Symbols In Chinatown Film

People lived in Vancouver Chinatown were far from the flames of war, but they were so concerned about what was happening in Old China. Not only because they cared about their hometown, but also because they cared about their families, friends, or relatives who were still living in China. From this point, the concern about the war that was showed by people were regarded as strong feeling connection with Old China. Although war did not directly caused pain to people in Chinatown, the suffering it caused in Old China was also brought to Canada. In chapter eight, one of stepmother’s childhood best friends, called Chen Suling, was killed by an explosion of a bomb. In the beginning of this chapter, we can see Sek-Lung’s family was looking forward to the Chen Suling’s visit to Canada, and appreciated her talents of English. All of them, except for Sek-Lung who disliked her because he would be controlled if Chen Suling came, hoped to see her eagerly. But a bomb turned their hope down. Stepmother felt extremely painful for losing her best friend, just like Sek-Lung said in the end of this chapter “I never heard stepmother mention Chen Suling’s name again.”(161). Later, with the war becoming fiercer, the social order in Vancouver also became instable. “Gangs of older, jobless boys roamed back streets hunting for Japanese. Fights broke out. There were knifings on some

Note: Several films are listed in Chapter 8 as emblematic of a specific genre. You are allowed to choose a film or genre not mentioned in Chapter 8, but you are strongly encouraged to email your professor to receive approval before doing so.

Even with her previous experiences at Beijing University and at Big Joy Farm, Wong still held some belief that the Chinese system wasn’t as bad as it was sometimes made out to be. This event proved to her that it was. “The enormity of the massacre hit home…Although it had been years since I was a Maoist, I still had harbored some small hope for China. Now even that was gone” (259). As a reporter Wong was able to view the progression of the protests in leading up to the massacre, and in viewing it understood that the Chinese people were much more independent than they had previously demonstrated over the past 50 years. She had continuously seen the Chinese people following what they were told between learning in school or with physical labor, yet this protest was one of the first large scale displays of the unacceptance of the regime by the people, and the government did not know what to do with it. But because of this, Wong was able to recognize that the people were not reliant on this way of life that they had previously been bound to, but truly could lead for themselves and take control. The massacre awakened Wong both to the reality that the government was not acting to benefit the people, and that the people were more than capable of acting for

Bart Layton built this doc not from one perspective, but from a collection of them. Some stories, like “The Imposter” need a panoptic approach to connect the audience to the film. The themes of manipulation, identity and love are the main themes conveyed by Layton. These themes are communicated through sounds and visual imagery.

Award-winning and movie-prone novels incorporate many literary devices, and these methods empower the story to a new level. In this case, one of these devices is symbolism, and The Book Thief is an extraordinary example that contains symbolism. There are three overlapping symbols in The Book Thief, and these symbols are bread, an accordion, and books. As well as the differences, the list of similarities between these symbols continues on forever.

The Hardboiled Detective genre is one that depicts the previously established concepts of masculinity and femininity within film and flips them on their head. In direct contrast to others, this genre tends to depict women as capable and powerful, and these characteristics normally make the males within the films feel threatened. The pioneer of this genre, The Maltese Falcon, highlights the characterization of the main character, Spade through the femme fatale, Brigid. This continues on within later films of the genre with the 1974 film, Chinatown, as it continues to use the femme fatale, Evelyn, to characterize the main character of Gitties. Within The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown, the female archetypes of the femme fatale, respectively Brigid and Evelyn, help characterize the films’ main characters, respectively Spade and Gitties. Further, these femme fatales last in the public conscious which allows the archetype to become iconic and continue appearing in today’s films.

“Trying to Find Chinatown” begins on a street corner in New York City. Benjamin, a blond haired, blue eyed white male, walks upon a street performer and begins a conversation with him. The street performer is an Asian-American named Ronnie. Their conversation begins with Benjamin asking where a certain address is in Chinatown. Ronnie takes this question as an insult because he’s the only Asian-American anywhere near by. Ronnie turns aggravated as Benjamin tells him he is also an Asian-American, not knowing he was adopted. He’s stunned when Benjamin informs him on his knowledge on Asian-American history because of his skin tone; which is very ironic considering he believed he was racially profiled and asked about the address in Chinatown because of his skin hue. They both give valid points in their arguments and begin to understand one another and their overview of the topic. The discussion doesn’t exactly result with either one of them winning but as a mutual understanding of each other. Although Ronnie and Benjamin don’t see eye to eye on the topic of conversation, the main idea of this play is very clear; don’t judge a book by its

Murder usually happens because people can't accept others. However, in the short story, “On The Sidewalk Bleeding”, if at least one person would have considered helping Andy and not turn their backs on him. He would have lived. “On the sidewalk” Bleeding was written by Evan Hunter. Evan hunter's lesson of the story is self-identity, this is the main theme of the story because it is built around why Andy was stabbed. Andy was stabbed because he was wearing a purple jacket with the word royals on the back. The royals are a gang, their rivals are called the guardians. The author showed a few symbols in the story, but the main one is Andy's jacket. The jacket is the main symbol because without it there would be no story.

Being one of the world’s most popular art forms, it was inevitable that these archetypes would find their way into film as well. In this essay I will argue that the

Lisa See grew up in L.A’s Chinatown, with her Chinese grandparents living and working there, and she was taught the Chinese traditions throughout her life. A lot of her novels take place in China and/or deal with China. The book being a fiction and according to the author’s familial background, she might approach the topic here as a way for her to carry her family history, people and places with her forever.

Those who do not have the money only have two choices, to leave or to die. Being persecuted and treated like trash by whites, who take away their money and belongings, destroy their businesses and harmony was common. But the worse of all was that no authority stops the abuse against Chinese. None of the officer’s listened to the accusations of the Chinese’s against whites. All crimes remained unpunished, allowing aggressors to freely repeat the same hate to Chinese again and again without a limit. “Your supreme court…Chinese shall not bring action or given testimony against white men.”

Dystopia and Utopia can be explored in many forms of media such as artwork, film, music, poetry and even dance. The easiest and most vivid way to depict these genres to the audience is in films. Films specifically incorporate visual symbolism through colors and settings and screenshot width and filters. Films may also incorporate a subliminal message to the reader through background music used in different scenes. Displaying utopian and dystopian societies through film leaves some imagination to the audience while allowing them to visually compare with the real world around them. For the purpose of exploring aspects of utopia and dystopia through films, I have chosen the films Metropolis by Fritz Lang (1927) and the episode Nosedive from

The artistic elements of the movie are shown by the repeating theme of Jack’s journey towards enlightenment. He attends support groups and learns how to meditate to become a happier person. There is a principle aspect of Buddhism shown throughout the movie. The

The parallels between the theme of the film and rising fears of communism and related topics of concern during that time are captivating. Communism was an ideology originating in the Soviet Union with the ideas of establishing a

     Roman Polanski's 1974 film, 'Chinatown', revolutionized the film noir genre. Aside from the absense of voice-over, the film shares all the same characteristics with earlier noirs. That is, of course, except for the fact that ?Chinatown? is