Film Analysis : ' Wild Strawberries '

McFarland USA is a Disney sports movie based on a true story. The movie begins with Coach Jim White losing his temper with a football player and hurts him. After the incident, he is fired and moves with his family to a McFarland, California. McFarland is predominantly a Latino migrant community. He is hired as the high school P.E coach and notices the potential several of his migrant students have in running. He then decides to from a cross-country team, in the beginning the students are hesitant to join the team because they help their families in waking up early to pick produce. Coach White is persistent and the students decide to join the team. Once the parents see how Coach White is willing to work with their children they become very supportive. The cross-country team changes the students’ life forever and allows the students to obtain the American Dream. This movie was very uplifting and demonstrated the importance of family, education,

Most people in the world have had a hard time admitting that someone has died that they care about. In the world this happens a lot because it is a hard thing to excepted. Lucille Fletcher, the author of “The Hitchhiker” shows the fear of death through the eyes of the main character that can not escape that he is dead. He is being followed by a Hitchhiker that is representing death because the main character is dead which goes back to not admitting that someone is dead. In the story “The Hitchhiker,” Lucille Fletcher uses flashback, foreshadowing,and symbolism to build a mood.

In his 2001 film entitled Lantana, director Ray Lawrence provides a dramatic look into the consequences of jealousy and infidelity in relationships. The film focuses primarily on two couples, Leon and Sonja, and John and Valerie, whose relationships are both seemingly in the midst of their own downward spirals. As the story unfolds and the issues affecting each of these relationships are uncovered, the film paints a vivid picture of the different ways that such themes can quickly bring ruin to relationships, and, in the case of some of the film’s characters, lives.

In one of the most poverty stricken cities in America, there is a thin line between success and failure as is showcased in the 2015 film McFarland, USA. Which is based on a true story. The story begins in 1987 in Boise, Idaho, where Coach Jim White makes some unfortunate decisions. Due to lack of better options, he and his family are forced to move to one of the poorest cities in the U.S. White becomes the new assistant football coach, life science teacher, and P.E. teacher. Soon after losing his coaching spot for the football team he is motivated to start a cross country team. HE notices the potential that seven boys have to become great runners. After creating his team they go on to win last place and then they end up in the top four. The

The 1971 Mel Stewart film, “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”, is about a little boy named Charlie Bucket, who is very poor and wants to do something to help his family. The movie starts by showing that there is a contest going on for people to win a special tour through the factory of Wonka Chocolate Company and a lifetime supply of chocolate. There are only five special golden tickets hidden inside products from the Wonka Company. When the five people have found the tickets, there is a big gathering on the day of the tour with big crowds of people and news people too to see Mr wonka come out from his factory to greet the winners. When the children and their parents are inside the factory the children sign a thing saying they will not steal or take information or do bad things and they all go on their way for the tour. Right away, it all seems very strange with coat hooks that move and weird size doors and rooms. Inside of the factory is very much a different world. The workers are small orange men who sing songs telling about the behaviors people should not have.

The film Pleasantville directed by Gary Ross is about two modern teenagers, David and his sister Jennifer, somehow being transported into the television, ending up in Pleasantville, a 1950s black and white sitcom. The two are trapped as Bud and Mary Sue in a radically different dimension and make some huge changes to the bland lives of the citizens of Pleasantville, with the use of the director’s cinematic techniques. Ross cleverly uses cinematic techniques such as colour, mise-en-scene, camera shots, costumes, music and dialogue to effectively tell the story.

