Film Studies Essay Examples and Topics

But the fact is that, the feature, that the main characters - Holden Caulfield and Morpheus are searching for truth, and try to obtain it by every effort possible.

The second important person with him is his best friend Chukie, who he tells that he would love to be a laborer for the rest of his life.

To make his way to the bus, to fake his death and to problem-solve scenarios to be with Leo and his family, Bob overcomes his fears or at least uses humor and a sense of [...]

We have already witnessed Derek killing the black kids in the first scene, and we have heard about the problems Danny is having in school, and we know what happened to his brother.

The training for such programs enable the candidate to become well versed with the different features in regard to handling time and frame based subtitles, checking and fixing of errors in the subtitles, getting frame [...]

Among the most famous, we single out such as "The Tale of Zatoichi", "The Fugitive", "On the Road", and "Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold".."The Chest of Gold", as this film is also known was [...]

He gave the shark a signature in the sound track that warned the audience and set up what Hitchcock called that anticipation which was better than the actual act.

The movie provided a sharp critique on the media represented by television in redirecting public focus and opinion as well as on the control and influence of advertisers on political matters.

Born in Austria, von Stroheim was considered a military expert, and his popularity was such that he could get away with making long films of up to eight hours duration which remained popular for the [...]

Gilbert Adair wrote the screenplay of the film The Dreamers, who happened to be the one who also wrote its novel The Holy Innocent that was published in 1988.

Our main task is to show how this aspect of human psychology and communication, is reflected in the film. Thus, we can conclude that the presence of mass media is very noticeable in this film.

Dana Scully, also a special FBI agent and a partner of Mulder, is working together to solve the cases in the movie and the series.

Benedick is an in depth character and he plays a key role in the movie in a variety of ways. Benedick was unmasked when he overheard Leonato, Don Pedro and Claudio in the garden talking [...]

In the film, one of Plainview's workers dies in the oil fields and the man's son becomes an orphan that Plainview takes under his wing.

In analyzing the characters, it should be mentioned that due to the style of narration of the film which is divided to chapters the cast of characters is very diverse and viewers can decide which [...]

Jacob, being the seasoned man that he is portrayed as being, takes the opportunity in keeping the spirits of his people in high mode and begins a fabricated account of the consistent and regular advancements [...]

In the current paper I will speak of two of them: the call for actions of the US government concerning the video games and the way the US government reacts to emergency situations.

In this paper, both of the movies various perspectives would be analyzed and contrasted n order to determine the way they portray relationships and the way people are caught at cross roads.

These two problems were delicately joined in the main plot of the film "Something the Lord Made" that shows that ambitions, hard work and talent can overcome all the obstacles to deliver one of the [...]

But, in the end, he comes back to his master in the monastery. In 'Winter', the apprentice returns to his master's monastery to find it empty and abandoned.

To begin with, it is necessary o mention, that Hollywood had attained a reputation as the propagandist of the American ideals and American way of life.

The plot of the film concentrates on the attempts of the person to hold his family together. The father is gradually sinking in the eyes of the public; his wife Ling intends to leave him [...]

It involves the knowledge of numerous techniques and methods of filming used together with the background of the film and the two contexts the one in which the film was created and another one in [...]

In science fiction movies such as The Terminator I and Terminator II and Blade Runner, by creating characters that are half-human and half-machine, the might of technology is explored as something to be both celebrated [...]

The main protagonist of the movie is Forest Gump, whose life has been shown in the movie and the villain is Gump himself.

The diagnosis of all the characters is a form of deviation and the prognosis is building strong relationships and family ties and labeling the people around us positively.

While all this may seem as great emotional fodder and exactly the stuff teary romances of that period contained, Sirk supplements this with his trademark visual style using mirrors, angles, windows, doorways, color, and architectural [...]

In the movie Spanglish, Flor wanted a better life for her daughter and for her daughter to keep her native language and heritage.

The 1932 film adaptation of Hemingway's novel is centered on the theme of love that will endure everything in the world.

The point is that at the very beginning of the movie, it seems to them that they will hardly talk to each other when their detention is, however, it happens to be just the opposite [...]

