Film Studies Essay Examples and Topics. Page 11

This paper uses the movies, Raise the Red Lantern and The Story of Qiu Ju, to explore the changing status of women in 20th-Century China.

I am planning to use these ideas and values in order to establish the best coaching relationships. I will always be ready to address the needs and challenges of my clients.

Intensely affected by his father's behavior, Sarty does not pause to look back and return to his family"."Barn Burning" reveals class conflicts, vengeance, and the influence of fathers that the viewer observes through the third-person [...]

The Station Agent is a wonderful example that helps to clear up the essence of social penetration theory and relational dialectics, differentiate them in accordance with the major principles, decide which theory is more effective, [...]

The film, Young and Restless in China, is a documentary directed by Sue Williams that follows the lives of nine young Chinese women and men in their struggle with ambitions in a society that is [...]

The guard's decision to report Harry to the authorities suggests deontological ethics where "ethics judges the morality of an action based on the action's adherence to rules".

As a way of encouraging the married as well as those who wish to marry, a lot has been published to equip them on knowledge of reality of marriage and what is expected in the [...]

The film "As Good as It Gets" is, no doubt, one of the examples that fill the bill of pop culture in the African American context.

For instance, at the beginning, the viewers learn about the death of the main character. This method ensures that the foreground and background of the scene remain within the focus of the camera.

This is the main theme that is explored by the authors of this film. This is one of the strengths that make this movie worth watching.

The plan is to blow up the room where the safe is stored and land it in a boat waiting in the water canal beneath the apartment.

The Arab human development report 2005: Towards the rise of women in the Arab world stated that the utilization of the capabilities of the Arab women through political and economic participation has historically remained bottommost [...]

A number of issues pertaining to the developers of the art and the current status of the pieces are some of the themes explored in the film.

In the movie, Jon is a delinquent who gets an expulsion from school and has to stay with his grandfather away from his mother.

Overall, the concept of authorship is important for discussing the visual elements of this movie, its promotion, and the key ideas that are conveyed to the viewers. In part, this argument can be applied to [...]

This essay explores the theme of gun violence in the movie, 'Boyz n the Hood.' The Boyz n the Hood movie is a two-decade movie that reveals some miserable lifestyle that the teenagers of the [...]

If there was an argument to the contrary, this was brought to a decisive end when Solomon Northup was kidnapped from his home in one of the northern states, and dragged into a life of [...]

The implication of each scene and the overall storyline cannot be separated from the duality of man and machine: the question of whether man or machine will prevail is a question that continues until the [...]

This paper presents a discussion of the meaning of food as a part of culture in China based on a chosen episode from "A Bite of China" series. In the Chinese and the Mongolian cultures [...]

In order to enter the world of boxing, Maggie, the main heroine of Million Dollars Baby, had to overcome the adversities connected with gender stereotypes.

The plot of the movie "clash of titans" is based on Greek myth of the gods; Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. In the centre stage of the journey myth, is the theme death and resurrection.

The main issue is that Shane Carruth lays stress on the idea that viral mechanism can be used to influence the behavior of an individual. This is one of the details that can be distinguished [...]

At a particular point, he offers money for the medication of Carol's son in return for her usual service at the restaurant that leads to the fact that the two arrange a date.

A lot of the movie shows the road trip and how the father and his son communicate. The element that reinforces the scenes and the theme of the movie is the way the camera is [...]

In both the Bible and the movie there is a theme of betrayal. At the end of each story, both in the Bible and the movie, Jesus is crucified.

The major themes of the story is that people can sometimes get more of what they bargained for in helping someone, that the reality of the world is very perceptive and individual, and that fiction [...]

The scene where Bryan arrives at the card game of the kidnappers and demands money is filled with sounds that prepare the viewer for something to happen.

Cathy is a wife and a mother of two children; a girl and a boy while her husband Frank is a breadwinner, a father to the two children.

Some of them, as listed and explained below, include; The business touch to every aspect as distinguished from a personal perspective, the difference in the worlds of men and women then, and the difference that [...]

The wave of killings in Los Angeles is thus a result of disruptions in the mob world. Police corruption is also eminent in the version of California that was portrayed in the movie.

