Quest For Camelot Analysis

My story has a meaningful story behind it. The story is deep for me and even for the artist and probably for many other people. Hearing songs like this can inspire you. It inspired me to be thankful for the people in my life. One day they can be here the next they could be gone. You never know what’s going on in their lives.

The original songs in the musical include Magic to Do, Corner of the Sky, Welcome Home, War is a Science, Glory, Simple Joys, No Time at All, With You, Spread a Little Sunshine, Morning Glow, On the Right Track, And There He Was, Kind of Woman, Extraordinary, Prayer for a Duck, Love Song, I Guess I’ll Miss the Man, and Finale. These are the songs Schwartz designed to be catchy, different, and exciting.

I remember seeing some advertisements for the movie making it out to be a family movie and the case compares it to “The Lord of the Rings.” It is not a family movie. As stated earlier there is a lot of violence in this movie. Other than children, who should not see this film, people should be warned that is not happy and the violence is very realistic I had a hard time watching the scene where the captain uses a wine bottle to smash in a farmer’s face. It does have wonderful scenes and graphics. I enjoyed the complex characters and motives people had. It was also set in a place

The soldiers in the war had a chance to visit other plantations where some of their family and friends were located. They sung to express their oppression and true feelings of this enslaved environment and the struggles that came with it. The songs used animal characters to supplement the slaves and their masters and were very popular and powerful. This was also a part of

I chose the song See you again for the relationship with his family because most of his family died very early in the book and he has the determination to find the rest of his family. He always looks forward to the day that he will see them again. He was so happy when he found his family in the end “ I had a family- a cousin still.” As he thought about his past loved ones this saying would go through his head, “Everything I would do you were standing there by my

These allusions contribute to the continuation of the poet’s story and a sense of moving forward. Since the poet is moving out of the house, the second stanza develops the story along with various famous landmarks to help the readers imagine the journey to the current house. When the poet writes, “Instead we went to North Dakota, then up to Winnipeg / to visit the cousins…Going onto Palo Alto...Arriving on Labor Day, Grace Slick’s concert / spilling into the new backyard… Our first night in the house, and not our last. / Johnny come lately, there’s a new kid in town,” (36-52) the readers are able to envision the journey the poet took to arrive at their current house. The songs correlate to the imagery according to the poet’s memories. These songs amplify the emotions that the readers are able to further sense from the poem. These allusions, alongside with songs create a new memory into the new

Songs and song lyrics can take many different forms. Like poetry, they tend to use many different literary elements to convey a story. While most songs don't necessarily have a rhyme scheme like some poems, they do however use elements such as imagery, diction, and many more elements that can be found in poetry. The four songs “Rule Britannia”, “Land of Hope and Glory”, “Waltzing Matilda”, and “We are the Boys from old Florida” demonstrate the use of poetic elements to tell a story.

One song that is used effectively in the movie is “If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out” by Cat Stevens. This song is the main theme of movie as it celebrates non-conformity and Harold choosing his own path in life. The spontaneous use of the song, along with the deliberate choices to use it in the soundtrack at key moments, help show the journey that Harold is on in the film. When the song is used spontaneously instead of as a soundtrack piece, it is Maude trying to get Harold to sing along. When Maude firsts asks Harold to sing he is reluctant and hums instead. However during the course of the film, he learns to play it on the banjo, and sings along. This reflects Harold’s journey as he learns to open up and live. This culminates in the final scene of the movie, where Harold walks through the hills playing the song on the banjo and dancing after his final suicide attempt after Maude’s death. All of Harold’s previous suicide attempts had been a way to get attention from his mother, and the world. As Harold tells Maude, he “decided that I enjoyed being dead.” (Harold and Maude) After Maude’s suicide, he honors her words to “go and love some more” by choosing to live rather than to die (Harold and Maude). He puts his suicide ideation behind him and instead focuses on living and loving. This song is highly effective in the movie along with the convention of Harold and Maude singing it together

A common literary function that is evident in each of the three songs is repetition. Each song uses repetition, for example, in the song “This Land Is Your Land” the lyric “This land was made for you and me” (Guthrie).

The music was fitting for the movie, it added a sense of real feel, like you are there watching them through the struggle. Each of the scenes would have different background music and sounds. While they

The use of music is a key to determining if a film is in the musical genre. Not only are songs used to further the story along in a musical, but they also have the ability to put the audience in the emotional state of the character singing. Song has always been used as a good conductor for emotional understanding. For example, during the song "You Were Meant for Me" in Singin’ in the Rain, Don Lockwood is able to confess his love to Kathy Selden in a way that feels magical and shows a connection between the two would be lovers. Also, the song “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” in Grease is able to betray the emotional depth of the character Rizzo’s fear, shame, and anger. At the time this film came out, topics such as teen pregnancy were not generally presented in films. By having this character sing her issue, the audiences, who may have dismissed her outright for her actions, are able to sympathize with her plight. Moreover, in Rent, the song "I'll Cover You" by Angel and Collins allow the viewer to get caught up in this young couple's relationship without having to worry or even consider that this is a gay couple.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail can be summed up by this one statement: entertainingly bizarre. Between the random cartoon breaks between scenes, the knights pretending to ride horses throughout the whole film,

     The power of song helped slaves through their dehumanized lives. They created unity in songs of religion and denounced the power their masters held over them. They were going to rebel in all facets of life. Slaves knew “that a happy slave is an extinct man” (p.33). The meanings of these songs can not be overstated. One who knew the importance of song was Frederick Douglass. “They told a tale of woe...they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with the

Good Morning Baltimore is one of the more memorable songs, as it is the opening number, and gives the audience a pretty good idea of the scene, and where it takes place. You also get a good look at how the characters are going to be perceived by how they act in the first number. Most of the music in the film have a sort of blues vibe, but also pop, so kind of an alternative genre. In one song in particular, “Ladies Choice,” it sexualizes the main male lead, Link, as he calls himself the ladies choice. It seems as if no matter what the main purpose of a film is, there is always going to be a romance, and an attractive male role who makes all the girls swoon over.

It is a love song that fits in the mood of the scene. A choir composed by actors of Wit and Science, as seen in the image as well, sings this song. Songs in this play are almost always sang by a big group, because it is how John Redford made