Unlike the notes of the authors of other reviews on this movie, for example: "The Devil Wears Prada may not be top of the wish list for a lot of blokes looking for a night [...]

The dialogue between the narrative that constitutes the bulk of the movie indicates that expeditions are only a form while human relations are the main focus of this film The main limitation and a negative [...]

The actors like Charlie Chaplin made a great contribution to the development of the film industry on the whole, and to the development of the comedy genre in particular.

The story reaches a point where Bud begins to plot the takeover of the airline by Gekko and uses the savings from the union to restructure it.

The informational development and the widespread of the information is the puppets shown to the people in the cave, that can become their matrix.

The current paper is devoted to comparison of the two portraits of the famous artists: Rembrandt's Woman with a Pink and Hans Holbein the Younger's Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap.

We see the frustration in the face of Sgt.Ryan. But certainly, it is a mirror of the archetypes that persist in American society.

This is the era, which has brought us: the Vietnam War, the Civil rights movement, hippies, the Beatles, the assassination of John Fritz Gerald Kennedy, The Space Shuttle Program, the assassination of Martin Luther King, [...]

There came a time when people started calculating and observing the relations between mass and energy and the basic matter that may have made particles that in turn make up other things.

As the film advances, Gore's multimedia demonstration is interchanged with him providing the audience glimpses of his background and opinions. There is a wide distance between Gore's outdated jokes which draws simultaneous groans from the [...]

The movie presumes that people feel bitterness and prejudice towards members of different groups, and helps its viewers see the consequences of such mentalities."Crash" combines the stories of blacks, whites, Koreans, Iranians, Latinos, police, criminals, [...]

In the end, it becomes an analysis of all the elements of the film which contribute to the initial experience of the film which matters.

The fundamental focus of any advertisement, particularly a movie poster, is to communicate with the audience and reveal the properties of the product in an interesting and creative manner.

However, we cannot say that the peculiarities and the problems of public education, especially in the context of racism, were so often explored in the movies.

In the movie, director Alien Berliner plots the Ludovic character of a small boy who crosses dresses himself and generally behaves like a girl, and he wanted to marry his neighbor's son.

The movie presents the viewer with all the trials and tribulations that he had to overcome, from a divorce, extreme poverty, and the eventual payoff that he got from his seemingly endless patience and perseverance [...]

The Genetic Control theory is so radiantly forwarded that more than involving in the story proceedings, the viewers, are made to realize the changes in the attitude shown to a normally born and a genetically [...]

While it is true that policymakers and politicians are behind the war, the linkage to the theme of the lions and lambs as seen in the movie creates confusion.

It is actually the effort of the film to show all facets of how love can exist family love, romantic love, puppy love, and even platonic love.

The movie was mostly shot in France upon the insistence of Frederick Loewe as a condition of his writing the lyrics for the score by Lerner.

A professional model is found dead in her bed with her nose cut off, a container of sleeping pills in one hand, and a phone in the other; her death was the result of a [...]

His sense of pride is pricked as he struggles not to tell a lie but when he is confronted by the armed men who were informed that he had entered the place with his guns, [...]

Andy on the other hand chooses clothes that she deems to be smart, comfortable, and good enough for the first day on the job, which in reality is utterly unfashionable.

In traditional societies, the family system tended to take the form of the extended family. Thus, the gender aspect is reversed and the male is found to be dominated by women in the movie making [...]

The study of class and how this is achieved had been viewed as the means in comprehending the structure of social society.

In this paper we will analyse "The War of the Worlds", "Star Wars" and "The Fifth Element", as movies that reflect the genre of science fiction being transformed from something that used to help people [...]

The movie appealed to the conscience of the people of the world and explained how poverty broke human relations, created vulnerabilities, and seriously affected human society.

Men have been exploited by the community, and it is from side to side the Fight Club that they can preserve their physicality and consider themselves lively.

Derne' S writes that, a research done by Tiffany A Boveland of Loyolla University on the effects of a movie clip on change in love concept showed that, romantic movies did affect people's perceptions and [...]

This serves as the concluding blow by Moore to the inhumane practices of the health care sector and services of America.