However, this was disputed as there was the suggestion that the depiction of an object through another medium could not be held as evidence of the original existence of the object, and this led to [...]

This is evidenced in naming of the movie's characters and profiling of the episodes which serve as an encouragement to the viewers to appreciate the philosophical themes in it.

An intriguing and tense movie, the World War Z is definitely worth checking out at least for the sake of the special effects that, much to the audience's surprise, were pretty well integrated, even though [...]

The film is very significant in the history of film because it represents the golden age of the silent film era.

The highlight of the movie happens when Lieutenant Ballard is sent on a mission to Shinning Canyon, a mining location in a remote area of the red planet.

The foremost aspect of how the urban landscape is being represented in Blade Runner is that the director made a deliberate point in accentuating the perceptual unfriendliness of the environment, in the foreground of which [...]

This identifies well with the parole board as the crime was committed in is youth and that he has accepted his mistakes and is changed for the better when he talks of not being able [...]

First of all, the director relies on camera work and editing at the beginning of the film in order to show that the main characters enjoy prosperity. This is one of the main points that [...]

The scene of the meeting responds to developing the idea of the people's interactions and gender opposition in relation to the changing urban life, and it is characterized by rather long shots and by the [...]

Fred Niblo's The Mark of Zorro can be well discussed, as one of the most outstanding examples of the classical editing technique's successful deployment, because the manner in which the director went about connecting film's [...]

The films have been used to enhance the social relationship between the Arabs and the Jews who are the occupants of the affected region.

Like the entire movie, the sequence is shot by means of a digital camera that has slightly changed colors to reach the tone needed for the main purposes of the movie.

The proliferation of global events that compose true-life stories triggered the move towards the improvement of the movie and film industries, immediately after the global events of the last world war that saw the American [...]

The emergence of Nosferatu on the deck of the ship and the one in which one of the characters is shown against a range of crosses in a cemetery are the scenes chosen for the [...]

Thus, the purpose of this mid-term paper is to apply the concepts learning within the course to the message of the movie Penelope basing on the analysis and discussion of the scene from the movie.

This is one of the strategies that film-makers can adopt in order to change public opinion about the notions of race and ethnicity.

In many cases, the authors attempt to highlight the flaws of the community. To some degree, this complexity of the narrative is important for creating the sense of disorientation.

The center of the model is the most important notion which influences a great number of other issues and leads to the appearance of new layers which could be compared with the ripples on the [...]

The sheer representation of the two characters compared to the others reflects a measure of racial bigotry. The film propagates the assumptions that the whites are peaceful while the blacks have a high propensity to [...]

Using examples of D'Angelo's communication with his followers the paper demonstrates that the inequalities of the inner-city Baltimore showed in The Wire are deeply rooted in the minds of the representatives of lower class who [...]

To sum up, it is possible to note that the film Apocalypse Now is a reflection of Coppola's inner world and his longings.

The maids team up with a newcomer to uncover the truth behind the murder of a maid, and they eventually become allies in their lives.

In the documentary, Sington narrates about the events that led to the global financial crisis experienced in the year 2008. Based on this, I believe that it is important to analyze the root causes of [...]

The paper will present the comparison and contrast of the ways the directors used to show these themes in both films.

This is one of the points that can be made. This is one of the points that can be made.

It became the first part of the legendary series of films about the adventures of Indiana Jones, the brave archeologist seeking for rare artifacts in the most dangerous and mysterious places of our planet.

As the series unfolds, the viewer is able to relate the "blackout" in the film to a possible one in real life.

The establishment of a social correlation between the play and film adaptation contributes to a revelation of the author's time's spirit.

In the movie 'Hot Fuzz,' the economy is running itself, it is absolutely independent of the governmental regulations, as the Neighborhood Watch Alliance has the total control over the economy and the population of the [...]

The title closely reflects the central conflict as the matrix is the name of the machine that harbors the imprisoned humans and alters their reality.

With the key idea concerning the clash of a personality and the society, Haggis managed to reinvent people's perception of a criminal drama, introducing such issues as racism in the present-day society, the way in [...]

