Groundhog Day

For this assignment I have chosen to focus on the film Good Will Hunting primarily because I have seen the movie prior to this course and I feel it is one of the best films I have gotten a chance to see. Will Hunting's profound genius was as much a burden as it was a gift. Initially seeing the film I enjoyed it but viewing the film in the scope of all that I have learned in this course made the viewing experience much more meaningful, as I now had a deeper understanding of Will's internal conficts, and how they directly effected his relationships, beliefs, and actions. The film is an excellent example of the issues involving interpersonal communication and how they play a part in either making or breaking our

Synopsis of the film: In the film Groundhog Day (1993), the protagonist, Phil is an arrogant and narcissistic weatherman who is not happy with his job. He thinks highly of himself and

The 1993 movie Groundhog Day directed by Harold Ramis portrays the journey of self-centered weatherman Phil Connors who becomes trapped in a time loop and must repeatedly relive the same day. Connors’ ordeal highlights the Buddhist principle that life is dominated by hardship. However, Phil’s distressing experiences enable him to change his ways and become naturally happy. Phil’s transformation illustrates the Buddhist concept that suffering is actually an avenue to the bliss of nirvana . While in the beginning of Groundhog Day Phil focuses on fulfilling his selfish desires, he cannot achieve happiness until he stops pursuing his wants and improves as a person, which allows him to reach a state of enlightenment.

This movie is a great example of social groups, leadership, culture, norms, society, nature and nurture, and social lives. This movie represents how the American culture chooses our social class in society. Some sociologists believed that lifestyle choices are an important influence on our social class position (Giddens, 209). Our class position is the way we dress, where we eat, where we sleep, and how we relax (Giddens,

Camus, the author of The Stranger, was a strong believer of absurdism, the belief that life is lived and existing with no meaning whatsoever, concluding that to find the meaning of human life will require an adsorb journey of negativity. In The Stranger, the protagonist Meursault, begins as an unemotional outsider, progressing through a stage of anger toward himself, and concludes with a stage of happiness and positivity towards the world. But throughout most of the time, he was in the first dull stage, living life as a constant boring routine, lacking communication and only at the very end realizing that life could be lived well, before his unfortunate execution due to past consequences. Groundhog Day shares a similar theme of that of The Stranger, in which the main protagonist, Phil Connors, progresses through three critical stages of life realization. He began as a selfish, egocentric news reporter, to a depressed and even suicidal stage, and concludes with a relieving extroverting attitude toward others, when the meaning of his life is realized. The movie’s plot plays a key role in this, when he repeats the second day of February over and over again from his same motel bedroom. As the loop continues, he edges off the boring routine life, re-examines it, and knows of his life priorities to benefit

   Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray, is a film about a television weatherman named Phil who relives the same day, 2 March, over and over again. A & P is a short story by John Updike in which a cashier, Sammy, has his routine day disrupted when three girls wearing swimming suits stroll into the grocery store where he works and are confronted by the manager. Though their storylines vary greatly, in both works the main character in each is a self-centered, condescending male who eventually realises the flaws in his character. This realisation is, in part, brought out by supernatural forces in Groundhog Day and by a manager's harsh words in A & P. However, in each

For this interview, I have Skype my grandfather far away from here in China, since he don’t know how to speak English so we were use Chinese during the whole interview. He was born in 1935 before the World War II and grows up in an instable time era. During this time the economy of China is in a low level and compare to another country that is lag behind. Due to the history in China, the play is much popular than the movies, so there is not much chance for him to watch the movies before 1955. Also, the countryside that he was lived doesn’t even have the electricity at that time. After he leave home and joins the army in 1955, he got a lot of chance to watch the film for free with his teammate in the troop’s playground, which is a outdoor place and they set up with two poles on the ground and a white curtain and small movie machine player; that is how they watch the film in a very simple way. However, he does get the chance to watch the movies during that time and he use to watch movies with my grandmother because that is one of a few entertainment in that small town.

There are age related conflicts, cultural conflicts, religious conflicts and value based conflicts.  This movie is a film highlighting many cultural conflicts.  These conflicts continuously erupt in a working class Michigan neighborhood.  We will first examine a scene with religious cultural conflict. In the same scene we will see age based cultural conflict as well.  Next, we will examine a racial cultural conflict between the Hmong people and an American. After examining cultural conflicts, we will show two examples of popular culture in the film.  Then, we will provide the conflict management styles we would have employed to bring the same result as the current ending without the bloodshed and a general opinion of the film.

