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.…
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.…
Fran and her family are Spanish immigrants, and Luhrmann portrays them as coming from the ‘wrong side of the tracks’, literally by showing a train pass by their house. They are initially seen in darkness and the stark contrast from the glitz and glow of the ballroom world creates an image of the family as being rough and unrefined. However, as Scott spends time with them, they are revealed to be passionate dancers, and after spending mere hours with the family, Scott is accepted into their world, whereas Fran is yet to be accepted into the ballroom world after 2 years of dancing in beginners.…
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.…
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.…
One can recount many instances where the truth is stretched for film, theater, or television to make a better story, but it appears that the smash Broadway hit Jersey Boys is pretty accurate. Bob Gaudio, one of the original members of The Four Seasons, was instrumental in the creation of Jersey Boys, which won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical and is seemingly entrenched at the August Wilson Theatre for a long run in addition to numerous touring productions.…
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.…
The film tells the story about doctor Zhivago’s love for two women. It takes place during World War I, the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War.…
The genre of this movie is drama. The famous director, Spielberg, did an amazing job to grab the attention of the audience using the sound track. The scenes in the movie clearly portrayed the lives of the slaves during that era. The acting was amazing and the facial expressions of the actors grabbed my attention. The skill of the famous actors, such as Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins, was clearly evident in the movie. I believe that this movie is historically accurate as proved by the text book, scholarly journals, and the class…
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.…
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.…
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…
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.…
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.…