The Break-Up Movie Analysis

Released in the summer of 1994, the movie “When a Man Loves a Women” produced by Touchstone Pictures’ producer Jon Avnet created a film that touches on a female alcoholic. This film included stars like Meg Ryan, Andy Garcia, and Lauren Tom. An airline pilot played by Garcia as Michael and his wife Alice portrayed by Ryan are forced to deal with her alcoholism. Within this family it includes that of her two children and the nanny (Lauren Tom). The film offers several hinting scenes to Alice’s addiction. Alcoholism is a disease of denial, the movie focuses on not only the alcoholic but those around her that deny and have even grown accustomed to her drinking.

    “Tonight I gotta cut loose, footloose, kick off my sunday shoes. Jack, get back, come on before we crack.” (Footloose, Kenny Loggins) For this essay, I chose to watch Footloose made in 1984 and directed by Herbert Ross and Footloose made in 2011 directed by Craig Brewer. Both movies centered around the town of Bomont, a secluded town with out of the ordinary beliefs. In this town, dancing and partying of any sort was strictly against the law and teenagers were seemingly miserable. There was little to no self expression and even listening to provocative music or any music too loud, could get you a ticket with a hefty fine. The reason behind the strict rules is that several years back, five teens from Bomont High School died in a car wreck after they were drinking and dancing too much. Each of these movies have some things in common, but have more differences than anything. Some of the main differences are the opening credits of each movie, how and who Ren arrives to Bomont at the beginning of the movie, the “chicken” races between Ren and Jeff, and the book burning in town square.

2. Friends and family are supposed to helpful during a break up. In this movie Gary and Brooke’s friends and family were supportive and non-supportive. Brooke’s sister was her main support during the break up. Even though her brother did stop over to the condo with his singing friends, just to add fuel to the fire. Gary had his bar buddy to support him; yeah his ideas were not the greatest, when he mentioned they need to get someone neither of them knows to “handle” the problem.

Smashed is a dramatic movie about a woman’s struggle with alcoholism and her journey to sobriety that included many accomplishments and setbacks. The main character, Kate Hannah, decides her lifestyle of partying, excessive drinking, and bad decisions needs a change after vomiting in front of her classroom of young children while experiencing a hangover. Instead of admitting the truth about her drinking problem, she decides to lie to her students and coworkers, telling them she is pregnant. The principal at her school, Dave, finds out about her lie, and reveals he has been sober for over a year after attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. He invites her to join him at a meeting, and Kate decides to go and repeatedly attend. Kate

Throughout the movie, "Pieces of April," a young woman named April Burns, has trouble preparing Thanksgiving dinner for her family's reunion. And at the end of the movie, we learn what family means, and how complicated the relationships between each member with their black sheep daughter, April. The first problem is that, April has no idea how to cook, so she prepares the dinner haste fully. Secondly, the rest of her family is not sure that they even want to come. During the cooking time, April starts getting involve in tons of hilarious obstacles, especially when her oven breaks. Fortunately, her incredible neighbors are friendly and help her by letting April use their ovens and also helping her to cook more homemade

Brooke takes over the cooking and cleaning, given that she has far higher standards than Gary regarding the tidiness of the apartment and what she is willing to eat. Gary refuses to amend his habits and simply accepts

In the movie “The Break Up.” The opening scene is Gary and Brook at a baseball game, the didn't come together and they would have been meeting themselves for the fist time at the game. It isn't until Gary goes to buy a hotdog that he turns and sees Brooke, Brooke just so happens to look over at Gary and makes eye contact with him sending him a casual smile. This moment would be the initial stage of contact, which would include the Perceptual stage because both individuals are just acknowledging one another. It isn't until after the baseball game in which they hit the Interactional stage because soon following the end of the baseball game Gary walks over to Brooke and starts taking to her, asking if she had a boyfriend if she would like to hang out with him and so on.

“When you get bit by a snake, you have to suck out all the poison, that’s what I had to do, suck all the poison out of my life.” – Cady Heron (Waters). This is a clear example of how friendships should be structured as instead of being mishandled in the wrong way. Mean Girls was directed by Mark Waters and was released to the public in 2004 which brought on similarities to real life scenarios. Mean Girls is a chick flick that clearly illustrates the struggle of friendships in a chaotic high school environment. It tells a story of Cady Heron coming back to high school and being exposed to an alternative environment. The director uses a strong sense of characterization with Cady Heron while formulating multiple conflicts

Looking at both 30 Rock, and The Kids are Alright, the idea of bisexuality can be seen if one uses thorough analysis. In The B Word, San Filippo talks about strategic ambiguity in film. In order for film makers to appeal to a broad audience and get people to watch their film, they must not stray too far from the accepted ideas, but they can challenge those ideas. Creators must present their ideas in a subliminal way so that viewers receive the message, but it may not be conveyed straightforward. For example, in The Kids are Alright, audiences of different types of people appeal to this movie.