My first impressions of the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes” was that it was a fluff and light movie. The previews of the movie would lead one to believe that myself included. I was wrong. The first part of the movie was set in 1930’s. This part of the movie addressed the issue of racism and ageism before the time of the Civil Rights Movement. When the movie moves in to present day, the story covers the struggles Evelyn is experiencing with menopause, or as it was sometime called; the change of life. Fried Green Tomatoes is a story that bounces through generations of women and the people around them. This is a classic story of Americana. The stories are used to weave a web to make a point and draw people in to the events that shape the lives

In Tim’s first up-close and personal encounter with death, Linda, his girlfriend, dies of cancer before turning ten. When Tim attends her wake and sees her body, he is unable to cope with the reality of her death. Instead, he imagines that she is awake and normal and having a conversation with him. Through this conversation with a dead person, Tim comes to realize that his imagination - the stories that he makes up - can keep people alive after their deaths. If he remembers Linda’s corpse, that is all she can ever be, but if he continues to have conversations with her, to imagine her alive, to tell stories about her, then she remains alive as he portrays her. Though told at the end of the book, this vignette becomes a lens through which Tim views death throughout and explains why Tim, the character, and O’brien, the author, tell stories about dead friends. Tim tells stories about death - the death of his friend Kiowa, the postwar suicide of Norman Bowker, the corpse of the man he killed, the tragic accident that killed Ted Lavender, and Linda’s battle with cancer - to preserve the life of people he

The image may become deeply ingrained in one’s brain and create an everlasting cycle of what-ifs. This is evident through Tim O’Brien’s depiction within the section “The Man I Killed.” The imagery of the dead man makes the audience almost feel like they know him, despite the author never knowing him.

In the novella The Body, author Stephen King makes an attempt to explain a story about losing innocence, only to be replaced by maturity and the corruption that comes with it. To do so, King revolves a story around a group of four boys who go on a life changing journey to find a dead body they heard about through the grape vine. Little did they know that pursuing this journey would eventually change them for the worse. In its entirety, the crux of the novella was to show how the experience of meeting death hands-on will pivot a person’s life and will either lead them onto a slippery slope or mold them in to a man soon to be. More specifically, King reinforces this theme beautifully by using light imagery during the

For this paper I want to focus on some important points of the movie McFarland because this movie for me has some really important topics it addresses. In addition, one of the these important topics that I am going to be emphasizing on and elaborating more, is on the issue of language assumption due to race. Furthermore, another significant issue that I will focus on is on how having teamwork/hard work can bring so much success and achievement not mattering in the situation you are in. These are some of the most essential issues that I found to be more shown in this movie, therefore wanted to expand on them a bit more.

The first thing I picked up in cinema class was that the size of the screen can play a huge role in the way the viewer experiences a film. American Honey by Andrea Arnold felt like one of those movies that was tailormade to be experienced to its full potential on the big screen. If I saw this movie at home on a smaller screen, there would be so many things that I would not be able to experience because of the limitation in screen size.

A young 18-year-old boy name Arnie Grape lives with his family in a home located in a small city. While Arnie suffers from an autism disorder it makes the lives of his relatives a bit complex because they’re constantly watching over Arnie since he cannot fend for himself in many situations. Nor can he be left unattended, because he cannot understand social expectations and norms, so he is always getting in some type of trouble. Arnie is diagnosed with autism where he goes through challenges of social interaction challenges and language difficulties.

The intention of this essay is to discuss the romantic notion of a film director who has etched their own cinematic vision into the body of their film work, and whether the theory and practice is dead and an infringement of the spectator’s imagination and is it the spectator who finds meaning in the film. I will be closely looking at critical material, primarily André Bazin and Roland Barthes and applying them to several case study films directed by Christopher Nolan including The Following (1998), The Prestige (2006) and Inception (2010), to examine whether Nolan possesses the qualities of an auteur and if so, does that imply an ideological view of what the auteur resembles or an artistic one.

We are introduced to death early in the story of Hamlet. Firstly, when his father is murdered and secondly when the ghost appears. The audience is granted a sense of chaos and disorder as a result. An apparition is symbolic of the fact that the natural world is not the way it should be. Everyone realizes it is the truth because Denmark has been thrown in to disarray with the death of its king. Hamlet has been thinking about his suicide because of the constant grief, and it is a profound moment for him: