The Movie ' Groundhog Day '

In the movie Parenthood (1989), many developmental stages can be observed. With that being said, one character that can be observed is Gil who is middle-aged adult. Gil has a beautiful wife and 3 children. In Santrock (2016, pp. 362-363) security, love, loyalty, and emotional interests are important during middle adulthood. Both Gil and his wife (Karen) believe that they have raised their children the correct way, but it can be seen that some people in his family think otherwise. He also has 2 sisters and 1 brother. In addition, he has a mother, father, nieces/nephews, and a brother-in-law. According to Santrock (2016, p. 342), during middle-aged adulthood adults normally reach peak position at their jobs, but in this case the promotion that Gil wanted was given to someone else, so Gil struggled with this concept of not moving up. Also, his household seems to be hectic and not perfect, but somehow he pushes through (Parenthood, 1989). According to Santrock (2016, p. 354), Erickson’s developmental stage that pertains to Gil is generativity vs. stagnation. In this stage, adults feel a sense of wanting to leave their legacy when they are gone (generativity), but at the same time feel as though they have not done anything for the next generation (stagnation). In the movie Parenthood (1989), Gil can be seen exhibiting this developmental stage in various scenes, but there is one seen in particular that stands out. Him and his wife are called to school for a meeting with the

The film Pleasantville shows the changes in American society over the past 50 years by placing two teenagers into the Pleasantville show, which was from the 50’s. The movie depicts how there is no longer the “American Dream” and no longer a perfect way of life and the changes the world has made. The world that the teenagers come from is filled with sex, drugs, money, and is very different from the way the world was in which the Pleasantville Show took place in. Morals and values have changed in the people and in society that the teenagers came from and shows it would be impossible to return back to the kind of life style the world had in the 50’s.

The 1993 movie Groundhog Day directed by Harold Ramis portrays the journey of self-centered weatherman Phil Connors who becomes trapped in a time loop and must repeatedly relive the same day. Connors’ ordeal highlights the Buddhist principle that life is dominated by hardship. However, Phil’s distressing experiences enable him to change his ways and become naturally happy. Phil’s transformation illustrates the Buddhist concept that suffering is actually an avenue to the bliss of nirvana . While in the beginning of Groundhog Day Phil focuses on fulfilling his selfish desires, he cannot achieve happiness until he stops pursuing his wants and improves as a person, which allows him to reach a state of enlightenment.

“That our feet may swiftly carry out thy command so we shall flow the river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be”. Forbidden to be repeated by anyone who is not a McManus, Connor and Murphy allow the family prayer to roll off their tongues, and journey into the ears of the monstrous souls they are about to exterminate. Their religious belief nourishes the idea that they can make the streets of Boston good. The Boondock Saints is a movie about religion, family, and vigilante justice.

To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life”.- Walter Mitty (Movie).

The movie Groundhog Day, is labeled as a comedy, but in fact it is a story about love, a story about Phil’s transformation based on love.  Phil his character is forced to repeat the same day over and over again. He goes through many phases in this movie and in the end changing his persona. When analyzing love, it becomes apparent that much has been written about it. In fact, love has been broken down into different phases such as Eros, Philia and Agape. Being trapped in Groundhog Day has significant effects on Phil’s practices of these three kinds of love Eros, Philia and Agape.

The movie Groundhog Day is about a newscaster who visits Pennsylvania to cover a story on Groundhog’s Day. He ends up getting caught in a blizzard which sends him into a time loop so he keeps reliving the same day over and over. He tries everything to get himself out of that day, he even went as extreme as trying to kill himself to see if he would still wake up the next day. When he realizes that his action have no consequences on the world around him he starts to get creative. He starts committing unethical acts, like stealing money from a bank, stealing the groundhog, and punching an insurance man in the face. This movie is all about seeking out whether doing morally right actions or morally unjust actions leads to the most pleasure.

Groundhog Day is a movie about a meteorologist, Phil, who has to travel to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day celebration. Before traveling to the festival, Phil predicts that the blizzard scheduled to hit the area was no longer a threat. However, the blizzard does hit the area and, worst than the blizzard, is Phil realization that he is stuck in a time loop where he relieves the same day, February 2, over and over (Gilbert, 2013). This paper will focus on analyzing four reoccurring scenes that take place in a restaurant.

The audience of new movies are tired of the same genre over and over. The movie “No Country for Old Men” is a combination of crime, drama and thriller. The movie takes place in the 1980s. A hunter named Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a drug deal that has gone wrong, and attempts to take the cash left behind. As he takes the cash, he quickly noticed he is being followed by someone recovering the cash.

There are a lot of movies succeeded and people liked them, but after years people forget them, and that is because there wasn’t a strong message or theme behind these movies. For Groundhog Day it was different because the strong message the actors they stayed popular for almost 20 years. According to this, Groundhog Day has remained popular until now because of the story, the combination of the actors and the characters, and the theme.

To fully understand the film I had to look back and research the time period of which the story took place. The film is set in 1964, the year after the Kennedy Assassination. It was a time of change, both in society in general and in the church. Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn represent conflicting views on how the church should function. She belongs to a more corporate conservative school of thought, believing the church as separate from society at large and not needed anything to change. He, on the other hand, had a different belief with the changes being after Kennedy death. It’s seems like the problem of the past can resurface in the future. The difference of one opinion can make you hate or dislike

The main character of both movies begin the storyline as self-centered people. They are rude and have no concern for the people around them. The main character from Happy Death Day, Tree Gelbman is a blonde sorority sister in college. In the beginning of the movie, Tree wakes up, hungover, after getting drunk from a party the previous night which makes her late to a lecture. This indicates that she is irresponsible and what most people consider to be the average partying college student. The main character in Groundhog Day, Phil Connors, is a weatherman who thinks he’s above everyone else. In the movie this character uses sarcasm, irony, and does his best to ignore everyone and live a life of solitude. One thing these two characters have in common is falling for the people that they thought they never would in the beginning. Tree falls for Carter Davis, the college student whose dorm she woke up in after the party. Phil Connors falls in love with Rita Hanson, a news producer who works in the same studio as him.

It is I, Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog for Groundhogs Day! I myself have been called a marmot. Which is a type of rodent, my closest relative is a squirrel, I know we don’t even look alike at all or do we? I question myself that all the time, because I don’t go up to a mirror and check myself out. Well anyways, I usually do is eat, and eat over and over again. It is my favorite thing to do that and to sleep, where I can eat again. For my birthday it’s not very important to people, it’s actually whenever I get scared to death or not, called Groundhog Day.

The love story between two different teenagers that come from completely different worlds is the most remarkable. The Notebook is about two young teenagers who fell head over heels with each other. They got separated by Allie’s upper-class parents who insist that Noah isn’t right for her. But that obstacle didn’t stop these two young lovers from being together even if it took years. This beautiful tale has a special meaning to an older gentleman who regularly reads the timeless love story to his aging wife to help her remember what they went through and that the story that he’s reading to her was their love story. The story he reads follows two young

However, with the small and gentle effort pumped into the movie by two well-known film masters, it led to the most appealing movie ever thought of by the two. Groundhog Day is an amusing and sweet surprising combination. Although the term appealing is an understatement of Murray’s style of humor, Groundhog Day is a thriller thanks to Murray’s comic hostility. He combined the bitter and the sweet, which is an essential recipe for making a pleasant film. The themes and stylistic devices employed in Groundhog Day are key ingredients of its success as a comedy film.