Film Studies Essay Examples and Topics. Page 12

Yet, the family curse deprives the heroine of the possibility to interact with the outer world because of pig-disorder on her face.

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

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

While several ethical theories present themselves in this movie, the Kantian ethical theory can be used to best explain the actions of the agent and the issue the movie is trying to describe.

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.

The scene, in which the buggy with a small child in it rolls down the stars with no one whatsoever to save the infant can be viewed as one of the most intense parts of [...]

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

The implication of applying different models of performance is aimed at achieving the effectiveness of the play, as well capturing the attention of the listeners.

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.

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 [...]

The outstanding difference between Miss Brodie and Miss Mackay's idea of education is the approach that should be used to teach students.

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 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.

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.

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 [...]

One of the themes in the movie is luck and destiny. Love is one more aspect discussed in the movie.

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.

Although Qiu Ju and the family intend to rebuild shed for the chili peppers, the chief flatly rejects the proposal. She wants the chief to acknowledge the fact that kicking his husband in the crotch [...]

The director says, "Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way."Al Gore strips his presentations of politics, laying out the facts for the audience to draw their own [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

The adaptation will be designed to follow the main character's emotional and psychological development through the course of his adulthood and the impacts of his lethal disease on him and the people around.

The film of Esther Shub Fall of the Romanov Dynasty is one of the exemplary compilation films where archival footage is used in a specific manner. The film dwells upon the last years of the [...]

To a great extent, this film can be compared to the mythic journeys that lead to the moral transformation of a person; the only difference is that the film-makers rely on such a narrative device [...]

Hammond and Leslie Crosbie The racial superiority that was characteristic of white people in The Letter also spread to class and social differences.

The film called "Avatar" created by James Cameron and released at the end of 2009 has quickly won the favor of millions of viewers all around the world.

On the other hand, Brown betrays Ordell, who helps her leave the jail and in planning a way out of the cop's sight with the money, which, to Ordell, is enough to make him retire [...]

A bad teacher is a comedy that features Elizabeth Halsey as the main character. Therefore, it is easy for a viewer to relate to the lives of the characters.

On the other hand, the problems they face are all related to self-identification, empowerment, vulnerability, wrongs of the society, i.e, the problems make the women members of the society which is imperfect.

The ASUSF College Players' adaptation is one more interpretation of the musical's theme and idea which can be discussed as the struggle with the enemy and negative consequences of the attempts to put one person's [...]

On learning that the money is to be directed to a mental institution, which takes care of his unknown brother, Charlie decides to kidnap the brother and obtain the wealth.

The events that happened then underscore the historical Nanjing massacre and the director of the film sought to play out the historical events of the war.

It is possible to say that in this way, she protests against the absurdity and cruelty of the world. One should bear in mind that Elisabet is an actress, and she has to live through [...]

On the other hand, the investigators are aspired by the rise of the crimes that dictate the roles of detectives in the society.

From the very beginning of the film and the story, the main characters start noticing the unusual behavior of the wild birds.

It creates the impetus for introspection and evaluation of values that manifest in society. Indeed, The King of Masks is a formidable film due to its inclination about recurrent issues that often precipitate contention in [...]

This is one of the reasons why he says that he made a mistake. This is one of the main points that can be made.

This genre was relatively new to the audience of 1998; this is why the film "The Truman Show" appeared, it reflected the common fascination towards the reality television in the society of that time.

The Matrix tries to bring out the truth, and the reality of issues that affect the world. The Agents have the freedom to control the making of the film and are responsible for all the [...]

In the very beginning of the film, we learn that Blanche has lost her husband and that it was an enormous shock for her, as she loved the man, and never knew why he committed [...]

An animated family picture is known as the Land Before Time is, perhaps, the most famous and the most entertaining of them.

This uncertainty in the definition of the character's social origin can be attributed to the fact that Fellini aimed at attacking Fascism and, therefore, portraying his attitude towards the exploitation of people's emotions and beliefs, [...]

At the very beginning of the movie, the scene centers on the rigid confrontation between the representative of Native Americans headed by the Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting and the leader of Irish Catholics who arrived [...]

Digital downloading is the future of the film industry because it enhances convenience, affordability, and availability of films to a wide base of consumers.

Therefore, the Matrix, the system created by computers, could be considered as a dystopian world in which humans are controlled by machines, deprived of the truth about the real world.

Buck Brannaman's approach is explored in the film with references to Buck's childhood as the background and significant factor for forming his attitude to training horses and with emphasizing psychological issues of the work which [...]

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is the movie which was directed by Rupert Wyatt and presented as the reboot of the popular "Planet of the Apes" series.

Going to the competition alone as his grandfather does not approve this music and the mother is too drunk to realize what happens, a boy receives the support of his father who has returned from [...]

In spite of all the sniffs which critics made at the movie calling it a contradictory movie with a toy-based plot and the far-fetched storyline, it seems that the movie is quite a decent specimen [...]