It is natural to feel overwhelmed by the intricacies and complexities of the many environmental problems confronting society and by the belief that an individual is at the mercy of all the variables that threaten [...]

The deep involvement of the residents with the team and the winning-is-everything attitude is a theme common to the book and movie.

The cruel Spanish reality of the Civil War period is reflected in the discussed film with deep understanding of people's troubles and pain. But the most touching mixture of reality and a fairy tail we [...]

In the sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Schwarzenegger reprises the role, but with a twirl: Schwarzenegger is the hero but not the criminal, playing a dissimilar but visually [...]

The term determinism states, the all the processes in the world are determined beforehand, and only chosen may see or determine the future.

It has come to be recognized as the "brain in a vat" proposal, and one leading presentation of the idea is offered by the philosopher Jonathan Dancy: "You can not know that you are not [...]

The complication of the opening scene stands for emphasizing the hard times, which are pictured in the movie, as the main character struggles totalitarian government of Great Britain, and thus, the image of the chase [...]

In fact, the abundance of comments and the close depictions of the characters point to the fact that they have plenty of time to get to know one another better because of the boredom of [...]

During the last generation the term has acquired a central position in psychological and social theory due, perhaps, to greater awareness of the dislocations in the relationship between individual and society that characterize the process [...]

It is so far out of the circle that when Ted Koppel held a "Nightline" town gathering in the armed force stranglehold of Decter, Mich, after the violence, the language blockade was so said he [...]

For Ditie therefore to attain his dreams, he has to have knowledge to be the best of what he wanted. The story of Ditie's had become more interesting with his meeting the girl in his [...]

It's an unusual film because it is set all in one room and the courtyard. I enjoyed the film and thought Hitchcock did it very well.

The video for the analysis is the conversation with David Lynch - an American filmmaker, painter, video artist, and performance artist.

The following two takes on Roger & Me deal not only with the film and the surrounding controversy, but also with some of the esthetic and political issues it raises, from the perspective of two [...]

Mark sneaked up and crawled on his stomach to reach and pull the hose from the exhaust to stop the man in the car from dying.

This paper explores the aesthetic importance, artistic style and appeal as well as other aspects of David Lynch's three films Eraserhead, Lost Highway and Inland Empire basing on Michel Chion's ideas and perspectives as well [...]

On the right, her son Harry unplugs the television and asks his mother for the keys to the padlock, chaining it to the radiator; on the left, Sara, her nerves frayed from having seen this [...]

The life of Sara and her son Harry is limited by their class and is shaped by the combination of cultural factors such as TV serials and melodramas, false ideals, and values.

In order to properly describe the technical setting that includes the color palette and set design for the movie Pan's Labyrinth, it is necessary to understand the most about the film why such set design [...]

The rest, as the saying goes, is history.'Jaws,' a movie based on a novel of the same name by Peter Benchley, featured a killer shark viciously attacking people, with Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss in [...]

At the same time, his ability to be a successful gambler is threatened because of the spotlight on his wife's personal and public life.

In The Prestige, the effects of film noir are employed to create a mood of mystery, suspicion and the darkness that is at the heart of passion.

Its symbolic theme is set in the world of an authentic mental hospital, a place of insurgence exhibited by a vigorous, flamboyant, wise-guy anti-hero against the Establishment, institutional authority and status-quo attitudes.[Forman himself noted that [...]

Hartman tells the recruits that Chaplain Charlie preaches how 'the free world' would overcome the evil forces of Communism with the 'aid of God and a few marines,' adding that God has a 'hard-on' for [...]

Though the future seen by the pre-cogs is different, the preference is given to the majority, thus Agatha's opinion turns to be a "minority report".

Michael Douglas a cold, multimillionaire whose value is diminishing plays as Steven Taylor and is husband to youthful Gwyneth Paltrow and their marriage does not work well and this leads to Gwyneth having an extramarital [...]

The sense of mystery established at the opening of the film, with the discovery of the famously lost squadron of torpedo bombers incongruously set down in the Sonora Desert in the middle of a dust [...]

So, this essay will be dedicated to the analysis of the depiction of death in the works of art, and in the movie "Dying Young" in particular.