The movie started out with the two main characters at a baseball game. He was with a friend and she was on a date. They didn’t know each others names or anything about the each, but the man went ahead and started to initiate a conversation with her from a few seats away. This is the brief stage of initiating that is experienced in every relationship. They moved right along into the experimental stage when the game was over and he was trying to take her out on a date. She wasn’t sure if she should give up the potential relationship with the guy she originally there with. She also noticed how funny and forward he was from the beginning. This must have won her over because she ended up going on the date with him.

It was quite obvious that this was a poisonous relationship. They were eventually going to brake up. They would argue over the smallest things such ad the lemons and dishes scene. They didn’t have shared leadership. They always gender differences. For example, Brooke asks Gary to bring home twelve lemons for her since they would be having company over that night. Before the company arrives, Brooke realizes Gary had only brought home three lemons. Brooke confronts Gary, saying “you got three lemons” and Gary replies with “What my baby wants, my baby gets.” Brooke, flustered, tells Gary she asked for twelve lemons and Gary asks, “Why would you want twelve lemons?” After finding out that Brooke wanted to make a twelve lemon center piece, Gary is confused and thinks it’s, stupid because that no one would even be eating the lemons. They continue to argue about the topic because due to their differences, they feel differently about the importance of a centerpiece. The gender differences between the two do not help contribute to the problem; Gary had not listened to what Brooke asked for in the first place. If small things like this were causing a big commotion, then you can only imagine how their future would look.

Brokeback Mountain is a film that describes a tragedy surrounding forbidden love. The love is between two men, Ennis and Jack and the setting is Wyoming for twenty years from the 1960’s to the 1980’s. This was a time of conservative values that looked at homosexuality in a negative light. These values caused Ennis and Jack to create a life that was what was expected in spite of what they wanted. From this came a great deal of frustration and pain for the two men, their wives, and families. The movie also related to a common issue of today’s society and that is the continued discrimination of the LGBT community. There are signs of change in modern society, but also much needed work to be done to allow an individual to live a life with freedom to express their sexuality. When the viewer looks at the film from a sociological perspective, the issue of societal norms is seen and the abnormal relationship in a homosexual relationship is the focus.

Dirty dancing is a romantic movie set in 1963 and filmed in 1987. The summer before starting college, Baby, 17-years-old, goes on vacation with her family to the exclusive Kellerman's Mountain House Resort. Her dad, Jake Houseman, is a medical doctor, while her mom, Marjorie Houseman, is a housewife. Baby's older sister Lisa, is also along for the trip. Kellerman's resort is frequented by affluent families in the summer months. That fateful summer, Baby meets Johnny, a dancer and entertainer at the resort. Baby is mesmerized by Johnny from the beginning, but they are later brought together by unusual circumstances. Penny, Johnny's longtime friend and dance partner finds out she is pregnant, and Baby decides to help her by paying for her abortion and replacing her in the dancefloor for one of her gigs. As Johnny teaches Baby how to dance, they fall hopelessly in love.

If you’re interested in a muscular Chinese guy roller skating around in a bikini, then I’ve got just the movie for you. Cafe. Waiting. Love. is a Chinese love story filled with humor and grilled sausage. While watching this movie, I noticed many trends common among similar stories, such as the girl who can see ghosts, the ghost who can’t pass on to heaven because he has a regret, and the boy who likes the girl. Although these clichés were not mentioned in Foster’s book, there were still many things I could deduce about the movie only after reading about Foster’s methods. Of Thomas C. Foster’s twenty-seven chapters, in his book, “How To Read Literature Like A Professor,” the chapters I found most applicable to my movie were chapters nine, eleven, and fifteen.

One of the first signs of trouble in the relationship between Brooke and Gary comes in a subtle error made by Gary regarding the amount of lemons he was supposed to pick up from the store. Gary purchases three lemons and Brooke is unhappy with this because she initially asked for twelve of them. There are plenty of issues in this situation already. Gary was not engaged in active listening whilst taking the initial direction from Brooke, or else he would not have ended up buying the incorrect number of lemons. This already illustrates that Gary has a lack of interest in something that Brooke considers important. Furthermore, Gary amplifies the issue by not apologizing for his mistake, and instead, rather arrogantly insinuates that Brooke should just forget even