The movie presents the life of this person who due to the specific ability, lives all his moments of life simultaneously. Would I have a desire to escape from the horrors of life?

Hotel Rwanda focuses on the theme of presence of the West in the course of the civil war in Rwanda and the price of the Western silence which resulted in the fact that the massacre [...]

With this in mind, it is possible to say that a great number of various works are devoted to peculiarities of this process as people are interested in the issue and try to find the [...]

One way of predicting the design of future structures is to analyze the appearance of architectural features presented in the movies that focus on the future.

According to Stoddart, an advertiser is given a few seconds or at most a couple of minutes to convince the audience that the product on offer is the best in the market.

The character of Henry Ford in the film is evident after 1896; a time when Theodore Roosevelt disbands the extant monopolies in the era of William McKinley, the United States president who suffered assassination in [...]

In these films, Majidi depicts the poor communities of the Islamic city Tehran in contrast to the rich center of the city, and Lang presents the developed city of the future.

The 'American Horror Story' is a horror anthology that was launched in 2011 to shatter the modern limits of what is acceptable.'Depraved', as they claim, AHS brought along the classical horror themes in the quantities [...]

To understand the movie and state of affairs in Japanese society of that time better, it is necessary to understand who geishas were.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the manner in which religion is depicted in a film known as Apostle.

The director manages to show the change in the relationship of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth through the use of colour, lighting, actors' positions and movement of camera.

One can say that in the novel, she is depicted as a symbol of high social status that the protagonist wants to achieve.

In the beginning itself, the film depicts Washizu and Miki fighting for their Lord, which is why the audience can immediately see a strong influence of Japanese culture in the movie.

Although Lisbeth Salander is often considered as the modern active female character to support the feminist ideals, the heroine should also be discussed from the point of Haraway's cyborg feminism because Lisbeth is the vivid [...]

Gattaca is a futuristic film set in what is dubbed as a 'not-too-distant future.' The movie elicits the longstanding debate on the role and place of genetic engineering amongst human beings. Anton is a product [...]

The tolerant society depicted is manifest following the coming in of David's new trainer and resourceful cricket mentor. His peers do not seem to be conscious of his tremendous improvements in the game.

One of the characters, Pryde, decides to help the mutants run away from the sentinels' wrath using his ability to return the consciousness of the people around him back in time.

This is a recurring theme in the movie, and it is used to engage with the audience. The audience's expectation was to see a romantic relationship between Eli and Oskar.

The movie, through the depiction of a monster called Godzilla, expresses the anxiety of the modern world about the adverse impacts of technology, especially in the context of nuclear testing, on human race.

The article by Denby David identified two characters among the teens that were popular for all the wrong reasons, and therefore, they were again the most hated. Having briefly examined the article by Denby and [...]

The majority of young people were trying to help their parents to provide for family. Riding the rails was a kind of a chance to change the life for better: teenagers were trying to find [...]

In the movie The Help, Tate Taylor, the director, paradoxically explores racism as a social crisis in the American society. Taylor presents the disgusting treatment, torturing, and killing of the black people in the broad [...]

While Dr Breuer sets out to cure Nietzsche, he does so but in the process also cures himself by sharing his deepest feelings and emotions with Nietzsche.

The main idea behind the movie was making the pill look as the booster to the activities of the main character.

Generally, the film 'Ordinary People' depicts the role of family in the development of various mood and anxiety disorders, in which Conrad emerges as a victim of lacking motherly love, resulting into his hatred for [...]

The setting of this movie is amazing: the forest in the mountain and river flowing through it displays a clear picture of people who would not count the cost to pay for their freedom.

I feel that the plot of the movie does not draw in the audience and is the kind of a movie that one may opt to stop watching halfway.

Thereafter, Kwita purchases a costume, dresses the mummy with the help of the rest, and they board a ship to bury Ali's body at the middle of the sea, on a private island.

The cat character symbolizes Holly Golightly in her quest to achieve freedom while her empty house typifies her destitute self and personality. The fact that Holly does not take care for her cat symbolizes her [...]

Moreover, the film appears more appealing to the audience since there is a lot of suspense, a factor that makes one to keep following the episodes in the scene.

