Movie Comparison: The Dreamers And Maude

Focusing on a twenty year old obsessed with death and suicide who falls in love with an eccentric almost-eighty-year-old woman, Harold and Maude is a somewhat unconventional romantic comedy widely regarded as a cult classic. This movie’s use of suicide and other sensationalized ideas from Psychology is jarring to say the least, but its Psychological principles are not limited to those. There are many everyday aspects of Psychology immortalized through this film that would hardly make one bat an eye. In the movie, twenty year old Harold lives, mostly, with his mother. During the time he is not living with his mother, he is faking suicide for her attention, bringing home a hearse as his first car, or attending funerals, presumably for fun. Harold’s quirks seem to at least somewhat

The book and the movie of the Outsiders are two very different stories. The book has so much more detail then the movie. The movie is not the most detailed but it does get its point across. There are may similarities and also many differences between the two the book is by far more interesting and more detailed then the movie. I enjoyed the book a lot and the movies a lot but the movie was missing a lot.

There is a popular saying that “opposites attract.” The statement is genuinely correct and relatable, despite the fact that many poets, book writers, and even celebrities do not agree. Several claim that opposites don't attract, and that only alike things are attracted to one another. However, this is untrue - for example, north poles attract south poles. They are similar, but yet, very different. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Johnny and Dally are attracted by their countless similarities and differences.

Looking at the surface of the films The Fox and the Hound and Monsters Inc, we probably would not see any similarities whatsoever. This is hardly the case once looking past the animated animals and monsters. The Fox and the Hound, which was released in 1981 by Disney, portrays a fox named Tod and a hound dog named Copper. Even though they grew up together, they are socially supposed to be enemies. They do overcome this stereotype at first as they become best friends and vow to forever. In the end of the film they stay friends, but end up living separate from each other. Each one living in the world that is socially acceptable to each animal. Similarity, Monster Inc., which was released in 2001 by Disney and

We are born into this world with the realization that life is hard and that life is like a box of chocolates and it is hard to take it at face value. The majority of our time is spent trying to answer an endless stream of questions only to find the answers to be a complex path of even more questions. This film tells the story of Harold, a twenty year old lost in life and haunted by answerless questions. Harold is infatuated with death until he meets a good role model in Maude, an eighty year old woman that is obsessed with life and its avails. However, Maude does not answer all of Harold’s questions but she leads him to realize that there is a light at the end of everyone’s tunnel if you pursue it to utmost extremes by being whatever you

Bonnie is very emotional and with obesity loves her son so much. Bonnie is very

“What’s Up Doc?” and “Harold and Maude” are both romantic comedies, yet their differences are in the details, making them wholly individual and similar all the same. They both show romantic relationships in the forms of Judy and Maude respectively, but “What’s Up Doc?” has the opposing force as Eunice (a platonic relationship) and “Harold and Maude” has an opposing force in Harold’s mom (a parental relationship). “What’s Up Doc?” shows the dynamics of the characters using light-hearted comedy, while “Harold and Maude” uses a dose of black comedy and realistic issues as a way of conveying the relationships between the different characters.

In the Hal Ashby film, Harold and Maude, Ashby uses the conventions of the romantic comedy to bring Harold and Maude together in order to show the audience that life should be lived while being the truest person they can be. This film uses the conventions of romantic comedy to make a film that celebrates nonconformity and choosing ones own path in life rather than one that is predetermined by others. Ashby uses several conventions in order to show the importance of nonconformity and choosing your own path in life; it uses the conventions of meeting, separating, and uniting, spontaneously bursting into song, the idea of the unruly woman, the characterizing Harold and Maude as foils of each other to show this theme.

Within satirical writing, it is common to amplify a deeper meaning with a more superficial or sarcastic one. This can be successfully done by making the obvious even more noticeable as it can attract and sustain the reader’s interest. Two works that effectively demonstrate this are the satirical essay “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathon Swift and the Paramount Pictures’ film Mean Girls starring Lindsay Lohan. “A Modest Proposal” is a man’s suggestion to solve the large population of beggars who are a hindrance to Irish society. Mean Girls is the story of Cady Heron, a formerly homeschooled teenage girl who moves to the states from Africa and beings life as a student in a modern high school. Although these both appear to have a rather plain and

Harold is a young boy who is an attention seeker, a disturbed child and one who is obsessed with death. He loves to act out suicide scenes for a hobby, which usually means that there are deeper issues. Maude, who is an older lady is also interested in death but she is as some people describe her to be “high on life” is always joyous and looking to live life to the fullest.

In recent years, it has become popular for many of America's great literary masterpieces to be adapted into film versions. As easy a task as it may sound, there are many problems that can arise from trying to adapt a book into a movie, being that the written word is what makes the novel a literary work of art. Many times, it is hard to express the written word on camera because the words that express so much action and feeling can not always be expressed the same way through pictures and acting. One example of this can be found in the comparison of Ken Kesey's novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the film version directed in 1975 by Milos Forman.

In 1997, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress selected the movie, “Harold and Maude “by Hal Ashby, 1971, for preservation for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”1 This movie was dealt with black comedy and, at the same time, romance that leaves uncertainties in the ending which was significant at that time because it was unusual for Hollywood films making vague endings where the viewers expected solid happy endings or has clear noticeable thriller at the end. Not surprisingly, the last scene from the movie, where, the protagonist, Harold, throws himself off the cliff and weirdly comes out

When the Sun was A God and With Fire and Sword are two films directed by Jerzy Hoffman, respectively in 2003 and 1999. The films were based on the historical events, illustrating the common matters of individuals’ desire to overpower others with wealth, power, and control in order to take over the throne and land. Both films took place in different settings – Piast dynasty era and Khmelnytsky Uprising era – but they do share some similarities and differences. The reason for why I chose these two films to compare and contrast was due to the fact that they share certain aspects that set the films alike and apart from one another. The aspects are: greed, friendship, loyalty, women, and love.

The use of an audio mise-en-scène is used treated uniquely in both clips. In My Darling Clementine, as Wyatt and Clementine are watching the festivities, and even though there is a permeating sound of feet stomping, music playing, and happy chatter, we can still clearly hear Wyatt asking Clementine to dance. With Once Upon a Time in the West, a layered collection of sound effects is used instead of any dialogue or music to emphasize the silence of the train station and eventually the arrival of the train itself. Sound mixing is also used in both clips, but with differing effect.

In 2013, Kimberly Pierce, remade the movie Carrie, which was originally filmed in 1973. The movies are quite similair and has the same plot line. The movie is about a social outcast named Carrie, who has never been able to fit in at home or school. Her mother is an extremely religious character, who believes her daughter is evil. This leaves Carrie basically alone and confused about the world around her, it doesn’t help when she gets made fun of.