1408: Comparison to the Literary Work
1408 is a horror movie directed by Mikael Hafstrom in 2007. The lot bases on the short story of the same name written by Stephen King. The movie sticks to the core of the text. The plot focuses on Mike Enslin, a writer, who specializes in books about supernatural powers. He came to the Dolphin Hotel to write a chapter for his new project about its room 1408. Enslin moved in despite manager’s attempts to talk him out of this decision. Soon the fritter found out the room really has something supernatural inside. He almost became another victim of this evil being, but was able to survive by setting a fire. These events are similar for the movie and the short story. But they create totally different impressions because of details. King’s text
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The major part of the text is focused on the dialogue between the writer and Dolphin’s manager, Olin. The movie showed a totally different image of the hotel’s worker. In the story Olin was described as “a little round man in a dark cutaway coat and a neatly knotted tie… [with] pudgy little hotel manager's hands with their neat white crescents of manicured nail” (King). His character did not look dangerous or scary; the tense atmosphere was created with the aid of Olin’s tales about the room. The movie is different; Samuel L. Jackson as the manager creates an additional tension with his appearance and huge experience as a character of thrillers and action movies. The dialogue between Enslin and Olin took about 15 minutes of the film at the beginning. Instead of trying to talk the writer of his idea, the manager from the movie insults him and likely dare him. The final scene with Jackson sitting in an armchair and commenting Enslin’s rescue suggests a connection between the manager and the room. Literary Olin was just a good manager, who cared about guests and staff and tried to protect them from the room’s
Through educating the reader, Kleiman encourages the public to create an informed opinion on the controversy. Kleiman instantly assures the reader that he is a reliable, certain source from the very beginning of the section. He starts his argument with the phrase “It should be noted...” This fragment portrays the idea that the following statements are of truth, not simply his opinion (an application of ethos.) This instils the readers’ trust in Kleiman that he is presenting facts to assist the reader in creating an expert judgement on the subject rather than bestowing his opinion to make a point. Another technique Kleiman uses is repeating multiple points made in “Blackfish” and, in a sense, using them against the film by simply disproving the “purposefully misleading edit(s)” in the film with concrete facts and conclusive data. For example, the film shows footage of an older orca hunt in the ocean as a voiceover speaks about a captive orca who was taken from the wild for SeaWorld. Kleiman reveals that the footage is not proof of the orca’s capture, but rather clever editing. He exposes that the film is from a completely unrelated orca hunt for the capture of the killer whale used in the film “Free Willy”. Continuing to explain the manipulation of film in “Blackfish,” Kleiman provides the reader with evidence as to why the two captures do not correlate, such as a logo of a different theme park on camera and providing extra data about the capture of “Free Willy”. By disproving the points made in “Blackfish” that are supposed to make viewers feel as though orcas in captivity are bad news, Kleiman opens up opportunities for readers to process true facts for themselves without an
She employs an effective range of visual techniques to create compassion for the miserable creatures. Contrasting real footage of captive whale with bent fin; with wild whale’s perpendicular fin. It allows the audience to question the differences and makes us realise that SeaWorld is doing something severely wrong that causes physical damage. This makes the audiences feel outraged by its treatment as it is unfair, inhuman and cruel; furthermore, audiences are invited to feel compassion for the unfortunate creature because they could not defend themselves.
Black Fish uses the death of a recognized Killer Whale trainer at SeaWorld, Dawn Brancheau who was one of Tilikums trainers thorough his twenty years in captivity, almost as a framing device to explore the theory that possessing Orcas in captivity is corrupt and unnatural for the whales. In Black fish, there are many different tragedies that went on while the Orcas were in captivity. Fisher men separated the young from the mothers and took them into SeaWorld. Many of the workers were unaware of all of the immoral actions they were taking part in. Tilikum was the Killer Whale that ended up killing Dawn Brancheau and causing a stir in SeaWorld. Having Orcas in captivity damages them but, the trainers were scared to leave because they want to continue to care for the whales. There is a relationship shared with the trainers and the whales yet it is obvious that very little was taught in the SeaWorld industry about these intelligent mammals.
Director, screenwriter, and producer, Stephen Spielberg, has been often described by critics as being one of the trailblazers who paved the way for the new Hollywood era. In fact, one of Spielberg’s earliest films, JAWS, captured the audience’s attentions so vividly that the movie remains to be a cult classic even decades later. The audience sunk its teeth deep into the enticing combination of drama, thrill, science-fiction, and adventure the film obtained. At face value, JAWS appears to be focused on a giant monstrous fish, but with further analyzation of the plot structure, narration, and original music demonstrates the brilliance and complexity of why JAWS is a well deserving Oscar-winning movie.
