Butterfield stars as Bruno, a curious, stubborn eight-year old whose family is relocated to the countryside when his father receives a new job as a head member of the Nazi party, working for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Lonely and frustrated from having no one his own age to talk to, Bruno explores past the limits of his backyard. He comes across a barbed wire fence, with a young boy named Schmuel (played by Scanlon) on the other side wearing what Bruno perceives to be striped pajamas. The two boys strike up a friendship through the fence, with Bruno coming to visit Shmuel almost daily. Neither boy grasps that Schmuel is in a death camp, and when Schmuel confesses to Bruno that he is Jewish, Bruno doesn’t not seem to understand why that matters. Curious as to what really lies on the other side of the fence, Bruno and Schmuel plot for him to sneak into the camp, which leads to the demise of both of them. The film is more emotion based rather than fact based, in an attempt to appeal to the audiences symphonies rather than instruct them on a historical event. It has been criticized for its accuracy, specifically pertaining to the ages of the boys. Many critics claim that boys as young as Schmuel would never have been at Auschwitz, because all children too young to work were gassed upon arrival. Others argue that the film is symbol of innocence, and the two boys reflect how children are able to look past each other’s differences easier than adults. Critics also
In this paper I am going to write about the movie “Grease.” Specifically, on the two main characters Sandy and Danny. I will be describing and analyzing their interpersonal communication, but mainly on the conflict of their communication.
John Ford built a standard that many future directors would follow with his classic 1939 film “Stagecoach”. Although there were a plethora of western films made before 1939, the film “Stagecoach” revolutionized the western genre by elevating the genre from a “B” film into a more serious genre. The film challenged not only western stereotypes but also class divisions in society. Utilizing specific aspects of mise-en-scène and cinematography, John Ford displays his views of society.
The Holocaust was a distressing time in history and is not a story everyone can absorb. Both the book, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas written by John Boyne and the film, Life is Beautiful, directed by Robert Benigni, are based upon the real life events of the Holocaust but with a difference. They made clever use of different techniques to dim and censor the reality of the events and interpret it in a more tolerable way. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas depicts the life of a young nine year old boy named Bruno who is the son of the Commandant of the Auschwitz
The film Little Miss Sunshine, Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Farris, explores the lives of a regular American family and how they change their lives in front of us in the ‘Combie’ van on the road to the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. The film examines the issues of winning and losing, and what it means to be a winner, throughout many sequences in the film as well as exploring the value of family. The directors and the cinematic team use an extreme range of camera techniques, costuming, and sound techniques to reshape our understanding of winning and losing in the world we live in today.
The federal government placed many restrictions and discriminatory actions on the black troops. At the beginning of the Civil War, African Americans were not allowed to serve in the U.S. military. By the summer of 1862 it was clear that additional troops were needed. To meet the need, Congress passed two bills that allowed the participation of black soldiers in the Union Army. The Government established segregated units called The Bureau of Colored Troops. The measure lacked popular support and the U.S. Army did not begin recruiting black soldiers until 1863.
Limitations of the movie include the Jewish child’s lifestyle inside of the concentration camp. The largest differences is the fact that the Jewish boy was able to wander off by himself in order to escape the harshness of his destinies lifestyle. The boy in the striped pajamas would certainly not have been able to wonder as he pleased, which leads to the fact that there was a large lack of guards on the camp. Guards during the Holocaust were very important in order to keep rules enforced; however, there were not many guards throughout the movie who were truly seen as evil and rule enforcing. Not only did the previously stated limitations contribute to the inaccuracy of the movie, but the largest limitation includes the fact that the Jewish boy, Shmuel, would not be alive due to the fact that he was not older than fifteen years. Concentration camps did not allow children under the age of fifteen to be given their lives due to the fact that they were seen as “useless.” If the movie, The Boy in The Striped Pajamas was thoroughly accurate, then the movie would not exist due to the fact that the Jewish boy would not be alive, which creates the largest problem of the whole movie when analyzing it for accuracy.
The film Pleasantville directed by Gary Ross is about two modern teenagers, David and his sister Jennifer, somehow being transported into the television, ending up in Pleasantville, a 1950s black and white sitcom. The two are trapped as Bud and Mary Sue in a radically different dimension and make some huge changes to the bland lives of the citizens of Pleasantville, with the use of the director’s cinematic techniques. Ross cleverly uses cinematic techniques such as colour, mise-en-scene, camera shots, costumes, music and dialogue to effectively tell the story.
