Atonement Film Analysis

Based off Charles Webb’s 1963 novel by the same name, The Graduate is an American romantic comedy/drama released in the United States on December 21, 1967 starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, and William Daniels. The film was directed by Mike Nichols, produced by Lawrence Turman and the screenplay written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham. The film was produced by Lawrence Turman/Mike Nichols productions starting in March of 1967. Mike Nichols has also directed other well known films such as Catch-22 (1970), Working Girl (1988), and more recently Closer (2004). The film was distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures nationally and United Artists internationally. AVCO Embassy Pictures studio, founded by Joseph E. Levine, the films executive producer, also claims production/distribution for other hit films such as Godzilla, King of Monsters! (1956), The Fog (1980), and Prom Night (1980). The movie was well received due to its $104 million dollar box office opening tab. The score was produced by Dave Grusin and the songs written by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

In the film of The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a psychiatric doctor who eats the organs of his patients and others. Clarice Starling interviewed Dr. Hannibal Lecter to help her capture Buffalo Bill who is known for skinning young women. Film devices and techniques are important because it helps build suspense. The film techniques in The Silence of the Lambs help contribute to the element of suspense and horror.

Princess films are beloved classics that range from the beloved Disney franchise, to live action films such as the Princess Diaries, to historical tales as those seen is polish films. No matter what the format or genre these films typically have a prince searching for his love the princess and contain recurring scenes. The film The Princess Bride offers a new comedic approach to this classic genre. While scholars have explored how princess films are able to succeed through the use ideas such as nostalgia or nationalism, The Princess Bride succeeds through the use of comedy. Through the use of comedic devices such as mistaken identity, absurdity, and good old-fashioned slapstick comedy, The Princess Bride is able to parody the traditional

Jane is a strong emotional character who we experience in first person narrative. In Jane’s early childhood, she is isolated and treated with cruelty while in the care of her aunt. Her emotional nature is expressed in the novel through the use of imagery and Jane’s conscious thoughts. Whereas, in the film emotions are expressed through close-ups, facial expressions and landscapes.

In many ways Unforgiven is not a typical western. Clint Eastwood’s character is different than the typical hero in Westerns because he shows fear and weakness after he gets brutally attacked. Munny shows his vulnerability throughout the film especially when he breaks social norms like turning down sex, remaining loyal to his wife, etc. Although some of his actions are questionable like leaving his kids alone for weeks. In this film unlike old westerns the gunslingers defend the honor of prostitutes and not the rightous women in peril. Rugged cowboys are exposed as cowards and weaklings and liars, while others find they no longer have the desire to take another man’s life. The law is represented by a man with a penchant for torture and sadism

The 1996 film adaptation of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible tells us far more about what modern society thinks the puritans are, than what the historic realities were. The film paints a one-sided and reductionist picture of puritan life and relationships, focusing on the themes of religious intolerance and how reputation is connected to the morals of a society. By examining the film on an analytical level, we can pull out larger connections between modern society and the puritan way of life. One of the most important aspects of history is not just recording the facts of the past, but how we interpret them in the present. This film adds yet another interpretation to the already misunderstood puritans, presenting both their deepest flaws as

Hocus pocus and snow white have witches that cast spells and cook potions but both of the films have a happy story unlike the film the crucible. The film, the crucible was a drama filmed in 1996. The director, nicholas hytner as the star cast of daniel day-lewis as john proctor and winona ryder as abigail williams. The film was set place in salem massachusetts 1692. This movie review essay will explain the basics of the movie.

Unbroken was made into a book in 2010 by Laura Hillenbrand and later adapted into a movie in 2014. It is a story about a young Olympian named Louis “Louie” Zamperini who made it into the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He later gets drafted into the air force and fought in World War II only to get stranded in the ocean and captured by the Japanese. The book and the movie both cover the same main topics and are over the same events, but they aren’t both the same. The book goes into more detail than the movie in many instances; however, sometimes the movie shows a more detailed and powerful scene when compared to the book.

Imitation of Life directed by Douglas Sirk, 1959. This movie is a melodrama that shows the love and the hardships between mother and daughter while juggling the tasks of work, love, and personal problems. The French term mise-en-scène is shown throughout the film in different ways through the camera angles, lighting, and costumes. These elements help show the little details about the characters, and their life lessons with themselves and each other.

The film takes a more elliptical, almost a poetical approach to the characters’ lives it shows on screen than the audience might have anticipated from a film of this sort. The whole aim for the editing of this film was to make the audience see the protagonists’ life from his point of view – they wanted the audience to be inside his head, seeing what he’s seeing, hearing what he’s hearing, etc.

The adoption of the Emancipation Proclamation on December 1862 provided the need for free black men as soldiers. Massachusetts would be the first state responding by forming the 54th Regiment. It was the first military unit consisting of all black soldiers to be raised in the North. The formation of the military brought questions and controversies. Many questioned a black man’s ability to fight in the war. Although many were filled with doubts, the men would go on to succeed due to their leader Colonel Robert Gould Shaw who showed everyone that blacks were fighting equals to their white counterparts.

For paper two assignment, I watched the film Unforgiven (1992) directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples. It is American revisionist Western drama film with quite long a run time of two hours and eleven minutes. I am so happy for watching this very interesting Clint Eastwood movies. This film story mainly focus on William Munny (Clint Eastwood) pervious murderer family person and pig farmer who is attract reward into his old ways by the Jaimz Woolvett a young gunfighter. The Schofield Kid came to William Munny to told to him of a bounty being provide in the city of huge Whiskey. A cowboy slashed the face of a prostitute and the woman’s co-workers have offered a reward for the death of the attacker and his accomplice.

Falsettos was one of the first shows that led the change in talking about death. “In particular, the AIDS epidemic elicited many theatrical and musical responses, the most important for the purposes of this discussion being Rent and Falsettos” (Death Comes to the Broadway Musical). Before the 20th century, pain and suffering was rarely addressed in the theatre. Originally premiering in 1993, Falsettos is about Marvin, a gay man, struggling to balance his ex-wife, 12 year old son, and his new boyfriend, Whizzer. Amidst the chaos, one of the characters laments about an unknown disease that is rapidly spreading in the song “Something Bad is Happening” (“Falsettos”). Not soon after, viewers discover that Whizzer has contracted this disease and he eventually passes away. The show helped transport audience members back to their experience with

In this essay, I will be analyzing George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Jordan Peele's film, Get Out (2017). Though nearly fifty years have passed between the release of these films, both offer commentary on the society during the time the films were respectively released. Night of the Living Dead (1968), is more subtle in making a commentary on 1960s American society, more particularly the Civil Rights Movement that was taking place during this time. On the other hand, Get Out (2017), is more straight forward when it comes to commenting on the attitudes towards African American people in America in modern times. George Romero and Jordan Peele, use a horror and thriller framework as a platform to discuss their observations

The film “The Prestige” is one of many masterful Nolan films that walks the line between being a meta film about the film industry, and being focused on immersing the audience in the actual content of the film. At a close inspection, comparisons to the film industry can be seen, but they are not so obvious to distract the audience from the central conflicts that are at the forefront of the film. The subject of the film could most easily be defined as surrounding the topics of obsession or fame. More specifically, the obsession of fame, and the illusion of happiness that fame projects. The main characters of the movie both urn for the fame of being the world’s most successful entertainer, even if for different reasons.