One of the themes that should be examined is the inability of the characters to make any progress in their own country.

One can say that this film is aimed at challenging many of the stereotypes about the roles that men and women are supposed to play. This is one of the responsibilities that should parents should [...]

The sequence of the story and the characters unfold almost immediately and most of the actors overact, perhaps because overacting was the trend at that time.

The entry of film scholars in the theatre industry brought rapid changes in the industry such as professionalism and research to make productions that would be more appealing to the audience at various times.

The opening remarks tell the audience that the setting of the movie is Los Angeles and the year is 2019. As people begin fleeing the city, littered streets and abandoned houses dominate the landscape of [...]

Even with several minor additions to the plot, the scene of the dinner at Trimalchio's looks doubtlessly familiar and does remind much about the initial description.

In addition, the likelihood of Deckard being a replicant is also manifested in one of the scenes where Rachael engages Deckard in a conversation.

In the triangle of Jane Tennison, Bill Otley and Michael Kiernan Tennison is able to show the strength of her character and to win the respect of her team.

This form of unexpected events underscores the uncertainty that surrounded the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

As such, although she is not a counselor in the usual sense of the word, she can be asserted to have a therapeutic relationship with her clients.

One of the reasons why it appears to be the case is that, even though that the director had made a deliberate point in altering some dialogues between the featured characters and in adjusting the [...]

There is a lot of activity in the life of the main character, starting from the time he was born right when he envisioned his death at the hands of a hired assassin.

In fact, one of the many advantages of the movie is that it does not shove its ethical dilemmas into the viewer's face quite on the opposite, the ethical lesson is offered to the audience [...]

The social environment: semblance of equality While the issue concerning the unfair treatment of the owners of small business, as well as the dictatorship of Mao Zedong and his party might be too on the [...]

Despite the fact that the general direction of Australia development, i.e, multiculturalism, coincides with the demands of the globalization process, which Australia has recently become a part of, the conflicts between the urban and rural [...]

Subtext is the specific technique when the background information about the character or the events is told as the part of the dialogues, the part of the movie.

The movie involved six actors and became the best movie in the same year, a fact that brought speculations that the movie industry was going to gain more profits in the years that were to [...]

However, it is also necessary to point out that horror movies have very little to offer in terms of personal development or aesthetics, except for giving the audience thrill.

One of the scenes which disorient is the one in the car. Even when the men get out of the car, the space is still closed as Jeffrey is in a tight circle of men [...]

TRANSIT- ION SOUND ADD'L COMMENTS 1: 0 12 sec Long shot Level None Cut Synchronous diegetic Audience is appreciative 2: 12 3 sec Close-up Level None Cut Asynchronous diegetic Reaction shot; Sylvia appears happy 3:15 [...]

Throughout the article, the use of cyborgs in films is used as a tool of analysis by the author. The conflict of the body and the mind is also the main theme in most cyborg [...]

The western genre is the most common movie genre used to highlight the dominance and development of both American and European cultures and economies to the rest of the world.

This misrepresentation is compounded by the view that instead of simply ignoring the roles played by the blacks in the actual events that took place in Mississippi in 1964, the moviemakers assign some of the [...]

However, with the help of careful choice of artistic means of expression and well thought-out mise-en-scenes, together with the introduction of very strong cause-and-effect links and mimesis into the movie, particularly the scenes of the [...]

One can say that this clip perfectly fits the climax of this movie because it shows that the protagonists are deeply attached to one another.

While Kate's illness affects the entire family, Anna is affected the most since she is responsible for providing parts of her body to keep her sister alive.

By examining the life of a Native-American reservation, the authors can give the viewers in-depth insights into the difficulties experienced by the residents of this town.

The cartoonist portrays the factors influencing the pace of the healthcare reform process in the United States. The cartoonist demonstrates the parties involved in the healthcare reform bound to suffer from the pace of [...]

Through this careful placement of information in the novel, the narrator was able to convey information about the constrained relationship with his family.

This is one of the main points that should be kept in mind by the viewers of this film. This is one of the main problems that affect the life of a modern community.

The assessment will capture the nature of the crisis presented in the movie, the steps taken to alleviate the crisis and the skills employed in the rescue operations.

The movie shows the role played by developing countries in financing armed conflict in African countries. In relation to the movie, Collier discusses the four traps that the developing countries face.

One should discuss how the elements of the mise-en-scene used in this section of the movie are related to the narrative presented in this film.

The question of suicide is one of the most controversial in philosophy and ethics. Moreover, according to the theory, people should preserve their lives, and the act of suicide is immoral.

One of the main motivations, which prompt people to read fiction-novels and to watch movies, which contain the motifs of otherworldliness, is the fact that, while being exposed to these literary and cinematographic works, individuals [...]

Instead, the focus is made on the way landscape, colors and music contribute to unveiling the themes and ideas of the movie. The dramatic effect of the scene is enhanced by the color of the [...]

This is due to the fact that the film was meant as a parody of both science fiction and horror films.