Ever since I could remember, I have been interesting in films and film memorabilia. It didn’t even have to be like legit props that were used on set of the films either, tie in products tickled my itch also. I vividly remember in 2007, having my mom drive me an hour away just so that I could get my hands on a box of Krusty-O’s that were a 7-11 exclusive cereal to promote The Simpsons Movie. I still have the box sitting on my shelf of important trinkets in my room, next to my Burger King exclusive…

Introduction The theoretical perspective I found most convincing when analyzing the behavior of the main character, Mathew Poncelot, in the film, Dead Man Walking, are the ideologies of sociologist Max Weber. He believed that rather than only focusing on one’s social actions, it is instead important to understand why people do the things that they do (Long-Crowell). Empathizing with individuals and identifying their perspectives explains one’s rationales behind each choice and behavior (Long-Crowell)…

Wilkes Booth, however there is evidence to prove that the man inside the tobacco barn was not actually Booth. The evidence that proposes that Booth’s messenger was killed instead of Booth himself, that Booth committed suicide in Oklahoma years later, and that Edwin Stanton helped Booth to escape from the forces and therefore could not have been in the tobacco barn prove that the Cavalry did not kill Booth and instead killed the wrong man. The man that was killed in the tobacco barn was actually a messenger…

The narrative of the Ip Man films is through the lens of Japan’s history of occupation and colonization in greater china. The film takes place during the Japanese invasion of China in World War II, and revolves around the Japanese general Miura and his interactions with Ip Man. In this film, Ip Man presents martial arts as a physical and symbolic means of resistance against china’s conquerors. On the other hand it is more than that, as Ip Man says in the film, that the Chinese martial arts are more…

Final Essay Over 400 hundred years there has been slavery, racism, and discrimination in America with blacks, and other minorities. A famous man once said “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word” – Martin Luther King Jr (brain quote). The movies ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ directed…

Andrew Rossi’s documentary film, Page One: Inside the New York Times fits into the finger categories of news media/entertainment and social relationships. The most relevant category is news media/entertainment. The New York Times is the nation’s oldest continually publishing major newspaper. A newspaper is a type of news media, and its goal is to inform the public. The documentary also fits into the category of social relationships. The documentary depicts many relationships that are a part of the…

literature, the arts began to mirror revolution and industrialisation through a modernised, progressive flair. With the rise of communism dominating politics, filmmakers concerned themselves with constructing a socialist film industry exposing authorial innovation and political inferences. Man with a Movie Camera (1929) adopted a constructivist approach by utilising experimentalist technique in what was considered to be the early stages of modernism. The director, Dziga Vertov, helped to radicalise cinema…

chatter. But don’t you wonder who controls where our mind goes? Which part of us makes the final decisions? Is there some larger aspect of us that references a broader perspective, an appreciative and compassionate way of seeing things? Pixar’s film, Inside Out, addresses our relationship to our feelings in a sophisticated way for adults and kids to understand and enjoy. Joy, Anger, Disgust, Sadness, and Fear, the five emotions that dwell in the inner world of a young girl named Riley. Joy is the…

M and Dead Man Walking present two distinct sorts of criminals: one who is mentally unstable and another who denies culpability in a last ditch effort to save his life. Although both criminals are guilty of heinous crimes, M's Hans Beckert arouses more sympathy than Dead Man Walking's Matthew Poncelet despite the fact that Beckert killed countless children and Poncelet is responsible for the murder of a young couple. In M, Hans Beckert has been kidnapping and murdering small children in a German…

Film Analysis of Dead Man Walking For many years, the death penalty has been a punishment for severe crimes. However, the law has long moved on since then, and more humane ways of death have been devised for the few states where the death penalty is still legal. Lethal injection is now the main way of carrying out the penalty, and Texas is the state that uses it most. It is a very controversial punishment and the moral issues of it have been debated for a very long…