Movies

Movies nowadays are usually created according to the latest preferences of the people or based on the current trends in the society. Oftentimes, movies that top the charts are those which offer a supreme array of entertainment and superficial depth of critical analysis. Today, rarely will a person be able to encounter a movie that reflects real-life situations coupled with entertaining and mind-stimulating story line. Consequently, the present types of film productions are grounded on the ideals...

Many Hollywood movies have taken up the cause of women and show them fighting against injustice. The Abused, Nuts and Born in Flames are three such movies released in the 1980s that portray women in trouble. In each one of these three movies, the main protagonist is a woman who has been wronged and is shown fighting for her rights in a male dominated society. This paper shall discuss these three movies and explain the prejudices and injustices that the main characters in these movies face and how...

Centering on the 80s Manchester music scene, the movie traces the citys musical evolution from the days of Sex Pistols to the birth of rave culture and the arrival of the DJ. Tony Wilson, a journalist from whose viewpoint the events are narrated played a pivotal role in the formation of the independent music scene in England which changed the history of pop culture forever (IMDb,2009). His contribution is highlighted in the movie, which covers the rise and fall of Joy Division, the unprecedented...

Wrapped in emotions and sentiments thats how the movie The Notebook journeyed all throughout its story. Based on the bestseller by Nicholas Sparks, wherein another movie was produced recently which undoubtly came out of his synthetic style of   sentimentality. The director, Nick Cassavetes, put everything in compact on how sentimental love could traverse within the individual souls of the main characters. The romance told in the story was the enduring love between Noah (Ryan Gosling), a mill...

The art of film making is guided by theoretical frameworks which underscore the approaches for cinematic techniques. Many theorists have asserted their positions as regards the angle upon which these cinematic techniques portend. The psychoanalytic school of thought, whose proponents include Munsterberg, has maintained that the film making process should border the precincts of the affective effects that the film has on the emotions and minds of viewers at large. On the other hand, the montage school...

Leni Riefenstahls Triumph of the Will, is not only a good example of a propaganda film but also provide insights on how the use of psychology can enhance the impact of a film. Riefenstahl, personally commissioned by Adolf Hitler to document the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, films speeches given by the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as the Nazi Party, leaders and highlights its role in the restoration of Germany as an international power. Riefenstahl present the Nazis...

The paper explores the link between the meaning of iconography in Andrei Rublev and the meaning of filmmaking in Andrei Tarkovskys creative life. The paper positions iconography as the direct reflection of pains and creative tortures of filmmaking. The paper confirms both iconography in Andrei Rublev and filmmaking for Andrei Tarkovsky as the difficult, painful, but vital instruments of their own moral and spiritual survival. The Church possesses and uses a wealth of iconographic works, but in...

Coppola, born in  April 7th 1939, graduated the Hofstra University where he studied theatre. Afterwards he enrolled himself in the UCLA Film School and graduated with a M.F.A. in film directing. During his time at Hofstra he had written various plays and musicals for the performing students. While attending UCLA he had directed a number of shorts, including  the horror film The Two Christophers which was inspired by Edgar Allen Poes short story William Wilson. Francis had his most significant...

Thesis Statement The dominance of the industrialized West is a recurring theme and ideology in the following movies. Although hidden and subtle, the ideology of the superiority of the industrialized West has taken over other equally legitimate knowledge systems and considered them to be second class and unimportant. Thus, the black color of skin is associated with ignorance, the lack of sophistication, underdevelopment and primitivism. Other cultures of colonized peoples are portrayed as possessing...