The first time SPQ interviewed actor and Pittsburgh native Carl Clemons, he was part of HBO’s awarding winning series “The Wire.” Since the show’s conclusion, he has kept himself working as an actor in a variety of acting roles. “These past few years I have experienced personal trails & tribulations. Working in the film business is not as easy as it seems.” Carl shared. There is saying in the film business that many great scenes are left on the cutting floor; it’s not an idle phrase, but truth
“No wire hangers!” What would be a normal thing to find in an average persons home is not accepted in Joan Crawford’s home. This posses the question why in the movie Mommie Dearest does Mrs. Crawford have a dilemma with wire hangers in her closet? Why does she have so many mental complications in general? Although to the public, Joan seems like a striving successful actress she obviously has some underlying issues. She has developed her personality disorders her whole life, but how she got them is
The movie, Man on Wire is a documentary about wire-walker, Philippe Petit, who proves his impossible, yet inspiring dream above the clouds between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers was indeed possible. During this documentary, Petit magically walked and danced across a wire, leaving the audience filled with suspense and extremely sweaty palms. This project, completed by James Marsh, was truly a job well done, because of the way he has Petit narrate the documentary and how he recounts the events
MOMMIE DEAREST ANALYSIS Psychological Disorders of Joan Crawford Kueter, Drew Psychology Mrs. McAleer EICC Mommie Dearest Analysis In the movie Mommie Dearest Joan Crawford shows many different types of personality disorders. Personality disorders are a deeply engrained or maladaptive pattern of behavior of a specified kind, typically they occur by the time one reaches adolescents and causes difficulty in personal relationships or society. Studying these psychological disorders can help us
The Wire ran for a total of 5 seasons that spanned over for more than fifty episodes. Its content and impact was comparable that to other crime driven dramas such as the Godfather, and the Sopranos. Instead The Wire still had its unique take on not only just being an interesting drama, but on crime as well. The Wire does not focus on huge case or problem set early on like the aforementioned movie and show; The Godfather and The Sopranos. Instead, The Wire constrains to a more complete and whole analysis
be defined as patterns of inflexible traits that disrupt social life or work and may distress the affected individual. A great deal of these disorders go unnoticed, and/or undiagnosed. One way to learn how to identify these disorders is through movie analysis. For example, the film “Mommie Dearest”, directed by Frank Perry, is a story about Joan Crawford and her struggles with personality disorders. Joan Crawford demonstrates the personality disorders of Bipolar Disorder, Histrionic Disorder, Narcissistic
that the video was fake, while a few others were skeptic. Researchers find telekinesis difficult to prove because it is on television shows, movies, cartoons, and magic shows. In the 1976 movie “Carrie”, Sissy Spacek played a teenager named Carrie who used telekinesis to fight her bullies. The filmmaker cast tied wires to the actors and objects to assist the character. A way for researchers and scientists to prove if telekinesis is possible, they can choose random people as an experiment to test. The
unethical film. I will be discussing my own thoughts and perspectives revolved around the movie, from reasons and circumstances that leads to an unethical life, to outcomes of it and much more. The Wolf of Wall Street is a black comedy, dramatic film featuring the great Martin Scorsese as a director, starring Leonardo Di Caprio. Leonardo Di Caprio plays the role of Jordan Belfort, “The Wolf of Wall Street”. The movie is set in the 1980’s – 1990’s, handling a true story, the story of the successful smart
person’s ability to cope with everyday life. Personality disorders are patterns of inflexible traits that disrupt social life or work and may distress the affected individual (Rathus, 2010). One way to learn how to identify these disorders is through movie analysis. Movies can help the understanding of psychological and personality disorders because people can get a better understanding from a “show me, not tell me” aspect. It is hard for a student to understand what these disorders actually are unless,
separated and three step-fathers throughout her adolescence, working small jobs until she made her break in the early 1920’s. Her strive to succeed may have been driven by these factors, which in turn could have caused her outbursts throughout the movie, Mommie Dearest because all the factors point to BPD. A scene that shows that Joan is affected by BPD is where Joan and Christina fight near the pool and Joan locked Christina into the pool house where Joan races with Christina in the pool to show