Ever since I was a young kid I have always been interested in movies. My grandma, who was full of the wise the life experience left, always knew about my interest in movies. She feed my vain for the art. Even though her religion, she professed Adventist of seven-day religion, didn't let her go to the cinema, she always found the way to took me to the cinema. She and I enjoyed watch movies. We used to sit in the darkness room, with our faces illuminated from the reflection of the light which rebooted from the screen, both absorbs in the plot of the movie which made us laughed or cried. After the movie, while we went back to her home, she started to talk about the movie. She had a particular point of view where the main story

Alea Ortiguerra REL 3123 Writing Assignment 1 The Karate Kid The Karate Kid is a classic coming of age story and has permeated American culture. The movie was inspired by Eastern thought, through the use of karate and the spiritualism depicted in the movie.

NOTE: This assignment requires viewing a DVD - "An Inconvenient Truth." You have four options. 1. Go to the CSUDH Library Instructional Media Center (LIB C121) and ask to view “An Inconvenient Truth”, which is posted on their web server. Note that the IMC is closed on weekends and certain Fridays. 2. Most public libraries will have the video for checkout. 3. You can also rent the DVD (check Wherehouse, Blockbuster, etc.). 4. Go the following website (foreign subtitles are a bit distracting) - http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/an-inconvenient-truth/

I have watched a considerable number of movies this semester so it was hard to choose which one to analyze. It came down to “Remember the Titans” or “Good Will Hunting”. However, the movie that I will be analyzing is “Good Will Hunting”. The reason I chose this movie is that it can be analyzed in many different ways. I will be analyzing different scenes of the movie and analyze them from different angles. I will be analyzing about the symbolism that is happening in the movie. I will be analyzing many different things about the movie. The first thing I will analyze in this movie is the symbolism of things, objects, colors, and

What is all about life if an individual can’t be able to enjoy, relate well and have fun within his or her social boundaries? The social aspect is what makes a person to expound on the other aspects of life such as the economy, technology, and politics with minimal barriers. Movies connect the living generation with real-life situations, giving ideas on how to embrace it and live well when subjected to such circumstances.

The movie doesn’t relate to me because I am Christian. My beliefs are different. As an example, I think there is a God. It also challenges my religion beliefs. The movie and the religion say that there is no God to believe in a person is just trying to reach the inner-self and find Nirvana. In my religion I believe there is a god who I worship. Since I was a little kid I was taught there is a God in school also in the house by reading the Holy Bible. Also Buddhism in movie they say that Atman or soul in not a thing or that it doesn’t exist. In my religion I believe that everyone has a soul. Another thing the movie shows is reincarnation. Buddhists believe that after dying they are born again in another body with the same thoughts that they had in the past life. An example of that would be, when Lama Norbu tells Jesse’s father whose name is Dean about how the contents of mind are that same when a person is reborn. My beliefs are different. When I die I believe that my soul is going to another place which is either Heaven or Hell. I don’t believe that I would be born or at least that’s what my faith tells me. This Movie would relate to someone whose religion is Hinduism. That’s mainly because a lot of things are related to it such as

For this assignment, I have chosen to pick one of my favorite movies called “Star Wars episode 3 Revenge of the Sith.” Because I am a huge fan of the whole Star Wars series, but this specific movie, I have seen several times and it is my favorite out of all the movies included in the franchise. Before I took this class, I thought this movie was phenomenal, I loved the way it was put together, the whole story was interesting, it stood out from different movies because of its creative and unique concept of the science fiction, adventure, action, romance, and fantasy genres. When I first saw this movie, I was truly intrigued and didn’t lose interest in any part throughout the film, it fascinated me. After I had took this theater class though, and after analyzing several different movies, I looked back at the movie, I realized that all the terminology and content that I have learned throughout the course wasn’t put to mind because I didn’t pay attention to it really because I didn’t even know the names of the terms that I learned in class and the insights of how this film was put together, I was more focused on what was happening in the story. After I took this class, I have changed my response to this film because when I analyze this movie, I now have a deeper understanding of what goes on in this movie, I know this because I think of how different scenes in the movie add to the story/narrative, and how some characters are affected and how it adds to the story, I know what kind