Film Studies Essay Examples and Topics. Page 4

Zahra fights her bitterness; she is loyal to her brother Ali and does not reveal the secret of losing her shoes to the parents.

The paper will specifically attempt to extrapolate the amessage' carried by the film from the point of view of the viewer as well as from the producer's angle.

In particular, it is necessary to examine in detail how Schon's reflective practice meets the character's learning and development and how Mezirow's studies relate to Eliza's transformations.

This historical drama re-tells the story of a character with great emphasis to the location and plot in regards to his struggles and denials of the presence of his disorder.

The film begins with two small-time thieves in a diner taking breakfast and then they decide to rob the place, the writer then moves to another story where there are two characters involved, Vincent and [...]

The narrative of the story represents a number of significant periods in American history, and the protagonist seems to be at the focal point of each event.

The film was produced in black and white; it provides the reflection of time through the conflicting strategies aimed against communism era and American old fashioned life of the society.

The film not only provides deep insights into the life of the United States during the Civil War, but it also explores the relations between different cultures in this country.

It is wise to review it because knowing how the Irish of the previous generation, fathers or grandfathers to the patriots, or anarchists depending on one's point of view, who fought in "The Troubles" suffered [...]

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.

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

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.

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

She tells the story about the relationships between people and describes how to become a woman or earn a living. As a narrator, she learns the experiences of her family and friends to be ready [...]

He is disoriented as he does not remember why he is in the hospital. The only thing he has is his plan depicted on his body.

The following paper presents my impressions about the movie and some thoughts about the plot, characters, and the emotions it awakens.

The author initially explains the concepts of marianismo and mariana identity by stating that they originated in the legacy of the Catholic Church, in which women are seen as "subservient and docile"; the reason for [...]

However, she contributes to the development of gender roles by choosing to participate in the camp as a teacher and voicing her desire to have a career in the group.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the philosophical foundation of that theory and see how it is tied to the basis behind The Matrix.

Similar to much of Korean cinema of the time, the film explores social divide and disorientation occurring during a cultural transition.

To begin the discussion, it is important to set the scene for the film: 12 Angry Men is a chamber drama that is explored to the maximum of its potential.

In addition, the viewer also observes the work of the guerrillas, the organization of the underground, and the very scenario of the revolution, which almost turned into a civil war not on the scale of [...]

Black masculinity in Boyz N the Hood is articulated through the use of idealized images that help to protect an adaptive sense of African-American identity in the framework of certain cultural norms and a class [...]

The story in the film The mission released in 1986 deals with the Spanish Jesuits who are trying to convert a community of Guarani Indians to Christianity and protect them from slave hunters.

The serial killer is captured by the criminal gang, and by a twist of fate, he ends up in the custody of the law enforcement authority.

The episode is the borderline between the introductory part of the movie and the climax. Before the rebel begins, the tempo of the movie is comparatively low, which is created by the combination of long [...]

The opening scene introduces the viewer to the main characters and the location where most of the action takes place, the Chungking Express.

The selection of the scene as well as the construction or arrangements of the cameras depicts a set of imbalance between people living in such places and the others.

The movie is set on the background of the desert, mountains, and the ruins, of the old temples. The achievement of the success in the expressiveness is possible only through the efficient collaboration of the [...]

In essence, the essay will identify the protagonist, give reasons why the identified character is a protagonist, and detail evidence from the movie, which support the character of the actor.

The Algerian Revolution was marked by the cruelty and violence on the part of the French colonizers and Algerian anti-colonial liberation movements striving to free Algeria from the French invaders.

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 [...]

The discursive legitimacy of this suggestion can be well illustrated, in regards to the scene, in which the character of Jeff's maid Stella expounds on the sheer appropriateness of a 'loveless' marriage, as such that [...]

This was shown in the film that the cost of living was constantly increased by the rich to keep the working class in their place.

Censorship of films in the United Arab Emirates is a major ethical dilemma as reflected in the case study analysis because the practice contravenes the freedom of media.

The main concern of the film is to show the significance of the human nature, proving that all the stereotypes and political conflicts should never become a reason for the hate.

The themes of purity and contamination woven into the story of alien refugees are also addressed in other works by observers of South Africa's problems, for example, Too Late the Phalarope.

The two become friends, and the strong bond is realized when she falls victim to kidnapping, and the bodyguard sacrifices his life to get her back.

Going to the movies can be a great deal but it is also good to stay at home and watch a movie.

Said's determination to accomplish his mission by blowing up in bus is cut short by the presence of a child in the same bus he is to blow in; hence, making him to quit and [...]

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 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 [...]

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.

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

In the film, his role is to divert attention from the president's sex scandal involving the Firefly girl to the forthcoming elections.

Shot in Isreal and the West Bank, the film is a complex story of the effects of the accidental child switch which throws the lives of two families completely out of order.'The Other Son' is [...]