On the one hand, the exercise, which was practiced in the Chinese school, is far from what democracy stands for; in fact, in many ways, the avenues that the students resorted to taking in order [...]

Making a striking contrast to the cool-blooded murder which is happening outside the church, the scene of baptism also serves as the means to highlight the key idea of the book, driving the conflict between [...]

The goal of a movie producer of comedy is not only to achieve all of the above but also to make people laugh and thus score a success not only as a movie that audience [...]

That is why it is always interesting to get new information about different regions of our world and the peculiarities of the culture of people who live there.

Following the events that are depicted in the movie in the quest of achieving the goals that each of the two main characters have, the film reveals central themes.

Introduction The students will learn a variety of cultural dilemmas of the 21stcentury society, as well as the difference in stylistic choices made by writers and filmmakers to render these dilemmas. Rationale: Because of a considerable lack of diversity in a number of state schools (Barkhorn para. 2), it is recommended that the students should […]

Hence, the movie review holds that the comedy depicts the experiences of psychopaths in the world of crime. Charlie and his team of thugs under the leadership of Paulo uncover the connection of Hans and [...]

In spite of the fact that many modern musicals depart from traditional Altman's model, Once conforms to the model in many aspects because the musical's semantics is correlated with the traditional principles, except the focus [...]

Similarly, the USSR masterminded the Cold War to the chagrin of the United States and the film's director uses this war to highlight the never-ending conflict that runs deep in humanity.

The main conflicts in both works are the same the relationships between women and their daughters, career and love matters, and, of course, the most important issue brought up in the films the racial self-definition.

Therefore, the various reasons that led to the Holocaust are the key pointers of the general motives or causes of the events that occur in the movie.

In Daredevil, blindness is presented a source of power, courage, and strength that enables Matt to help people in his town by fighting crime.

The response of the company when it became apparent that the chromium was causing cancer was to hide the evidence regarding their operations and its connection to the increased rates of cancer.

It is concluded that an individual has the freedom to do anything, but he or she should consider the plight of others.

The drugs presented in "Fear and loathing in Las Vegas" are of various types, cigarettes and alcohol are legal, grass is legal only in some countries, and the rest of the drugs are illegal everywhere [...]

The highlighted drug in the film is alcohol. The film narrates the story of Alice.

The first half of the movie dwells on the ills and rampart corruption that surrounds Louisiana County governance as highlighted in the second chapter of the book. Just like other politicians, Stark sinks into corruption [...]

However, he does not have the backing of his parents on how to deal with the issue. In essence, if Oskar had the necessary guidance and love from his parents, he would have revealed to [...]

Television is used as a metaphysical channel that links the worlds of the dead and the living. Rachel leaves her job to take care of her son and in the process breaks the curse.

Paige's nurses and doctors failed to support her needs after she was discharged from the hospital. He also uses the best caring practices in order to support Paige's needs.

The theme in this film serves to show the importance of understanding each other's need in marriage, as opposed to waiting until one gets a divorce and start wishing to do things s/he never did [...]

He shows the rest of the jury that the old man could not have managed to see the boy run out of the house after committing the murder.

Of course, the main purpose of this film is to elucidate some facts from the controversial biography of the singer and warm the peoples interest in jazz music up, using the famous name as the [...]

As he turns to introduce himself, he realizes that her name is Autumn, which is a sign of his continuation and ultimate moving on in life.

The setting is a psychiatric facility in the McLean Hospital, and the dominant issue in the movie is the nature e of mental disorders.

The film carefully unleashes the events leading to the four girls' imprisonment with a primary agenda of revealing the faulty in the law systems coupled with how the system works unjustly for the people perceived [...]

Also, the play of words Coffee Perk also prepares the audience to the type of jokes that are intended for the audience.

Despite using rather simplistic propaganda techniques and devices, such as Beautiful People and Flag-Waving, the movie manages to get the key idea of the major flaws at the very core of the current healthcare system [...]

The acclaimed documentary called "Jesus Camp" that was released in 2006 and filmed in 2005 divided the United States and its audience into the people that perceive "Jesus Camp" as a revealing creation that debunks [...]