She is angry because Flor feels the guilt of her daughter exposed to a lifestyle she could barely afford to give to her.

The plot revolves around two prominent events in Frida's life - the trolley car accident in 1929 that breaks her back and dooms her to a life of excruciating pain, and her marriage to Diego [...]

Yasujiro is also remembered for the unlikely revelations that may well leave the viewer a little derailed, eventually paints a nuance that deepens the emotional impact of the material.

He wants to be part of the Gattaca's project in going to the space. This is the start of a 'symbiosis' between Vincent and Eugene.

In 2005, director Christopher Nolen was successful in reintroducing the apotheosis of Batman to the modern world with his film "Batman Begins" This film depicts the birth of the god-like figure known as Batman.

Through the usage of color scheme, props, and the setting of the last mise en scene, A Matter of Life and Death facilitated the propagandist message of Anglo-American understanding within the pursuit of individual happiness.

The camera is always focused on Moss's weapon, even when he places it on the bed of the truck so he can investigate the contents of the back of the truck.

What is most interesting about the New Wave in France is its quick transformation from the creation of low-budget films by young directors to the mainstream approach to filmmaking during the 1950s-1960s.

In the USA, the suitability of movies for specific groups of viewers is regulated by the MPAA the Motion Picture Association of America.

One of the strengths of the movie is the incorporation of medical professionals, Sandra and Bennet, who work at the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, and they bring the positive aspects of the mental [...]

In films, the visual representation of characters and events in the context of a specific design plays a critical role in conveying a certain message and provoking emotions in the audience.

The details of the film create an atmosphere of psychedelic transmission of fear, horror, and panic in the eyes of the actors.

Through the analysis of its key thematic and semiotic elements, the present paper will aim to answer the following question: how does the film explore the topic of terminal disease and its impact on the [...]

The film mentions that violent masculinity is not a phenomenon that is limited to white American people and pervades many different cultures.

In a few years, the members grow apart over some of the key decisions, and one of the bombings ends up in the death of a member.

Jay Gatsby's tragic flaw is related to his na ve way of thinking that implies his belief in the ability to buy true feelings.

The themes of white-black relationships and the role of the police in racial judgments comprise the two major topics for a thorough discussion.

The movie spans the last years of Egypt before it became a Roman province, with the political intrigue around it and the emotional intrigue that Cleopatra stirred with her wit, beauty, and ambition.

Roberta is one of the central characters in the movie Desperately Seeking Susan, and her cinematographic portrayal is crucial for the plot of this firm.

She is surprised and confused by the hypocrisy of the judges and her co-defendants, who act as if they do not remember that period and as if they were not part of that society.

The connection between the events in the movie, Newsies and the Industrial Revolution is the use of child labor and the conditions under which they worked.

A significant part of the scene's appeal is its meaning, which was unusual for the time and revolutionized the concept of storytelling in films.

Further, the guys in the cabin find the entrance to the basement where the main character Dana finds a diary and reads a spell, thereby summoning the family of the dead murderers.

The plot of the film is linear and chronological, in which the problematic life of the school's scapegoat Carrie White is shown.

The movie follows the tale of William Wallace a freedom fighter who rose to liberate Scotland from the rule of King Edward "Longshanks" following the death of the king of Scotland, who died without leaving [...]

The film opens with character presentation, then the plot develops to the climax, and the final scene brings the movie to the end.

With this in mind, it is advisable to introduce the term communicative elements of film production, understanding those elements of film production, the presence or absence of which affects the probability of the viewer perceiving [...]

It is worth noting that the film Devdas is not the first screen adaptation of the novel based on which the movie was shot. The loss of his lover led the protagonist to the edge [...]

The portrayal of urban landscapes in film noir is a notable example of this interrelation, as it reflects in the issues of control, surveillance, and policing in a big city.

The magnificence of the savannah is conveyed through employing long shots from the bird's eye's view and the high angle at the beginning of the film.

This paper will focus on the analysis of the mentioned film from the perspective of intercultural and interpersonal concepts of relationships.

The fact that most of the narrative elements exist in an entirely different reality than the one in which the rest of the movie takes place makes the distinction between the narrative and narration in [...]