Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

The tone is set quickly and effectively. With the book and the movie you “are not being invited into fictional believe and deaths, into the imagination, but into the absorbing reality of flesh and blood”. (McCabe 561).

The movie not only gives us a glimpse to the potential evil and manipulative people of the world, but also helps us to understand that sometimes violence is necessary. When actions are so terrible, so negative, and so extreme that people lose sight of right and wrong, and learn to accept the unacceptable, death is the only real verdict for some. V let England know that people

Chicago Reader film critic Ben Sachs writes, “…This feels somewhat contrived in its narrative mechanics, yet it gets so many thing right-about the state of bureaucracy, the way children internalize abuse,

My initial reaction to the film was of utter shock at the brutally raw reality of the film. Upon reflection and commentary from other sources, the film’s simple yet vastly effective filmmaking techniques of developing the explicit and implicit meaning of the film. The explicit meaning, as

“Analyse, evaluate and compare the techniques used to dim the horror of the real life events discussed in the novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and the film Life is Beautiful.”

The beginning of any thought provoking essay will hook its audience using a form of pathos. “Two of his sons returned home from the battlefield whole and healthy. The third, however, came home suffering multiple seizures a day”-(Rorabacher). The quote generates sympathy within us making us yearn to see a welcoming outcome and leaving the audience hooked. Eli Hager’s article follows a similar route informing us that “The state of Missouri sent Harris to the penitentiary in Boonvilee, 250 miles from his home and baby daughter”-(Hager). Again we sympathize with the loss of a family, but not all of the articles used grievance to hook us. In the “Quiet Alarm” the audience is informed of a vaudeville performer who performed deadly stunts involving hatchets, pins, and guns on himself to generate shockwaves in the audience. From these examples we identify how our emotions lure us into these texts.

The selected piece “Hoop Dreams,” movie review by Robert Ebert is part of the review

I have always enjoyed movies. But at some point I started to think of movies as more than just entertainment. I began to view them as a movie critic would, rather than just a casual viewer. Because of this perspective, I think of "Apocalypse Now" as one of the best American made movies I have ever seen. As a student of and an active participant in the late twentieth century media age, I feel justified in making this statement. In my lifetime of observation of American media, including fourteen months of intense movie watching in conjunction with my employment at a local video store, I have had an opportunity to observe a broad sampling of the films, and feel more than qualified to make this statement. By referring to

Although this paper uses a mainstream movie, at all times you should use scholarly writing and language throughout the paper.

Comedy”. 2 It was called the sleeper hit of the decade, and gained extreme notoriety for its breakage of traditional cinematic taboos, in that it showed rather explicitly both sex and especially, raw and brutal violence. It greatly surprised both the

The power and prestige of this film comes not from its controversial and serious subject matter, but from the unbiased way in which the story is

The critics felt that the movie did not make a smooth enough transition from the novel, and felt that the overall content was too complicated. Richard Blake from America argued, "the complexity of the novel becomes simply confusion in the film" (1). Blake was also critical of the director, Jonathan Demme, and said, "[h]is use of sepia-tinted film stock and oblique camera angles calls attention to itself and distracts from the characters" (2). The article Beloved It's Not, from the Economist also responded negatively to the movie. The author states that "[t]he main problem is the film itself: most audiences are not eager to endure nearly three hours of a cerebral film with an original storyline featuring supernatural themes, murder, rape and slavery" (2). John Simon of the National Review also dislikes the complications of

Both reviews present strong positive arguments towards the film. The acting, the relationships between characters, the plot and effects contributed to make this film one of the best suspenseful and thrilling films ever. The actors’

I understand that this book is a classic and deserves to be remembered but only that. The haphazard plot and overuse of songs and the extended descriptions loll the reader to sleep. The movie gets the story told in a short, action filled, and no nonsense sort of way that leaves the viewer entranced. Now you can easily tell I do not like this book, and if you so earnestly desire to read it do not let me stop you. If you so grow to resent the words that you may read, know that I warned you. For this book is slow to read, and painful to

And now, it’s time for dessert: my critic of the movie! A fabulous story, backed up by