Films Comparison Essay Examples and Topics

Both Lost in Translation and Broken Flowers feature Murray in a dramatic role infused with some innate sadness and sense of loss and, unlike many of his less successful colleagues, Murray's talent with the genre [...]

Expose of the Italian Mafia sub-culture has been the subject of many films, among the most prominent Scarface and The Godfather and The Godfather II.

One of the debates of the day was the question of the proper role of the scientist in the contemporary age, addressed in the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley.

By investigating shifts in story, tone, and characters between the book and the film, it can be discovered that the film significantly changes the themes of the original written version.

In my opinion, the documentary First Out of Africa is rather provocative in terms of revealing the complex questions of the human evolution and origins, as well as the right of people to explore and [...]

The events of the film are set in a poor region, most likely the East, and depict just how poor people in this section of Europe are, despite the continent being referred to as developed [...]

The theme of premarital sex is brought out through dark lighting and the use of hollow space as the hallway of the hospital which Nisrine goes to get her stitches. The theme of the conduct [...]

One of the most notable features of the film When Harry Met Sally is that this movie promotes the idea that, within the context of how men and women go about establishing a romantic relationship, [...]

The movie reviews in this paper revolve around the main objectives, targeted audience, and the influence of the movie on the targeted audience and other generations.

The movie is as tensed as the play. The sound is also very good as the music creates the necessary atmosphere.

The climax part comes in when EVE succeeds in putting the plant inside the machine and brings all the humans back to earth, and when EVE manages to repair Wall-E and brings Wall-E back to [...]

She is bold enough to stand against the system of Hunger Games and offers herself as a candidate for the role of a tribute to shelter her sibling from the horror and the unfairness of [...]

One of the most popular subjects portrayed in the movies is the life in the city and its discourse. Out of a vast variety of the movies dedicated to the issue of contradictions and ambiguities [...]

The Spirit of the Beehive and Cinema Paradiso, shot by V ctor Erice and Giuseppe Tornatore respectively, refer to the representation of the impact of cinema on children and the perception of the world through [...]

The former picture focuses on the Nanking massacre an unprecedented act of violence against civilians in one of the Chinese settlements by Japanese soldiers occupying the city, while the latter movie is a biographical and [...]

Both "Son of Saul" film and "The Way to the Gas, Ladies, and Gentlemen" short story depict an everyday life of inmates trying to survive in a concentration camp of Auschwitz.

The movies "Twenty-Four Eyes" by Keisuke Kinoshita and "The Burmese Harp" by Kon Ichikawa look at the expansion of militarism in Japan in the middle of the 20th century and the adverse effects of war [...]

Both Psycho and The Night of the Living Dead manage to create the unique atmosphere that keeps the viewers at the edge of their seats, Psycho using the slow pacing and the unsettling pauses, whereas [...]

The parts are shown to the audience in turn, based on the similarity of events that take place in them more specifically, on the similarity of stages in the struggle. Luisa, a journalist, attempts to [...]

Thus, I will analyze the episode to find the following characters therein: the hero, the herald, the mentor, threshold guardians, the trickster, the shape-shifter, and the shadow.

In addition, this construct is perfectly used in the film hinges on the view that the audience can witness how the fallout affects the characters as a couple.

Sternberg and Weis explain that the most common types of love are the platonic love, romantic love, agape love, and storge.

The aim of the current research is to provide an understanding of love and the existence of different kinds of love.

Both historical drama war films are set during the early days of the Japanese invasion and occupation of Nanjing in 1937 that is known as the "The Rape of Nanjing" in the Second Sino-Japanese War.

The questions that are answered in the essay about the two movies are if the narrative scheme seamlessly merges with the image that we see in the film, the role the writer, producer, or director [...]

The same can be said about the significance of another major motif in No God, No Master and Children of Men, concerned with exposing the unsightly truth that, contrary to what many naive people believe, [...]

Such structure suggests the presence of three essential parts: in the first one the problem is introduced, in the second one the characters work on the problem, and in the third one the problem is [...]

One of the reasons why the television series Breaking bad and Prison break were able to attain much popularity with the viewing audiences, is that the themes and motifs, contained in them, do resonate with [...]

They should scrutinize the impacts of the film and highlight how it depicts its subjects. They emphasize the necessity for leftover reduction in the documentary.

In this essay, I will discuss the two characters of Hashida and Ginder and the confusion their situations create in the minds of the traditionalist characters of the movie.

Nacify claims that the perspective followed by accented filmmakers is similar to that of Third Cinema theorists, except for the modifications made by the former to address specific aesthetic and thematic concerns pertaining to transnational [...]

Marriage is usually a culmination of a romantic relationship between a man and a woman who have been in a committed relationship and decided that they want to spend the rest of their lives together.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the idea of formation and breakdown of relationships in film work. The analysis of the films will take the western perception of love and relationships within the [...]

Probably the most notable of them is the fact that animation in Mary Poppins appears to serve the purpose of exposing young viewers to what can be defined as the 'ideal reality' of their unconscious [...]

The plot of the movie is focused on the story about a husband and a wife and the severe challenges they face after the revolution and the formation of the communist regime.

The drama The King and the Clown reflects the relationships to gays in the society. The film is about the connection between the jester and the king.

