The Flick By Annie Baker: Character Analysis

On November 18, 2017, I saw the Richland College Theatre Department’s production of RIDE by Eric Lane. In this essay, I will express what we’re the exceptional things that I saw. Also, I will use terms from what I learned from class, to explain some factors that I interpreted from the play.

The main focus of the 1989 film Steel Magnolias is a relationship between a mother and her daughter and how that relationship touches and affects the lives of others. The film features some stellar acting. Sally Field plays the mother M’Lynn Eatenton and Julia Roberts is her vivacious daughter, Shelby. The rest of the Eatenton family are Shelby’s younger brothers, Tommy and Jonathan and their father Drum, played by Tom Skerritt. The supporting cast features Shirley MacLaine as Ouiser Boudreaux, the cranky neighbor with Olympia Dukakis as Ouiser’s lifelong friend Claree. Dolly Parton plays Truvy, everyone’s beautician and Daryl Hannah as Annelle, Truvy’s recently hired employee. Dylan McDermott plays Shelby’s fiancé, Jackson Latcherie. The

Annie is a play set in the great depression about a orphan who manages to spend Christmas with a billionaire while trying to find her biological parents. Many people attempt to fake being Annie’s parents, to get a reward but none of them succeed, and Annie finds her real family in the Warbucks, the billionaire that cares for her, and gets adopted by him and lives happily ever after.

(Part 1) Thelma & Louise received mix responses from film critics when it first came out. The responses to the film were largely based on preconceived notions about how women operate in the criminal justice system. Obviously, this movie subverted a lot of these presumptions. The first issue was gender. Women had not been perceived as outlaws until this film. The whole idea of a woman in the criminal justice system did not embody what the movie portrayed. Specifically, after Thelma was sexually assaulted and Harlan was shot, the women come to the conclusion that going to the police won’t help them. They do not have faith the male dominated criminal justice system will look past Thelma’s drinking, dancing, and flirting with Harlan. In the article “Outlaw Women: An Essay on Thelma & Louise”, Elizabeth Spelman and Martha Minow said “Louise and Thelma both hear and reject the echo of societal conversations about blaming women who get raped because ‘they asked for it.’” Louise immediately acknowledges this stereotype against them which is the fact if a woman was raped, the law will view it like “she had it coming”. In other words, she was provocative in some way that established consent. Another issue concerning gender was the one of outlaw women. Normally, the traditional outlaw film contains a white male that we as the audience view as virtuous. While most probably favored what Thelma and Louise were doing, there were some points where the deviancy might have been too much.

In the play, The Flick by Annie Baker, the character that caught my attention the most was Avery. If this was my role in a play, I would feel more connected to him because of what he went through in life, with almost committing suicide, having only one parent and him being molested. That’s what brought on a lot of his psychological and social problems. For example, when Rose tried to come on to Avery, he shut down completely as if he had a flashback, which gave us the audience an insight that he was sexually abused when he was younger or the age he is in the book. Avery told roses all his problems because he felt like she too would understand the mental problems he has. He felt more comfortable and actually removed his mask that he wore. He

The Outsiders was about the greasers and the Socs. The Socs always jump the greasers, one day Johnny fights back, he ends up killing Bob. Johnny and Ponyboy run away to a church and hide until Dally comes and gets them. They then see the church was burning, Ponyboy and Johnny run into it to save the kids inside. Johnny and Dally get injured, Ponyboy is okay. The greasers win the rumble, the Socs will stay out of the greasers territory, Johnny passes away from his injuries, Dally robs a store, the police shoot him, and he does not survive the shots. In the end Ponyboy decides to regather his life and he starts with writing his theme for his ELA class. The book The Outsiders book, the better version, was published in 1964 and written by S.E.

Overworked, underpaid and underappreciated. Have you ever felt that way at one point of your life? Many people have felt that way before or currently in a job that make them feel that way. That is what the play writer Annie Baker portrayed in her play “The Flick”, which won her the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The drama also deals with the challenges of friendship, love, and self-identity.