The film combines the childhood thoughts of origins and meaning of life with imagery of the origins of the earth and the beginning of life.

In this respect, the members of Ocean's group reveal their ability to think in accordance with group's objectives and contribute independently to the success of activities they were engaged in. In the search of oscillator, [...]

It is only at the end that the audience realizes Rainey and Shooter is the same person. Throughout the movie, Rainey is in a state of depression.

The dialogues in The Girlfriends movie are moderate and oblique, and a superb sense of the accidental exists. As a result, events and characters in the film are depicted half out of the picture.

Most of the science fiction films reflect the socio-political environment in both the US and the rest of the world. Science fiction has presented not only some of the greatest stories in the contemporary literature, [...]

In her essay Looking for Nostalgia: Memory and National Identity in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's a Time to Live, a Time to Die, Wu holds that "Hou Hsiao Hsien consistently drew on his personal life experiences and [...]

Therefore, it can be considered that the green light was used in the movie to mark the line between the reality and the psychotic universe of the leading character.

The planet is representation of the anger. The planet is representation of Justine's anger and the Earth is Justine's ego.

The factors which can influence the result of the evaluation and interpretation of the film and their specific features can be examined with the help of the study of American History X of 1998.

Dogtooth is classified as a horror film due to the presence of certain horror elements such as intense atmosphere, sex relations, uncanny concepts, and violence; still, in comparison to a number of horror movies, the [...]

The use of powerful female characters in both films is evident through the plots of both films. The actions of the protagonists in both films are characterized by the ability to withstand opposition in a [...]

Thus, involving several storytellers in the process of portraying the characters, the author allows the audience to collect separate fragments and scattered facts that help understand the fractured personalities of the main characters. The film [...]

Arthur Miller's play and movie was a reflection of what used to happen in the United States of America. It was a situation where reason was not used in the judicial system and people were [...]

Things however unfold in a way that was difficult to predict and this contributes to the strong-points of the film. I however think the weaknesses of the film even out the strengths and this might [...]

Attitude has also played a crucial role in French movie industry in the sense that most citizens' views dubbing as a way of preserving their culture and nationalism, as opposed to those shown in foreign [...]

The main purpose of this paper is to dwell upon the movie Vertigo and to understand its underlying theme, the role of lighting and cinematography effects in movie perception and to compare and contrast it [...]

This circumstance was the reason for the creation of entertainment organizations that allow them to avoid reality and immerse themselves in the world of fun and enjoyment for a while.

In these lines, the poet refers to the image of pious nuns who have renounced carnal pleasures for the love of God, allowing them to forget the painful passions of earthly love.

From the use of blackface in silent films to the perpetuation of harmful stereotypes in contemporary movies, the representation of Black people in American cinema has often been problematic and damaging.

The purpose of this essay is to discuss the mythological elements presented in the movie, analyze the hero archetype, divine intervention, magical weapons, and magical creatures, as they appear in The Lightning Thief.

The movie's plot centers on a transgender man Emilie, who was born a woman, and the circumstances leading up to a dinner with several families. That is, a person's biological sex has nothing to do [...]

The main strength of the peoplehood matrix is that it encompasses everything and provides comprehensive analysis, and that is why it is adopted in this paper to analyze the Little Big Man film in regards [...]

The Stagecoach movie is a classic Western movie that was released in 1939, and it tells the story of a group of people who are forced to take refuge in a stagecoach. The outlaws then [...]

He managed to act morally in the movie Gone Baby Gone, as spelled by Kant's theory of maxim and Sandel contrasts.

In the film, Lincoln, the final four months of President Abraham Lincoln's life are depicted, along with the end of the Civil War and the abolishment of slavery.

Fortunately, the queen resolves the love conflict after the very first play of Romeo and Juliet, but Shakespeare and Viola have to part forever. Shakespeare was one of the first to add sincerity, multifacetedness, and [...]

In particular, Bean proposes that the ending represents the cycle of capitalism and that the film shows the realities of such a system.

The attention to detail and the unique ways of animating the characters result in a fantastic film. One of the qualities is the use of dialogue and no dialogue in some aspects of the film.

The film covers the topic of the sense of living and the art of being true to yourself. The efforts of the characters to build the relationships helped them to find the compromise and the [...]

Before time reveals the truth in the historical background of the interaction between the colonizer and the colonized, the individuals view of race is less significant.

In her biography of Miyazaki, Napier uses the filmmaker's life and background to construct a discourse of the "Miyazakiworld". This source is important to my research because it provides the genesis to the backstory of [...]

After his move to pursue a career as a writer, Wilson decides to rely on his experiences to expose the challenges African Americans encounter in the 1950s.

He is a caring and dedicated father to his minor daughter Tatiana, and a devoted son to his parents and the rest of his family.

'Once brothers' is a film is a story about two friends from Yugoslavia, Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic. A big part of the film is based on Divac's sadness and remorse that his friend died [...]

