Analysis Of The Movie Birdman Directed By Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Fruitvale Station depicts the real-life case of Oscar Grant III, a young unarmed black man shot in the back by a white police officer on January 1, 2009 in Oakland. The movie begins with cell phone footage of Oscar Grant’s death recorded by bystanders. Grant’s life was tragically cut short due to a white man’s racism and stereotypical perception of a young black man. The BART police officer Johannes Mehserle abused his authority and shot Grant for no other reason but hatred and racism. At the time of the shooting, Grant was unarmed and pinned on the ground in handcuffs. The movie then walks you through the last twenty-four hours of Grant’s life. As you watch the movie and research the aftermath of Grant’s death you a forced to ask yourself a few questions; why does the media have the right to take away Oscar Grant’s humanity? Where do we draw the line between racism and holding others responsible and will the public’s perception of black men and women ever change? Lastly, we must focus on how this case and others impacts African American society and culture. We also must focus on the necessary changes African Americans must make in order to survive in a world that does not value black lives.

The film Rocks with Wings opens with an image of Shiprock on the Navajo Nation Reservation. This geographical formation holds a huge importance in the culture of the Navajo, as it is told that the first Navajo people were carried on a large bird that landed on that site, with the people jumping off and the bird’s wings forming the rock (Rocks with Wings). The site has two different names, with Shiprock being the name that Anglos gave it, while the Navajo called it Tsé Bitʼaʼí, literally translated to Rock with Wings (Rocks with Wings). This difference between the naming of a sacred site for the Navajo people is a signal of a different struggle that they face, the one between preserving their native Navajo culture and accepting more of the white American culture. This battle plays itself out when it comes to basketball being played on the Reservation.

One of the characteristics of Elizabethan and also Jacobean drama is the low number of stage directions and the lack of details they contain. As a logical consequence theatrical representations or film versions of these ages may allow an important quantity of freedom in the performance. In other instances stage directions and other important theatrical elements are consciously left aside in order to create totally different visions of the original idea. That is not the case of Baz Luhrman´s version of Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1996, which despite the numerous alterations of the original play still retains Shakespeare's initial conception.

The film Fruitvale Station written and directed by Ryan Coogler, tells the story of a young African American man that was shot and killed by a white police officer on a subway platform. The film is based on the true story of Oscar Grant, who at the age of 22 years old was murdered by a police officer on the Fruitvale station platform in San Francisco, California. The film shows how Oscar lived a tough life, but can be described as a caring individual. At the start of the New Year Oscar wanted to change his life, and make better decisions. Unfornately, he was apart of a situation that led to him being in police custody, and shot by a police officer. Oscar Grant’s death led to many protests and riots in the Bay Area against police brutality.

New Year’s Day, 2009, a man is brutally shot by the BART Police of Oakland, California. Fruitvale Station, written and directed by Ryan Coogler, took audiences by surprise as it resonated with twenty-two year old Oscar Grant, a man who was shot down by the BART Police. This movie takes viewers on an emotional expedition as it takes a peek into the life and death of Oscar Grant and his family. The struggles of originating from an African-American background become apparent as Oscar Grant struggles with steering away from racial stereotypes and the misunderstandings of racial profiling.

Dementia is an impairment of thinking and memory that interferes with a person’s ability to do things which he or she previously was able to do (Nehan-Babalola 64). In the United States, there are an estimated 24 million people with dementia (Nehan-Babalola 64). With there being this many person in the United States with this disease, there are sill many who do not know much about it. Today, dementia is one of the main causes of disability later in life (Nehan-Babalola 64). It is important that everybody know about it so that if a loved one becomes diagnosed with it that they will know how to deal with it.

Fruitvale station, is a story about the real life Oscar Grant, a black man who was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer in Oakland. This film follows Grant and his last days before the shooting on New Year’s Day. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale station was his first feature film. Coogler expressed that he was interested in making this film because he wanted people to get to know Grant, get attached, so that when a situation like this occurs again, people will care more about that human life (Wikipedia). In addition, the cast includes Michael B. Jordan (Grant), Octavia Spencer (Wanda Johnson), and Melonie Diaz (Sophina Mesa), amongst a few others. However, there is an underlying concept in this film. This film relates back to Double Consciousness and the internal conflict and struggles within African American men.

