Film Analysis Of Peter Koeleman's The Headline Woman

In 1975, Chicago became a Broadway hit due to the work of Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb. Ebb created the lyrics and also worked with Fosse to write the book, while Kander created the music. Chicago portrays a theme that celebrity statuses corrupt judicial system. The idea of celebrity criminals appears throughout the musical as the girls fight for attention in press in order to help win their trial. Mamma Morton clearly says (33 minutes into the movie) “Murder is a form of entertainment here” and the musical proves that statement true.

The Hollywood movie Pretty Woman (1990) is about a prostitute in Hollywood, marrying an extremely rich businessman, in spite of her mutual distrust and prejudice. The movie contains the basic narrative of the Cinderella tale: through the love and help of a man of a higher social position, a girl of a lower social status moves up to join the man at his level.

In Chicago, the main plot revolves around women who murder the men in their lives that have caused some injustice. Each woman has a story to justify the reason why the men had to die. Billy Flynn is a charismatic criminal lawyer that has never lost a case for a female client. The proceedings in jail and in the courtroom are anything but legal and ethical. It is clear that the plot is not serious. This justifies the fact that the female prison inmates are allowed to interact with each other in song and dance. Also the so-called warden can also act as a contract agent to get the girls their own Vaudeville act. The main purpose of the show is to water down the book plot and add individual entertainers. This is done to integrate the Vaudeville quality within a musical. In doing so the courtroom and jail is paralleled with a nightclub scene. The main purpose to maintain the Vaudeville quality is suggesting the cliché "all the world's a stage." In

The use of technology has catalyzed society into an era that is increasingly interconnected yet impersonal at the same time. Despite technology’s endless list of assets, many fail to acknowledge its shortcomings when mentioning what is lost as a result of using it. Although in “Great to Watch” by Maggie Nelson, she is not afraid to share her skepticism of technology, as well as the role it plays in desensitizing individuals on a day-to-day basis. The internet is an invaluable resource to many because it is a public domain for sharing ideas, opinions, and knowledge that any and everyone can have access to. In a sense, it does not restrict what someone may see or do, and this can either be a good thing or a bad thing. The booming use of new media

Even though both pieces take place during different periods of time, that doesn't change people’s reactions towards the crimes and trials that are occurring in both the novel and musical. In “Chicago”, murder was a way many people got famous, it would end up in the newspaper, on the radio, and your name and face was everywhere. People looked forward to seeing who was the next person on the front page. When they would find out, they would make a massive spectacular. Once Roxie Hart killed Fred Casely, her name was known by everyone. Everyone wanted to see her, ask her questions, some even wanted to look like her. Despite the fact that she murdered someone, everyone wanted to be just like Roxie. As her trial was going on, no one could wait to hear if they convicted her of the crime or not. There were people that had made newspaper for both “Innocent” and “Guilty” as they waited to see what she was sentenced. Her crime, or anyone else before or after, was big entertainment more than anything else. But once she was pronounced innocent and was released, another woman killed someone, and she was completely

During the end of the 3rd Century, the Playwright Plautus wrote many of the first Roman comedies. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical comedy film adaptation of Plautus's comedies.Set in ancient Rome, many aspects of Roman theatre, including stock characters, were included in the film’s production. While the film is based off of multiple comedies, Plautus's Pseudolus character Calidorus is nearly identical to the film’s Hero. During the time Pseudolus was written, the Crisis of the Third Century led to up to 25% of Roman population being comprised of slaves(Southern). Of the many stock characters Platus included in his comedies, Calidorus/Hero, the son of Pseudolus’s owner and the stock character adulescens, best

The job of a journalist has always been highly scrutinized. For years, the question of what and how a journalist should deliver information has been analyzed. However, despite the many theories, it has always been a clear consensus that journalists have an obligation to truth above all. However, there are many cases where a journalist may not know how far to go in order to deliver that truth. Of course, a journalist must always operate within legal limits, however, again some cases have blurred lines. A case that demonstrates these blurred lines between the legal and illegal, as well as the need to deliver truth, is a case between the Rolling Stone and their use of illegal music links.

The main characters in the films are Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly, and Billy Flynn. Roxie’s only desire is to become a female performer. She decides to sleep with a man who says he can get her an act, but she soon realizes that he is only using her for sex, so she murders him by shooting him multiple times with a handgun. Throughout the film, she gains popularity and her desire to become a performer starts to become a reality. Both Chicago and The Great Gatsby are represented by the opposite effects of colors. While one is showing the emotion of liveliness and joyfulness, the other is the complete opposite, showing dreadfulness. Showing that during the 1920s, many people were lively and full of

The symbolism in the first act shows how corrupt Chicago law enforcement can be and how easily the media can be persuaded by giving lies to the public. The play is trying to tell the reader that in this time of day, the media and the common people are so easily brainwashed by current events that the media will praise criminals, this even happens in the media today.

Born into Brothels, shares the chaotic lifestyle of eight children and their mothers from the Brothels of Calcutta, in the perspective of the director, Zana Briski, and the deprived children. Using the basic techniques of photography, Briski teaches the children to document their lives through photos, which are then used as a baseline for the documentary. Born into Brothels revolves around Briski’s attempt to gain awareness and education for a small group of children whose lives are filled with tragedy. Being identified as a ‘white-privileged’ female from the United States of America, Briski carries a completely distinct perspective of the life in the ‘red light’ district, than the children themselves. She sympathizes with their situation

Chicago (2002) is an American crime musical drama directed by Rob Marshall and starring Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere. The film takes place in 1920s Chicago and tells the story of Roxie Hart, who dreams of being a performer, but has her dreams cut short after she commits murder. Roxie, our protagonist, is a simple housewife who dreams of being a performer. She sleeps with Fred Casely after he said he had connections in the show business. When she finds out he lied, she murders him.

A film that raises so many questions regarding prostitution, and drugs, Pretty Woman is a romantic comedy that was released March 23rd, 1990. Although this film was and is loved by so many, it also sparked discussions of issues in society at the time the movie came out. Pretty Woman came out as the problem of drugs, especially cocaine, was on the rise. This film also highlighted the issue of prostitution around the United States, along with the growing drug addiction, that often accompanies it. The movie Pretty Woman highlights the issues of drug addiction and prostitution causing waves in the public.

Women Without Men The director of Women Without Men, Shirin Neshat, was birthed in the small city of Qazvin, Iran, just a few hours from Tehran in 1957. She was given the rare opportunity to travel to the United States at the young age of seventeen. She was unable to return to her home country because of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the 1979 Islamic Revolution also played a key role in her first feature length film, Women Without Men.

Filmmakers use traditional gender stereotypes to produce characters audiences can easily identify with by portraying conventional images of a person with identifiable characteristics. In previous years, the dominant representation of a women in film has been the passive, subjugated protagonist. However, through the development of female empowerment and added feminist representations of film, the female heroine transformed to become strong and independent women in her own right, as an individual character.

The Lady details the political upheavals that rocked Burma (also known as “Myanmar”) during the second half of the 20th century. The Lady is set primarily in Burma. However, many scenes are set in England. The film, as a biopic, makes many claims about the events that occurred during Ang San Suu Kyi’s rise to power. It also prompts questions about the causes and effects of the events in the movie. Additionally, the film creates an experience for the viewer that written history cannot emulate. The Lady is the most significant film concerning Ang San Suu Kyi’s life. In this paper, I will examine this movie from a number of different lenses.