Analysis Of The Movie ' Kabuki '

Capstone Paper on Aspects of Theatre Introduction Theatre is a collaboration of various forms of fine art which utilizes live performances presenting before the audience on a stage at a specific place within a scheduled time (Dugdale 10). The message is communicated through a combination of various channels like songs, speech gestures

The movie Bashu: A Little Stranger, is a heartwarming commentary written and directed by Bahram Beizai in 1989 on the effects of war, love, and racism in a small village community in Iran. Beizai challenges the widely accepted Iranian identity through stars Susan Taslimi as Naii, Bashu’s adopted mother and

Sankofa is an Ankan word which means, “We must go back and reclaim our past in order to move forward ( Diop, 2014).” The film Sankofa was produced in the year 1993 in Ghana directed by Haile Gerima. It is based on the Atlantic slave trade. It is the story

In Kabuki theatre, everything that is seen on the stage is the result of a meaningful inner dynamic which completes the performance by the coordination of the actors with all the various components of the mise-en-scène and then by the traditions of all the various elements being assembled into an organic whole (Kawatake 1990, 247).

The film ‘Boy’ (2010) uses a range of techniques to construct an effective mise-en-scene. Taika Waititi (director) has been able to create aesthetically pleasing scenes to communicate to the audience about the setting, characters, story and themes. The sequence at the beginning of the film is an appropriate example of the good use of mise-en-scene.

There were several props used within the play which were significant for example, the toy guns which were used frequently, suggesting that there was a theme of violence and crime in Vernon God Little. This ties in with the beginning of the play, in where the character Jesus shot 17 students. Another important prop used was the black telephone used by Vernon and Taylor.

While the case murder trial was going on, Kaelin was the subject of many jokes made in the media. While on the stand Kaelin story was different from Simpson’s and his testimony was inconsistent. After Simpson was acquitted and found not guilty Kaelin was still the butt of many jokes and many outlets were publishing false story headlines. The newspaper, National Examiner published a cover story title citing “Cops Think Kato Did It” with a picture of Kaelin posing shirtless. In the article it claimed that Kaelin’s friends believed that he was still a suspect in the murders. According to M.L Stein, Kaelin feared he was wanted for perjury due to the article (Stein, 1999). Kaelin end up suing the newspaper publisher, Globe Communications, for

Goffman was the first to introduce the topic of dramaturgy in his work. Dramaturgy is his idea that life is a play. The people are actors and the every day world around us is our stage. (1959, p.13) He uses the image of a theatre performance to express the behaviour

The Babadook is a haunting film filled with twists and turns that leave the audience terrified without ever utilizing a single cliché jump-scare. The audience is constantly in a state of dread and fear along with the protagonist. One of the final scenes in the movie shows the protagonist walking into her basement to feed the monster that she keeps down there. The scene is a unique ending that is not commonly seen in horror films. It revolves around implicit meaning and the interesting point-of-view editing. Without the implicit meaning of the film and the point-of-view editing in this scene, the emotional impact of the film would have been much weaker.

As we know, Japanese culture is ancient, rich and assorted. It is considered a millennium culture, with lots of traditions and beliefs that make it very attractive. These traditions and beliefs are expressed, among other ways, through the performing arts, as: theatre, cinema, ballet, dance, etc. which somehow express the

Timbuktu, a movie that dares to humanize Jihadists begins its opening scene with a group of Jihadists in a pick-up truck driving after a gazelle across the desert. The Jihadists intermittent gunshots at the gazelle shows their goal was not to kill the animal, but to exhaust and scare it. The Jihadists want to exude power and instill fear to the people of Timbuktu, just like they were doing to the gazelle. Shortly after, the next scene shows the same men shooting and destroying traditional relics like masks and statues. Their goals of causing damage were blatant, with a constant stream of gunshots aimed at the artifacts. In the Jihadists’ eyes, physical statuettes avert people’s affection from the actual God and to the statues. Shooting the artifacts eliminates the physical distraction in hope of having the people’s attention focused on their God. This is a complete eradication of the preexisting culture, and installing the Jihadist’s notions and ideologies. Both scenes depict haphazard, senseless brutality and exemplify the Jihadists clear intentions of removing African culture, and installing an Islamic extremism one. Chasing away the gazelle is figurative for chasing away the traditional African customs and culture. This scene is very significant because it immediately identifies the groups; the Jihadists are the oppressors, and the common African people are the subjugated. Abderrahmane Sissako in his film Timbuktu shows the African cultures being expunged by the Jihadists

The Prop box: Setting the Stages for Meaningful Play What is a Prop Box? "Prop boxes" are groups of dramatic play materials that are organized around specific themes. Those themes range from simple subjects like the beach or the farm to the more complex bank, dentist, or science lab. The boxes often are placed in a dramatic play center to spark students' imagination and promote role-playing and exploration.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2008 motion picture Tokyo Sonata puts across an account involving a Japanese family as it needs to go through a series of problems that put their determination to test. Each of the four characters in the Sasaki family has trouble understanding what he or she wants from life and as he or she comes to learn and accept what his or her family has to say about his or her personality. Kurosawa most probably wanted to provide viewers with a rather common story occurring in an environment dominated by globalization a place where values change at a rapid pace and where people can or cannot find their personal identity.

In the film “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”, the audience is taken on a journey around Jiro’s personal life and is introduced to everyone that makes him the successful man he is. When you first see these like-minded individuals, you believe that these men have a perfect life’s, but throughout the movie I found information that led me to understand that things are not always as they seem. In traditional Japanese culture, professional success is often valued over personal life.

Introduction Chinedu is the name of the movie character I selected, from a movie titled The Emotional Agony. Chinedu has a personality disorder in the movie performance. King explained that “chronic, maladaptive cognitive-behavioral patterns that are thoroughly integrated into an individual personality” is known as personality disorder (king, 2016). Personality disorders are comparatively popular (King, 2016). Personality disorder can also be defined as a mental discomfort "enduring pattern[s] of inner experience and behavior" that are sufficiently rigid and deep-seated to bring a person into repeated conflicts with his or her social and occupational environment. DSM-IV-TR specifies that these dysfunctional patterns must be regarded as nonconforming or deviant by the person's culture, and cause significant emotional pain and/or difficulties in relationships and occupational performance. In addition, the patient usually sees the disorder as being consistent with his or her self-image and may blame others (Personality disorders, 2007). Personality disorders arise in late adolescence or early adulthood. Doctors rarely give a diagnosis of personality disorder to children on the grounds that children's personalities are still in the process of formation and may change considerably by the time they are in their late teenage years. But, in retrospect, many individuals with personality disorders could be judged to have shown evidence of the problems in childhood (Personality