In the movie Hitch. Dir. Andy Tennant. Perf. Will Smith, Eva Mendes, and Kevin James Sony Pictures, 2005. Dvd. The movie Hitch is about Alex Hitchens who plays “The date doctor” or a consultant as he calls himself. When Alex Hitchens was younger he fell head over heels over Cressida he came on a little strong that led her to another man’s arms. That experience taught him so much that Alex decided to coach other men in avoiding the same mistakes he made to get them to the woman of their dreams. While coaching one of his clients, Albert Brennaman, who is secretly in love with a client of his investment firm, celebrity Allegra Cole, Hitch finds himself falling for Sara Melas she is a gossip columnist whom after her best friend had a one night stand with a gentleman that said that he was the date doctors “client” Sara Melas decided to write a column to expose the “The date doctor” unknowingly that the person she will be exposing would be Alex Hitchens the person she is slowly falling for. Albert and Allegra’s relationship continues to progress while “The date doctor” realizes that none of his own methods are working for him while pursuing a relationship with Sara. At the end of Sara’s investigation she finally finds out the identity behind the much talked about “date doctor” that leads to her break up with Alex. She proceeds to write and publish her story knowing the damage that would cause for his clients and for Hitch reputation the expose article caused Albert and Allegra to
In the movie A Better Life, the Main Character Carlos Galindo is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who started working as a day labor worker when he first arrived in the country, however he has had steady work from Blasco Martinez who owns a gardening business which he tries to convince Carlos to buy from him as he says he is moving. The idea of being self employed is very appealing to Carlos but he knows he can never afford to do so and the risk of getting caught and deported is very high. Carlos has a son Luis who is reluctant to go to school on a daily basis and gets into trouble as he is influenced by his friends who are part of the
The Holocaust was a time of great suffering and inhumanity. The novel Night, which took place during this time, was written by Elie Wiesel and talks about his teen self-experiencing the concentration camps of Auschwitz. This is related to the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is the story of a young German boy named Bruno who befriends a Jewish boy in a concentration camp. The many similarities and differences between the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the novel Night include their many themes of “inhumanity” and “guilt and inaction”, and the two also share and differ in the loss of innocence of the characters and how they develop in each medium.
For this paper I want to focus on some important points of the movie McFarland because this movie for me has some really important topics it addresses. In addition, one of the these important topics that I am going to be emphasizing on and elaborating more, is on the issue of language assumption due to race. Furthermore, another significant issue that I will focus on is on how having teamwork/hard work can bring so much success and achievement not mattering in the situation you are in. These are some of the most essential issues that I found to be more shown in this movie, therefore wanted to expand on them a bit more.
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas One of the main ideas in the film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas directed by Mark Herman is that friendship breaks all barriers, no matter the circumstances. This is conveyed through the characters Bruno, a naive Christian boy who loves exploring, and whose father is a head officer in Hitler’s army. And his unexpected friend Shmuel, a Jewish boy who lives in a concentration camp on the opposite side of the forest that Bruno and his family live at. This is a very unusual friendship , but because of the two boy’s naive and kind hearts, they physically and emotionally break every barrier in their way that stops them from being best friends. In this Film it begins with Bruno and his family living securely in Berlin,
The client is a 26 year old, single, male, African American. He is an active duty ship’s serviceman seaman serving in the United States Navy, aboard the USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3). Seaman (SN) Fisher is residing on board the USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) that is permanently stationed at San Diego Naval Base, 32nd Street in California. SN Fisher was given orders to report to Navy Mental Health Services Department on base as Involuntary Command Referral for diagnosis and treatments, to get an evaluation and expert psychiatric recommendation about whether the service member is mentally fit to stay in the United States Navy. SN Fisher is unwilling to begin counseling,
The cinematography of the film gives the audience striking images which expose the taboos of Holocaust film-making, but this gives authenticity to the film itself. The cinematography utilizes accurate content such as dead bodies, nudity, and defamation to show the harsh truths of the Holocaust. For example, there was a pile of the dead jews shown in the beginning of the film shown after they entered the gas chamber. The pile was shown in the background of the main character within the initial 30 minutes of the movie.This was a daily occurrence in many extermination camps. However, one child seemed to survive the gassing, but he was suffocated by a nazi doctor on the table. The main character on the table took him away, because he
“Ordinary people” everywhere are faced day after day with the ever so common tragedy of losing a loved one. As we all know death is inevitable. We live with this harsh reality in the back of our mind’s eye. Only when we are shoved in the depths of despair can we truly understand the multitude of emotions brought forth. Although people may try to be empathetic, no one can truly grasp the rawness felt inside of a shattered heart until death has knocked at their door. We live in an environment where death is invisible and denied, yet we have become desensitized to it. These inconsistencies appear in the extent to which families are personally affected by death—whether they