different after all.…
Storytelling is a sacred past time for my family; my ancestors engaged in storytelling to preserve, and pass along family history from one generation to the next. However, my love for telling stories is evolving from the tradition to inspirational entertainment. In fact, television writers, Shonda Rhimes and Dan Fogelman are inspirations for my desire to obey God’s calling on my life. Both authors, Shonda Rhimes and Don Fogelman, are writing compelling scripts and television screenplays that constantly tap human emotions, arrest viewers’ attention, while creating a loyal following of viewership.…
Leno's early acts drew from his life experience: growing up in New Rochelle, New York, and Amherst, Massachusetts, attending Emerson College, and enjoying popular culture. His college education affected his act in an unusual way at his first stage booking. After learning about American Indian history, he refused to do a skit filled with stereotypes of American Indian culture. The writer changed the skit to suit Leno, therefore, he agreed to move forward with the show. Despite Leno’s initial success guarding others’ dignity while on the job, his own career success required more trial and error. He spent about 15 years working his way around the comedy club scene, sleeping on friends’ sofas, and often performing for no…
The film Friday Night Lights (2004) is based on the real-life story of the 1988 Permian Panthers football team in Odessa, Texas. The film is a more fictionalized account of the book it’s based on, written by author H.G. Bissinger and downplays the more intense issues that plagued Odessa when Bissinger followed the team during the 1988 season. (Briley 1) The film follows Coach Gary Gaines (portrayed by Billy Bob Thornton) as he coaches the Panthers in the football obsessed town. The film portrays the societal pressures put on young athletes, especially in a town where one sport seems to be the dominating past-time. All that matters is football; academics are barely even mentioned. No matter where these athletes go, they can’t escape the pressures…
"High School Musical" stars currently got together in a Los Angeles high school gym. The Walt Disney Company announced that the stars celebrated the Disney Channel movie's ten year anniversary last Sunday.…
Kramer enters the scene with a massive sunburn and states that he has to keep the skin moist so he does not dry out, jerry ask if that is what the doctor recommended and he replies, “No, I read an article in Bon Appetite magazine”. Besides indicating that Kramer will keep moist, this scene is another reception factor. Because next we see Kramer in the hot tub applying water to himself with a baster, and next to him is Newman seated reading Alive. So far previous scenes had disappointment, superiority, and incongruity. And this scene is no different, it shows all three when Kramer is keeping moist in the…
Analysis Questions 2, Pg 33 #2: What do we learn about the author as we read this essay? How does his use of language reveal not only humor, but also the author's persona? How would you describe it?…
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart provides a particularly example of political culture jamming. The Daily Show jams the uninterrupted stream of the dominant political images through the proliferation of humorous dissident images, images that exploit leverage points—factual errors, logical contradictions, and incongruities—in both the dominant political discourse and the media that disseminate it. Creating their own version of Adbusters’ subvertisements through the news parody, coupled with the information specific tactics of the strategic use of video and Stewart’s Socratic interview style, Stewart and his colleagues add their subversive interpretation of the dominant political brand to the public sphere. Politicians now use all the available…
In the first chapter of The Greatest Show On Earth, Dawkins discusses the acceptance of evolution as fact. He says that even with the insurmountable evidence to prove that it is a fact, evolution is still considered to some degree to be just a theory. In a survey of Americans, 40% of people oppose the idea of evolution. They instead believe that humans were created independently from all other living organisms. The percentage is only slightly lower in Britain. He argues that many of those who do not believe evolution to be a fact are uninformed. He states that his purpose for writing this book is to educate these people so that they may realize the truth and change their minds.…
The Greatest Show on Earth, directed by Cecil B. DeMille was nominated for Best Picture by the Academy Awards in 1952. It is about a circus team that tours the world by train with performances all over the country. Brad is the manager of the Circus and is dating Holly, one of the trapeze girls. The conflict in this story comes about when Brad chooses Sebastian, an arrogant trapeze artist, over Holly for the center act I have rated this film through the following criteria. It had to have interesting scenes that evoked emotion in me while watching, I wanted to be able to connect with what the protagonist was feeling, and I wanted it to have a lasting impact on myself.…
In the short film we have been studying; Benny and Joon directed by Jeremiah Chechik in 1993, I will be describing the start of the film and explaining why I thought it was memorable.…
Television network ABC Family’s breakout comedy series, Modern Family, is a show full of life lessons and hidden meanings. Most television shows nowadays are all about sex, alcohol, and the dramas that occur because of them. Modern Family is not an exception, however it focuses more on the family aspect of life’s many dramas. On the surface, it is similar to the sex and drugs filled television shows that consume the media these days, but underneath that surface each episode has a moral to be learned, and the show overall represents many different assumptions America makes on what a “typical” family is.…
The 16th episode of season 29 of Saturday Night Live welcomed the presidential hopeful Donald Trump to host the show. The sold-out performance received copious amounts of criticism from a variety of pro-immigrant, hispanic and other minority organizations. Despite the speculation, the show went on, and Trump was warmly welcomed onto the SNL stage. Despite their host, the show did not hold off in making fun of the guest. Saturday Night Live was adequately funny and witty as usual, though I do not believe that the host contributed to their success.…
The Andy Griffith show was a situational family comedy created by Sheldon Leonard and Aaron Ruben that ran from 1960-1968. The show was quite popular and successful in its eight years of air time. Episode one of season one was written by Charles Stewart and Jack Elinson. The Andy Griffith Show portrayed many different themes in the very first episode. Some themes demonstrated focused on loss, acceptance, and non-traditional family, embracing the future, childhood honesty, loyalty, and fear of change. The main theme that really stuck out to me was the fear of change. In my eyes, it is what supported the purpose of the whole episode and immediately gave viewers something to relate to.…
Fifteen Million Merits episode illustrates compelling dystopian society. The non narrative element that made the episode an example of a compelling dystopian was the music. Notice when in the when Madsen woke and he plugged the ear plugs in his ear, his face showed a face of sorrow. Madsen did not want to live in that society where he had to run everyday to gain points to live by. He wanted to make it big like Selma and gain his first opportunity when he heard Abi in the bathroom. He believed that was his ticket to a new lifestyle. When he heard her sing, he attitude changed dramatically. It was a “new day” for Madsen. Majority of the show shows how he does the same thing over and over. The music captivates the viewer to feel the same way he’s feeling. In my opinion, when I was watching the episode, I was kind of feeling the way he felt. The feeling of like giving…