the edge of the seats for the majority of the film, and the appearance of several big name actors of the time, how could it not be a hit? While those things are part of the reason this film was and is incredibly popular, one has to look deeper in order to truly understand what made it a great film. The way the scenes were shot, the design of the sets, and even the way the actors were dressed for their parts; these are crucial things that give the film its thrilling and suspenseful aura. Without a
To Be Brave or To Be a Coward, What Was Hamlet’s Character In the 1996 film version of Hamlet, Kenneth Branagh portrays Hamlet in the pivotal scene in the fourth act where Hamlet ponders whether or not he has been a coward when it came to avenging his father’s death and killing King Claudius. Majestic snowy mountains stand in the distance, as thousands of tiny Norwegian soldiers march in the distance and Hamlet launches into a monologue desperately trying to find his inner strength. Hamlet takes
The film adaption of the novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, does a fair job impersonating the life of an adolescent in his high school life through letters. Charlie, the protagonist and the narrator of the story, is a very shy, introverted , sorrowful freshman intimidated by his new school, new friends, new teachers. Making friends has always been very difficult to him: he is a wallflower watching life from aside. He writes letters to an imaginary friend and he confesses him much of his life
Women in film and other media are often eroticized, given their typical placement in the patriarchal order of society as sexual objects and status symbols. To that end, one of the greatest fears to a man who benefits from the privileges of such a society is the self-assured, erotic femme fatale, a highly sexualized, commoditized figure who often finds herself manipulating men for her own ends. While this seems evil on the surface, there are much more complicated motivations behind these figures than
With a film set in Harlem in the year 1987, it would be unlikely for ‘transgressive’ to be near the top of the list of critiques. However, Precious has managed to achieve this feat through its use of vibrant characters, skillful dialogue and clear themes. The film, based on the novel Push by Sapphire, was directed by Lee Daniels in 2009, and starred many big names such as Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, and introduced Gabourey Sidibe as the title character. The film has no taste
nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved big brother again” (Orwell 245). He essentially is forced to give up the fight. Harrison, on the other hand, does not realize that his need to rebel and be free will have such a high price. It is evident that Harrison was planning a revolution, as his first words of the short story are, “I am the Emperor! Do you hear me? I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once