The Castle Themes

Ladies and gentleman, the film Australian Rules is simply impossible to overlook as Australia’s entry into the international film everything that a proper ‘Australian’ film should, drama, romance, action and deceit. It portrays cultural differences that create segregation between the fabrics of society in a town that doesn’t possess the capacity to co-exist which is evident in urbanized Australia.

Individual’s social contexts and personal experiences shape the way they deal with challenges. Discuss this idea in relation to “Game as Ned’s” key themes. The Novel “Game as Ned” by Tim Pegler explores the concept of how an individual’s social contexts and personal experiences shape the way they deal with challenges. Isolation and fear are both themes in “Game as Ned” and they shape the way Ned deals with his challenges.

As little girls, women may imagine themselves as the princesses that they hear and see in movies and books. These princess often defeat the villain, meet the love of their life, the prince, and live “happily ever after”. Sadly, life is far from the things we see in these movies and books. The Princess bride, by William Goldman is a fantasy novel about a beauiful girl, named Buttercup, who is forced to marry the Prince Humperdinck after the love of her life, Westley dies. She is later kidnapped by three men, and two of those men, named Inigo and Fezzik, come together with the undead Westley to avenge an important death

The five aspects of a quest are ( A.) a quester, ( B.) a place to go, ( C.) a started reason to go there, ( D.) challenges and trials en route, ( E.) and a real reason to do there. “Once you figure out quest, the rest is easy”. The started goal fades away throughout the story line and a new one is created. In the movie The Wizard of Oz the ( A.) Quester is a young, naive Dorothy, who is from Kansas. Dorothy is caught in a tornado and lands in the Land of Oz. ( B.) A Place To Go: When Dorothy arrives in Oz she finds out the only person the can get her back home is The Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz, who lives in the Emerald City, and the only way to get there is to follow the Yellow Brick Road. ( C.) As Stated Reason To Go There: Dorothy wants

Although released over 17 years ago, Rob Sitch’s comedy The Castle remains an incredibly popular film that portrays an ‘Aussie Battler’ family, the Kerrigans, in suburbia. Film writer Ian Craven states that the Kerrigans possess “the qualities of a simple good-heartedness family, with human decency and dignity”, all of which can be easily recognized by the audience throughout the film. The Castle takes a satirical look at Australian suburbia in order to manipulate traditional stereotypes, gender constructions, themes, identities, ideologies and cinematic techniques as a means of altering the positioning of the audience.

In Moonrise Kingdom, this theme is showcased through Sam and Suzy’s childhood romance. Anderson’s portrayal of first love- naïve and untouched by experiences of prior hurt encapsulates the beauty of the innocence of children. This fits Anderson’s trademark theme, as experiences of first love can never be regained once lost.

Jocelyn Moorhouse’s The Dressmaker is a thought provoking film exploring revenge and small-town politics providing a compelling reflection on aspects of Australian culture. Through powerful symbolism present in fire, mirrors and clothing, the audience is able to interpret its themes and forge a deep connection with its

In the passage from The Glass Castle, Erma kicks the children out of the house because of a physical fight that they got in with her. They caught her inappropriately touching Brian. Even though they fought her to protect their brother, they faced consequences. Jeannette Walls shows that even when you are fighting for the right reason, you will still face consequences. Walls uses the imagery of the house to show the central idea.

In the animated film Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki conveys several themes and main ideas. The themes and main ideas he conveys in the movie are that hatred corrupts and causes people to make bad decisions, shown through the boars, that greed corrupts and ruins,shown through Lady Eboshi, and that nature can only exist with help from humans, shown through Ashitaka.

In Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle, there are many important themes that pop throughout the book. Although there are many themes, the most essential one is how a hard past forces people to learn to rely on themselves to make their life better by pushing through their struggles, this changes how a person thinks and acts ultimately defining their identity. This theme is the most prominent throughout the book.

To understand why Australian movies are the way they are now, there must be a review of the history of the films produced in Australia, because through out time, the films have had successes as well as some failures.

In The Kingdom of Matthias by Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz, the story follows the life of a man named Robert Matthews, who later bestows the name of Matthias (“The Prophet”) to himself. This book demonstrates important themes (and events) that are prevalent in the 19th century United States, including the War of 1812, the Market Revolution, the Second Great Awakening, and more. More specifically, this story communicates and reflects an exaggerated view of those subjects and how it affected Robert Matthews and Elijah Pierson. The American society during this time was going through many advancements, including having a market-driven culture and the movement of women’s independence. In The Kingdom of Matthias, these ideas are obvious through the actions of Matthias and how he despised the changes in society and culture. His actions including treating women poorly, attempting to start his own religious cult, and his fits of rage and insanity (which I believe are due mental illnesses and stress). These changes in society caused a negative shift in many people’s lives, including Robert Matthews/Matthias and Elijah Pierson; who also plays a key role in the story of the cult, the “Kingdom.” Once more, in The Kingdom of Matthias, it demonstrates many important U.S. themes of the 19th century in an exaggerated manner.

The Castle, directed by Robert Sitch and produced in 1997, is arguably one of the greatest Australian movies ever created. It is a peculiar, boorish and above all, humorous film, that is loved by most Australians. With great use of trademark Aussie humour, amateur camera work and Australian stereotyping, the movie can be very relatable to Australian viewers, typically those of the blue-collar working-class level. Even with light-hearted humour that could be taken offensively, and seen as a ‘dig at Australian culture, in my opinion, the Castle portrays the typical Australian working -class family and has an underlying message of being resilient and never giving up!

Despite having an archetypal storyline, The Princess Bride proves to be anything but predictable. From the moment the title appears onscreen in a font that evokes classic fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty, it is clear the story is going to be rooted in fantasy. Following the appearance of the title comes the sound of a child’s cough as the black screen gives way to the graphics a baseball video game. The camera pans around the room to reveal posters of Chicago Cubs and Bears players, and soon rests on a child, presumably the source of the cough. Thus, the mise-en-scene has introduced to one of our two narrators, the other being the child’s grandfather who comes to read him a story. Though the novel read by the grandfather conveys a hackneyed tale of undying love, the film frames this in a self-aware way with periodic interruption of the story’s narrative by comments from young boy which are cynical at first, by grow to reflect a genuine interest as the movie progresses. This move is self-reflexive in that it reminds the audience that they are, in fact, watching a move; however, this serves to elevate the meaning of the film. Through the use of sound, editing, and mise-en-scene, The Princess Bride emphasizes that even though the concept of true love has saturated society and become cliché, it’s no less potent because of the cultural overplay. I will specifically discuss the utilization of deep focus shots, color, and lighting that caricaturize the traditional fairy tale,

The Australian film industry is currently in a point of crisis due to the lack of audiences attending Australian films, hence creating a decline in the revenue received towards our national industry. However, this is not due to the lack of creative talent, it is rather the many underlying issues that don?t allow the Australian public with the awareness and accessibility of these films. These problems are within the distribution, marketing and funding of these Australian films, allowing the national Australian community to not seek for films made by people within their nation due to negative pre-conceived notions and the convenience of going to see a Hollywood Blockbuster. These issues are seen through the poor release of both critically received films, Jennifer Kent?s The Babadook (2014) and Hugh Sullivan?s The Infinite Man (2014), both not gaining a wide audience. Through these issues within the industry, Australian filmmakers have not been able to create the revenue needed for these films to branch out to be easily attained by the public.