Victor's father had died of a heart attack, and the journey to his funeral is at the center of the tale.

Sallah Shabati is a funny movie about the confusion of Israeli migration and absorption in Israel. The title of the film, Sallah Shabati, is a turn of phrase.

On the positive side of things, the depiction of the War on Drugs in the movie is built around violence associated with it and the corruption of federal agents involved in the operations.

Dust rises, the carpet bombing of the Cambodian forest begins, napalm breaks out and this is when the track by The Doors sounds."This is the end," these are the first words in the movie and [...]

Despite the fact that the plot of the film touches on the dominance of one class over another, this context is not related to politics and is associated with social and ethical ambiguities.

Despite the instructions from the judge, the jurors are ready to shut the case and essentially send a teenage boy to his death.

Because film and filmmaking is the most pervasive and enduring face of this technological golden age forward, we will take a look at the technologies, which have influenced it, and the future.

The Great White Hope is a film based on Jack Jefferson, the protagonist in the film and the first black man to win the heavyweight boxing championship.

The legend of the Bluebeard ascends to the early 15th century, reciting the story of Gilles de Rais a nobleman from Brittany, the late Marshal of the French army, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of [...]

Thomas Hobbes is known as one of the first proponents of the social contract theory and the one whose views on the nature of humanity and government were rather pessimistic.

When a station appears on the screen, the viewer is accompanied by various sounds of its operation, from the horn of the train and the release of steam to the conversations of passengers.

It is not enough to say that it is a dystopian society in which people are ready "to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history".

Apart from this, the most difficult part of it for me is the description of the rape of a five-year-old girl who was born with deformities of her lower body. It shows an essential example [...]

In part 1 of the film, the filmmaker focuses on the history of the city of Chicago. Lastly, Part 3 features a transformed city and the impact of the transformation.

Resembling the controversy and multifaceted problematics of the historical time, the director brings the crowds of the gangs to the screen, which presents a fruitful background for the analysis.

The production of metamorphic bodies and the presence of humanoid hybrids is often the subject of discussion in various works of fiction.

The aesthetic elements used in the movie, namely, the interior of the room in which the conversation takes place, emphasize the old-fashioned approach that Summers supports regarding the understanding of communication and the role that [...]

At the age of 26, the Englishwoman set on a journey to West Africa and made some of the most compelling discoveries about the chimpanzees.

The purpose of this paper is to consider the main topics that are raised in the film and discuss its value to the audience.

This theory is called the ABCX model; in this model, the family crisis is viewed as the result of the interaction of several factors affecting the family in a stressful situation.

He invested the future of his illegal earnings in Andy and that is why he refused to help him win a retrial.

Generally, judging from the movie's extract provided for the analysis, it can be said that the designer aspects of the film such as costumes, hair-dressing and makeup are accomplished in a manner creating an atmosphere [...]

Panning in the film distracts the viewers making them feel the tension and uneasiness, which are the feelings that the characters are experiencing in the moment and at the same time gives them a picture [...]

The filmmaker's show scenes depicting Nash's treatment in the hospital to make a significant impact on the viewers and to demonstrate how serious the illness is and how painful the methods of treatment are.

The end of silent era films came in the 1920s with the synchronization of sound in films. The development of the script in the film displayed a great deal of technological innovation of the time.

Although the film producers will most of the time want to give to the society the themes that occur in real life, they are sometimes pushed by the obsession for money, hence presenting not want [...]

The sweetness of this story is not in what the eyes see but it's in the scripts. The picture of the movie is slightly more to a drama as it reflects real life.

Evidently, the film gained huge success talking on the same exact topic from the perspectives of two directors that eventually flowed together for the sake of conveying the message to the viewer.

One of the sources of information concerning Kane's life was the parody on the News on the March the newsreel series which were shown in the cinemas from 1935 to 1951, this parody reflects one [...]

Featuring the customary characters gangster boss and femme fatale and the requisite double-crossing, the theatricality of the piece tends towards the melodramatic, and at times the acting seems stagey and stilted.

The ronin, in a time when the middle-class has filled the power vacuum left by the collapse of the Togukawa dynasty, is an anachronism even to himself. The departure of the ronin in Sanjuro is [...]

Negative for its lack of realism and positive in that it is a real thriller, entertaining and will have you glued to the screen to its end to know the fate of the actors.

The man shows him the money and at this point, he gives him the key to the door. The man leaves the room and the film ends.

The judgment call is generally made on the quality of life of the humans, with little to no regard for the lifestyle and options available to the robots who have achieved a higher level of [...]

Their Joy Luck Club was formed with the purpose of preserving original Chinese traditions in America by means of organizing regular meetings and sharing the joys and troubles of their lives."The central theme of the [...]

Long considered to be two of the greatest directors in the world Steven Spielberg and James Cameron have both provided some of the greatest films in history.