Life Of Brian

In the Breakfast Club, there are many cognitive advancements that are conveyed. The biggest cognitive advancements that takes place throughout the film are abstract thought, hypothetical thought and multidimensional thought. The movie centers on the essay that the students need to write, “Who do you think you are.” This question requires the group of students to think about their experiences, formulate ideas, acknowledge their knowledge, awareness and reflect on their experiences. The film illustrates how the adolescents thinking changes from concrete thinking- judging their peers and their own lives, to abstract thinking- viewing similarities between the characters and understanding the differences in their lives while showing empathy.

Elizabeth’s and Mary’s life were very different from each other when it comes to their early and personal lives. When we are reading, according to the book and

The classic movie 12 Angry Men opens with clips of a courthouse, ultimately panning to a specific court room where an 18-year-old boy is on trial for killing his father. Despite the case being the central point which the story revolves around, the movie isn’t about the boy or even his father. The movie is about the 12 jurors who are in charge of the boy’s fate. If they decide he is guilty, he is sentenced to the death penalty, which meant death by the electric chair.

Coming of age is a popular theme in literature with many authors, directors, and musicians basing their work around it. They create works with the intent to examine our youth from different perspectives. Two great examples of this would be the film The Breakfast Club and novel The Perks of being a wallflower. Both show a realistic and relatable take on the lives of high schoolers, however I’d argue Breakfast Club better accomplishes this goal. The Breakfast Club takes each classic high school stereotype and grants the viewer some understanding as to who they really are beneath their label, compared to The perks of being a wallflower which performs poorly in trying to accurately portray high school life.

In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, it is clear that the clash of religious cultures effects Jeannette’s ideas on life and God. Though it is never mentioned, it is assumed that Jeannette does not have a strong belief in God, or religion in general. This is because of her lack of religious stability as a child. During the Christmas mass, Rex exclaims, “Virgin my ass!... Mary was a sweet Jewish broad who got herself knocked up”(114)! This could be confusing for Jeannette because of her mother’s Catholic predisposition. Rose Mary further complicates Jeannette’s religious beliefs and understandings when she urges the children to chant hail mary’s while cleaning. Rose Mary tells the children, “It’s a way of cleansing our souls while

The 1997 comedy film, ‘The Castle’, directed by Rob Sitch, is a classic Australian film which pits the underdog individual against a large corporation. The low-budget film follows the fight of tight-knit working class family, the Kerrigans, who face the forced acquisition of their modest home by a government organisation. It can be clearly seen that the director has positioned audiences to see the Kerrigans as praiseworthy characters. This is shown through the narrative elements, stylistic features, and constructedness of the plot.

POOF! Brian disappeared and no one noticed but he wanted someone to notice it why? Well, i'll tell you. In the the story The Boy Who Could Turn Into Things Brian Is a kid that is fat with glasses and always wears a striped shirt and can disappear and no one notices. First, he is a loner no one hangs out with him except his parents probably. for example, at recess when all the other kids are hanging out,screaming,running,kicking all kinds of recess stuff. But he is all by himself on the swings doing nothing but sitting. Sometimes kids would come up to him and call him "four eyed" and the "over sized" kid.

Twelve Angry Men is about a jury who must decide the fate of an 18 year old boy who allegedly killed his father. The jury must determine a verdict of guilty beyond any reasonable doubt and not guilty. A guilty verdict would mean that the accused would receive the death penalty. After a day of deliberation and many votes, they came up with the verdict of not guilty. I believe they achieved their overall goal of coming up with a verdict they were all able to agree with. It seems there were some individual personal short term goals that were not met. One being that the one juror was not able to go to the baseball game. Another was that a juror was not able to take out the anger he had towards his son on the son accused of killing his

The movie "Alive" is a shocking true story of an Uruguayan Rugby Team that crashed their plane in the middle of the Andes mountains. The Uruguayan plane crash carrying 45 passengers to Chile unfortunately resulted only with the survival of 16 students. Through a traumatic shocking experience, the movie reenacts the event of the crash. This movie demonstrates various examples of the importance of psychological and physiological needs in our daily lives. It also outlines how the survivors had to accomplish particular essential needs in order to ensure their physiological and psychological health. The movie "Alive" is a fascinating story that demonstrates heroism and faith through a team mainly consisted of teenage

In Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Princess Marya Bolkonsky and Pierre Bezukhov catch a glimpse of relief during their times of trouble through dependence on Christianity and Freemasonry, respectively. Marya uses Christianity as a way to endure abuse from her father, while Pierre uses Freemasonry as a way to find his niche after changing social classes overnight. Even though both of them are content for a while, the sense of relief disappears as pride starts to prevail and illuminate the flaws of the theologies. In the end, they both still retain attributes from the theologies to shape their future life. Princess Marya utilizes her belief in Christianity to endure the actions of her father in order to escape his torment.

‘Days of Heaven’ is a romantic drama film directed by Terrence Malick. The film was released in 1978 and stars Richard Gere, Brooke Adams and Sam Shepherd. The plot consists of a story that follows Bill, his younger teen sister Linda and his girlfriend Abby as they take up employment as sackers on a wheat farm in the Texas panhandle. Bill is forced to flee his hometown of Chicago after he accidentally kills the foreman of the steel mill at which he worked. After laboring on the farm for some time Bill conspires against their new boss, who is suffering from a terminal illness.

Monty Python’s Life of Brian is more than just a mere comedy; it is a Biblical, religious, and political satire. Like all Python films, Life of Brian seems to educate the viewer while at the same time providing entertainment. Unfortunately not all of the elements in Life of Brian occurred in real life, which takes away from the validity of the plot. While not everything is accurate, it seems that a majority of the film could be considered genuine. In order to understand an analysis of the film, one must first have a basic sense of the plot.

The film “The Pursuit Of Happyness”, directed by Gabriele Muccino in 2006, depicted a responsible and hardworking salesman Chris Gardner struggles for life and try his best to improve the quality of his family environment. In spite of facing various difficulties, Gardner never gives up and he manages to pull through in sense of determination and finally obtained his “ happiness” in his life. After watching the movie, I agree on the point that one must ready to sacrifice and works really hard in order to achieve his/her dream as there is no shortcut to success. In the following paragraphs, I will describe some interesting and meaningful scenes in the movie and explain how these scenes could actually bring some moral values or inspiration in

In the play, Mary is a beautiful woman and lives the life like any other girls of her time; but she is emotionally attached to her sons and her family when she marries into the Tyrone family. She is also getting old, so she keeps going on her days worrying about her change of appearance. She suffers from a morphine addiction and she is psychologically wounded because of her past. She tries many times to break free but she could not stop as she spends time with her family. She has gone through many struggles but she cannot move on with her life. She keeps looking back into the past; and she regrets marrying into the family because of the dreams she had to sacrifice such as becoming a nun or a concert pianist.

The love story between two different teenagers that come from completely different worlds is the most remarkable. The Notebook is about two young teenagers who fell head over heels with each other. They got separated by Allie’s upper-class parents who insist that Noah isn’t right for her. But that obstacle didn’t stop these two young lovers from being together even if it took years. This beautiful tale has a special meaning to an older gentleman who regularly reads the timeless love story to his aging wife to help her remember what they went through and that the story that he’s reading to her was their love story. The story he reads follows two young