Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, USA 1981) Essay

The movie Mulan directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft depicts the hero's journey of a young maiden, Mulan, as she leaves home to join the war against the Huns in place of her father. Characters throughout all cultures experience departure, initiation, and return, the three stages of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey, including Mulan.

I have chosen to evaluate a scene from Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indiana and Sallah uncover the Well of Soles where the lost ark is hidden. We open the scene at 57:03 with Indiana leading a team of diggers up a hill to the spot where they will dig for the ark. As the scene opens we hear the diegetic sounds of the diggers and commotion taking place in the background. We also hear non-diegetic music that will be referred to as the “ark theme” playing as Indiana climbs the hill and has his men start to dig for the ark. The slow and sort of creepy tone that makes up the ark theme reminds us of the continuing quest for the ark and

In the book, Unbroken, and the movie has many similarities and differences. There are three evident differences that has been shown between the two. The first variation is the dead bodies the Japanese fighters shot. In the text, it says Louie saw the two dead bodies of Phil and Mac, after the plane attacked them. In the videoclip, it doesn’t show the point of view of Louie seeing them lifeless. Another change is the Japanese mercenary. In the passage it states that Louie saw the mercenary first appear, but then it disappeared. In the motion picture, it starts with the antagonist attacking right away. The last distinction is the actions each character made. In the paragraph, it shows Louie as a strong person, and Louie had to help Mac and Phil

The film O brother, where art thou? is set in the Great Depression of the 1930’s and emphasizes the struggle between the upper and lower classes by using a variety of cinematic devices. Through the use of these cinematic devices and comedic relief the realities of the Depression are viewed without creating a stark, melancholy, documentary-styled film. Examples in this film of these cinematic devices used to show these realities include:

As well as these two themes, there are also a handful of leitmotifs used throughout Raiders of the Lost Ark, one of the most important being the Ark leitmotif. This motif is created with low rumbling noises from the cello and low brass, mixing with trumpets and higher trilling strings. This creates a majestic and mysterious sound that also sends shivers down your back to insinuate the amazing power that God has put into The Ark of the Covenant. This Ark motif is first introduced when Indiana Jones presents a picture of the Ark to government officials when speaking to them about the quest for the Ark. Like “Marion’s Theme”, the Ark leitmotif gradually grows, adding more instruments and lengthening the piece every time it is introduced, but still keeping the same basic concept.

Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark there was a lot to live

balance, and the cave paintings start the film's narrative by suggesting this may happen if something

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Today, “The Elephant Man” remains a highly-acclaimed film and emotional masterpiece. Expertly directed, written, and performed, with an old style cinematography and classical music, the film can be seen as a return to the days of black white film. The emphasis on character and acting skill was an original move by Lynch during a time when special

The Indians are finally presented in the movie by the screen scanning across a wide-open desert very peaceful and deserted. In the middle of all this silence the camera fell upon a skeleton of a human that we assume the Indians killed. This is how the movie sets the tone for how we are going to think about the Indians. They play with the stereotype that all us Americans think are true about the Indians. At first we think that we were right, but the story does not end there.

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Some five hundred years ago, ships began transporting millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. This massive population movement helped create the African Diaspora in the New World. Many did not survive the horrible ocean journey. Enslaved Africans represented many different peoples, each with distinct cultures, religions, and languages. Most originated from the coast or the interior of West Africa, between present-day Senegal and Angola. Other enslaved peoples originally came from Madagascar and Tanzania in East Africa

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