With all of the incidents and interviews provided in the film, my interpretation of what the Filmmakers purpose was to provide evidence and information explaining why there are so many deadly killer whale accidents. Viewers can take away enough information from this film to make their own opinion on Sea Worlds captivity of killer whales. The filmmakers of blackfish pieced together Tilikums story with different film footage, interviews with trainers who know Tilikum the most, and expert testimonies. It creates a great set up for their claim about captivated killer whales used for entertainment.
“We walked down to the water’s edge, and this one poor dolphin… You could see it trying to get away.”
After all this is a family, theme park and favored vacation destination for many. Some people do not want to see the darker side that this book represents, yet Grom’s twist of the logos inspires individuals to consider the proposal offered. Grom aims to acquire those people by introducing the friendly whale, casually swimming on the cover. The photographer attempts to draw in the reader, with the subtitle, “SHAMU and The DARK SIDE of KILLER WHALES IN CAPTIVITY.” The font is in all caps as if it is screaming to the reader to look at the logos, or the logic of whales in captivity. “Shamu” is SeaWorld’s iconic trademark, and a recognized character accepted in the homes of families all over the world. Any person that frequents the park learns that Shamu is a stage name and not the name of any of the whales. The light blue font coming out of the dark blue background symbolizes the truth coming out of the darkness. From a logos side of Grom’s argument, one is stimulated to evaluate the claims of whales in captivity.
There are many different messages in the novel. “Whale Talk,” I think the most important and relatable in this book is bullying, harassment, and racism. There are many real-life situations of bullying and racism throughout the whole book.
In Nantucket, the whaler’s island, every man had to be a whaler. Even if it wasn’t his dream job, just because it was the only way to survive in the island without being dropped out of the community. Philbrick introduces us to this starting point by quoting the words of Thomas Nickerson, the one who had been taught to “idolize the form of a ship” (Philbrick, 1).
For the past few weeks, I have analyzed the storytelling style of the book and film Big Fish. The biggest difference I noticed was that I thought that the book focused more on the telling of Edwards inane stories, while the film was mostly centered around character development and relationships. I also think that while the book was very euphoric and felt like a children’s bedtime story, the film took a much more mystical and mysterious route, where a childish feel was dormant. Lastly, I thought that in the book the author just threw all the stories together and told them
Living in the medieval time period was not as glamorous as it is often portrayed; peasants and serfs led hard lives, however, kings, lords, and knights lived lavishly and at the expense of those under them. In this paper you will read about all of these lifestyles, as well as the castles in which these lords and kings lived in. Mainly castle designs, fortifications, and siege tactics will be revealed to you; yet there are several sections, dealing with the lifestyles of the above mentioned, leading up to that.
The camera gives a closer look on Mr. Whale during his first appearance in the movie and the angle of the camera will give you a click that Mr. Whale is the main character. The director used the drawing of nude men in the house to give us another clue that can mean a lot of things like his a fun of art but men nude in particular that might mean that he probably has a sexual attraction toward men and may be considered homosexual and after multiple scene, the idea that the director was trying to convey come to pass when the student came to interview him and he made a sexual advances toward him and at that point the audience may be able to realize that Mr. Whale was homosexual and at that point we also found out that he was force to retire from Hollywood. This shows that during his time being homosexual is forbidden and he have to retire early to keep this reputation. In several scenes Mr. Whale tried to convince a lot of people to come swimming in the pool and after a few hallucinations his shows that he had a lot of fun time at that pool and later died in that very pool which show that whatever you find joy in will be the very thing that can kill you or is fun dying in what you love. The world
The Medieval Ages that descended upon the Europeans following the deconstruction and devolution of the formerly grand institutions of the Roman Empire left a world darkened to the eyes of history. The world lost touch with simple concepts to a modern history student of writing, economy, culture, and government—the mainstay of that which we cannot see ourselves without—civilization. What was left of Europe was a state of chaos. In all other periods of human history I have studied there were similarities among them from which I could draw conclusions upon the condition of the respective times. The Text helped to give order to the progression of European history from the ancient to the modern drawing
State the key features each author uses to convey to the reader (in similar/different ways)