Tender Napalm is a play by the celebrated, contemporary British playwright Philip Ridley.1 The play was published in 2011 and premiered in the Southwark Playhouse in London. Ridley’s oeuvre consists of work in eclectic styles and written for various different audiences (he is a prolific creator of material for children, as well as plays for adults with difficult and often violent themes). Many attempts have been made to classify Ridley within the so-called “in-yer-face” movement within British theatre, however most critics acknowledge that his plays are unique and often defy classification.2 Tender Napalm features many of the hallmarks of Ridley’s writing (violent imagery, obsession with the power of language, and distorted memories), but the play is perhaps most interesting for its rather unique structure. This paper will give an overview of the plot of the play and attempt to outline its main structural elements, before moving towards an analysis of how the structure operates. Comparisons will be drawn with Aristotle’s theories of theatrical structure, in order to examine how the play’s structure sits within traditional models of Western playmaking, but also pushes against them in innovative ways. Ultimately, this paper will argue that the structure of the play is, in and of itself, performative. The plot of the play deals in fractured memories and an attempt to re-experience the past, that which is always-already absent. The structure of the play functions to disrupt the

The first scene in Annie Hall is Alvy, played by Woody Allen, he is talking about how he does not understand what went wrong with his relationship with Annie Hall, he says “… Trying to figure out where did the screw-up come.” Alvy describes his relationship with women by saying, “I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.” During this scene it is just Alvy in a room directly talking to the camera, directly talking to the audience about his situation. Alvy talks about his hyperactive imagination and it is hard for him to distinguish from fantasy and reality. That explains why there are so many 4th wall breaks in the movie. During the 4th wall breaks Alvy and whoever he is with starts to talk to the audience about his thoughts during certain scenes. Another interesting aspect of the film is when a character talks about a certain situation the next scene is the situation that was being talked about. The dialogue in the movie dictates the story, it allows the story to move forward. When Annie and Alvy meet it seems that they hit it off, they look like another happy couple. As the movie goes along Alvy reveals that he is into death and is pessimistic, but Annie is the complete opposite of Alvy. She is relaxed and wants to have fun, she embodies happiness. Throughout the movie Alvy becomes overprotective of Annie and is trying to control her life. In the end Alvy loses Annie because of how he tries to control her. This way of thinking is

In this paper, I will write about “Thelma and Louise” (1991) movie. I choose a last scene of the movie which the police came to arrest them in the Grand Canyon (from 122 to 125 minutes).

Annie Hall, an American romantic comedy released in 1977 retells the story of a man named Alvy Singer (portrayed by Woody Allen) and his attempt at comprehending why his relationship with Annie Hall failed. Annie Hall incorporates many cinematic techniques into its story which help solidify its place regularly on lists of best comedies (Snider). It uses conflict, different types of narratives and a classic three act structure. The movie beautifully conveys a story in New York in which one really feels the characters are actual citizens and not actors (Barsam 166).

A mother is usually remembered as a caring figure who protects and instructs her children throughout the first part of their lives. Whether she is on a new land, in an old house, or lost in an unfamiliar world, she is there watching over her children. Mothers stay with their children forever, except for in the super state of Oceania in George Orwell's "1984". In Oceania, memories are false and thoughts are crimes. In this world, only Winston Smith clings to his distant past and to the memory of his mother who disappeared when he was young. Although Winston's mother never appears in 1984, Orwell uses this character to advance the action of the plot, and to demonstrate changes in Winston's character.

Another very clever play, “The Philadelphia,” attempts to explain the pitfalls and denials of life as the result of metaphysically falling into another city and another state of mind. It opens with Al, who is happily in a Los Angeles; and then in comes Mark, stuck in a state of punishment: a Philadelphia, where “no matter what you ask for, you can’t get it” (72). This is an intriguing explanation for life’s problems, and one that provides a handful of laughs. It also offers us some interesting thoughts on language, and how effective it is in the world. For we’ve all had days when it seems the words we utter are powerless. But in the end, the play seems more like a comedy sketch or skit that fails to give any insight into life – other than the chance to laugh. Not that laughing isn’t of value, but it doesn’t prove that Ives’ approach has brought any great meaning into the play. How many times can this play be watched or read before its novelty wears off?

The film Little Miss Sunshine, Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Farris, explores the lives of a regular American family and how they change their lives in front of us in the ‘Combie’ van on the road to the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. The film examines the issues of winning and losing, and what it means to be a winner, throughout many sequences in the film as well as exploring the value of family. The directors and the cinematic team use an extreme range of camera techniques, costuming, and sound techniques to reshape our understanding of winning and losing in the world we live in today.

During the past week, I had the opportunity to see Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play at the Stephen F. Austin State University own Turner Auditorium, this comedy to say the least kept the audience on their toes in a post-apocalyptical setting. During my observation of the play, I witnessed directing and actor decisions, from certain techniques discussed in The Director’s Vison by Louis E. Carton and Scott Shattuck.