Film Analysis: The Departed

Analytical Thesis: Get Out is a psychological thriller that analyzes the racial issues in modern America through the use of visual rhetoric: such as film noir, symbolism and metaphors.

In the film, Night of the Living Dead, the movie starts with two siblings, John and Barbara, driving to their father's grave to drop off flowers. John is reluctant to be there and is eager to leave while Barbara is trying to pray. John teases her like when they were children saying “They’re coming to get you, Barbara!” when they both see an unknown man. Barbara goes to apologize to the unknown man but it seems he is dazed and kills John. Barbara escapes and finds herself at an empty house. In the house, she meets Ben, who borders up to the windows after taking down 3 undead. After a bit of listening to a radio for the current status of the state of emergency, Harry and Tom come upstairs. We learn that two men, two women, and a child had been in the basement of the house during Barbara’s and Ben’s struggle with the undead. After much argumentation on if the basement or upstairs was safer between Harry and Ben, Harry went back downstairs to his wife and child. Tom and his wife, Judy, stayed upstairs with Ben believing they could properly border up the windows together. After much convincing from Helen, Harry’s wife, Harry and she join the others upstairs. While listening on the radio, they are given more updates of the state of emergency. The radio announcer suggests instead of staying in place, to now go to one of the designated “safe areas”. When places are announced, Tom says that one of the

The film Fruitvale Station written and directed by Ryan Coogler, tells the story of a young African American man that was shot and killed by a white police officer on a subway platform. The film is based on the true story of Oscar Grant, who at the age of 22 years old was killed by a police officer on the Fruitvale station platform in San Francisco, California. The film shows how Oscar lived a tough life, but still had a caring heart. At the start of the New Year, Oscar wanted to change his life, and make better decisions. Unfortunately, he was a part of a situation that led to him being in police custody, and shot by a police officer. Oscar Grant’s death caused many protests and riots in the Bay Area against police brutality.

O Brother Where Art Thou? The movie is set in Mississippi in the late 1930's, with The Great Depression looming in the background. A condensed plot, are that the three main characters Ulysses McGill, Pete Hogwallop and Delmar O'Donnell are convicts that break away from a chain gang. They break away because they're on a quest to find the treasure that Everett hid. As the three men go along in their literal chains, they run into a ton of problems and interesting characters like The KKK, a campaigning governor, a robber, and a blind prophet. From the research I have done, the popular opinion is that this film is loosely based on the book, "The Odyssey". The overall tone and mood is somewhat goofy, but it has some heavy topics behind it like The

Die Hard, a film directed by John McTiernan, successfully utilized several aesthetics, which offered viewers various meanings throughout the duration of the film. Although the diverse meanings grasped by viewers may differ, it was clear to me that McTiernan effectively applied elements of cinematography and mise-en-scene that resulted in viewers being allowed to interpret a range of different meanings or functions of the elements.

In the movie, See What I’m Saying, there are three Deaf men and one Hard of Hearing women. Their names are: Robert DeMayo, TL Forsberg. Bob Hiltermann and C.J Jones. Through out the movie, each person shows us a glimpse of their lives and what they have to deal with on a daily basis. See What I’m Saying shines a light on the oppressive behaviors within the performing arts industry and within mainstream media, and how these four individuals must navigate through their lives as performing artist.

Staffing can have a direct link to patient care. It has also been linked to important patient outcomes like in hospital mortality and adverse events. Without the adequate staffing it not only affects the patient-care that can be provided it also limits the amount of patients that can be seen and helped. On top of those things, it increases the healthcare providers stress due to usually being assigned more patients in the same amount of time. It is not uncommon to see a nurse have 7 patients at one time due to staffing shortages or scheduling mishaps. To be able to give optimal care staffing needs to be up to par on a daily basis. I believe staffing affects many of the other themes in Code Black. For instance, poor staffing can increase wait

The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese (2006), contains a countless amount of violence and aggressive acts. The Departed (Scorsese, 2006) is a thriller/ action movie based around two main characters, Billy Costigan and Colin Sullivan who struggle with trying to fit into the roles that have been given to them by their surrounding influences. Costigan comes from a family of mafia members and ends up going undercover for the Massachusetts’ state police to join a superior Irish mobster, Frank Costello. Costigan has an extremely hard time with the tasks that he’s given by his superior mobster, Frank Costello, such as murdering, beating, and acting aggressively towards others. Costigan uses both psychical violence and aggression to intimidate

The movies Infernal Affairs (2002, directed by Andrew Lau) and The Departed (2006, directed by Martin Scorsese), the latter being an adaptation of the former, are surprisingly similar films overall. The discrepancies between the two motion pictures are only easily seen when analyzing the difference in the narrative, plot and cinematography used within each film, while taking into account the influences of the differing cultures that the two films were created in (i.e. location of creation). Due to the differing locales: China (Hong Kong) for Infernal Affairs and the United States (Boston) for The Departed, the unique and different cultures influenced the modification that took place in the adaptation from the former into the latter. The difference

Film noirs describe pessimistic films associated with black and white visual styles, crime fiction, and dark themes. Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 film noir directed by Billy Wilder. Sunset Boulevard presents many themes that are common with the genre film noir, but also introduces some differences from the typical movie in that genre.

In this essay, I will offer up my analysis on the film Mulholland Drive directed by David Lynch. The best way to describe this film would be that it is an enigma. I had no idea what to make of this film on my first viewing. After watching the film a few more times I believe I cracked the code. Lynch is known for not speaking about the meaning of his films.

SUMMARY The Departed is an iconic “modern” mobster movie that was delivered to us by Martin Scorsese in 2006. There are two main characters that we follow and both have a connection to Irish mob boss Frank Costello. The first is a young

The next element I will discuss is dialogue. Dialogue is an essential cinematic technique to determine what kind of person the characters are portraying. Billy’s cousin Sean referred to Costello as God. Being compared to God an almighty omnipotent entity lets us know that Costello is an influential person in the neighborhood. Costello is a person who always wanted to be an authoritative person, the first words we hear from him “I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product….of me.” From that we can get the sense that Costello wanted to be in control of things. Costello’s desire to be the kingpin of Boston makes him go to extreme measures. Colin and Costello’s relationship is a close one. Costello acts as a father figure for Colin. When Colin talks to Costello when other detectives are around he even refers to him as dad. Colin’s character is someone who wants to be wealthy and powerful like Costello. At one point in the film he even says he could be Costello. Billy on the other hand is not like these characters. Billy just wants to be an honest police officer and do his job. Billy’s background is further revealed by Officer Dignam (Mark Wahlberg). Billy has had a troubled past his father’s side of the family is poor and connected with Costello’s

The 1983 film ‘Vacation’ perfectly encapsulated an era and yet it was still able to establish itself as timeless road trip film through the way it expertly simulated how a family road trip with good intentions could easily go awry under the wrong circumstances. This new ‘Vacation’ is hoping to catch lightning in a bottle for a second time, which is an incredibly tall order. Yet, for some reason, Warner Bros. is positive this is going to become an instant classic, remarking time and time again how confidently they feel about the critical and box office success of this film. When a studio is this excited for a film that excitement definitely rubs off on me, and the recent announcement that the duo behind this film are set to write the

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.