Despite the general critics of the movie saying that The King and the Clown is a 'gay movie', it is not typical for the modern Western society.

The overriding emotion in the film is one of hopeless and fear rather than the optimism and the hope that is dominant in Kinky Boots.

It is possible to consider a number of thematic and stylistic devices to understand the essence of Tarantino's surrealism that is manifested in his characters' inability to live a real life and to be real [...]

The pair causality and characters choices is also important here - the whole story is based on the relationships of the robbers and the girls choice to eat before taking the money, though in the [...]

Unlike Some Mother's Son, which introduces a unique dilemma and promotes an entirely different image of a woman as a nurturer and a fighter, therefore, subverting the traditional stereotype of women being helpless damsels in [...]

The creation of John Boorman called "Point Blank" and the work of Christopher Nolan called "Memento" share the elements of film noir, so they can be compared and contrasted according to the plot and events [...]

After all, as it can be seen in the film, it is such their sense that weakens their ability to act as the agents of progress, which in turn undermines the integrity of the American [...]

After finding out from the doctor that his leg is to be amputated because of the injury that he suffered in the course of the war, Dunbar sacrifices his life and leads the army against [...]

Thus, this supports the scenery of consumption in the city of Metropolis since the growth rate and development of the city is so fast and in the process supports the scenery of production.

This paper explores the movies "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Out" as the blueprints of the youth culture of Generation X."The Breakfast Club" is written and directed by John Hughes.

One way of looking at the movie it to examine it in the context of its historical period and attempt to discern its unique aspects, the fact is the movie is set within an era [...]

Initially, the movie included the Chinese as the villains, but had to change and include the Koreans due to negative reception the movie got in China.

In the killing fields, three journalists Schanberg, Swain and Pran who witnessed the Cambodian genocide under the regimes of Pol Pot and Rouge recount the stories and events of the genocide.

The acceptance of the phenomenon of transgender status in contrast to widely spread stereotypes on it is one of the central themes and moral messages of the 1992 movie The Crying Game and the 1993 [...]

This is the fundamental difference between the disaster films of 1950s and the present day films that are more of hybrid genre. The historical events captured in disaster films showed how a disaster happened and [...]

In the film Dance with Wolves, the director seems to be unable to convey the poetry and philosophical inclinations of the colonial masters and the natives of India.

The focus of the movies may be covered by the following themes, the life in a village, complicated situation women are put into and the changes which created opportunities for females to come of the [...]

The two directors used women to play the leading role in both the films and the results of the women participation, has yielded positive results in the transformation of the Chinese society, from that of [...]

The purpose of this paper is to compare the two movies, Bonnie and Clyde and Breathless in the way ethical situations of the main characters are handled.

Concerning 'The story of Qin Ju', the main actress Qin Ju although she is expectant and she was in her last trimester could not burry her head in the sand after seeing her husband kicked [...]

A cinematographer's job is to create the ambiance and look of the film that correlates with and interprets the director's idea.

Analysis of a movie involves critically reviewing different aspects of the movie including cinematography, script, provisioning of dialogue, strength and delivering of characters, the background music and its genre. The romantic instincts and the absolute [...]

Though the two movies belong to different genres and are set in completely different environment, they tackle the same problem of power abuse and policy of difference efficiently. Smart and sophisticated, the movies give a [...]

The 1950s and 1960s were the times of the development of new subcultures, the cultures of jazz and rock 'n' roll.

She changes her voice to suit the characters Maggie with a husky, masculine tone of speaking and with Betty Ann, a woman soft but strong willed.

In Patriot Games, the entire thrust of the film is toward the elimination of out-of-control elements who are putting the mainstream IRA in an incredibly difficult position vis-a-vis fundraising in the United States.

Apartheid and its legacies were covered in movies in the 21st century in a bid to create awareness in the minds of individuals regarding the issue.

The general perception of war has also contributed to this contrast, taking an example of the movies; "Top Gun" a war movie produced in 1960s and released in 1986, and "Taxi to the Dark Side" [...]

It is necessary to note that the prison is a very specific place where the right and the wrong are somewhat distorted.

What is common in the movies is that Wilkes and Zhivago, the two protagonists in both movies start dating their cousins.

The director manages to convey the idea of the woman's passion which is also pure and innocent. This is the symbol of the chaser's passionate desire to kill the fleeing woman.

The sequences taken from the films To Live and The Road Home can present a different use of formal elements; however, one can argue that both of them eloquently portray the despair of women who [...]

Thus, the sequence from Red Sorghum is started in red in black colors to reflect the tension of the characters' feelings in the mise-en-scene when the sequence from The Road Home is in vivid and [...]

There is also a major difference in the atmosphere evoked during the story retelling and in the attitude or the way the storyteller presents the participants of the action.

Tita acts rebellious after receiving the news that the boy died on the way to the US and after a confronting with her mother that leads to her breaking her nose and stating that "there [...]

It is clear that both the film directors have used these themes in order to develop the plot of the respective movies and, at the same time, be in a position of expressing the ethical [...]

The discussion will explore the similarities and differences between the two works, with regard to the plot, characters, themes, and how these are used to bring about the effect of horror.

Through the action of the warriors, the films prepare the male gender to be ready in the event of war in their country therefore shaping the American men.

In the iron man, the character Tony Stark is introduced as the man at the top helm of a "military contracting" company.