The play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” was performed in Indiana University, in Bloomington, on November 2013. The acting in the play was very well performed, for a couple of different reasons. Each actor seemed to develop a personal relation with its own character and thought about the smallest details for their characters. The director of the play was Marti Maraden, who is a sought freelance director. Her debut in this play made it better because she had worked on so many different plays and know what each of them need. The director of the play did state that it was wonderful working with a group of people that took everything seriously and that they worked very hard for the production. She also stated that they were able to have such a wonderful production because the school picks people based upon their acting skills and how interested they are in theater. For her to say that the acting skills of the

The characterization in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest movie was and novel was the correlation of Ken Kesey describing one of the Protagonists Chief Bromden as being this huge Indian in the movie and novel. “If my being half-Indian had ever helped me in any way in this dirty life, it helped me being cagey, helped me all of these years.” In the novel in Cuckoo’s Nest, the black boys described Chief Bromden as being “big enough to eat apples off of my head, and making me like a baby.” (Kesey 1) However, the movie doesn’t have the particular version and statement that the book shows and talks about. This shows and supports that Chief Bromden is this huge Indian identified in the book and shown in the movie. To help the characters institution

I’ve watched this film twice now. The first time was last year, and originally my thoughts on the movie were, “wow that was an amazing, but extremely sad movie”. However, watching it the second time, very recently, I was given a much different perspective. I was struck with numerous moral questions while simultaneously bawling my eyes out. The main moral question within this movie concerns whether duplicating a child for the purpose of saving another is permissible.

In some aspects great musicals and orchestral scores can add to the experience of a theatrical play, but films have adapted these aspects as well and have proven to be a more successful form of entertainment. Theatre productions have become secondhand in comparison, though still viewed as a high class of an entertainment, it is not nearly as successful to reaching a widespread audience as the film industry has accomplished. The resulting film adaptations that have theatre-like qualities often fail completely due to their inability to capture the attention of contemporary audience members, essentially creating a stagnant film. In this paper, I am specifically narrowing my focus and discussing tragedy film adaptations in comparison to themselves and theatre. But first, I will give an overall briefing of the history of film and theatre. Then I will discuss their relationship and what elements create successful entertainment within films and how theatre-like adaptations have a crippling effect to a film’s success rate. Finally I will have an in-depth discussion on these elements within the films: Waiting for Godot, Hamlet, and Moulin Rouge!, and the success rate of each.

When it comes to the film industry, entertainment is the tool used to acquire what is desired, money. The main goal for filmmakers when they create a film is to attain money in addition to the money spent to make the movie. Therefore, in some films that they like to base off of true accounts, it is somewhat necessary to dramatize or embellish the story to really tug at the heartstrings of the films audience. They achieve this goal by the use of dramatic music, ambient lighting, and a small amount of tweaked diction. The Fighter is an excellent example of this dramatization in action because throughout the film the characters are faced with a multitude of decisions that must be made. The choices they make require the characters to choose

     A gay couple, living in a gay apartment, with a gay houseboy, above a gay nightclub, in a gay city . . . and they have to straighten it all out for one evening.  In 1996 La Cage aux Folles (a 1978 French play) was remade by MGM into The Birdcage, a daringly flamboyant comedy that is in-tune with the times and redefines the idea of family values.  It combines the talents of Robin Williams (Armand), Nathan Lane (Albert), and Hank Azaria (Agador) with writer Elaine May and director Mike Nichols.  The film is brought to life by the superb uniqueness of each character and what they bring to the screen and add to the plot.  This film sheds a new light on non-traditional but

The character Riggan, played by Michael Keaton, not new to film and neither are a lot of the characters in Birdman. The drug-addicted, burnout child of the successful parent and the over confident, self-centered person that is above instruction are characters that have been cinema time and time again. Riggan is a prime example a person who is the top of a dying breed, which is

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder that is associated with reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and uncontrollable thoughts that drives the patients to repeat something over and over again. The Aviator movie is trying to depict this disorder through the character Howard Hughes. The story captures the real-life experience of Hughes who was a successful filmmaker and aeronautic engineer in Hollywood between 1920s and 1940s. He was both rich, talented and notoriously eccentric. Hughes showed symptoms of OCD which were very severe and incapacitating at some points. His conditions deteriorated progressively from bad to worst throughout his lifetime, though in most parts of the film he is depicted as functioning relatively normally. This paper will focus on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and how it has been depicted in The Aviator movie through the character Howard Hughes.